Get ready, Bangalore! The Zephyr Project is coming to town! Here’s everything you need to know before you join us for a day of deep dives, demos, and discussions around Zephyr RTOS topics.
Date & Venue
May 17, 2025; 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
One-day event at the Texas Instruments office in Bangalore, India.
Registration Status
Registrations are closed now. Thank you to everyone who signed up!
Who Should Attend?
Anyone curious about open source, embedded systems programming, or software development. Whether you are already a Zephyr expert or just starting to explore RTOS, you will find sessions and conversations to match your level.
Why You Can’t Miss This
- Talks about products running Zephyr
- Deep dive into subsystems and features
- Networking with core maintainers, product teams, and fellow enthusiasts
Thank You for Your CFPs!
We received an outstanding set of proposals. Thank you to everyone who submitted a talk abstract. Your enthusiasm and expertise are what make these community meetups so special.
Two Parallel Tracks
To make the most of our time, we’ve set up two presentation rooms. Below, click on the tab for the room you are interested in to see the full list of sessions, speakers, and timings.
9:30 am – 10:00 am: Registration & Badge Pick up
10:00 am – 10:30 am: Keynote: Sip a blend of Zephyr : Open Standards, Broad ecosystem, Shared engineering, Khasim Syed Mohammed, Director of Engineering | TI Sitara ARM Microprocessors and Microcontrollers, Texas Instruments
There are quite a few real time operating systems and each have their own unique and differentiating block, Zephyr brings its own flavor of software stack enriched with open source development community around it. Texas Instruments being one of the pioneers in adopting open source solutions and delivering the same to enable our customers build innovative products offers software solutions based on Zephyr. In this session we would like to share our journey of product enablement with real time operating systems and advantages of migrating to Zephyr.
11:00 am – 11:15 am: Morning Tea Break
11:15 am – 11:45 am: Building Scalable & Secure IoT Ecosystems with Selfmade Ninja Labs and Zephyr RTOS The rapid evolution of IoT demands scalable, secure, and efficient embedded solutions. – Sibidharan, Founder & CEO, Selfmade Ninja Academy
Selfmade Ninja Labs is pioneering a robust IoT infrastructure that integrates seamlessly with Zephyr RTOS to enable real-world applications in edge computing, industrial automation, and smart environments.
This talk explores how Selfmade Ninja Labs leverages Zephyr RTOS for high-performance, containerized microservices and secure device management. We’ll dive into key innovations, including lightweight virtualization for embedded devices, over-the-air (OTA) updates, and end-to-end security strategies. Attendees will gain insights into our approach to running scalable container-based environments on microcontrollers, optimizing power consumption, and ensuring real-time performance.
Through live demonstrations and case studies, this session will showcase how Selfmade Ninja Labs is pushing the boundaries of embedded development with Zephyr RTOS. Whether you’re a developer, researcher, or industry expert, this talk will provide actionable insights into building the next generation of IoT solutions.
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Lunch Time
1:00 pm – 1:15 pm: Using Zephyr for Mobile/Browser Testing – Dhruv Menon, Software Engineer, Mozark India Pvt Ltd
Optics-Framework is a no-code test automation solution designed specifically for mobile app and browser testing. Traditional testing tools often struggle with DRM-protected applications, such as those used by banking institutions and streaming platforms, due to strict security restrictions. However, Optics-Framework addresses these limitations by leveraging Zephyr-based embedded products, enabling seamless and effective testing within these restricted environments.
While Zephyr is predominantly utilized in consumer applications, its potential extends far beyond this scope. In this talk, we will explore how Zephyr’s robust capabilities can be applied in innovative ways across various industries, highlighting its versatility and ability to overcome the unique challenges posed by secure, DRM-protected applications.
1:25 pm – 1:55 pm: Zephyr and LVGL to build industrial grade HMI Solutions -Baipalli Vallab Rao (Vasu), PHYTEC EMBEDDED, Managing Director
Zephyr and LVGL to build industrial grade HMI Solutions for Applications like Medical and Railways with Live demo on OpenSource RuggedBOARD-RA8 Renesas MCU
2:05 pm – 2:35 pm: Zephyr for Open Source healthcare devices – Ashwin Whitchurch, CEO, Protocentral Electronics
We will draw on experiences from our projects including HealthyPi 5, HealthyPi 6 and the wearable HealthyPi Move, all open source hardware and software. More specifically how Zephyr enabled the use of practically a single codebase across three different microcontroller platforms in different form factors.
2:45 pm – 3:00 pm: From Whisper to Storm: The Evolution of Zephyr RTOS – Sri Surya A S, Embedded Software Developer, Linumiz.
Zephyr RTOS has come a long way from its early microkernel roots to becoming a powerful platform for modern embedded and IoT applications. This talk explores Zephyr’s evolution from its core kernel improvements to the growth of subsystems.
Highlighting key milestones, features, and how Zephyr transformed into a scalable, secure, and versatile RTOS that now powers real-world devices across industries.
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm: Evening Tea Break
3:15 pm – 4:00 pm: Panel Discussion: What Is Zephyr RTOS and Why Should You Care? – Vaishnav Achath (Software Engineer, Texas Instruments); Vagesh Panditharadhya (Embedded Software Engineer, PHYTEC EMBEDDED PVT LTD), Dhruv (Software Engineer, Mozark India Pvt Ltd), Bharathiraja Nallathambi (Linumiz)
4:10 pm – 4:55 pm: Panel Discussion: From Prototype to Production: Building Products with Zephyr Moderator: Parthiban (Software Engineer, Linumiz); Panel attendees: Aswin Venu (Intellithink Industrial IoT Labs Pvt. Ltd.,CoFounder, Head of Engineering); Ashwin Whitchurch (CEO, Protocentral Electronics)
5:00 pm: Thank you note & Announcements – Dhruva Gole, Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Texas Instruments
11:00 am – 11:15 am: Morning Tea Break
11:15 am – 11:30 am: Motion Sensor using Zephyr RTOS -Rachita , Vtech, Embedded software engineer
The motion sensor using zephyr used by BLE . In this presentation Rachita will be presenting some n zephyr and how the APIS are supported .
- API used in creating GATT profile
- API used for initiating the BLE
- All the APIs which are used connection establishment
- How the Zephyr RTOS is used by MPU6050
- The driver ST7789 in Zephyr RTOS
11:40 am – 11:55 am: Mechanical keyboard on Zephyr – Vaibhav Khatri, Embedded Engineer, Hardware-Tinkerers
How to use ZMK framework for building your own custom keyboard
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Lunch Time
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm: Zephyr support for heterogeneous SoCs – Amneesh Singh, Software Engineer, Texas Instruments
This session will be about my current and ongoing experience at Texas Instruments where I have been working on enabling Zephyr for AM243x platform, a multiprocessor heterogeneous evaluation module with both Cortex-R and Cortex-M cores and all the challenges I have faced in the process. This includes adding board support, device trees, device drivers, as well as testing the peripherals to ensure proper function on Zephyr. I will also be walking through the process of writing a device driver and the device driver model for Zephyr, and my experience and the challenges I encountered in doing so. The talk will also include the gaps and challenges involved in booting a heterogeneous SoC, the limitations I faced with MCUBoot as a bootloader for Zephyr, the potential alternatives, and the solution involving TI’s RTOS bootloader. The aforementioned topics may serve as a reference guide for enabling more heterogeneous SoCs in the future.
1:40 pm – 2:10 pm: Zephyr vs Real-time Linux on application processors, a comparative study – Vaishnav Achath, Texas Instruments India Pvt. Ltd., Software Engineer
As embedded systems evolve to support increasingly complex applications, the choice of RTOS becomes critical. This talk presents a comparative analysis of Zephyr and Real-Time Linux (RT Linux) for application core processors, focusing on performance, scalability, determinism, ecosystem support, and development flexibility. Zephyr, a lightweight RTOS designed for resource-constrained devices, offers fast boot times, a small footprint, and wide architecture support. In contrast, RT Linux extends the capabilities of the standard Linux kernel with real-time patches, enabling high-performance applications on more capable hardware. Through benchmarks, case studies, and architectural comparisons, we will explore which RTOS is better suited for various classes of applications, such as those in industrial, automotive, and IoT systems. Attendees will gain insights into selecting the right RTOS for their design goals, hardware capabilities, and time-to-market constraints.
2:20 pm – 2:50 pm: Embedded Controller Firmware Performance Profiler for Debugging – Astha Chavda and Sriharsha Govinda Raj, Intel Technology India Pvt Ltd Firmware Engineer
The Embedded Controller (EC) is a 32-bit microcontroller integral to Intel’s Reference Validation Platform (RVP), tasked with essential hardware management functions such as power sequencing, battery, thermal, and Type-C policy & button management. Operating under stringent constraints of memory, CPU processing speed, and power consumption, optimizing the EC’s performance in terms of memory and CPU utilization is essential. Traditional debugging methods e.g. proprietary JTAG, reliant on external hardware and software tools, are costly and require specialized skills, posing challenges in resource-constrained environments.
To address these limitations, we developed the EC Profiler, a tool designed for real-time monitoring of code flow and data progression during firmware execution. Utilizing advanced tracing techniques, the EC Profiler records execution data and presents it in an accessible dashboard for debug engineers, facilitating efficient diagnosis of failures. Built upon the puncover and pahole tools, along with firmware traces supported by the Zephyr Project, the EC Profiler leverages optimization capabilities to enhance debugging accuracy, reduce user debug time, and stack overflow access exceptions prior to firmware release.
This innovative approach not only streamlines the debugging process but also ensures robust performance of the EC within its operational constraints. Furthermore, it can be adapted for new EC chips from various vendors.
3:00 pm – 3:15 pm Evening Tea Break
3:15 pm – 3:45 pm: Zephyr RTOS: Under 1KB of RAM – Parthiban, Software Engineer, Linumiz
Single-purpose application use cases. With the recent announcement of the world’s smallest microcontroller from TI [1], featuring just 1 KB of SRAM, this coincidentally overlapped with our initial efforts to get the MSPM0 family series into the Zephyr RTOS upstream.
As of today, the smallest RAM where Zephyr can run is 2 KB, supporting UART and GPIO, which utilizes over 90% of the RAM. We often encounter the “”FLASH/RAM overflowed by N bytes”” error when attempting to get Zephyr working under 1 KB of RAM.
In this talk, we will share the challenges faced while running a useful use case application under 1 KB using Zephyr. Achieving this was made possible thanks to the small footprint of the kernel (i.e., 128 bytes). We will discuss what goes beyond GCC’s -Os and -Oz flags and how we managed to get true multitasking with I2C, SPI, and ADCs running, all while keeping current consumption under 2 µA.
3:55 pm – 4:10 pm: Real-Time at the Charger: Zephyr RTOS in EVSE Applications – Saravanan Sekar Linumiz Software Engineer
In this talk we will see/discuss about Zephyr RTOS in Real-time charger. The increasing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) demands precise, deterministic control for time-critical functions such as metrology, fault protection, and power regulation. Zephyr RTOS enables fine-grained task scheduling, inter-core communication, and low-latency interrupt handling, facilitating precise control over charging processes, including PWM-based charging, current regulation, and fault detection.
5:00 pm: Thank you note & Announcements – Dhruva Gole, Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Texas Instruments
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See You There!
All sessions and group communications will be in English, and everyone is welcome.
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