Author: Andrew Back

Andrew Back has in excess of 20 years industry experience that spans IT infrastructure, telecommunications and electronics, and covering R&D through to architecture, strategy and governance.

OSDDI: OpenRISC, Olof Kindgren

The OpenRISC processor has been around for a good number of years and it has found use in a NASA satellite and Samsung digital televisions, to name just two applications. In this instalment of Open Source Digital Design Insights, long time OpenRISC contributor and open source developer, Olof Kindgren, provides… Read More

Wuthering Bytes 2017

With Gareth on vacation there’s no Community Round-Up this fortnight, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to provide a rundown on what we have in store for the annual Wuthering Bytes technology festival — running over 10 days again! — that will get off to a start in… Read More

OSDDI: SHAKTI Processor, IIT Madras

This latest instalment of Open Source Digital Design Insights is once again from interviews filmed back at ORConf 2015 in Geneva, and this time on the RISC-V based SHAKTI processor from IIT Madras. A project that aims to build 6 processor variants that range from microcontroller up to… Read More

Open Source Digital Design Insights Interview with Javier Serrano, CERN

For the second video in the OSDDI series we have an interview with Javier Serrano, leader of the hardware and timing group at CERN, and a driving force behind many of their open source hardware initiatives. Read More

Open Source Digital Design Insights launches with Krste Asanović interview

With the groundswell of interest in open source digital design in recent years we decided to take the opportunity to chat with some of the key people involved in this fast growing movement, working in association with the Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation to produce the Open Source… Read More

IoTUK Boost Partnership

I’m thrilled to be able to share details of an announcement from the Digital Catapult earlier today, confirming that AB Open have been selected as one of six partners to help lead the development of IoT enabled services and applications for UK SMEs and entrepreneurs. Read More

LoRaWAN and Flood Network interview

We were visited recently by DesignSpark — the community guys at RS Components — who came up to talk to us about our work with with LoRaWAN, The Things Network and Flood Network. Following which they went away, worked their magic and managed to produce a video… Read More

A Scanning Electron Microscope… for fun!

Back in April I mentioned that we’d been working on a number of fun projects and one of those involves an early 1980s vintage scanning electron microscope (SEM), which we don’t really have a use for, but sometimes when a bargain — it cost less than you’d pay for… Read More

GNU Tools Cauldron 2016

With GNU Tools Cauldron 2016 taking place on our doorstep it would be remiss of us to not lend our support. As such we are delighted to announce that we are sponsoring the annual developer conference for GCC, GDB, binutils and runtimes etc. This year Cauldron will run over… Read More

Wuthering Bytes & Open Source Hardware Camp 2016

We’ve been busy the past few (about 6!) months working on the organisation for this year’s Wuthering Bytes technology festival, which has grown in 2016 to run over the course of no less than 10 days. As in previous years we will have the Festival Day, a celebration of… Read More

NMI Open Source Conference, Tues 10th May

We are proud to be sponsoring the NMI Open Source conference on Tuesday 10th May, which will be hosted at the BCS offices in Covent Garden, London. The conference aims to provide attendees with an informative view of the benefits and challenges of using open source, together with the breadth… Read More

A long overdue update

It has now been, I'm ashamed to admit, getting on for two years since this blog was last updated. And by no small coincidence, it has also been two years since we moved to much larger premises, that combine office and light industrial workshop space. Since then ... Read More