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Streamlining the embedded Linux development process with MontaVista Linux 6 – Nick Pollitt, Senior Product Manager, MontaVista Software

MontaVista Linux 6 meets embedded developers where they are in the development cycle with a complete embedded Linux distribution and developer tools, to help streamline the embedded Linux development process.

Starting new design projects with semiconductor or open source Linux technology is very common. You do this in order to get a quick and early start to development. However, serious challenges arise later in the development process when software limitations, defects, and difficulties arise, well after the board is booted.

While developers know embedded Linux commercialization partners can offer tools, technical support, and bug fixes proven to improve design outcomes, it can be difficult to transition from a homegrown approach to a commercial solution.

 (55 minutes)

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Addressing 3 key challenges of embedded Linux development with community – Jonathan Corbet, Editor, LWN.net and Troy Kitch, Senior Product Manager, MontaVista Software
Embedded Linux development is information intensive. It is a challenge to:
  • Locate information for your particular hardware and software
  • Validate that information for credibility and completeness
  • Adapt the information for your specific project
Join Jonathan Corbet, editor LWN.net, and Troy Kitch, MontaVista senior product manager as they discuss these difficulties and how working with an embedded Linux community like Meld enables engineers to expand their peer group, connect with others who share common design goals, and deliver embedded devices to the market. (59 minutes)

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Addressing the Top 5 Pains in Linux System Build and Design  – Klaas van Gend, Solutions Architect, MontaVista Software
It is not easy to develop embedded Linux systems from the requirements all the way through to manufacturing. As a system designer and build engineer, you face a multitude of issues that must be remedied in order to deliver a successful commercial product. Once the hurdle of selecting your hardware – and getting it to run – is overcome, the work of a system designer is just beginning. You now must address complex questions like:
  • How do I design a full-blown system based on customer requirements?
  • What packages do I select, and from where do I get them?
  • What package versions do I use and what are the dependencies?
  • How do I glue all this together in a shippable product?
  • What tools should I integrate for debugging, profiling and tracing and how do I provide them to my team – who have different host development environments?
Ideally you want fast, reproducible builds that are reliable for true cross-development. The end result should be a small, but complete and optimized, image for deployment. This webinar will detail the pain points and suggest several approaches to remedy the pain – not through fast medication, but by addressing the underlying problems (55 minutes)

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Migrating Legacy RTOS Device Drivers to Embedded Linux – William Weinberg, Analyst and Consultant, Linux Pundit.com
With the accelerating pace of application development and evermore compressed product life cycles, the ability to re-use and migrate legacy software to new platforms is paramount. Migrating from legacy RTOS-based designs to embedded Linux presents a range of engineering challenges, but also opportunities for refining I/O architecture and formalizing system interfaces.
Topics covered:
  • Particulars of legacy VxWorks device interfaces
  • Heuristics, community and MontaVista resources, and examples for migrating to embedded Linux
  • Architecture and conventions of drivers built for VxWorks
  • Guidelines for mapping code and constructs onto Linux 2.6
  • Options for kernel and user space implementations and licensing implications
  • Migration and debugging tools and techniques
 (60 minutes)

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Tips and techniques for improving embedded Linux startup time  – Christopher Hallinan, Author, Embedded Linux Primer; Field Applications Engineer , MontaVista Software and Sridharan Subramanian, Software and Platforms Product Management Lead, Freescale Semiconductor
The requirement for 'instant-on' capability in consumer electronics, ranging from cellphones to mobile internet devices to automotive platforms, has become a necessity. Customers' expectations for instant data or multimedia access has been increasing with trendy gadgets being released in the market. With the proliferation of Linux in these devices, it becomes essential to optimize the boot up time to meet the requirements. A typical Linux embedded system contains a bootloader and kernel, both of which are typically configured with many useful default features. This webinar examines techniques to reduce boot time while preserving the base functionality required of typically configured embedded Linux systems.  (60 minutes)

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Multicore 101: Migrating Embedded Applications to a Multicore Environment with Linux  – Brad Dixon, Director of Product Management, MontaVista Software and Ian Forsyth, Senior Enablement Architect, Freescale Semiconductor
MontaVista Software, Freescale Semiconductor, and TechOnline present this educational webinar to help answer the number one question embedded systems engineers have when transitioning to a multicore environment: "How do I leverage the work I've already done in my applications?" Attendees to this event will better understand how to develop for multicore processors by taking advantage of the millions of lines of single-threaded legacy code they already have. Presenters will discuss the benefits of embedded Linux as a solution for multicore development, and will help systems engineers evaluate what is important as they make the transition to multicore. The seminar will conclude with an overview of MontaVista TestDrive, which provides a virtual evaluation of MontaVista Linux on the Freescale QorIQ P4080 and MPC8641D Power Architecture processors. (65 minutes)

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Migrating VxWorks applications to Linux – Jim Ready, CTO and founder, MontaVista Software
Recorded webinar explores migration options and considerations when moving from Wind River VxWorks to embedded Linux. Gives the information engineers need to build a plan for code migration and to explore alternative approaches. Covers when NOT to move your project to embedded Linux. Tells how to determine whether you should migrate your existing code, use virtualization, or start fresh. Describes common barriers and how to overcome them. Discusses development and run-time considerations, including general programming model, memory model, real-time, debugging and instrumentation, API migration, and free migration tools you can use. Tells where you can get help with VxWorks-to-Linux migration. (65 minutes)

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Embedded Linux power management on the Intel Atom processor – Brad Dixon, Director of Product Management, MontaVista Software and Kaitlin Murphy, Platform Application Engineer, Intel
Join MontaVista Software and Intel for a look at power management considerations as well as programming techniques useful when designing Embeded Linux applications for the Intel Atom processor. You will learn how to enhance the power efficiency of your products by taking advantage of power management capabilities in MontaVista Linux and in the Intel® Atom™ processor. You will be able to review best practices for using CPUfreq, the ondemand governor, and wakeup mitigation with PowerTOP. Topics also include an understanding of power balancing, Intel SpeedStep® Technology, c-states, and p-states, along with ways to make Linux device drivers aware of power management. Expert speakers include Brad Dixon, global field application engineering team leader for MontaVista Software, and Kaitlin Murphy, platform application engineer at Intel. Mr. Dixon and Ms. Murphy will share tips and best practices gained from practical applications of the technologies in customer products and devices. (60 minutes)

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GPL and open source licensing review – Jason Wacha, Vice President of Corporate Affairs and General Counsel, MontaVista Software; Director and Founder of Open Bar
Join MontaVista Software and distinguished open source licensing authority Jason Wacha for a review of issues surrounding open source licensing. Starting from base principles of differences between laws, licenses, and commercial agreements, Mr. Wacha moves on to issues surrounding the use of a General Public License (GPL) and how it affects Linux and other open source software. (94 minutes)

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MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition 5.0: New features and benefits – Jim Ready, CTO and founder, MontaVista Software
A first look at the new features and benefits provided by MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition 5.0. Find out how you can benefit from new field-serviceability features that give field engineers the ability to fix and upgrade live systems while they are running with little or zero downtime, and new features providing high availability and security. (55 minutes)

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Linux and RTOS virtualization in a Carrier Grade environment: Reducing network equipment costs, ensuring real-time performance – Tim Anderson, Project Design Manager, MontaVista Software and Dave Beal, VirtualLogix
See how MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) has been optimized to meet the requirements of virtualization on single-core and multi-core processors. VirtualLogix will use MontaVista Linux CGE to demonstrate RTOS and Linux virtualization with VLX for Network Infrastructure, a real-time virtualization technology from VirtualLogix, designed for the demanding real-time environments of telecommunications equipment. Learn how MontaVista Linux CGE leverages virtualization to increase reliability, improve flexibility and scalability, and provide high availability over a range of operating conditions and call data volumes. (57 minutes)

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Improving mobile device development and performance with Mobilinux 5.0 – Jim Ready, CTO and founder, MontaVista Software
Hear Jim Ready describe new features of the Mobilinux 5.0 operating system. MontaVista Mobilinux delivers advanced connectivity, fast performance, and high security to consumers, plus lower costs and faster time-to-market for manufacturers. This presentation is appropriate for designers and developers of mobile devices. (59 minutes)

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The quest for superior applications: Debugging embedded Linux the easy way – Troy Kitch, Senior Product Manager, MontaVista Software and J.T. Thomas, MontaVista Software
This demonstration is designed for professional embedded Linux application developers. In the course of an hour, you will see how the software works and hear a question and answer session recorded with a live audience. (59 minutes)

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An easier way to debug embedded Linux – Troy Kitch, Senior Product Manager, MontaVista Software and Fahd Abidi, Senior Field Applications Engineer, USI
What if you could make debugging less of a burden and keep it better integrated with your application development? MontaVista Software and Ultimate Solutions, Inc. (USI) give a live demonstration of debugging on an embedded Linux kernel. We take you through a real world scenario, using a BDI2000 probe within the MontaVista DevRocket IDE and applying the USI LinuxScope-JTD™ to debug JTAG targets. Get an overview of the JTAG debug environment and see features you can use for low-level debugging. Learn the benefits of using a JTAG emulator for kernel debugging versus source level debuggers such as KGDB. This demonstration is designed for professional embedded Linux developers. (47 minutes)

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Linux: Buy or build? Weighing your options – Ken Molay
This 6-minute overview helps you understand the differences between commercial quality licensed Linux products and free public implementations of open source Linux. What are the tradeoffs in adapting a free code base to your development and production platform? What factors determine why companies might consider paying for an embedded Linux operating system? (6 minutes)

Linux for real-time: Using Linux for embedded real-time systems and applications – Ken Molay
This 7-minute overview introduces the advances in embedded Linux that have made it the operating system of choice for real-time applications. The presentation gives a definition of real-time, explains the evolution of real-time platforms, introduces the time/value curve, and briefly presents technical benchmarks of real-time Linux performance. You will learn about barriers to proper real-time operation and how they have been overcome. (7 minutes)

New developments in real-time Linux – Jim Ready, CTO and founder, MontaVista Software
MontaVista Software takes a look at the latest dramatic developments in real-time capabilities of Linux. If you are a developer or device manufacturer who has had to rely on proprietary real time operating systems to achieve the performance and functionality you need in your products, you will see how commercial grade open standards software can now deliver the speed and power you require. This technically-oriented web seminar digs into details such as new technology approaches used in real-time Linux implementations, performance levels attained by Linux, and APIs for integrating embedded Linux with application software. (70 minutes)

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Making Linux and Eclipse work for you – Jim Ready, CTO and founder, MontaVista Software
MontaVista Software reviews the change from proprietary closed-source tools and operating systems to powerful open source technologies such as Linux and Eclipse. Open source technologies have allowed embedded systems developers to become more efficient, with more control and flexibility in their programming environments. Learn about the current capabilities of Linux as an embedded operating system. Discover how Eclipse-based development tools for Linux are empowering software developers. Explore the latest in Linux run-time analysis tools, such as memory leak detection and performance profiling. (66 minutes)

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