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Reinhard Keil joined us to talk about creating the Keil compiler, the 8051 processor, Arm’s CMSIS, and the new cloud-based Keil Studio IDE. 

MDK-Community is a new free-for-non-commercial use, not-code-size restricted version of the Keil compiler (+ everything else). 

CMSIS is a set of open source components for use with Arm processors. The signal processing and neural net components are optimized for speedy use. The SVD and DAP components are used by tool vendors so there may be components you care about more than others.

Keil Studio is Arm’s new cloud-based IDE with a debugger that connects to boards on your desk: keil.arm.com. Reinhard talks more about the advantages of cloud-based development in this white paper.

Arm Virtual Hardware has multiple integrations, the official product page is www.arm.com/virtual-hardware. The MDK integration and nifty examples are described in the press release.

Reinhard mentioned the Ethos-U65 processor for neural networks. 

The Dragon Book about compilers

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Owen Anderson (@OwenResistor) joined us to talk about how compilers are written. We discussed LLVM, intermediate representation, clang, and GPUs.

As mentioned at the end of the show, Owen’s current employer is hiring. If you are interested and would like to get the brownie points that come with being a friend of a friend, contact us and we’ll connect you to Owen and he’ll submit your resume.

Recent books Owen mentioned: Manager Path, Feminist Fight Club, The Laundry Files series by Charles Stross.

LLVM Language Reference

Teardown of what goes into rasterization

What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior