embedded

Debian and Yocto Project Based Long-Term Maintenance Approaches for Embedded Products

Debian and Yocto Project Based Long-Term Maintenance Approaches for Embedded Products

February 5, 2020

In industrial products, 10+ years maintenance is required, including security fixes, reproducible builds, and continuous system updates. Selecting appropriate base systems and tools is necessary for e …
Marios Adventures in Tekton Land

Marios Adventures in Tekton Land

February 4, 2020

Tekton is a Kubernetes-native, lightweight, easy to manage CI/CD pipelines engine. Pipeline building blocks can be reused, version controlled and curated in a catalogue that embeds best practices. Tek …
Everything Great about Upstream Graphics

Everything Great about Upstream Graphics

February 3, 2020

This talk will cover upstream technologies, infrastructure and driver components relevant for enabling the graphics side of an SoC: Improvements in zero-copy buffer sharing across drivers, better infr …
Fully Automated Power Measurement Solution Coupled with IC Temperature Control

Fully Automated Power Measurement Solution Coupled with IC Temperature Control

February 3, 2020

Embedded Linux platforms power options are described by Operating Performance Points (OPPs). Creating those OPPs requires a laborious process known as characterization. Characterization is usually an …
NuttX for Embedded Linux Developers

NuttX for Embedded Linux Developers

February 3, 2020

NuttX is an open source POSIX-compliant RTOS suitable for resource constrained devices and real-time systems (such as Drones and robotics) where Linux can be difficult to use. However, NuttX has rich …
Lightning Talk: Embedded Device Chameleons on Stage

Lightning Talk: Embedded Device Chameleons on Stage

February 2, 2020

This is about how embedded device innovation can be done on software side alone by showing how a device originally coming out of factory using a Debian based OS can be morphed into a device running An …
Multi-core Application Development with Zephyr RTOS

Multi-core Application Development with Zephyr RTOS

February 2, 2020

Performance in Desktop, Server, HPC and even smartphone applications has been scaling rapidly in recent years via multi-core, continuously increasing the number of cores on a processor chip. The same …
2019 State of U-Boot Development Report

2019 State of U-Boot Development Report

February 1, 2020

The U-Boot bootloader has been evolved for nearly 2 decades and is one of the primary and well-known opensource bootloader choice for embedded industry.The 2019 State of U-Boot development report desc …
Build Edge Native Applications Integrated with the Cloud

Build Edge Native Applications Integrated with the Cloud

January 30, 2020

Edge and IoT are coming to us fast in the industry after the clouds and mobiles, while people are still questioning about what's the edge, and what's the best way to compile and run applications on th …
Tracing Resource-constrained Embedded Systems Using eBPF

Tracing Resource-constrained Embedded Systems Using eBPF

January 30, 2020

Even though eBPF/IOVisor provide safe and powerful tools to trace both systems in development and in production in general, one encounters very significant problems when trying to run these tools on e …
Safety vs Security: A Tale of Two Updates

Safety vs Security: A Tale of Two Updates

January 29, 2020

When developing a product, safety and security usually go along nicely : Both want a product that has no remaining bugs.However, once the product is out, the constraints of safety and security tends t …
Precision Timeouts in Zephyr: Past, Present, and Future

Precision Timeouts in Zephyr: Past, Present, and Future

January 28, 2020

An operating system dedicated for embedded real-time applications must include precise timing infrastructure providing the same level of service regardless of the system load and state. In this sessio …
Timing Boot Time Reduction Techniques

Timing Boot Time Reduction Techniques

January 27, 2020

During this talk, Michael will describe the most helpful techniques to reduce the boot time of embedded Linux systems, together with recent measures of the corresponding savings they bring, such as to …
BoF: The Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded

BoF: The Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded

January 26, 2020

This BoF provides an open forum for the embedded Linux community to ask questions and discuss issues with Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded principals. …
One Build to Rule Them All: Building FreeRTOS & Linux Using Yocto

One Build to Rule Them All: Building FreeRTOS & Linux Using Yocto

January 25, 2020

Systems with a mix of architectures on a single device are commonly found on embedded products nowadays, where each processor provides different functionality; allowing developers to achieve great per …
Debugging Embedded Linux Systems with GDB

Debugging Embedded Linux Systems with GDB

January 24, 2020

For Linux, it doesnt matter if a program is being run on a server, on a desktop system or on an embedded device. The tools and interfaces are always the same. This portability is one of the key facto …
From an Idea to a Patch in the Linux Mainline

From an Idea to a Patch in the Linux Mainline

January 24, 2020

In the tutorial we're going to cover the basics of Linux kernel development, from the idea (or a bug found!) to the change integrated into the Linux mainline.We'll start from setting up the environmen …
Xvisor: Embedded Hypervisor for RISC-V

Xvisor: Embedded Hypervisor for RISC-V

January 24, 2020

Xvisor is an open-source type-1 monolithic hypervisor. It is primarily designed and developed for embedded systems. The Xvisor project has been around for more than 8 years now and it is has a mature/ …
Our Company and the Open Source Community: A Journey from Anxiety to Collaboration

Our Company and the Open Source Community: A Journey from Anxiety to Collaboration

January 21, 2020

Would you like your company to be more open towards the free software community?GARDENA is a company with a lot of experience with gardening tools; experience with software development and interaction …
Configuring CI to Maximise Developer Velocity

Configuring CI to Maximise Developer Velocity

January 17, 2020

Applying a DevOps approach to systems integration empowers individual developers to experiment with sweeping changes, by leveraging a continuous integration strategy to ensure that system constraints …
Embedded Graphics Drivers in Mesa

Embedded Graphics Drivers in Mesa

January 17, 2020

Users of mobile platforms are expecting more and more complex graphics on their devices. This means that taking advantage of the mobile GPUs efficiently is essential. A large part of this efficiency i …
Writing Your Own Gadget with Zephyr OS

Writing Your Own Gadget with Zephyr OS

January 17, 2020

In this talk the author describes possible ways of connecting IOT devices using embedded boards running Zephyr OS, connected to host PC via USB. In particular, the following sample cases are explained …
Security in Smart Vehicle

Security in Smart Vehicle

January 15, 2020

The automotive industry is facing major transformation, nowadays, a car embedded at least 80 equipment control unit shared on a number of LAN (local aera network). The connectivity of car through V2X …
Debian or Yocto Project? Which is the Best for your Embedded Linux Project?

Debian or Yocto Project? Which is the Best for your Embedded Linux Project?

January 14, 2020

As you contemplate how to put together the system software for your next Embedded Linux project you will probably be wondering which is the best path to take? Use a Linux distro such as Debian, (or an …
Under Lock & Key: Using Hardware Protected Keys with the Linux Crypto API

Under Lock & Key: Using Hardware Protected Keys with the Linux Crypto API

January 14, 2020

The Linux Crypto API which provides potentially hardware accelerated cryptographic services to the Linux kernel and user space programs running under it, has a little known but extremely useful featur …
How to Make an App Enabled Embedded Linux Product that Fits in 16MB of Flash with Containers

How to Make an App Enabled Embedded Linux Product that Fits in 16MB of Flash with Containers

January 13, 2020

The audience will learn how to assemble a Linux embedded product from scratch that includes a basic OS and has the abiilty to install applications as containers using open source OTA technology. Parti …
Supporting Video (de)serializers in Linux: Challenges and Works in Progress

Supporting Video (de)serializers in Linux: Challenges and Works in Progress

January 12, 2020

Video serializer and deserializer chipsets are more and more used in embedded Linux systems to transmit raw video at several meters distance. Yet the kernel still lacks support for them, despite the a …
Finding your North Star

Finding your North Star

January 10, 2020

The Financial Times hit its target of 1 million paying subscribers a year ahead of schedule. Cait O'Riordan discusses the North Star metric the company uses to drive subscriber growth, detailing how it's embedded across the organization and within the engineering and product teams she's responsible for.