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Our PaStA research group offers an exciting new project. It is about extending a state-of-the-art high-speed simulator that already implements a JIT compilation engine with a concurrent and adaptive JIT and AOT engine.

The full title is “Concurrent, Adaptive, Just-In-Time and Ahead-Of-Time Compilation in the context of a state-of-the-art Instruction Set Simulator” and a detailed project specification can be found here.

If you are interested you can either contact me or Björn.

Our paper titled ‘Integrated Instruction Selection and Register Allocation for Compact Code Generation Exploiting Freeform Mixing of 16- and 32-bit Instructions’ has been accepted for publication in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization, 2010 (CGO’10). It is a joint paper written together with Tobias Koch and Björn Franke.

The School of Informatics in Edinburgh was hosting this years SICSA DEMOfest'09 where our PASTA research group presented the latest developments sourrounding the next generation EnCore Embedded Microprocessor codenamed Castle.

• More information about DEMOfest'09 event.
• More information about the PASTA Research Group.

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As of today the PASTA project has issued an official press release about our new EnCore microprocessor.

Press Release: Gadgets could go greener with high-speed computer chip

I have just finished the facelift of our CArD – Compiler and Architecture Design Group website. The people page gives a good overview about our members and we finally have a news section as well.

From today on we have a wikipedia page for the EnCore processor.

Also if you search for ‘pasta project’ on video.google.com we are one of the top hits. We also do very well on traditional search engines like google, yahoo, and bing – searching for ‘pasta project’ reveals us at the very top most of the time.

I have been working on a video that portrays what our PASTA research group does. Have fun watching it and remember that none of us are professional camera men, actors, or video editors - so it is a bit shaky but hopefully still informative and fun.