CIPHRA
Ciphra makes selling IP just like selling semiconductor devices. Using Ciphra, IP can now be shipped in small quantities, broadening the target market for your IP, and allowing it to be instantiated in FPGAs during the development or prototyping stage at a low cost to your customer without compromising your IP’s security. The instantiated IP […]
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VC-2 Core Set
In 2009, Westwood Rock announced that it was releasing the first of a series of video codec cores compliant with the BBC-developed Dirac Pro compression system [SMPTE ST 2042]. Westwood Rock’s VC-2 Dirac core set provides a rapid and cost-effective method for deploying VC-2 Dirac compression. A Background to VC-2 Dirac In 2002, the BBC […]
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Isolation
Isolation? The team at Westwood Rock have been isolating themselves for over 20 years 😊. At a recent team meeting we had a laugh when we realised that the team at Westwood Rock have been working remotely since 1999. A bit of light-hearted relief during challenging and worrying times, and when businesses are trying to […]
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DevOps?
DevOps tools, such as Azure DevOps and Jenkins, centralise and standardise the various elements of the development, verification, validation and deployment processes, allowing them to interact with each other. This leads to rapid and accurate deployment of software. How does DevOps improve code quality? Code changes are linked to the bugs that they fix. Pull Requests are used […]
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IoT Breaks Through Walls
In 2014 we developed an award winning IoT solution for the monitoring and control of devices from a smartphone via domestic broadband. That system allowed the controlled devices to be beyond the building, linked by a direct radio connection from the home. Significantly, it did this without repeaters or mesh technology. That system’s primary advantage […]
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Adventures in Machine Learning – Covid 19 Edition
The problem My own response to the covid-19 lockdown has led me to running laps of my garden instead of running my regular public routes. Several laps later and it was obvious that the GPS on my smart watch was struggling to track my runs in the restricted space of my garden. A quick discussion […]
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Putting the Sass into CSS
Writing and maintaining Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) can be very rewarding but for modern responsive applications it can easily turn out to be a frustrating and confusing process. Such are the demands of websites today that stylesheets can quickly become bloated and complicated, with more plot twists that a bestselling novel. CSS Preprocessors This is […]
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Welcome to the team Sean
We're delighted to have Sean join our team as a Senior Embedded Engineer, who comes with extensive experience of embedded software development across a variety of products. Sean says:I am excited to join Westwood Rock and be working for an innovative engineering company who are involved in projects across many sectors of technology. Outside of […]
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