Tag: University of York
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Why I owe @slugonamission a (or several) large drink(s)
I have been struggling with a problem with my Microblaze simulation on OVPsim all week. I have been trying to make a start on implementing a simple demand paging system and to trigger the hardware exception that the Microblaze CPU manual says should happen when you either try to read from a mapped page that […]
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She’ll die soon, but everybody dies
If you recognise the line then chances are, like me, you saw the original cut of Blade Runner in the cinema (the line was changed in a subtle but very important way in later cuts). The film is now over thirty years old – but like a true science fiction classic (2001: A Space Odyssey […]
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On an Airbus 380, the toilet is a safety critical system
As pointed out at the University of York’s real time systems group meeting yesterday… The Airbus A380 is the world’s largest passenger airline and it flies long distances. As such its human waste management systems have to handle a large volume of material. Of course the material that ends up in the system was on […]
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How slow is a fast computer?
I am working on a simulation environment for a NoC. The idea is that we can take a memory reference string – generated by Valgrind – and then test how long it will take to execute with different memory models for the NoC. It’s at an early stage and still quite crude. The data set […]
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Spaceapps challenge at York
An email from the University which may be of interest: Hi there, On the weekend of 20th and 21st April 2013, the Department of Computer Science, University of York will be hosting the International Space Apps Challenge, a free 2-day event on developing apps as solutions that address real-world critical challenges set by NASA. […]
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“Go and invent something”
This, in terms, is what my supervisor said to me this afternoon – his point being that while I had successfully presented my literature review, the time had come to start looking at real things that could be put on Network-on-Chip systems. So, some thinking required over Christmas. I do have my parallel filesystem idea […]
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End of term feeling
Forty years ago about this time I had my nice-est ever educational experience when, to my complete surprise, I won the P3 Christmas story prize in Mrs MacManus’s class in Holy Child Primary School. I still remember the way disappointment at not coming third or second was turned into pure joy by actually winning, and […]
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Similarity, difference and compression
I am in York this week, being a student and preparing for the literature review seminar I am due to give on Friday – the first staging post on the PhD route, at which I have to persuade the department I have been serious about reading around my subject. Today I went to a departmental […]
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