Porting Kivy, a multi-touch UI Framework, to Colibri T20

Linux is the most popular operating system in embedded devices, it is being used in various products including hand-helds, medical and Industrial HMIs devices. When it comes to natural user interface, people tend to choose the Android framework, but Android, is too heavy for buiding just a HMI. A popular alternative is the Python based Kivy.

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Android App Testing with ADB

Android applications are the prominent software developed in this era. The developers and testers may want to automate the testing of their App with less learning curve, before getting into a full blown test frameworks. Using ADB commands for Android testing is a lean methodology, where with a few commands and little quirks, the tests can be automated. In this article let’s get to know about the ADB, and few categories of UI features that can be tested with ADB. It would be nice to watch, testing the "GALLERY" App automatically with ADB.

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Autotools and Cross Compilation

When working with Linux based embedded systems it is essential to cross compile applications to the required target architecture. It is necessary to understand how packages are built, and how the build can be customized to build applications for Linux based embedded systems. This article will be a starting point for discussing about embedded Linux build systems, like Yocto.

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Zilogic Systems is now ISO 9001:2015 Certified

We are delighted to announce that Zilogic Systems has been certified as ISO 9001:2015 since Jan 2020!

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Zilogic at CV2020

Zilogic Systems is proud to participate in Connected Vehicle 2020 as a badge sponsor. CV2020 is the 5th international conference and exhibition on emerging technologies in connected, shared and autonomous in the automotive sector. Connected Vehicle conference provides a focused platform to discuss the trends in reshaping the automotive and transportation industry.

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Inauguration of Development Center

We have moved in to a new facility at Raghula Tech Park, located on the Rajiv Gandhi IT Expressway. The new facility consolidates teams distributed across various locations under one roof. As an integrated setup, we hope this will accelerate execution and help serve our customers in a better way.

In this new and refreshing facility, providing renewed spirit and energy, we look forward to an exciting year ahead!

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Announce: Dive Into Device Interfacing Workshop

Self-paced hands-on tutorial on how programs interact with devices in an embedded system.

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Zilogic at PyCon India 2019

Zilogic Systems participated in PyCon India 2019 at the Chennai Trade Centre. PyCon India is the premier conference in India on using and developing python programming language. Zilogic System was the associate partner of this grand tech event. More details at https://in.pycon.org/2019/

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Announce: LTP Devsprint

We are happy to announce a devsprint for Linux Test Project (LTP). This devsprint is for developers who are familiar with Linux System Programming and would like to take a plunge into contributing to an open source project.

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Linux Device Driver Caveats

Writing good device driver codes is still challenging for many embedded application programmers. Even though sufficient documentation is available, many still find it hard to understand what are the Do’s and Dont’s for writing drivers. One of the reason for this is that, Unlike application programming, learning to …

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Demystifying Linux Device Drivers Workshop, Report

The "Demystifying Linux Device Drivers, Workshop", was organized by Zilogic Systems on December 15-16 in Chennai. The workshop was done using our in-house hardware: ZKit-ARM-VF51 and DietIO. The ZKit-ARM-VF51 is the baseboard, powered by a Vybrid VF5xx SoC. The DietIO is the add-on board that has variety of devices for teaching and learning embedded systems and device drivers.

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Announce: Demystifying Linux Device Drivers, Workshop

We are happy to announce our next workshop, "Demystifying Linux Device Drivers". This workshop is for developers who are familiar with Linux in embedded systems, and would like to explore the world of devices and drivers.

One of the pain points in starting with device drivers, is the missing bits …

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Workshop at PyConf Hyderabad, Report

The "Embedded Linux Device Interfacing using Python Workshop", was held on October 7, in Hyderabad as a part of Python Conference organized by Hyderabad Python User Group at IIIT Hyderabad. The workshop was done using our in-house hardware: ZKit-ARM-VF51 and DietIO. The ZKit-ARM-VF51 is the baseboard, powered by a Vybrid VF5xx SoC. The DietIO is the add-on board, that has variety of devices for teaching and learning embedded systems and device drivers.

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Embedded Linux Device Interfacing Workshop, Report

The "Embedded Linux Device Interfacing Workshop", was organized on July 1 and 2, in Chennai, and on July 15, in Banglore. The workshop was done using our in-house hardware: ZKit-ARM-VF50 and DietIO. The ZKit-ARM-VF50 is the baseboard, powered by a Vybrid VF5xx SoC. The DietIO is the add-on board, that has variety of devices for teachning and learning embedded systems and device drivers.

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Announce: Embedded Linux Device Interfacing, Workshop

Today, Linux runs on a variety of devices, from smartphones to infotainment systems to refrigerators. It is the most popular general purpose operating system, on the planet, used in embedded systems.

The objective of the workshop is to help developers understand how various sensors and actuators are accessed and controlled from a Linux based embedded system. We hope this increased understanding of the system, will lead to a better design, cleaner implementation, faster debugging, finally resulting in a better quality product.

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