(Note: the following is a rework of the preface of my thesis [1]) When I joined the CSA group in September 2008, my supervisor Chris Jesshope tasked me thus: “We made this novel chip called a Microgrid, and we want a C compiler to program it. Do it.” This is …| dr knz @ work
Ever since I defended my thesis in September 2012, a thought had been left lingering in the epilogue of my book: that computing systems architects and designers are currently incentivized by market effects to build mostly “closed” systems that are annoying to tinker with. Besides a few exceptions like Raspberry …| dr knz @ work