Create a simple "Hello world" program that prints on the serial port of an emulated ARM system, using the CodeSourcery gcc toolchain and the QEMU emulator of the Versatile board.
February 14, 2010
A simple example of bare metal programming for ARM926EJ-S core using the free open source Codesourcery toolchain based on GNU gcc.
December 6, 2009
OpenCores is an organization owned by ORSoc that invests in open source hardware. Their site hosts many hardware projects that ship the source code (Hardware Description Language in this case) with the GNU Lesser General Public Licence. This allows the adoption of free Intellectual Properties (hardware blocks) in any hardware design, being it proprietary (closed-source) […]
June 5, 2009
Christer Edwards: Getting Started with Firewall Builder via Planet Ubuntu Donald Knuth: Mathematical Ideas, or Algorithms, Should Not Be Patented (Groklaw) via LWN.net Groklaw reports that Donald Knuth is petitioning the EPO to disallow software patents. “Donald Knuth, distinguished computer scientist, recipient of the Turing Award, creator of the TeX computer typesetting system, and author […]
February 25, 2009
Good news (http://www.arm.com/news/24418.html), Cortex-M0 is here. I’m quite excited, because this is rock-solid ARM technology, and I’m expecting to see this puppy inside next generation devices all along. The fact that it’s small and simple means that it will be used in small and simple architectures, so I suppose that by the start of 2010 […]

February 28, 2010
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