For the past few weeks, I was given a task by my supervisor. The task sound simple, whenever there NOP (No operation) instruction will be use, LLVM should change it into XOR R0, R0, R0 which basically doing nothing since in aeMB, register zero (R0) always have zero values. NOP Read more…
With a large number of kernel functions are time-driven, the time management in kernel is very important. The frequency of the system timer (tick rate) is programmed on system boot based on a static preprocessor define, HZ. The value of HZ is architecture-dependent, and it is defined in: <asm/param.h>. The tick rate Read more…
I had officially completed my internship life in AESTE. Finishing my internship makes me wonders about my future. This feeling was never so intense. I never worried about my future so much before, when I was in my university. My supervisor told me that engineering is all about efficiency. He Read more…
Listen to one of the interns here talk a little about his internship experience at AESTE. The work we do is HARD – but fruitful. The working culture here is different – in a good way. You get to meet other interesting people – who will enrich you. An internship Read more…
Anyone who has a hobby would understand the satisfaction of completing something on which he or she enjoyed working. It doesn’t always look marketable, it doesn’t always look fashionable, it doesn’t always look picture-worthy. But it always looks good to the creator. Anyone who has a job would understand that Read more…
Towards the second half of my internship, I extended my working hours. I knew that if I don’t, I’ll never be able to achieve anything in the end. Now the day had come that I have officially finished my internship. My code still have a lot of bugs and holes. Read more…
LLVM is a compiler project which start as a research at University of Illinois and now has grow to become a massive project and involve in both commercial and open source, as well as research. LLVM is licensed under “UIUC” BSD-Style license. Recently, the latest Apples also start using LLVM Read more…
Programming is bridging the gap between what the code does not and what it should do once it’s complete. Yet there is the age-old adage that code is never complete. It only gets close and then you realize greater potential for improvement—which means you start over from that point on. Read more…
Today, looking at all those codes and documentation of LLVM, it really brings a child out of me. I don’t know why, I feel like I want to play with LEGO toys. When I read todays newspapers report about National Robotics Competition 2011, kids as early as what? 7 years Read more…
As what the title say, working here at Aeste is not a weekend project. It is not an internship place where you have a senior engineer, senior staff, or manager that will tell you what to do or guide you. It is not a place where they will give definitive Read more…