Zephyr Project

The Frontier Conference 2021
2021-04-13 - 2021-04-14
On April 13-14, The Frontier Conference will bring in a global community of thought leaders across industry sectors cross-pollinating to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. The Frontier Conference grants access for your organization to connect with and get your brand in front of industry thought leaders, movers and shakers who can bring you into the fold of the worldwide innovation space.
The Zephyr Project will be represented by Kate Stewart, Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems at The Linux Foundation. Kate will be speaking on a panel on April 13 at 7-7:45 am PST/ 9-9:45 am CST titled, “The Importance of People and Trust in Scaling Connected Systems.” She’ll be joined by Bob Mazer, Roy Timor-Rousso, CRO at JpU.io, and Jason Shepherd, VP of Ecosystems at ZEDEDA, will be moderating the session.
Zephyr is also media partner of the conference – if you would like to attend, use code “FR21LF10” for a 10% discount. Register for the conference here.
To learn more about the conference, visit the main conference page: https://www.thefrontier.co/.

(Webinar) Generating Software Bill Of Materials
2021-03-25 07:30 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
As part of the Linux Foundation, LF Live Mentorship Series, Kate Stewart, VP, Dependable Embedded Systems at The Linux Foundation, will present a webinar on Thursday, March 25 from 7:30-9 am PST titled, “Generating Software Bill of Materials.”

Having an accurate view of software being imported and used in systems has become increasingly important as we see more vulnerabilities emerge in the supply chain. By generating a Software Bill of Materials (or SBOM) we’re able to help with efficient analysis for security, licensing, and other use cases.
This mentoring session will provide an overview of some of options available for generating SBOMs as well as an overview of some open source tooling to assist with generation and consumption of SBOMs.
The session will begin with an overview by Kate Stewart (45 minutes) and will be followed by Q&A – an opportunity to both ask Kate questions and for group discussion (45 minutes).
Register for the webinar here.

Linaro Connect
2021-03-23 - 2021-03-25
Linaro will be hosting its annual conference virtually Linaro Connect on March 23-25. Zephyr will a focus of two sessions.

Check out the schedule here. Register for the conference here.

Embedded World
2021-03-01 - 2021-03-05
Embedded World, which takes place digitally on March 1-5, 2021, combine the best features of the trade fair and conference program in the virtual space. Last year, at Embedded World 2020, more than 900 exhibitors from 42 countries and more than 1500 attendees presented the entire value chain for embedded system technologies. The conference is expecting even more attendees and exhibitors for the 2021 conference.
The Zephyr Project has attended and exhibited the conference for three years in a row, except for 2020. The project will be at the 2021 conference with a booth as well as several member and community booths. Stay tuned here for more details.
Zephyr members RISC-V (Antmicro will exhibit at their booth), Nordic Semiconductor and NXP will also be at the event. Stop by their booths to see their latest products and solutions as well as speak with developers, ambassadors and Zephyr community members.
To register for the event or to check out the agenda, visit the Embedded World main conference page.

CES
2021-01-11 - 2021-01-14
CES, which takes place digitally on January 11-14, 2021, is the world’s gathering place for all who thrive on the business of consumer technologies. A high-level business event that touches all industries, it’s the place where business gets done. CES is where every major technology company participates in some way — by exhibiting, speaking, sponsoring, attending or holding business meetings.
The Zephyr Project will be at the event for the first-time ever. Stay tuned here for more details about which members will be on-site to answer questions and which boards and products will be showcased. If you have questions, email info@www.zephyrproject.org.

To register for the event, visit the main CES website.

(Virtual) RISC-V Summit
2020-12-08 - 2020-12-10
The 3rd annual RISC-V Summit on December 8-10 will highlight the continued rapid expansion of the RISC-V ecosystem, presenting both commercial offerings and exciting open-source developments. The comprehensive 100% virtual event will feature keynotes from industry pioneers as well as thought-provoking panel discussions. Network with thought-leaders, technology companies, and researchers spearheading the adoption of this evolutionary change in the silicon market. To see the complete schedule, visit the main conference page: https://tmt.knect365.com/risc-v-summit/.
Join us for the Keynote Presentation on December 8 at 10 am: Building an Open Edge Machine Learning Ecosystem with RISC-V, Zephyr, TensorFlow Lite Micro and Renode

By moving closer to the edge, machine learning is profoundly changing the IoT landscape, where RISC-V is already seeing immense success. To be able to fully capitalize on the opportunities that arise from this trend, as well as tackle the related challenges, various communities must come together to create an open ecosystem of modern tools, frameworks and platforms that together will constitute a seamless environment for developers to build advanced ML applications on RISC-V.
The keynote panel will feature Tim Ansell (Google), Kate Stewart (Zephyr Project), Brian Faith (QuickLogic) and Michael Gielda (Antmicro) in a discussion of how the strengths of RISC-V, Zephyr RTOS, TensorFlow Lite and Renode can be combined to provide collaborative, software-driven, traceable ML development for the very edge. The participants will discuss how the vendor-neutral approach of RISC-V resonates with the foundational principles of the Zephyr RTOS and the Renode simulation framework, and how TensorFlow Lite Micro can leverage the open ISA and its tools to innovate in the ML domain also on the hardware level, e.g. using FPGAs or custom extensions. The discussion will also touch upon modern testing methodologies and HW-SW co-development enabled by Renode – already employed by Zephyr, Google’s TF Lite Team and QuickLogic – enabling efficient, deterministically testable ML development on RISC-V.

Register for the conference here.

(Virtual) Open Source Summit Japan
2020-12-02 - 2020-12-06
The Linux Foundation is excited to present Open Source Summit Japan as a virtual event on December 2-4. Attendees will have the ability to network with others, attend presentations with live Q&A, interact with sponsors and more! Registration is US $50. To register, visit the main conference website here: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-japan/register/.
On Wednesday, December 2 at 11:00-11:50 (Japan time) Kate Stewart, Senior Director of Strategic Programs at the Linux Foundation, will be speaking at the conference in a session titled, “Open Source in Safety Critical Applications.”
The last 20 years have seen a tremendous surge of new technologies and capabilities emerge from open source software. Open source building blocks have become increasingly attractive as the base for innovative new products. Safety critical applications are now starting to consider using them as well. This talk will look at some of the challenges and approaches to building trust and confidence in open source used in safety critical software coming to new products near you… or perhaps, even in you. Add this to your schedule here.
See the complete schedule for Open Source Summit Japan here.

(Virtual) Open Source Strategy Forum
2020-11-12 - 2020-11-13
Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF) is the only conference dedicated to driving collaboration and innovation in financial services through open source software and standards. On November 12-13, experts across financial services, technology, and open source come together to engage in stimulating and thought-provoking conversations about how to best (and safely) leverage open source software to solve industry challenges.
To register, visit the main Open Source Strategy Forum website, here.
On Thursday, November 12 at 11:15 – 12 pm PDT, Kate Stewart, Senior Director of Strategic Programs for the Linux Foundation, will give a presentation titled, “The End Game for Open Source in Safety Critical Applications.”
The last 20 years have seen a tremendous surge of new technologies and capabilities emerge from open source software. Open source building blocks have become increasingly attractive as the base for innovative new products. Safety critical applications are now starting to consider using them as well. This talk will look at some of the challenges and approaches to building trust and confidence in open source used in safety critical software coming to new products near you… or perhaps, even in you.
Add it to your schedule here.
To see the complete program schedule, visit the main conference site here.

(Virtual) Zephyr Mini-Summit
2020-10-29 07:00 - 10:00
October 29, 2020 | 15:00 – 19:00 GMT (7-10 am PDT)
Registration Fees: Complimentary to all OSS+ELC EU Attendees
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.
Attendees will learn:

Zephyr Overview (including current Use Cases)
State of Communication Stacks
LTS and Release Plans
Security
Safety Certification Plans
Panel Q&A

How to Register: Pre-registration is required. To register for (Virtual) Open Source Summit Europe, click here: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-europe/register/. To add the Zephyr Mini-Summit to your Open Source Summit Europe registration, click here: http://www.cvent.com/d/khqrr2/4W?ct=50221cf5-5496-4c34-9ec0-3b52b1bf1204 .

(Virtual) Open Source Summit Europe
2020-10-26 - 2020-10-29
Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2020 is a Virtual Experience, happening October 26-29 in the Greenwich Mean Time Zone.

Open Source Summit is the leading conference for developers, architects and other technologists – as well as open source community and industry leaders – to collaborate, share information, learn about the latest technologies and gain a competitive advantage by using innovative open solutions. Registration is US$50. To register, visit the main event website: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-europe/register/.
The Zephyr Project will be on-site at the event again this year with several speaking sessions and a Mini-Summit. Below are the Zephyr-related talks – add them to your schedule today!
Monday, October 26:
Game of Protocols: How to pick a network protocol for your IoT Project – Frederic Desbiens, Eclipse Foundation (4:15 – 5:05 pm GMT/8:15 am-9:05 am PDT)
MQTT, CoAP, DDS, OPC UA… IoT developers have many network protocols to choose from when starting an IoT project. But which one is the best for *your* specific use case? In this presentation, you will get an overview of the most widely supported IoT protocols and understand their pros and cons. You will also learn about applicable open source implementations supported on the Linux and Zephyr operating systems.
Full Stack Debugging: From CI to ISS – Alexey Brodkin, Synopsys (5:15 – 6:05 pm GMT/9:15 – 10:05 am PDT)
Sometimes you find yourself looking at something a tiny bit incorrect, like your CI machinery reports a couple of more failures than you expect (surely you want zero failures). So you decide to fix it. You try to reproduce it outside the CI and… everything just works. OK, then you know who’s guilty, right? That simple. And you ask your DevOps people to go fix their scripts. But apparently nothing helps, tests still fail in CI. And one fine day you decide to scratch that itch for real and start a journey down the rabbit hole. In this talk we’ll reconstruct one very real debugging session which started from Zephyr RTOS tests failing in Jenkins-based CI flow and ended deep in the guts of the instruction set simulator (ISS). One by one we’ll be inspecting possible faulty components (Jenkins, Shell & Python scripts used for test execution, Zephyr RTOS tests themselves and finally the simulator) until we may explain all the peculiarities observed before.
Tuesday, October 27:
LoRa/LoRaWAN in Zephyr – Manivannan Sadhasivam, Linaro (1 – 1:50 pm GMT/ 5 – 5:50 am PDT)
The Eclipse IoT Developer Survey 2019 showed that Zephyr had approximately 3% of the RTOS market share for IoT. And so the number should’ve increased by now. Zephyr is becoming the de facto Opensource RTOS for the IoT market due to its scalable and yet feature-rich nature. Zephyr already supports multiple SoC architectures and communication protocols. But for Zephyr to become an RTOS for Industrial and Smart city applications, it needs to support a communication technology that can transmit data at longer distances in a less congested spectrum. This is where LoRa (Long Range) communication technology by Semtech perfectly fits in. The basic LoRa support in Zephyr was added back in December 2019 and since then there has been a huge interest among the community to extend the support for it. More recently, a Pull Request has been submitted to add LoRaWAN support to Zephyr. This will provide true networking support to Zephyr over LoRa. This talk will briefly go over the LoRa/LoRaWAN support in Zephyr, the motivation behind adding support for it, future plans, etc…
New Power Management Framework in Zephyr – Wentong Wu, Intel (4:15 – 5:05 pm GMT/8:15 am – 9:05 pm PDT)
Zephyr will provide new interfaces and APIs for power management which are designed to be conveniently adapted to different SOCs and architectures. Another goal of the new design is to consume as little power as possible in a given system state and don’t waste energy when idle. The power management components are classified into five categories: pm policy, pm core, platform pm, device pm, device runtime pm. Every layer has been well considered and designed, many new technologies have been used and the implementation is ongoing, it will be ready in early September. In this presentation, Wentong Wu, the maintainer of Zephyr power management, will provide as much technical detail as possible and the benefit of the new power management framework. And finally, the future technical plans of Zephyr power management will be presented and discussed.
Thursday, October 29:
The Zephyr Mini-Summit (3 – 7 pm GMT/7 -10 am PDT)
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.
Attendees will learn:

Zephyr Overview (including current Use Cases)
State of Communication Stacks
LTS and Release Plans
Security
Safety Certification Plans
Panel Q&A
