Mateusz Kaczanowski Personal Blog
Power consumption undoubtedly is one of the most important factors we look at today. Whether it's your smartphone, tablet, laptop, or machine in the datacenter, the goal is the same. You want to get the best possible performance for the lowest power cost.
I have been thinking about porting one of the modern programming languages on Epiphany architecture. At first, I thought Rust is the new cool kid in town, so maybe I'll give it a whirl. But it would require me to implement the LLVM backend...
A Supercomputer For Everyone - the title of Kickstarter campaign got my attention. A single-board computer 2-core ARM with a powerful 16-core Epiphany coprocessor just for just a 99$ seemed to be an affordable option, even for a first-year student like me...
In previous articles, such as Kernel or ISA, we saw how complicated interacting with Epiphany chip could be. A whole bunch of registers, memory banks, and funky addressing scheme. It's a lot to know, for someone who just wants to run a "hello world" program... If only we had some C library that would hide all this complex logic from us?!