Using System Builder for Embedded Linux System Development
On-demand Web Seminar
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View This On-Demand Web Seminar NowOverview
This webinar will discuss the current challenges of embedded Linux system development, and how these challenges are met using System Builder.
Open source build systems have been around for a long time in many different forms. Mentor Embedded Linux System Builder is the next-generation development environment for building embedded Linux systems. System Builder is a system integration tool based on the open source OpenEmbedded project which has grown, in part, out of the limitations of the previous generation of Linux build systems.
What You Will Learn
- System Builder overview and methodology
- Metadata: the language of system builder or similar
- How to build root file systems, kernel, and bootloader images
- The importance of cached binaries, BoM tool, and configuration knobs
- Ways to customize your Linux application or platform
Highlights
This webinar offers audience participation with the opportunity to ask questions of an industry expert in real-time. You can be sure to hear the answers to challenging questions which will help your understanding of the System Builder for Embedded Linux discussion.
About the Presenter
Chris Hallinan
Christopher Hallinan joined Mentor Graphics in spring of 2010 as Technical Marketing Engineer. Prior to Mentor Graphics, he spent nearly seven years as Field Applications Engineer with MontaVista Software and 20+ years of product development, management and marketing roles in high tech companies. Christopher is the author of “Embedded Linux Primer,” one of the more popular books covering embedded Linux development.
Who Should Attend
- Embedded Linux developers, especially those responsible for platform development including kernel, bootloader, and root file system contents
- Engineering managers and others interested in reducing risk and decreasing time to market with their embedded Linux development projects
- Open source software developers interested in a new methodology of assembling a software platform and development environment
Products Covered
Technical Requirements
What do I need to watch and hear this web seminar?
Mentor Graphics’ web seminars are delivered using Adobe Connect. To watch the seminar all you need to have installed is the Adobe Flash Player, version 8 or later on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris. The Flash Player is already installed on over 98% of internet connected computers worldwide so you will not have to install any software prior to attending the meeting. You will be able to login to the seminar room 15 minutes prior to the start time on the day of the presentation. You can hear the audio using your computer’s speakers via VoIP (Voice over IP) and background music will play prior to the beginning of the presentation.
Detailed system requirements
Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business, or Enterprise (32-bit edition)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or later
- Mozilla Firefox 2
- Adobe Flash® Player 8 or later
Microsoft Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition with Service Pack 2
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7
- Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x
- Mozilla 1.x or later
- Netscape 7.x
- Adobe Flash Player 8 or later
Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x
- Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x
- Mozilla 1.x
- Netscape 8
- Adobe Flash Player 8 or later
Windows hardware requirements
- Intel® Pentium® II 450MHz or faster processor or equivalent (1GHz recommended when screen sharing)
- 128MB of RAM
Mac OS X v10.4, 10.5 (Intel)
- Firefox 1.5.0.3, 2.x
- Safari 2.x
- Adobe Flash Player 8 or later
Mac OS X v10.4 (PowerPC®)
- Safari 1.x, 2.x
- Firefox 1.x
- Mozilla 1.x
- Netscape 7.x or later
- Adobe Flash Player 8 or later
Mac OS hardware requirements
- PowerPC G3 500MHz or faster or Intel Core™ Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor
- 128MB of RAM
Linux:
- Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (REHL) 3 update 8; RHEL 4 update 4 (AS/ES/WS); Novell SUSE® 9.x or 10.1
- Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7, 2.x
- Mozilla 1.7.x
- SeaMonkey 1.0.5
- Processor: Modern processor 800MHz or faster (1GHz recommended)
- Memory: 512MB of RAM; 128MB of graphics memory
- Adobe Flash Player 9 or later
Solaris™
- Mozilla 1.7
- Adobe Flash Player 9 or later
Additional requirements
- Minimum bandwidth 56Kbps
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