Benchmarking is important in the embedded world, where we need to know whether applications will meet their real-time constraints, how much resources they use and power they consume. For my work on the energy consumption of compiler options, I constructed a set of benchmarks that had certain desirable characteristics for measuring energy consumption Read More
I am not a fan of patents. I see companies of all sizes racing to patent new ideas, not because they particularly want or need to, but to give them a bulwark against law suits from other patent holders. In… Read More
This blog post introduces the project I will be working on during an internship with Embecosm. The internship is supported by HiPEAC, an organisation with a key aim of promoting collaboration between industry and academia. This… Read More
Big science is important, not just because the questions it asks define what it is to be human, but because experiments of such magnitude have the potential to change all the fields of science around them Read More
Over summer Embecosm funded a research project with the University of Bristol, into how compiler optimisations affect the energy consumption of applications. That project is now complete and the benchmarks and… Read More
Embecosm received both 16 and 64-core Parallella prototypes as part of their Kickstarter reward package and have decided to make the 16-core board available for use by the community. Requests for network access are now invited Read More
Not often do you listen to a lawyer speaking and wish he had talked for longer. But then Andrew Katz is no ordinary lawyer. He's an open source IP specialist, and recently he's been turning his skills to hardware licensing, notably with the SolderPad and CERN Open Hardware Licenses… Read More
Today's software development, both in open and closed source projects, is carried out between groups of developers who may not necessarily be in the same building, city or even country, but there is a need for these teams to work on a single up-to-date version of the projects code … Read More
On 27th October 2012 Adapteva Inc successfully raised almost $900,000 via the Kickstarter crowd funding website. It's not the largest amount ever raised on Kickstarter, nor is it the most over-subscribed offering. What makes it unusual is being the first such funding success by a chip design company … Read More
The Ericsson T95 launched in 2001. It had a 720 mAh Li-Ion battery, a standby time of 300 hours and a talk time of 11 hours. A decade later the Sony-Ericsson Xperia X10 mini was launched. It has a 910 mAh Li-polymer battery, and using 3G, a standby time of approximately 285 hours and a talk time of approximately 3.5 hours with 3G … Read More