Chip Hack for Teens
Hello, I’m Dan, I spent a weekend at the ‘original’ Chip Hack and have now had two weeks of work experience to convert it into a teen friendly format. Before coming to Embecosm I had an interest in computers but… Read More
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Opportunity to obtain MAGEEC energy measurement hardware
On 1st October 2014 the MAGEEC project will be placing an order for the manufacture of a new batch of energy measurement boards. These are used together with the ARM Cortex M4-based STM32F4DISCOVERY board and a python framework,… Read More
GNU Octave and Circuit Simulation
I’m a mathematics graduate and for the past two weeks I’ve been an intern with Embecosm, charged with looking into open source alternatives to Matlab and Simulink, particularly for silicon chip modeling. About GNU Octave GNU Octave is an… Read More
Change logs: Why they still matter
Cray 1 computer core. Let’s hope they had a record of where all those wires were connected! I have often been told that the change log is obsolete; it being suggested that with modern… Read More
Migrating git repositories
For the last year or two, many of our customers have requested that that source code for their GNU tool chains is held on GitHub, even though the upstream repositories were in Subversion (GCC) or CVS (everything else). That was not… Read More
Integer based sinf and cosf implementation
The transcendental function implementation in Newlib’s libm, like a number of other such software implementations, assumes that the target already has a fast hardware implementation of basic floating point arithmetic in the same or higher precision as that of the… Read More
Softcores for FPGA: the free and open source alternatives
Free software is everywhere. You may be reading this article on a smartphone running Android, using a browser such as Firefox, with the article supplied by a web server running Apache. All this works, because software has a marginal cost… Read More
The trials and tribulations of adding a new port to GCC: Free software at its very best
My colleague, Jörn Rennecke, has just had his port of the GNU Compiler Collection for the Synopsys ARC processor family reviewed and accepted into the FSF mainline Read More
Arduino Face Detection Using Shrimping.it
Hola, I’m Adam, and I spent a week as a work experience student at Embecosm, attempting to build a face-tracking webcam. Before coming to Embecosm I had no experience of electronics, and my software experience was with Python and scripting… Read More
RSA FutureMaker: The future of making things
A couple of weeks ago, the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) held its own festival for all those involved in making things. Simon Cook and I went along to promote the activities of the UK… Read More