The much awaited "Linux Kernel Porting Workshop" is here! The objective of the workshop is to provide better understanding of the Linux device model, the device tree, and the changes required to port the kernel to a new board. This workshop deals with Board Level Porting. To understand terminologies associated with porting, please read our article titled Linux Kernel Porting, Jargon Buster

This article is about Linux kernel porting, and other related terms like flashing and bring-up. The terms are generally used incorrectly. Through this article I hope to give clear definition of each term and how they relate to one another.

The second edition of the "Linux System Programming Dojo" was organized by Embedded Linux Meetup Group. The Embedded Linux Meetup Group is a Zilogic Systems initiative to bring together people working on Linux in Embedded Systems, with the hope to share knowledge and ideas.

The first coding dojo was held in 19 June, where people got together and implemented command line tools — ls, ps, rm, df.

The second coding dojo was organized on 23 July. A mix of code Kabalis and newbies participated in the event.

The "ARM Bare Metal Programming, Workshop" was organized by Zilogic Systems, on May 21 and 22. About 28 people from various organizations, including Burndy, Microchip, NIELIT Calicut, Electron India, SRM Technologies, Visteon, attended the workshop.

ARM mbed is the fastest way of creation and deployment of devices based on ARM microcontroller. It is designed for IoT platforms which provide an operating system, development tools, standard libraries, cloud services etc.

Zilogic is organizing a workshop on the ARM Bare Metal Programming. Writing startup code and linker scripts has been a dark art, mastered only by a few people. Lack of documentation has only aggravated the problem. Through this training programme we hope to unravel the mysteries behind these concepts, and help people join the elite few.

For firmware and RTOS developers, this knowledge will be useful for porting their software to different microcontroller. It will be also be useful for people who would like to delve into bootloader development and development of early boot code of the kernel.

The "Dive into Yocto, Workshop" was organized by Zilogic Systems, on 12th and 13th September. About 22 people from various organizations, including Burndy, Identiv, Ingersoll Rand, Microchip and Visteon, attended the workshop.

Zilogic is organizing a workshop on the Yocto Project. Yocto Project is an open source embedded Linux build system similar to Buildroot. While Buildroot uses "make" for task scheduling, Yocto uses bitbake, a tool specialized for integration builds. Yocto in addition provides support for packaging, supports a wide range of software packages, and a layering mechanism to easily extend the base set of packages.

Zilogic is participating in the 4th edition of Traffic InfraTech Expo at NSIC Exhibition Complex, New Delhi. We are demonstrating an upcoming series of M2M products, at the expo.

A DC motor uses a direct current power source to generate torque. It is commonly used in CPU fans, robots as wheels, toys, CD drives, etc. The DC Motor Board from Zilogic can be used to control a DC motor’s speed and direction of rotation. In this first article, in a series of articles on the DC Motor Board, we will introduce the reader to the theory behind the working and control of a DC motor.

Seven segment displays are electronic display devices used to display decimal digits as a simpler low cost alternatives to more complex dot matrix displays. The Seven Segment Board, from Zilogic, is an 8 digit seven segment display. In this first article, in a series of articles on the Seven Segment Board, we will introduce the reader to seven segment display fundamentals, and usage of the Seven Segment Board.

Embedded systems generally use an audio interface for alert beeps and notifications. The Audio Board from Zilogic, extends a motherboard, with audio capabilities. Using the Audio Board, requires knowledge on the following:

Stepper motors are used in a wide variety of applications, including computer peripherals like printers, scanners, CD drives, camera lenses, etc. In this first article, in a series of articles on stepper motors, we will introduce the reader to the theory behind the working and control of a stepper motor.

pySerial is a Python API module to access the serial port. pySerial provides a uniform API across multiple operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and BSD. This article explains how to use the pySerial API to access a serial port.