omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Amsterdam Compiler Kit. The Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK) is a retargetable compiler suite and toolchain written by Andrew Tanenbaum and Ceriel Jacobs, since 2005 maintained by David Given. It has frontends for the following programming languages: C, Pascal, Modula-2, Occam, and BASIC.

History
The ACK's notability stems from the fact that in the early 1980s it was one of the first portable compilation systems designed to support multiple source languages and target platforms.

The ACK was known as MINIX's native compiler toolchain until the MINIX userland was largely replaced by that of NetBSD (MINIX 3.2.0) and Clang was adopted as the system compiler.

It was originally closed-source software (that allowed binaries to be distributed for MINIX as a special case), but in April 2003 it was released under the BSD licenses.

Working principle
Maximum portability is achieved by using an intermediate language using bytecode, called EM. Each language front-end produces EM object files, which are then processed through several generic optimisers before being translated by a back-end into native machine code.

ACK comes with a generic linker and librarian capable of manipulating files in the ACK's own a.out-based format; it will work on files containing EM code as well as native machine code. However, EM code cannot be linked to native machine code without translating the EM binary first.

Target processors
ACK backends can produce native machine code for a wide range of CPUs, even starting with small 8 bit CPUs. 
 6502
 65C124 - used for the first software controlled implantable defibrrillator, the target was unique in that the C/EM code word size was 1 byte for an int and 2 bytes for a long.
 6800 (assembler only)
 6805 (assembler only)
 6809 (assembler only)
 ARM
 8080*
 Z80
 Z8000
 Intel 8086*
 i386
 68000
 68020
 68040
 NS32016
 S2650 (assembler only)
 SPARC
 VAX4
 PDP-11
 Broadcom VideoCore IV (BCM2708)*

* Version 6.0

See also
 Portable C compiler

References

External links
 
 Official sourcecode repository, including changelog (GitHub)

BASIC compilers
C (programming language) compilers
Computer science in the Netherlands
Free and open source compilers
Information technology in the Netherlands
Minix
Modula-2 compilers
Pascal (programming language) compilers
Software using the BSD license
Bluespec. Bluespec, Inc. is an American semiconductor device electronic design automation company based in Framingham, Massachusetts, and co-founded in June 2003 by computer scientists Arvind Mithal, professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Joe Stoy of Oxford University. Arvind had formerly founded Sandburst in 2000, which specialized in producing chips for 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GE) routers, for this task.

Bluespec has two product lines which are primarily for application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware designers and architects. Bluespec supplies high-level synthesis (electronic system-level (ESL) logic synthesis) with register-transfer level (RTL). The first Bluespec workshop was held on August 13, 2007, at MIT.

Bluespec SystemVerilog

Bluespec 

Arvind had developed the Bluespec language named Bluespec SystemVerilog (BSV), a high-level functional programming hardware description programming language which was essentially Haskell extended to handle chip design and electronic design automation in general. The main designer and implementor of Bluespec was Lennart Augustsson. Bluespec is partially evaluated (to convert the Haskell parts) and compiled to the term rewriting system (TRS). It comes with a SystemVerilog frontend. BSV is compiled to the Verilog RTL design files.

Tools 
BSV releases are shipped with the following hardware development kit:

 BSV compiler
 The compiler takes BSV source code as input and generates a hardware description for either Verilog or Bluesim as output. It was opensourced by Bluespec inc. in 2020 under New BSD License terms.
 Libraries
 BSV is shipped with a set programming idioms and hardware structures
 Verilog modules
 Several primitive BSV elements, such as first in, first out (FIFOs) and processor registers, are expressed as Verilog primitives.
 Bluesim
 A cycle simulator for BSV designs.
 Bluetcl
 A collection of Tcl extensions, scripts, and packages to link into a Bluespec design.

References

External links

Bluespec: User guide
An open-source Bluespec compiler from University of Cambridge

Equipment semiconductor companies
Companies established in 2003
Companies based in Framingham, Massachusetts
Proprietary software
2000 software
Programming languages created in 2000
Statically typed programming languages
Haskell programming language family
Haskell software
Drago Kolar. Professor Drago Kolar (1932–2000) was a head of the Ceramics Department at the Jozef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana, Slovenia) from 1965 until 1997.

Kolar was one of the world leading scientists in the field of ceramic materials. His main scientific interest was in sintering mechanisms and microstructure development in ceramics, high-temperature phase equilibria and functional ceramics.

He published, together with his co-workers, over 200 publications in international periodicals, over 200 publications in the proceedings of international conferences and co-authored nine patents. Besides his research activities he taught at the University of Ljubljana. He supervised 36 doctoral theses, 54 master's theses and 146 B.Sc. theses.

Among his honours and awards the most distinguished are: "Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia" (1995), "Honorary Diploma of the International Institute for the Science of Sintering" (1979), "Niobium Medal of the Max-Planck Institute" (1987), "Two Particle Man" recognition, German Powder Met. Soc. (1997).

The IJS magazine No. 79 (February 2000) was dedicated to Kolar (see articles in English by Guenter Petzow from MPI Stuttgart and by J.P. Guha from IJS).

Awards and honours
 Boris Kidrič Award for Highest Scientific Achievements (1982)
 Boris Kidrič Fund Award for Scientific Achievements (1972)
 Boris Kidrič Fund Awards for Innovations and Patents (1974, 1977, 1978 (2x), 1980, 1985, 1986, 1990)
 Ambassador of Science of Republic of Slovenia (1995)
 Iskra Award (1979)
 Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (1989)
 Member of Academia Europaea (London) (1989)
 Member of Academy of Ceramics (Faenza) (1989)
 Titular Member of IUPAC Commission for High Temperature and Solid State Chemistry (1994)
 Member of Sigma Xi Society (1983)
 Honorary Diploma of the International Institute for Science of Sintering (1979)
 Recognition of the Serbian Chemical Society (1973)
 Recognition of Yugoslavian ETAN Society (1979)
 Special Recognition of Iskra Factory for Hybrid Circuits (1975)
 Golden Badge of Jožef Stefan Institute (1985)
 Niobium Medal of Max-Planck Institute (1987)
 "Two Particle Man" recognition, German Powder Met. Soc. (1997)

Meetings and symposia organised
 3rd Yugoslav Symposium on Modern Inorganic Materials, Ljubljana 1974 (with M. Drofenik)
 2nd Yugoslav-German Meeting on Materials Science and Technology, Bled 1976 (with M. Komac)
 5th International Round Table Conference on Sintering, Portorož 1981 (with S. Pejovnik and M.M. Ristić)
 5th International Conference on Sintering and Related Phenomena, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA 1983 (with G.C. Kuczynski and G. Sargent)
 8th Yugoslav-German Meeting on Materials Science and Technology, Brdo at Kranj 1987 (with M. Kosec)
 1st Slovene-German Seminar on Joint Projects in Materials Science and Technology, Portorož 1994 (with D. Suvorov)

External links
 Nano IJS 

1932 births
2000 deaths
Members of Academia Europaea
University of Notre Dame faculty
Ceramic engineering
Engineers from Ljubljana
Place of birth missing
University of Ljubljana alumni
Academic staff of the University of Ljubljana
Fellows of the American Ceramic Society
Yugoslav engineers
Institution of Plant Engineers. IPlantE is the (British) Institution of Plant Engineers. It is the professional sector of the Society of Operations Engineers for engineers, technicians and those with an interest in the specification, installation, operation and maintenance of industrial plants and services. It was founded in 1946.

IPlantE publishes a bi-monthly magazine, Plant Engineer and runs a variety of professional activities through its regional branches as well as national seminars on topics such as the ATEX/DSEAR regulations and health and safety in the workplace.

IPlantE members represent a large range of engineering-related activities including static and rotating plant, industrial installation, mobile plant, power generation and distribution, utilities, system design, construction, production and maintenance and repair.

References

External links
 
Society of Operations Engineers

Engineering societies based in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 1946
1946 establishments in the United Kingdom
Takatoku Toys. was a Japanese toy company active during the 1970s and early 1980s. While responsible for many robots, action-figures and vehicles, they are today mainly known for making the original Macross toys.

During the 1970s Takatoku made toys based on shows such as Ultraman Leo, Hurricane Polimar, and even Mach Go Go Go (years after the show had aired). They produced die-cast character-toys including the Z-Gokin line as well a wide range of other types.

Kanzen Henkei 
When the real robot craze hit in the early 1980s Takatoku adapted by changing the style of their toys. The turning point came in 1982 when they produced toys for Macross (1982–83) with the focus on the transforming VF-1 Valkyrie. Designed by Shoji Kawamori, the Valkyrie was a very complex design at the time and a transforming toy seemed unlikely. Up to this point transforming toys were usually rather crude and tended to focus purely on one mode at the expense of the other(s). A "vehicle mode" might simply be the robot flat on its belly with wheels or wings on the sides.

Working with Kawamori, Takatoku was able to design a transforming 1/55 scale toy of the Valkyrie which was dubbed kanzen henkei ("perfect transformation"). While not exactly a perfect rendition of the Valkyrie it was still (for a toy) very accurate and could transform to all 3 modes. Thanks to good marketing the KH toy became a big hit and sold well over a million units. It now appears crude next to modern designs but is still widely regarded as a masterpiece by collectors.

Even so, sales generated by the Macross line was not enough to sustain the company when subsequent shows made in 1983-84 were not as successful including Sasuraiger and the Macross "sibling" Orguss. There was some hope with the movie version of Macross but Takatoku went under in early 1984 before it came out. Takatoku's last toys were for the unsuccessful Dorvack TV-series.

Post-demise 
After Takatoku's demise, their designs ended up in the hands of various other companies. Bandai got a hold of the Kanzen Henkei VF-1 Valkyrie, releasing toys for The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? and made various re-issues later on. Hasbro also acquired the rights to the Valkyrie toy, which they used to make the character Jetfire while toys from Takatoku's Dorvack line were also converted into Transformers becoming Roadbuster and Whirl. Many Macross toys (but not the Kanzen Henkei) would be used by Matchbox for their Robotech line. A little-known company known as Select Toys used many smaller Dorvack, Macross, Orguss, and a series of transforming animal robots that Takatoku never released and called them Convertors.

References

Sources
Takatoku Toys at TFWiki.net: The Transformers Wiki

:ja:wikipedia:タカトクトイス

Japanese die-cast toys
Defunct companies of Japan
Defunct toy manufacturers
Toy companies of Japan
Institute of Road Transport Engineers. The Institute of Road Transport Engineers, is a UK based membership institution, with global branches, originally
founded in 1944, In 2001 it agreed that it would found the Society of Operational Engineers when it was approached by the Institution of Plant Engineers who needed external support. IRTE continues as a best practice professional sector of SOE, and publishes the monthly magazine Transport Engineer, as well as a wide range of technical guides. IRTE historically held very successful commercial transport shows and conferences and is a partner in the National CV Show, a very successful commercial vehicle exhibition. 
 
The Irtec license is a professional certification for auto technicians in the U.K.  Established in 2002, the Irtec licence is a voluntary scheme that assesses the competence of automotive technicians who maintain and repair vehicles in the following 4 classes; Heavy Goods Vehicle (above 7.5t), Light Commercial Vehicle (below 7.5t), Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicle (combined) and Bus and Coach. An Irtec licence certifies the individual, rather than the employer, and can be used to demonstrate a common standard of skills from one company to the next.

The Irtec licence is offered at several benchmark levels:
Vehicle Safety and Inspection Technician Licence
Service Maintenance and Repair Technician Licence
Advanced Technician Licence
Master Technician Licence

External links
Society of Operations Engineers
IRTEC Licensing Scheme
irtec Homepage

Professional certification in engineering
Engineering societies based in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 1944
Road transport in the United Kingdom
Transport organisations based in the United Kingdom
Loughborough College. Loughborough College is a general further education college located in Leicestershire, England that offers further education, higher education, apprenticeships and professional qualifications.

Further education courses

Loughborough College offers courses in beauty, business, childcare, creative industries and computing, electrical installation, engineering, hairdressing, hospitality and catering, leisure, travel and aviation, motor vehicles, public services and sport. It has partnered with the National Space Academy to form the Space Engineering program. The college offers students work experience as part of their course.

Apprenticeships
The college offers apprenticeships for students who wish to gain practical skills in a working environment whilst earning a wage.

Qualifications
Many of the courses are offered in association with the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT), Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM).

Notable alumni 

 Thomas Young – T38 100m Sprinter
 Harry Aikines-Aryeetey – athletics
 Andrew Barnard – cricket
 Harvey Barnes – football
 Jude Bellingham – football
 Mason Bennett – football
 Katie Boulter – tennis
 Sophie Bradley – football
 Rachel Bragg – volleyball
 Karen Carney – football
 Ben Chilwell – football
 Elise Christie – short track skating
 Libby Clegg – athletics
 James Dasaolu – athletics
 Toni Duggan – football
 Harry Ellis – rugby union
 Daniel Fogg – swimming
 Carl Froch – boxing
 Phil Gilchrist – football 
 Robbie Grabarz – athletics
 Sophie Hahn – athletics
 Lucy Hall – triathlon
 Fran Halsall – swimming
 Jeff Hendrick – football
 Steph Houghton – football
 Tom Huddlestone – football
 Sam Ingram – judo
 Andy King – football
 Charlie Matthews – rugby union
 Melanie Nocher – swimming
 Roberto Pavoni – swimming
 Leon Rattigan – wrestling
 Jemma Reekie – middle-distance runner. Voted Athletics Weekly 'Women's British Athlete of the Year 2020'
 Joe Roebuck – swimming
 Tom Rogic – football
 Martyn Rooney – athletics
 Jeffrey Schlupp – football
 Sarah Stevenson – taekwondo
 Bradly Sinden – taekwondo
 Liam Tancock – swimming
 Sophie Thornhill - paracycling
 Nicola White – hockey
 Keely Hodgkinson - athletics

See also
Loughborough
Loughborough University
Loughborough Students' Union

References

External links
Loughborough College website
Loughborough Students' Union website

Higher education colleges in England
Further education colleges in Leicestershire
Educational institutions established in 1909
1909 establishments in England
Rise Robots Rise. Rise Robots Rise is an American experimental hip-hop band, signed to TVT in the early 1990s, and later to Fibre Productions. The songs of Spawn are credited to J. Mendelson and B. Nitze. Tracey Amos, Michelle Johnson and Paulisa Moorman are featured on guest vocals.

Singer Tom Jones covered the song "If I Only Knew" on a single released in 1994. It is also featured on Jones' albums The Lead and How to Swing It, and Tom Jones Reloaded: Greatest Hits, a collection of covers.

Discography

Albums

Rise Robots Rise (1992)
TVT 3210-2
 "All Sewn Up"
 "Buffalo Wack Child"
 "Flowers And Birds"
 "Get Ready"
 "If I Only Knew"
 "The Pipe Talks To You"
 "The Way We Move"
 "Mars"
 "Talk Is Cheap"
 "Zombie Demons"

Spawn (1993)
TVT 3220-2
 "Buttermilk"
 "Real Gone"
 "Big"
 "Fear"
 "The Bottle"
 "Desdemona"
 "Solar Blues"
 "Particle You"
 "Not Enough"
 "Rosalee"

Circular File (1994)
TRI001
 "Waves"
 "The Enther"
 "Three Of A Perfect Pair"
 "Starlight"
 "Soul Survivor"
 "Insane"

EPs

Talk Is Cheap/Flowers & Birds (1991)
TVT 3211-2
 "Talk Is Cheap (LP Version)"
 "Back Talk"
 "Flowers & Birds (LP Version)"
 "Flowers & Birds II: The Return"

All Sewn Up (1992)
TVT 3212-2P
 "Bryan Chuck New's 7″ Remix (Radio Edit)"
 "LP Version (Radio Edit)"
 "Bryan Chuck New's 12″ (Extend Remix)"
 "LP Version (Censored)"
 "Bryan Chuck New's Instrumental"

If I Only Knew/All Sewn Up (1992)
TVT 3213-2
 "If I Only Knew - Safe Remix (radio edit)"
 "If I Only Knew - The Love Remix"
 "If I Only Knew - The Loveglove Remix"
 "If I Only Knew - LP Censored Version"
 "If I Only Knew - Paizly Remix"
 "If I Only Knew - Double Safe 12″ Remix"
 "If I Only Knew - Double Safe Instrumental"
 "All Sewn Up - LP Version (radio edit)"
 "All Sewn Up - Up Up And Away 12″ Extended Remix"

The Bottle/Strange Brew (1993)
TVT 3221-2
 "The Bottle (radio edit)"
 "Strange Brew"
 "Strange Brew (double shot mix)"
 "The Bottle (album version)"

External links
 WWW Music Database entry

TVT Records artists
American hip-hop groups
DRG H 02 1001. The DRG H 02 1001 was a high-pressure steam locomotive built by the engineering firm of Berliner Maschinenbau (formerly L. Schwarzkopff) to the design of Dr L. Löffler. The aim was not only to improve fuel economy—the usual reason for adopting high steam pressures—but also to increase the amount of power that could be produced within the German loading gauge.

The H02 1001 locomotive was the only example of the Schwarzkopff-Löffler high-pressure boiler system, a complex technology in which heat was extracted from the firebox by tubes filled with steam rather than boiling water. It was delivered in 1930 to the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DRG). Schwarzkopff guaranteed in the purchase contract a coal saving of 42% over a standard 01 locomotive design, but in the event the DRG never bought the locomotive.

Steam was delivered at no less than  to two very small outside cylinders of  diameter. These were compounded with a single  LP inside cylinder. The wheel arrangement was 4-6-2.

After extensive trials it was found that any increase in efficiency was small compared with the greatly increased maintenance costs. The very complicated H02 1001 was also hopelessly unreliable.

The H02 1001 was retired from active service in 1945, then cut up for scrap.

See also
List of DRG locomotives and railcars

References

External links
 

02.10
4-6-2 locomotives
High-pressure steam locomotives
H 02
Railway locomotives introduced in 1930
Experimental locomotives
Individual locomotives of Germany
Berliner locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of Germany

Passenger locomotives
Sylmar Converter Station. The Sylmar Converter Station is the southern converter station of the Pacific DC Intertie, an electric power transmission line  which transmits electricity from the Celilo Converter Station outside The Dalles, Oregon to Sylmar, a neighborhood in the northeastern San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. The station converts the 500 kV direct current coming from the northern converter station Celilo to alternating current at 60 Hz and 230 kV synchronized with the Los Angeles power grid. The station capacity is 3,100 megawatts. It is jointly owned by two electric utility providers, Southern California Edison and Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

History

Originally mercury-arc valves were used as static inverter valves. The valves were series connected in three six-pulse valve bridges for each pole. The blocking voltage of the valves was 133 kV with a maximum current of 1,800 amperes, for a transmission rate of 1,440 megawatts with a symmetrical voltage of 400 kV against earth.

After the Sylmar earthquake in 1971, the static inverter station in Sylmar was reconstructed due to damage sustained.

In 1982, the power rating of the mercury arc valve rectifiers was raised by various improvements to 1,600 megawatts.

In 1985 two six-pulse valve groups of thyristors were added to increase the voltage to 500 kV per pole for a total differential voltage of 1,000 kV. In 1989 the station was extended on the field east of the highway (called Sylmar East Converter Station), where two new 1,100 ampere, 500 kV 12-pulse thyristor converters were added in parallel with the two existing converters, giving a total transmission power of 3,100 megawatts (3,100 Amperes at +/-500 kV

In 2004, Sylmar East station was upgraded from 1,100 MW to 3,100 MW (rededicated as the Sylmar Converter Station in 2005).  The controls and older converters, including the mercury arc valves, were completely replaced (in the same valve hall) by a single pair of 3,100 MW 12-pulse converters built by ABB. The upgrade was made to eliminate the environmental risks of mercury and to reduce the maintenance costs of the obsolete mercury arc valves.

See also
Celilo Converter Station
Pacific DC Intertie

References 

Buildings and structures in Los Angeles
Western Interconnection
Energy infrastructure in California
Converter stations
Sylmar, Los Angeles