hardware

Flowchain - A Hybrid Blockchain for the IoT and Tokenized Hardware

Flowchain - A Hybrid Blockchain for the IoT and Tokenized Hardware

February 12, 2020

The IoT blockchain has become an emerging technology in the IT industry. Despite a myriad of studies on the IoT blockchain, it is still a challenge that how an IoT blockchain system is investigated to …
An Approach to Deliver Hardware-dependent Packages in Order to Reduce Effort of Updating AGL Distribution Images

An Approach to Deliver Hardware-dependent Packages in Order to Reduce Effort of Updating AGL Distribution Images

February 10, 2020

To support AGL distribution for various boards, SoC architecture, there is a big concern about how to distribute the HW-dependent packages efficiently. Nowadays, in order to update the HW vendor's dep …
Data Plane Monitoring in Segment Routing Networks

Data Plane Monitoring in Segment Routing Networks

February 10, 2020

Traffic blackholes, path divergence, and network faults are a significant pain point for network operators, leading to revenue and goodwill loss. The common source …
Establish an Automated Testing Lab for AGL

Establish an Automated Testing Lab for AGL

February 9, 2020

Establish an automated testing lab for AGL(Liu Wenlong, Fujitsu Nanda) - This presentation is the introduction to how to establish an automated testing lab. The main part is to tell audiences how to i …
Managing Server Secrets at Scale with a Vaultless Password Manager

Managing Server Secrets at Scale with a Vaultless Password Manager

February 9, 2020

Operating a large cluster, a datacenter, or a distributed network involves handling a lot of secrets. In almost all cases, you have to deal with at least four types of secrets for each piece of hardwa …
Understanding gossip protocols

Understanding gossip protocols

February 9, 2020

Flix Lpez Luis offers an introduction to gossip protocols, using a simulator to demonstrate how they behave when there are challenges like network partitions and faulty nodes.
Keynote: Reference Hardware, System Architecture Deals with Various Requirements from OEMs

Keynote: Reference Hardware, System Architecture Deals with Various Requirements from OEMs

February 8, 2020

Car OEM jointly operate an Expert Group within AGL to come up with a basic the system hardware architecture that would be taken advantage as a reference in the AGL software development. The group of O …
Building the Global Open Software Platform for Fully Autonomous Vehicles

Building the Global Open Software Platform for Fully Autonomous Vehicles

February 7, 2020

Rapidly advancing SoC technologies are delivering unprecedented performance for fully automated cars and vehicles. Open Software platforms enable global collaboration and acceleration of innovation. A …
Display Virtualization with KVM for Automotive Systems

Display Virtualization with KVM for Automotive Systems

February 7, 2020

Automotive systems are evolving towards virtualization of a large and powerful SoC to control independent systems in the car. There is thus a growing need to virtualize display in an efficient and sec …
Packet-Level Network Analytics without Compromises

Packet-Level Network Analytics without Compromises

February 7, 2020

Network analytics has been a key component of network management for decades. As we look to integrate more intelligence, whether for increased security or to bette …
360 Degree Vehicle Surround View in an Open Source Project: Libxcam

360 Degree Vehicle Surround View in an Open Source Project: Libxcam

February 6, 2020

Vehicle surround view is one of the key features in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Several cameras are equipped around the car to capture the scenes outside. Conventional solution would bl …
Optical Transceivers in Open Networks

Optical Transceivers in Open Networks

February 5, 2020

Open Networking switches and software stacks are disrupting the industry and leading to a rapid increase in innovation, choice and flexibility in network deploymen …
Enabling traditional vision on specialized deep learning hardware

Enabling traditional vision on specialized deep learning hardware

February 4, 2020

In recent years, weve seen a shift from traditional vision algorithms to deep neural network algorithms. While many companies expect to move to deep learning for some or all of their algorithms, they may have a significant investment in classical vision. Paul Brasnett explains how to express and adapt a classical vision algorithm to become a trainable DNN.
Fundamentals of DDoS Mitigation

Fundamentals of DDoS Mitigation

February 2, 2020

In this tutorial, the attendees will go over the basics of Denial of Service attacks and network technology pertaining to them. The tutorial goes over the OSI netw …
IOMMU Evaluation in Automotive Use-Cases

IOMMU Evaluation in Automotive Use-Cases

February 2, 2020

Nowadays, the Embedded Linux system become more complex while the end-users have more expectation on the new vehicles. To cope with the demands, more hardware resources have been added to the system, …
The last mile on democratizing AI

The last mile on democratizing AI

February 2, 2020

Zhipeng Huang explains how resource representation (RR) works with various intermediate representation (IR) technologies to help achieve the democratization of AI.
The use of recommender systems in the chief investment office: A case study

The use of recommender systems in the chief investment office: A case study

February 2, 2020

Gaurav Chakravorty explains how recommender systems can be utilized for investment management and details how AI and deep learning are used in trading today.
Accelerating I/O in Big Data A Data Driven Approach and Case Studies

Accelerating I/O in Big Data A Data Driven Approach and Case Studies

February 1, 2020

The I/O infrastructure is key to Big Data ecosystem. New networking and storage hardware technologies are continuously being developed while software I/O stack remains relatively slow. In order to ens …
Bring Your Camera into 2018: Forward Porting Image Sensor Drivers

Bring Your Camera into 2018: Forward Porting Image Sensor Drivers

January 30, 2020

The Linux media community tried in the past to ease the work of camera driver developers by providing frameworks and methods to abstract away from the crude V4L2 APIs. Some of those frameworks, as the …
Migrating Spotify's runtime to Kubernetes

Migrating Spotify's runtime to Kubernetes

January 30, 2020

Spotify recently completed the migration of all services from running on bare-metal hardware to hosts in the cloud on GCP. Spotify is now in the exciting process of journeying from merely cloud hosted to cloud native via migrating the running of services to Kubernetes. James Wen discusses the work involved, lessons learned, and pitfalls encountered in moving services onto Kubernetes.
Device Security in IoT

Device Security in IoT

January 29, 2020

Device security is becoming increasingly complex and expensive with exponential growth in connected devices. E.g. Devices must support secure boot to prevent malicious software installationCommunicati …
Grabbing Audio and Video on a Board Farm

Grabbing Audio and Video on a Board Farm

January 28, 2020

Running a test lab usually has two purposes: automated tests and sharing boards among developers. For many use cases accessing a board over serial console and being able to boot a custom kernel is eno …
Xen Project 15 Years Down the Line: Thinking Outside of the Conceived Tech Comfort Zone

Xen Project 15 Years Down the Line: Thinking Outside of the Conceived Tech Comfort Zone

January 27, 2020

What do Crazy in Love by Beyonce and the Xen Project have in common? They are both 15-year-old hits. Flash forward to today. The Xen Project is used by more than 10 million users, powers some of t …
Linux-based RTOS Experimental Platform for Constructing Self-driving Vehicles

Linux-based RTOS Experimental Platform for Constructing Self-driving Vehicles

January 26, 2020

A holistic design and cost-efficient platform to construct self-driving systems is presented, with an emphasis on Linux-based software architectures for computer vision, control system, and inter-vehi …
Pocket Science Lab - An Open Source Hardware for Electronics Teaching & Learning

Pocket Science Lab - An Open Source Hardware for Electronics Teaching & Learning

January 26, 2020

Pocket Science Lab (PSLab) is a project developed by FOSSASIA. The goal is to create an Open Source hardware device (open on all layers) that can be used for experiments by teachers, students and citi …
Effective Virtual CPU Configuration with QEMU and libvirt

Effective Virtual CPU Configuration with QEMU and libvirt

January 25, 2020

QEMU (the open source machine emulator and virtualizer) and the libvirt API allow a variety of ways in which CPUs can be configured for virtual machines (VMs). In light of the recent CPU hardware flaw …
Super Fast Packet Filtering with eBPF and XDP

Super Fast Packet Filtering with eBPF and XDP

January 25, 2020

XDP is a comparatively recent technology, which enables engineers to perform hardware offload and process packets in the fastest possible way. In this talk Helen will provide the overview of possible …
DIY versus designer approaches to deploying data center infrastructure for machine learning and analytics

DIY versus designer approaches to deploying data center infrastructure for machine learning and analytics

January 24, 2020

Cory Minton and Colm Moynihan explain how to choose the right deployment model for on-premises infrastructure to reduce risk, reduce costs, and be more nimble.