Using System Builder for Embedded Linux System Development

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ABSTRACT

Mentor Embedded System Builder overcomes the limitations of previous Linux build systems to give you a rich, next-generation systems integration tool, based on the open source OpenEmbedded project. In this webinar, you’ll learn System Builder basics and customizations.

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Overview

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
  • 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

About the Presenter

Presenter Image 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 View

  • 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

Linux is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries.

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