Mentor Blogs

The latest 2013.05 release of Sourcery CodeBench has several new enhancements, one of which is the availability of the compile cache feature (currently available on Linux hosts). Some of you may already be familiar with the “ccache” utility that is available in the open-source community and can be used along with gcc. The Mentor Embedded team has made improvements upon this utility also making it available … Read More

ccache, CEIP, binutils, GCC, compile cache, compiler

I recently attended an event focused on power and embedded software hosted by the NMI in the UK, where I had been invited to make a presentation. My session was titled “Power Management in a Real Time Operating System”. If you would like a copy of the slides, please email. Of course, apart from presenting myself, I was interested in the other sessions, in particular one about compilers … Read More

Low Power, compiler, Power Management, NMI

What is a compiler? Ask an average engineer and you will get an answer something like: “A software tool that translates high level language code into assembly language or machine code.” Although this definition is not incorrect, it is rather incomplete and out of date - so 1970s. A better way to think of a compiler is: “A software tool that translates an algorithm described in a high level language … Read More

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