Embedded Software Blog

Let me start this blog with some trivia – Which company has contributed over 10,000 changes to the official source repositories for the GNU toolchain? No luck? Ok, maybe this will help: This same company’s engineers hold over 50 leadership positions (maintainer, reviewer, steering committee member etc.) in the open source community! I would not fault you for thinking of Fortune 500 high-tech names, … Read More

Zynq, toolchain, CodeBench, GNU, beagleboard, sdk, sourcery, pandaboard, qualcomm brew

With apologies to Shakespeare, let me start off by clarifying that we are referring to Free/Libre Open Source Software; about how it is changing the embedded landscape and more importantly the ideas on efficient ways to benefit from this constant stream of innovation. Very few fields in technology have felt such an impact from open source movement as has embedded software design. The proliferation … Read More

GNU, Linux, Yocto, OSS