We’re currently working on a new product, estimated for a soft-launch in Q3 of 2012. The idea of the product itself has gotten me rather excited as it has a clear and present advantage. We will blog more about it as things develop. But for the moment, let’s just say Read more…
We have our own gitosis server running in our office server. We’ve typically used this to work on private projects. The problem with this setup is that there was not direct link between the office gitosis server with our repositories on github. This problem has now been solved and we’re Read more…
For some of our projects, FreeRTOS specifically, we need to track a SVN upstream repository that is hosted on Source Forge. As we’re only interested in pulling upstream changes and not pushing anything upstream, this simplifies our workflow a bit. The first thing that is needed is to configure the Read more…
We’ve recently added a number of git repositories at github to track ports of various software tools to our platform. These are the steps that we used to get things working. We will use the binutils port as an example. Create For consistency, we’ll name all our upstream code as Read more…
I’ve always dubbed the AEMB as the littlest processor that could, after the famous book with an engine. To figure out just how little it is? It occupies less than 20% of the real-estate in the second smallest Spartan6LX9 FPGA. Slice Logic Utilization: Number of Slice Registers: 866 out of Read more…
Another new year and another holiday. We would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone happy holidays. May the year of the dragon bring happiness and prosperity to all! 恭喜發財 PS: Our offices are closed for the whole of next week (23-27 Jan 2012).
We are managing a number of Debian servers in the office, for various internal applications. Initially, it was a simple matter of upgrading the servers manually. However, as the number of servers grew, the amount of repetitive apt-get upgrade commands that need to be entered became tedious. Unattended-upgrades to the Read more…
As in previous years, I participated in the Malaysia Open Championship of FLL as a judge. This year, I was promoted to head judge for the project judging and had to manage 8 judges judging 48 teams for the competition. As I have done several rounds of judging before, I Read more…
We would like to wish everyone, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
I was invited to be a guest judge for the Engineering Fair 2011 at Taylor’s University today. The fair is a showcase for the first year and third year projects of the various engineering students at Taylor’s. After finishing with the judging work, I went around to have a look Read more…