Zephyr Project

Embedded IoT World
2022-04-05 - 2022-04-07
Embedded IoT World, which is partnered with DesignCon, will be in-person this year on April 5-7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Embedded IoT World provides a curated program for engineers, architects, and developers using embedded technologies to bring end-to-end IoT solutions to life.
Over two days, you’ll access technical sessions, speaker Q&As, and demos, so you can build your expertise and learn how to tackle your biggest implementation challenges. To learn more or to register for the event, click here.
Jonathan Beri, CEO of Golioth, will be on-site giving a Zephyr presentation titled, “How to Select the Best RTOS for your Connected Device.” Join his talk on Wednesday, April 6 at 3:35 – 4:05 pm.
Visit the Embedded IoT Conference website here to register or check out the schedule: https://tmt.knect365.com/embedded-iot-world/.

RSA Conference (San Francisco, CA)
2022-06-06 - 2022-06-09
RSA Conference is the premier series of global events and year-round learning for the cybersecurity community. RSAC is where the security industry converges to discuss current and future concerns and have access to the experts, unbiased content and ideas that help enable individuals and companies advance their cybersecurity posture and build stronger and smarter teams.
Both in-person and online, RSAC brings the cybersecurity industry together and empowers the collective “we” to stand against cyberthreats around the world. RSAC is the ultimate marketplace for the latest technologies and hands-on educational opportunities that help industry professionals discover how to make their companies more secure while showcasing the most enterprising, influential, and thought-provoking thinkers and leaders in cybersecurity today. For the most up-to-date news pertaining to the cybersecurity industry visit www.rsaconference.com.
Kate Stewart, Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems at the Linux Foundation, will partner with Allan Friedman, Senior Advisor and Strategist at CISA, to give a presentation titled, “Tooling up: Getting SBOMs to Scale” on Monday, June 6 at 10:50-11:40 PT.
SBOMs serve a variety of purposes, and come at different levels of quality and support different tasks. SBOMs can be created for the source files, during build, or built components. Utilizing SBOMs at scale will require a robust ecosystem of tooling for creation and consumption. We’ll review what is available, emphasize open source options and identify gaps and room for innovation. Learn more or register here.

Embedded IoT World at DesignCon (Virtual)
2022-06-07 - 2022-06-08
DesignCon didn’t end in April! It’s a Smart Event – a hybrid experience that extends beyond the recent in-person event through the use of a digital platform. We’re bringing together the brightest minds in electronic design to deliver an expansive education program online June 7-8.
This includes Embedded IoT World, which provides a curated experience for engineers, architects, and developers using embedded technologies to bring end-to-end IoT solutions to life.
It has never been more important to build safe, secure, and dependable devices that withstand the test of time so organizations can successfully integrate and commercialize end-to-end IoT solutions. Embedded IoT World will help you unpack the evolving standards and opportunities for connectivity, safety, and processing in the embedded community.
Register now for a digital conference pass or a free digital expo pass to gain access to expert-led educational sessions, network with peers, and explore 130+ suppliers offering the latest technologies for your design projects. Stream sessions and connect with new suppliers from your home, office or anywhere through June 30th.
Click here to see what’s included with a digital conference pass vs. a free digital expo pass.

Zephyr Developer Summit (In-person & Virtual)
2022-06-07 - 2022-06-09
The second annual Zephyr Developer Summit will take place on June 8-9, 2022 in Mountain View, California.
To register for the event, click here.
To sponsor the event, click here.
Check out the complete schedule, including the “Intro to Zephyr Day” on June 7 here.

Embedded World 2022
2022-06-21 - 2022-06-23
The Zephyr Project will be in-person at Embedded World 2022, hosted in Nuremberg, Germany on June 21-23. To register for the event, visit the main conference website: https://www.embedded-world.de/en.
Zephyr will have a booth at the conference with live demos from project members such as AVSystem, Golioth, Laird Connectivity, Memfault and Nordic Semiconductor. If you’re attending Embedded World, stop by to see us in Hall 4, Booth 4-170!

Embedded Linux Conference
2022-06-21 - 2022-06-24
The Zephyr Project will be at the Embedded Linux Conference, which is co-located with Open Source Summit North America, on June 21-24 in Austin, TX or virtually. Register for the event on the main event website: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/register/.

Thursday, June 23
12-12:40 pm CDT: System Device Tree and Lopper: Concrete Examples – Bruce Ashfield & Stefano Stabellini, AMD
System Device Tree is an extension to Device Tree to describe all the hardware on an SoC, including heterogeneous CPU clusters and secure resources not typically visible to an Operating System like Linux. This full view allows the System Device Tree to be the “One true source” of the entire hardware description and helps to prevent the common (and hard-to-debug) problem of conflicting resources and system consistency. Lopper is an Open Source framework to parse and manipulate System Device Tree. With Lopper, it is possible to generate multiple traditional Device Trees from a single larger System Device Tree. This presentation will provide an overview of System Device Tree and will discuss the latest updates of the specification and tooling. The talk will illustrate multiple use-cases for System Device Tree with concrete examples, such as Linux running on the more powerful CPU cluster and Zephyr running on a smaller Cortex-R cluster. It will also show how to use Lopper to generate multiple traditional Device Trees targeting different OSes, not just Linux but also Zephyr/other RTOSes. Finally, an end-to-end demo based on Yocto to build a complete heterogeneous system with multiple OSes and RTOSes running on different clusters on a single reference board will be shown. Add this to your schedule here.
1:15-1:35 pm: Ask the Experts Session with Kate Stewart on SPDX, Safety Critical Software & Embedded Systems
Sit down with open source experts to gain knowledge 1:1 and ask all your pressing questions! No sign-up necessary – just stop by!
2:05-2:45 pm: BOF: SBOMs for Embedded Systems: What’s Working? What’s Not?
With the recent focus on improving Cybersecurity in IoT & Embedded, the expectation that a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) can be produced, is becoming the norm. Having a clear understanding of the software running on an embedded system, especially in safety critical applications, like medical devices, energy infrastructure, etc. has become essential. Regulatory authorities have recognized this and are starting to expect it as a condition for engagement. This BOF will provide an overview of the emerging regulatory landscape, as well as examples of how SBOMs are already being generated today for embedded systems by open source projects such as Zephyr, Yocto and others, followed by a discussion of the gaps folks are seeing in practice, and ways we might tackle them.

2:55-3:35 pm: Static Partitioning with Xen, LinuxRT, and Zephyr: A Concrete End-to-end Example – Stefano Stabellini, AMD

Static partitioning enables multiple domains to run alongside each other with no interference. They could be running Linux, an RTOS, or another OS, and all of them have direct access to different portions of the SoC. In the last five years, the Xen community introduced several new features to make Xen-based static partitioning possible. Dom0less to start multiple static domains in parallel at boot, and Cache Coloring to minimize cache interference effects are among them. Static inter-domain communications mechanisms were introduced this year, while “ImageBuilder” has been making system-wide configurations easier. An easy-to-use complete solution is within our grasp. This talk will show the progress made on Xen static partitioning. The audience will learn to configure a realistic reference design with multiple partitions: a LinuxRT partition, a Zephyr partition, and a larger Linux partition. The presentation will show how to set up communication channels and direct hardware access for the domains. It will explain how to measure interrupt latency and use cache coloring to zero cache interference effects. The talk will include a live demo of the reference design. Add this to your schedule here.

Friday, June 24:

4-4:40 pm: Asymmetric/Heterogeneous MultiProcessing (AMP/HMP): Mainline Linux and Zephyr in Unison – Marcel Ziswiler, Toradex AG

This talk is a deep dive into the AMP/HMP topic showing both the Cortex-A as well as the Cortex-M4/M7 side of things. The first part looks at the evolution of the microcontroller and its integration into the Linux ecosystem. Both independent uCs, their interfacing, as well as AMP/HMP integrated ones, are covered. It also gives a quick overview of open-source real-time OS’ suitable to the task. The second part looks at the various options how to actually launch code at various stages throughout the lifetime of a system, be it directly from a boot container by the boot ROM, later by the boot loader using U-Boot’s bootaux command or once Linux is booted on the Cortex-A core using the remote processor framework (remoteproc). How mainline Linux and Zephyr work in unison is covered in the third part by further discussing concepts like the remote processor messaging (rpmsg) framework using the virtio-based messaging bus which allows kernel drivers to communicate with remote processors available in the system. Communication libraries like OpenAMP are also briefly covered. My talk is mostly SoC agnostic but concludes with a real-life demo using NXP i.MX 7/8M Mini and 8M Plus-based systems running the fully open-source software stacks previously introduced. Add it to your schedule here.

Sensors Converge 2022
2022-06-27 - 2022-06-29
Sensors Converge takes place on June 27-29 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, CA. Visit the main event page for more details.
On Wednesday, June 28 at 11:45-12:30 pm PT – WISE: Women in Sensors & Electronics Program
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM: Opening Address from Sheryl Ehrman, Don Beall Dean of the Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering at San Jose State University
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM: Panel: Women in Sensors & Electronic Engineering – Leading the Tech Revolution
Women are the key to unlocking the potential of sensor and electronic technology, but often have been largely overlooked as valued contributors. This interactive women-led session was designed to foster discussion and collaboration of women in electronics, insights on pursuing a career in tech, seeking mentorship, new opportunities, and supporting technology for workplace diversity.

The art of building and leading a diverse tech team
The advantages of seeking mentorship early for success
How AI and other technology support diversity, equity, and inclusion

Moderator: Meeta Roy, Director, Strategy & Planning, Peloton
Add it to your schedule here.

(Webinar) OTA Device Management with Golioth cloud platform using Zephyr RTOS and NXP i.MX RT
2022-07-13 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
In this webinar on July 13 at 8-9 am PT, NXP and Golioth will uncover how to start from a development platform and quickly program that device to send data back to the Cloud. After creating a firmware build for i.MX RT10xx evaluation platforms in Zephyr, we will show how to use Golioth to implement a range of useful troubleshooting and data capture techniques. Join us as we explore how you can use NXP platforms to prototype intelligent products and quickly create IoT systems that can scale to thousands or millions of devices.
Register here.
What you will learn:

NXP’s support strategy for Zephyr, including which NXP platforms are currently supported and future plans.
How to integrate Ethernet and cloud connectivity in a Zephyr application using the i.MX RT1060
How to apply credentials to a device so that it can send data securely back to the cloud.
How to monitor logs for troubleshooting and logging of issues throughout a deployment.
How to stream sensor data to the cloud and visualize it in 3rd party platforms.
How to command and control a device in the field, using a state-based database.
How to update firmware to devices in the field using built-in bootloaders like MCUboot.

Presenters:

Derek Snell – Senior Systems Engineer, NXP Semiconductors
Mike Szczys – Developer Relations Engineer, Golioth

Open Source Summit Latin America (Virtual)
2022-08-23 - 2022-08-24
Join us for the first-ever Open Source Summit Latin America, hosted virtually on August 23-24. Register for the event here.
Kate Stewart, VP of Dependable Embedded Systems at the Linux Foundation, will give a keynote presentation, titled, “Applying Open Source Development Best Practices to IoT.”
The Internet of Things has become pervasive in our daily home and work environments like factories, agriculture, mining, etc. IoT devices are growing so fast because they provide the data necessary for insights on how to do things smarter and more efficiently.
To continue to scale, we need to bring the quality and security best practices from open source development of clouds and desktops to resource-constrained devices. Since its inception in 2016, the Zephyr RTOS project has been a leader in applying known open source development best practices. We’ll go over some of the key strategies adopted in the last 6 years, that has resulted in Zephyr being used widely in products in multiple market segments such as wind turbines, computers, hearing aids and more. These best practices for software quality & supporting security are now making it possible to aim for safety-critical applications as well.
To learn more about the new event or to register, visit the main event website here. Join us for the first-ever Open Source Summit Latin America, hosted virtually on August 23-24. Register for the event here.
Kate Stewart, VP of Dependable Embedded Systems at the Linux Foundation, will give a keynote presentation, titled, “Applying Open Source Development Best Practices to IoT.”
The Internet of Things has become pervasive in our daily home and work environments like factories, agriculture, mining, etc. IoT devices are growing so fast because they provide the data necessary for insights on how to do things smarter and more efficiently.
To continue to scale, we need to bring the quality and security best practices from open source development of clouds and desktops to resource-constrained devices. Since its inception in 2016, the Zephyr RTOS project has been a leader in applying known open source development best practices. We’ll go over some of the key strategies adopted in the last 6 years, that has resulted in Zephyr being used widely in products in multiple market segments such as wind turbines, computers, hearing aids and more. These best practices for software quality & supporting security are now making it possible to aim for safety-critical applications as well.
To learn more about the new event or to register, visit the main event website here.

ARC Processor Summit 2022
2022-09-08
The ARC® Processor Summit on September 8 at 9:30 am at the Marriott in Santa Clara, California will host experts, users and ecosystem partners discuss the most recent trends and solutions that impact the development of SoCs for embedded applications.
This event will provide you with in-depth information from industry leaders on the latest ARC processor IP and related hardware/software technologies that enable you to achieve differentiation in your chip or system design. Sessions will be followed by a networking reception where you can see live demos and chat with fellow attendees, our partners, and Synopsys experts.
On September 8 at 11:30 am- 12:15 pm PDT, Alexey Brdokin, Engineering Manager at Synopsys and Zephyr Ambassador, will present Zephyr RTOS for ARC Processors: From “Nano Kernel” to Heterogeneous Cluster.
Zephyr RTOS is quickly becoming one of the most popular general purpose open source Real-Time Operating Systems on the market. Zephyr is more than just an OS kernel with protocol stacks and driver enabling building all kinds of embedded applications.
In this session we’ll discuss how software features of the Zephyr RTOS can be leveraged across the broad of ARC processor offerings. We’ll start with an overview of ARC cores and features supported in the Zephyr RTOS and then we will examine some specific use-cases which utilize key features of the Zephyr RTOS such as single-threading mode, POSIX compatibility layer and SMP support for embedded multicore configurations up to 12 cores.
Learn more about the event on the Synopsys event site.

Linux Plumbers Conference (Dublin, Ireland + Virtual)
2022-09-12 - 2022-09-14
The Linux Plumbers Conference is the premier event for developers working at all levels of the plumbing layer and beyond.
Taking place on Monday 12th, Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th of September, this year we will be both in person and remote (hybrid). However to minimize technical issues, we’d appreciate most of the content presenters being in-person. The conference will also be live streaming all tracks for free and viewers of the live stream will be able to use the matrix chat to interact with the in person and virtual audiences.
The in-person venue is the Clayton Hotel on Burlington Road, Dublin. Register here.
Zephyr will be on-site for several microconferences including:
IoT is a Four Letter Word
Speakers:
Christopher Friedt
Stefan Schmidt

The IoT microconference is back for its fourth year and our Open Source HW / SW / FW communities are productizing Linux and Zephyr in ways that we have never seen before.
A lot has happened in the last year to discuss and bring forward:
– The Zephyr Project released LTSv2
– PyFive went from concept to an Open Source Silicon SoC via Google’s eFabless shuttle. How will Open Source Silicon affect IoT?
– Apache Thrift running in Zephyr. A new entry in the IoT toolbox.
– Linux-wpan gains mac802154 support for scanning, beaconing and coordinator handling
– The Sound Open Firmware (SoF) project combines Linux ASOC drivers with Zephyr audio DSP firmware
– The Oniro Project breaks ground with a Matter + OpenThread gateway blueprint
– A Matter open source project is being actively developed..
– Linux-and-Zephyr-based products built with Yocto
Each of the above items were large efforts made by Linux centric communities actively pushing the bounds of what is possible in IoT.
Whether you are an apprentice or master, we welcome you to bring your plungers and join us for a deep dive into the pipework of Linux IoT!

Open Source Summit Europe (Dublin, Ireland + Virtual)
2022-09-12 - 2022-09-17
Join us at Open Source Summit Europe, hosted in Dublin, Ireland and virtually this year on September 13-17. Register for the event here.
If you’re attending the conference in-person, we invite you to theZephyr Mini-Summit on Monday, September 12 at 2-5:30 pm. The Zephyr Mini-Summit is designed to introduce you to the leading Open Source RTOS built with safety and security in mind. Attendees will learn why Zephyr is gaining the attention of developers and product makers. This session will provide an overview of the latest technologies and plans emerging from the Zephyr community.
Add this to your Open Source Summit registration for $10. Register here.
Other Zephyr-related sessions are below. Add them to your schedule today:
Tuesday, September 13:
16:15 IST: To RTOS or not RTOS: That is the Question – Frederic Desbiens, Program Manager — IoT and Edge Computing, Eclipse Foundation
Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) have been a fixture of embedded computing for a long time and, more recently, IoT. Popular open-source options such as FreeRTOS and Zephyr support a wide range of hardware and provide features such as storage and networking. However, many open source projects aim to deliver many of the same features in a “bare metal” approach. In other words: they deliver frameworks that enable your applications to run directly on the hardware. Given this, which approach is right for your project? In this presentation, Frédéric Desbiens will explain the pros and cons of RTOSes and the bare metal approach. You will learn about the architecture and feature set of FreeRTOS and Zephyr in the process. You will also discover contrasting os-less frameworks such as Arduino, Espressif IDF, and Drogue IoT, which uses the Rust programming language. Add it to your schedule here.
17:10-17:50 IST: Interfacing Sensor with Zephyr for IoT Devices, Dinesh Kumar K, Embedded Software Engineer, Linumiz
Sensors are the devices which can monitor and measure environment based on synchronous or asynchronous events. Zephyr RTOS provides a sensor subsystem to make easy and uniform interactions with a variety of different sensors. In this talk we will explore possible ways to interface different types of sensor and use with zephyr. Also primarily focuses to add support for new sensor and share experiences about mainlining zephyr. Closing with demostration for temperature/pressure/fingerprint sensor. Add it to your schedule here.
Thursday, September 15
15:00-15:40 IST: SBOMs: Essential for Embedded Systems Too! – Kate Stewart, VP of Dependable Embedded Systems, The Linux Foundation
With the recent focus on improving Cybersecurity, the expectation that a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) can be produced, is becoming the norm. Having a clear understanding of the software running on an embedded system, especially in safety critical applications, like medical devices, energy infrastructure, etc. has become essential. Regulatory authorities have recognized this and are starting to expect it as a condition for engagement. Safety critical certifications require this level of information already, it just needs to be shared in a standard format so others can do better risk management and vulnerability analysis, as well. This talk will provide an overview of the emerging regulatory landscape, as well as examples of how SBOMs are already being generated today for embedded systems by open source projects such as Zephyr, Yocto and others. Add it to your schedule here.
Friday, September 16
11:45-12:25 IST Contributing to Zephyr vs (Linux and U-boot) – Parthiban Nallathambi, CTO, Linumiz
With 4+ years of history, zephyr community is growing into next generation and de-facto RTOS for SoC’s without MMU (Microcontrollers). With open source, as contributors centric and plays the vital role in driving the technology, addition of new architecture support and bleeding edge features. This talk will details the process and guidelines of contribution to zephyr. Also compares the process with Linux Kernel and U-boot patching system and contribution methodology to share the insights. Provoking the mainlining/open source needs for Microcontrollers platforms with zephyr and shares the tips & tricks to get your patch merged faster with details about release cycles. Add it to your schedule here.
14:50-15:30 USB Support in Zephyr OS – Johann Fischer, R&D Engineer, Nordic Semiconductor
Johann will make an overview of the overhauled USB device support in Zephyr OS, from the USB controller driver (UDC) API and tips on how to implement a new controller driver, to the USB device stack interface to classes or functions. In the second part the Johann will present the basic USB host support and USB host controller API, as deep as it is developed at the time of the presentation. The third part puts focus on the testing the entire USB subsystem. Add it to your schedule here.
To check out the complete schedule or to register, visit the main event website here: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-europe/.

The AI Summit & IoT World Conference (Austin, TX)
2022-11-02 - 2022-11-03
AI and IoT are perfect partners, complementary to each other for growth. AI acts as the key capability to make IoT systems and devices more intelligent by capturing business value from data and drawing insights and actions for your IoT solutions – and that’s why The AI Summit and IoT World Conference & Expo are joining forces on November 2-3 in Austin, Texas.
Kate Stewart, VP of Dependable Embedded Systems at the Linux Foundation, will be on-site in Austin to give a session on November 3 at 2:40 – 3:05 pm. Her session titled, “IoT Gateway Platforms for Device Connectivity.” Learn more here.
Learn more about the conference or register for it at the main event page here: https://austin.appliedintelligence.live/welcome.

Renodepedia - From Zephyr’s structured data to traceable and testable open hardware (Webinar)
2022-11-03 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
In this webinar on November 3 from 8-9 am PT, Antmicro will introduce Renodepedia, an extensive database of contemporary hardware powered by Renode, the open source simulation framework, using Zephyr as one of the key data sources. Renodepedia is a follow-on effort to the Renode Zephyr Dashboard – a massive Continuous Integration system that covers testing of more than 50% of all Zephyr build targets against several test cases. Register here.
Join the webinar to learn how to uncover data that is often obscured from engineers and how Zephyr’s structure yields practical benefits – and listen about our journey from being able to run a dozen or so cases, to over a thousand green ticks in our dashboard, and then to organizing this data further into a navigable, testable and verifiable portal that can help future developers understand the broad landscape of available hardware platforms.
We will show you how to process device trees hosted by Zephyr using a new tool called dts2repl, from which we automatically generate simulation scenarios for Renode which we then execute with a passing result on over 200 targets.
With data gathered from Zephyr, dts2repl, Renode and the Zephyr Dashboard we are able to construct a new source of knowledge – Renodepedia, which presents this data in a coherent and interlinked way, allowing you to navigate the complex ecosystem and helping answer questions every project faces: “which platform will work for me?”, “what if my SoC becomes unavailable?”, “how to migrate to a different hardware platform without rewriting my entire software stack?” (spoiler alert: use Zephyr and Renode).
Speakers:
Piotr Zierhoffer, Engineering Manager, Renode Team, Antmicro
Michael Gielda, VP Business Development, Antmicro
Register here.

LF Member Summit (Lake Tahoe, California)
2022-11-08 - 2022-11-10
The Linux Foundation Member Summit, hosted on November 8-10 at Lake Tahoe, California, is the annual gathering for Linux Foundation member organizations.
An annual gathering for Linux Foundation members that fosters collaboration, innovation, and partnerships among the leading projects and organizations working to drive digital transformation with open source technologies. It is a must-attend for business and technical leaders looking to advance open source strategy, implementation, and investment in their organizations and learn how to collaboratively manage the largest shared technology investment of our time.
Kate Stewart, Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems, is on-site at Member Summit. She’ll be giving a presentation on Thursday, November 10 at 3:10-3:40 pm PT titled, “Depending on Open Source for Embedded Systems.”
Open source software has an increasing role in embedded system software today, as products are leveraging the new functionality and abstraction emerging. From cars, to wearables, to smart homes, improved energy infrastructure, it surrounds us. There are now more IoT devices on this planet than there are people, and we’re on track to double the number of devices in a few short years. The more we interact with these devices, the more we need them to be dependable. We need to bring the quality and security best practices from open source development of clouds and desktops to the resource constrained devices and ensure they can have the appropriate levels of quality, security, maintainability, reliability and in some cases, safety considerations. This talk will focus on some examples of best practices adopted in key projects like Linux, Zephyr, Yocto and how they are helping to improve the transparency of software as well as enable improved quality and system level analysis to ensure dependability.
The Linux Foundation Member Summit is an invitation-only event for member companies of The Linux Foundation and Linux Foundation Projects. Learn more here on the main event website here.

Electronica (Munich, Germany)
2022-11-15 - 2022-11-18
electronica is the world’s leading trade fair, which makes it the most important international meeting place for the industry. This year, the event takes place on November 15-18 at the Trade Fair Center Messe in Munich, Germany. The extensive conference and supporting program will highlight areas including automotive, embedded, wireless, IIoT, connectors/measurement and printed electronics. This is where the industry networks—from young talents and students, startups and skilled workers to SMEs and the global players in electronics.
On November 16 at 2:30-3 pm, Nicolas Guilbaud, Technical Advisor & Principal Architect at LACROIX, will give a presentation titled, “3.8 Software Platform using Zephyr and Container, a path to answer the CPU multi-sourcing issue.”
During the last 2 years as a product, design house and EMS, LACROIX had to answer several component shortages issues especially on processor. Processors are not so easy to multi-source as they are running SW, especially low-level SW which is linked to the chipset. The team has spent a lot of time to port low level SW to new CPU target due to this issue. The solution presented during this session is a SW platform solution targeting MCU and CPU which permits to switch from a CPU to another with a limited effort using Zephyr SW platforms and Containers.
Learn more about electronica or to register for the event, click on the main event website: https://electronica.de/en/.

Open Source Summit Japan (Yokohama, Japan + Virtual)
2022-12-05 - 2022-12-06
Open Source Summit Japan, hosted on December 5-6 in Yokohama, Japan and virtually for attendees around the world, is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open source code and community contributors. Register here.
Open Source Summit is a conference umbrella, composed of a collection of events covering the most important technologies, topics, and issues affecting open source today. At Open Source Summit Japan, those events include: LinuxCon, CloudOpen, Automotive Linux Summit, Open AI + Data Forum, OSPOCON, CONTAINERCON, Critical Software Summit, Community Leadership Conference, Emerging OS Forum and Embedded IoT Summit.
Zephyr will be represented at Open Source Summit Japan in several presentations including:
Tuesday, December 6
2-2:40 pm: Implement Safety with a RTOS Running as a Linux Companion Within the Same SoC – Stephane Desneux, CTO, IoT.bzh
Even though significant efforts attempt to prepare Linux for safety certifications, it seems obvious that these initiatives cannot deliver before years, if not decades, due to the magnitude of the work remaining. However, at the same time, the global automotive industry must comply today with many new certifications, including for cybersecurity (UNECE R155) and Over-The-Air software updates (UNECE R156) as well as those existing for safety (ISO-26262). This talk offers a pragmatic approach by leveraging existing hardware platforms and modern OSS software patterns to solve (partially!) certification issues related to safety, real-time and cybersecurity. This approach includes (but is not limited to) a small companion OS running within the same SoC (like Zephyr, FreeRTOS or AutoSAR) to perform certain critical functions. It also tries to use the latest techniques in containers and software isolation to satisfy security, privacy and safe updatability. Add it to your schedule here.
4-4:40 pm: Zephyr RTOS: Applying Open Source Best Practices – Kate Stewart, Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems, The Linux Foundation
We need to bring the quality and security best practices from open source development of clouds and desktops to resource-constrained devices. Since its inception in 2016, the Zephyr RTOS project has been a leader in applying known open source development best practices.
We’ll go over some of the key strategies adopted in the last 6 years, that have resulted in Zephyr being used widely in products in multiple market segments such as wind turbines, computers, hearing aids and more. These best practices for software quality, transparency, traceability & supporting security are now making it possible to aim for safety-critical applications as well. Add it to your schedule here.
4:50 – 5:30 pm: Asymmetric/Heterogeneous MultiProcessing (AMP/HMP): Mainline Linux and Zephyr in Unison – Marcel Ziswiler, Software Team Lead, Toradex AG
This talk is a deep dive into the AMP/HMP topic showing both the Cortex-A as well as the Cortex-M4/M7 side of things. The first part looks at the various options how to actually launch code at various stages throughout the lifetime of a system, be it directly from a boot container by the boot ROM, later by the boot loader using U-Boot’s bootaux command or once Linux is booted on the Cortex-A core using the remote processor framework (remoteproc). How mainline Linux and Zephyr work in unison is covered in the second part by further discussing concepts like the remote processor messaging (rpmsg) framework using the virtio-based messaging bus which allows kernel drivers to communicate with remote processors available in the system. The third part looks at the communication library landscape where the likes of OpenAMP and RPMsg-Lite are covered. My talk is mostly SoC agnostic but concludes with a real-life demo using NXP i.MX 7/8M Mini and 8M Plus-based systems running the fully open-source software stacks previously introduced. A similar presentation was held at the Embedded Linux Conference in Austin in June.
Learn more about Open Source Summit Japan or register for the event on the main event website here: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-japan/.

RISC-V Summit (San Jose, CA + Virtually)
2022-12-13 - 2022-12-14
On December 13-14, the RISC-V community will be in San Jose, California for four days of technology breakthroughs, industry milestones, tutorials, and relationship building.

It all kicks off with a RISC-V Member Day where technical and industry working groups meet in person, running alongside a new RISC-V FutureWatch track featuring breaking news of products, technologies, ecosystem expansion, and more.
Then it’s the centerpiece of the week: Our Summit featuring two days of compelling technical and industry keynotes and conference sessions, paired with a showfloor of the latest community innovations.
The week wraps up with a full day of information-rich tutorials.

As a sponsor, Zephyr will be on-site in San Jose with a booth and several ambassadors. Stop by to meet with members of the Zephyr technical community, ask questions and get your Zephyr swag!
Register for in-person or virtual attendance on the RISC-V Summit main event site here: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/riscv-summit/.

CHIPS Alliance Fall Technology Update (Sunnyvale, CA + Virtual)
2022-12-15
Join CHIPS Alliance on December 15 for an in-person Fall Technology Update featuring informative, technical talks on open source hardware collaborative development, hosted by Google and including speakers from Microsoft, Google, Intel, Antmicro, Efabless, the Zephyr Project and others.
The event is free to attend in person or virtually. Register here.
CHIPS’ Thursday event follows the main RISC-V Summit days (Tuesday-Wednesday) to allow easy participation for open source hardware professionals traveling to the Bay Area for the Summit, and is free to attend (registration required).
Kate Stewart, Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems at the Linux Foundation, will give a talk at 9:10-9:40 am PT about SBOM and HBOM. Add it to your schedule here.

Embedded World (Nuremberg, Germany)
2023-03-14 - 2023-03-16
The Embedded World Conference, which is hosted on March 14-16, 2023 in Nuremberg, Germany, is the world’s leading meeting place for the embedded community.

Since 2017, Zephyr has been a staple at Embedded World with an on-site booth with products and solutions powered/leveraged by Zephyr RTOS and ambassadors to speak with and get all your questions answered.
The Zephyr Project will be in Hall 4- Stand 170 and will be filled with innovative demos and products/solutions from member companies including Platinum members Antmicro, Nordic Semiconductor and NXP and Silver members AVSystem, Blues Wireless, Golioth, IRNAS, Memfault, Parasoft and Sternum.
Learn more about their demos here. To book a meeting with a representatives from a member company or the Zephyr Project – email PR@www.zephyrproject.org or send a DM on Twitter. If you’re at the show, tag us @ZephyrIoT and we’ll retweet your photos!
Learn more about the Embedded World at the main event website.

IoT Stars (Embedded World)
2023-03-14 18:00 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
On March 14, IoT Stars, a community of IoT professionals who gather during industry events, will host a networking event for IoT professionals in Nuremberg, during the first night of Embedded World. The community consists of entrepreneurs, developers, designers, investors, industry players, press and media working in the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem.

To register for this event, click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/iot-stars-embedded-world-2023-tickets-526427638237 (Use the FRIEND-OF-ZEPHYR code for a 25% discount)
IoT Stars speakers include several Zephyr Project members and ambassadors including:

Blues Wireless – Brandon Satrom
AVSystem – Marcin Nagy
Zephyr – Benjamin Cabé

Other speakers include:

RAK Wireless – Ken Yu
Soracom – Dora Terjek
Embedded Computing Design – Brandon Lewis

Event details:

ZOLLHOF Tech Incubator
Zollhof 7 90443 Nürnberg Germany
6 – 9:30 pm

Zephyr RTOS: Open Source, Secure, and Ready for Your Next IoT Project (Community Meetup)
2023-04-10 11:00 - 15:00 (Asia/Kolkata)
Join us for an exciting event focused on Zephyr RTOS, the lightweight and scalable real-time operating system for embedded devices. As a Zephyr Project Ambassador, Manojkumar Subramaniam will share how Zephyr differs from other RTOS and how it is the perfect candidate for modern IoT applications. Our open-source community offers a wealth of knowledge and resources for developers. We’ll also demonstrate how Zephyr RTOS can be easily developed and integrated into cloud platforms. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn about Zephyr RTOS and its potential for revolutionizing IoT development.

Open Source Summit North America (Vancouver, Canada)
2023-05-10 - 2023-05-12
Open Source Summit North America, hosted on May 10-12 in Vancouver, Canada, is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open-source code and community contributors.
Open Source Summit is a conference umbrella, composed of a collection of events covering the most important technologies, topics, and issues affecting open source today.

On Wednesday, May 10 at 12:05 – 12:45 pm: Reproducible Multi Element System Composition with Linux, Xen & Zephyr – Philipp Ahmann, Robert BOSCH GmbH

Looking at system architectures for complex safety-critical systems, similarities can be observed across various industries. Beside a rich OS (such as Linux), typically an RTOS and virtualization or containers are involved. However, when it comes to prototyping such systems, the existing guidelines are limited and reproducing demos is hard and time consuming. Compared to traditional (safety-critical) systems, created by strictly following the v-model, existing open source software can boost the system creation & understanding by fast and iterative prototyping. The ELISA project’s systems working group focuses on creating such an exemplary system architecture using Linux, Xen and Zephyr in a reproducible form. This includes step-by-step documentation for users on different expert levels and various entry points to approach these systems. It also includes picking up new requirements such as a system SBOM and a strong interaction as well as collaboration with other open source projects. Beside the state of the previously mentioned activities, the talk highlights other ELISA working groups focusing on Linux Kernel, processes, tools, and use cases. A basic understanding about challenges and chances of using open-source projects for safety-critical workloads rounds up the talk. Add this to your schedule here.

To see all sessions or to register for the Open Source Summit North America, visit the main conference website here.

Zephyr Developer Summit (Prague, Czech Republic) + Virtual
2023-06-27 - 2023-06-30
Embedded Open Source Summit (EOSS) is a new umbrella event for open source embedded projects and developer communities to come together under one roof for important collaboration and education. This is includes the Zephyr Developer Summit.

Launched in 2021, Zephyr Developer Summit is for developers using or considering Zephyr in embedded products. This year, we will be focusing on supporting topics of interest to users of Zephyr, developers contributing upstream, and maintainer specific topics.
This event is part of Embedded Open Source Summit. To attend, register for Embedded Open Source Summit. 1 registration gives you access to ALL events featured under the Embedded Open Source Summit umbrella. In-person and virtual registration are both available.
Register to attend here. Full schedule to launch in April. Stay tuned.
Learn more on the Embedded Open Source Summit event website.

Webinar: How to run FOTA updates using LwM2M & Zephyr
2023-07-12 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
How to run a FOTA update using LwM2M & Zephyr
As more and more resource-constrained IoT devices are being deployed, firmware updates over the air (FOTA) are becoming increasingly important as it provides a way to fix bugs, patch security vulnerabilities or add functionality throughout the lifespan of a connected device.
The Lightweight M2M standard defines the process for remote firmware updates. When following the guidelines provided by the protocol in combination with (open source) SDKs, updating the firmware of resource-constrained devices can be accomplished effortlessly and securely, regardless of the device or platform used.
During this 30-minute webinar, Aleksander Wojtowicz, Embedded Developer at AVSystem, and Laurens Slat, Developer Relations at AVSystem, will explain the process behind remote firmware updates as defined by the LwM2M standard. In addition, a live demo will be conducted using the Nordic Thingy:91 devkit which runs Zephyr RTOS and connects to Coiote IoT Device Management Platform.

Learn more or register here: https://avsystem.clickmeeting.com/fota/register

Employing Coredumps to Debug Your Embedded Devices (Webinar)
2023-07-26 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Zephyr Project member Memfault for a webinar “Employing Coredumps to Debug your Embedded Devices” on Wednesday, July 26 at 9 am PT/12 pm ET/6 pm CET. Eric Johnson, Firmware Solutions Engineer at Memfault, will give a demo and show examples of coredumps with Zephyr RTOS. Register here.
About the Webinar:
Do you have a memory allocator that needs usage monitoring? Add it to your coredump! Or sensor data that causes a unique stack overflow? Add it to your coredump!
We know firsthand how difficult identifying and solving the root causes of firmware faults is, particularly for devices in the field. Local debugging and logging subsystems are commonly used to determine the issue cause, however, these tools are limited and invasive. This is where coredumps become helpful! Coredumps, an underutilized debugging resource, can provide valuable insights as they contain highly structured data that can be easily parsed.
Attendees will learn how to:

Capture detailed insights into faults with coredumps
Use GDB with a coredump
Utilize Memfault to collect coredumps on any embedded MCU, Linux, or Android devices

Register here.

Optimized MLOps with Edge Impulse, Blues, and Zephyr (Webinar)
2023-08-31 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join the Blues team with a few special guests to discuss “Optimized MLOps with Edge Impulse, Blues, and Zephyr” on Thursday, August 31 at 8 am PT/11 am ET/4 pm BST. Register here.
In this webinar, attendees will learn:

Deploy a TinyML project using Edge Impulse and Zephyr.
Remotely accumulate new data and sync it with the cloud using the Blues Notecard.
Use the new data to train an updated ML model in the cloud.
Deploy the new model…all while our devices are still in the field!

Speakers include:

Benjamin Cabé – Developer Advocate for the Zephyr Project

Eoin Jordan – Developer Advocate at Edge Impulse

David Tischler – Program Manager at Edge Impulse

TJ VanToll – Principal Developer Advocate at Blues

Zak Fields – Staff DevX Engineer at Blues

Rob Lauer – Director of Developer Relations at Blues
If you can’t make the webinar live, register for the event and you’ll receive the recording of it. Learn more or register here.

Open Source Summit Europe (Bilbao, Spain)
2023-09-19 - 2023-09-21
Open Source Summit Europe takes place on September 19-21 in Bilbao, Spain. Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem. It is the gathering place for open-source code and community contributors.
Zephyr will be featured at the event on Wednesday, September 20 at 2:40-3:20 pm in a panel discussion titled “Advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through Open Source.” Join an engaging and inspiring session with open source leaders from fields including research, IoT, financial services, agriculture, and energy to learn how open source projects are advancing the UN SDGs, what the current challenges and opportunities are, and what is needed for further progress.
Kate Stewart, Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems at the Linux Foundation, will represent Zephyr and showcase how it is advancing the UN SDGs. Other speakers include:

Matthew Sandoe, OS-Climate Physical Climate Risk Lead
Sumer Johal, Executive Director, AgStack Foundation
Chris Xie, Head of Open Source Strategy, Senior Director of Strategy and Business Development, Futurewei

Anna Hermansen, Ecosystem Manager, LF Research at the Linux Foundation, will moderator.
Check out the full schedule or register for it on the main event website: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-europe/.

Zephyr Tech Talk #002 - Dialing into the Modem Subsystem
2023-09-27 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Paris)
Tune in on Wednesday, Sept. 27 (9:00 AM EDT / 3:00 PM CEST) for our second Zephyr Tech Talk live stream!
In this new episode, we’re excited to have Bjarki Arge Andreasen from Trackunit as our guest. Together, we’ll explore Zephyr’s newly-introduced modem subsystem, how it aims to simplify and modularize interactions with modern modems, and what it means for you as a Zephyr developer.
Zephyr Tech Talks are live streams organized by and for the Zephyr community. Join us live to get a chance to ask your questions directly to Bjarki, or simply catch up the recording anytime afterwards!

Women of Zephyr - Ask Me Anything
2023-10-04 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join the Women of Zephyr on Wednesday, October 4 at 9-10 am PT to discuss the opportunities and challenges of working in technology, open source and more. Panelists will share their backgrounds, their roles within the Zephyr ecosystem and will answer any questions you have. Register here.

Speakers:

Amy Occhialino, Zephyr Project Governing Board Chair and Director of Open Source OS Engineering at Intel
Kate Stewart, Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems at the Linux Foundation
Maureen Helm, Member of the Zephyr Technical Steering Committee and Distinguished Engineer at Analog Devices
Nicole Pappler, Zephyr’s Functional Safety Manager and CTO and Founder of AlektoMetis

Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HpIgJ-wJQ4y2W5Bh2xETdw#/registration
