Konsulko Group speaks at EOSS North America 2024 in Seattle

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Vitaly Wool and Tim Orling, both Principal Software Engineers at Konsulko Group are presenting at the Embedded Open Source Summit (EOSS) North America in Seattle Washington, April 15-18, 2024.

EOSS (which incorporates the Embedded Linux Conference) is an umbrella event for open source embedded projects and developer communities to come together under one roof for important collaboration, discussions and education.

Vitaly Wool

Vitaly, who is also general manager of Konsulko AB in Lund, Sweden, will give a technical talk on “Rusty Swapping: Rewriting a zswap Backend in Rust.”

Rust has gained popularity as the “second” Linux kernel high-level language. There’s been discussions about its applicability in various kernel subsystems which yielded tentative conclusions. Engineers have been advised by kernel gurus to use Rust for subsystem implementations rather than for drivers.

Vitaly will explain how he rewrote a zswap backend called zblock in Rust, then compare the performance and complexity of the two implementations.

Tim Orling

Tim, who serves on the board of directors of OpenEmbedded, will speak at the Yocto Project half-day mini-summit “Journey to Scarthgap 5.0” on Monday, April 15. With other YP community leaders, he will deep dive into upcoming features and improvements in the upcoming LTS release.

The rest of the week, you may find Tim in and around the Yocto Project booth in the exhibition hall. Please stop by with all your Yocto questions.

Konsulko Group extends its hardware services business

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Konsulko Group welcomes three veteran hardware developers to our growing team. Alexandar Kalaydjiev will serve as Konsulko Hardware Director. Joining as Principal Hardware Engineers are Marin Balkandjiev and Tsvetan Mudrov, PhD.

Customers can now leverage their technical expertise and extensive experience to create comprehensive products and solutions tailored to their specific requirements.

Konsulko hardware engineers can manage and facilitate the production of the developed products, ensuring their successful realization. We can provide deployment support as required, ensuring a smooth transition for the end-customer.

Meet the new members of the Konsulko team

Alexandar Kalaydjiev (middle photo) was an integral member of a team that developed a DVD writer in the early 2001, focusing on the control mechanisms for the semiconductor laser during the writing process. His contributions extended to the mechatronic design of both pneumatic and electrical robotic manipulators, specifically tailored for critical procedures in the manufacturing of DVD discs. Over the last 15 years, he has dedicated himself to comprehensive product design encompassing electrical design, PCB layout, CAD modeling, and production management.

Marin Balkandjiev (left photo) has spent over 8 years in the Telecom industry working with access multiplexers, data link converters and other key hardware. He has 10 years experience in the Automotive industry developing automotive interior products, and 10 years building consumer and industrial products, IoT, and sensors. He worked previously for Johnson Controls Automotive Electronics.

Tsvetan Mudrov (right photo) has 20 years of experience in development of Medical Electronics including external defibrillators, biomedical signals acquisition and processing (including ECG, EEG, PPG, bio impedance), medical telemetry and long-term monitoring. His expertise includes development of hardware and software for embedded systems, PCB layout routing, production management and final testing. He is experienced with ISO9001, ISO13485, MDR and other quality management procedures and certification. Tsvetan wrote his PhD dissertation on “HV generators for external defibrillators.”

Hardware Design and Development

Konsulko Group offers complete hardware services including design, integration, validation and certification, rapid prototyping, biometric signals, sensors, wireless communications, low power applications and manufacturing test/support. Please visit our Hardware Design Services page or contact us for more information.

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Konsulko Group engineer to speak at Yocto Project Summit

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Konsulko Group senior engineer Leon Anavi will be presenting at the Yocto Project Virtual Summit, Tuesday, November 28 through Thursday, November 30, 2023.

Formerly known as the Yocto Project Developer Day, the Summit has an expanded scope to include both workshops for engineers building customized Linux distributions and applications, as well as an open forum where maintainers, trainers and users present papers on how the project is evolving and how they are using it.

On Wednesday, November 29, Leon will present Integrating VNC in Weston with the Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded. Weston 12 introduces Virtual Network Computing (VNC) support, allowing remote connection and control through graphical desktop sharing.

Leon will examine the technical aspects — dependance on Neat VNC and AML libraries, TLS support and user authentication — followed by a step by step tutorial to demonstrate remote connection from another computer.

The presentation aims to simplify the process of setting up the VNC backend in Weston and empower developers to utilize this powerful feature seamlessly within their projects.

We hope you will join us for this presentation, and all of this new edition of Yocto Project Virtual Summit.

Helping Yocto Project secure important new funding from STF

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Yocto Project has received major funding from the Sovereign Tech Fund to aid and drive significant transformation. The funded work improves the long-term sustainability of the project by attracting a new generation of developers.

Konsulko Group is proud of the work done by principal engineer Denys Dmytriyenko and the Yocto Project Technical Steering Committee to help secure the funding. Together, they spent many hours over several months to identify development areas that can be self-contained and measured, then estimated required efforts for the proposal so the funding might be approved.

The work the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) is commissioning aims to improve the Yocto Project’s efficiency, security, user experience, and developer engagement in these specific areas:

Build Process and Workflow

  • Core workflow improvements, including enhancements to build tooling and workflows.
  • Development of the Yocto Project Reference Binary Distribution, focusing on workflow improvements and policies.
  • Introduction of Patchtest, an automated testing tool for code patches submitted via mailing lists.

Security and Quality Improvements

  • Strengthening security processes and the security team.
  • Advancing Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) for improved transparency.
  • Addressing tooling issues and enhancing quality-of-life features in Devtool, Recipetool, and Pseudo.

Integration and Usability Enhancements

  • Updates and improvements to Toaster, a web-based UI for BitBake.
  • Integration of VSCode with Yocto Project for enhanced developer features and usability.

Layer Management Standardization

  • Integration of OpenEmbedded Core best practices into Meta-OpenEmbedded.
  • Development of standard tools for managing Yocto layers, promoting layer tooling standardization.

STF is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Action (BMWK) and supported by the German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation GmbH (SPRIND).

Konsulko Group a sponsor of Embedded Recipes 2023 in Paris

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Now in its fifth edition, Embedded Recipes is a small, technically-focused, informal conference about embedded software and hardware, held in Paris, France on September 28 and 29, 2023.

With two days, 15+ presentations and lightning talks, Embedded Recipes takes a deep dive into the developments, contributions, tools and platforms that Open Source developers use to create solutions.

Konsulko Group is proud to be a supporter sponsor of Embedded Recipes 2023. We hope you will join our engineers, together with some of the main contributors of the embedded world from throughout Europe and North America, at the Fondation Biermans Lapotre in Paris for this event.

Konsulko Group updates Embedded Linux devices at TuxCon 2023

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Held on June 10th and 11th, 2023 in the beautiful city of Plovdiv (Bulgaria), TuxCon 2023 marked the 10th anniversary of this annual local two-day conference. Organized by dedicated volunteers, the event aims to advocate the adoption of open source hardware and foster the use of free and open source software.

Konsulko Group intern Atanas Bunchev participated as a speaker, and demonstrated remote updates and troubleshooting of connected embedded Linux devices using Mender.io. The presentation was in Bulgarian and spread the word about the Yocto Project, OpenEmbedded and various Mender features among the local community.

Mender is an open-source, over-the-air (OTA) software update management platform specifically designed for embedded devices. It provides an efficient way for software updates and management of fleets of connected devices in various industries, such as IoT (Internet of Things), automotive, industrial automation, and healthcare. It provides options for ensuring the resilience of system-wide updates and also for updating individual applications. Furthermore debugging of devices is possible with the troubleshooting package, such as the File Transfer and Remote Terminal Add-ons.

Konsulko Group, a partner of Northern.tech, often works with Mender.io. If you are developing a new product, we would be thrilled to discuss how Konsulko’s engineering expertise and experience can contribute to your project. Or if you are a Linux software developer who is passionate about open source, we invite you to reach out to us regarding potential opportunities to join the Konsulko team.

Konsulko Group to speak at EOSS / ELC / ALS in Prague

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Konsulko engineers will be giving two talks at Embedded Open Source Summit (EOSS), a new Linux Foundation umbrella event held in Prague, Czech Republic, June 27-30, 2023. Attending virtually is also an option. Incorporated into EOSS are the Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) and the Automotive Linux Summit Europe (ALS).

On Tuesday, June 27, Konsulko Principal Engineer Scott Murray will present a Lightning Talk: Vehicle Signal Specification and KUKSA.val Updates in AGL at ALS.

The Vehicle Signal Specification (VSS) has been included in the AGL UCB by incorporating the KUKSA.val project. Scott will provide an update on the work done for the upcoming Prickly Pike UCB release.

On Thursday, June 29 at ELC, Tim Orling, Konsulko Principal Engineer and Ilies Chergui of Medtronic will speak about Maintaining a Community BSP Layer: Updating Meta-Tegra Through Major Changes.

The meta-tegra BSP layer supports the NVIDIA Jetson family of systems-on-module and has an active OpenEmbedded for Tegra community. Tim and Ilies will discuss changes in the latest SDKs including the bootloader and the trusted OS, and how these affect secure boot and disk encryption implementations. They will also discuss changes needed to support over the air updates and cover how the community keeps up with upstream Open Embedded/Yocto Project changes, as well as the roadmap for support for future Jetson platforms and Yocto Project releases.

Please join Scott, Tim, and a good-sized contingent of our engineers in Prague (or virtually). Register here.

Scott Murray on VSS & KUKSA.val at AGL AMM & Embedded World

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Konsulko Group Principal Software Engineer, Scott Murray will present Vehicle Signaling Specification and KUKSA.val in AGL at the Automotive Grade Linux All Member Meeting in Berlin on Thursday, March 9, 2023.

The Vehicle Signaling Specification (VSS) is an emerging standard to define and categorize vehicle signals. AGL members who attend the session will receive a high-level overview of what VSS and the related Vehicle Information Service Specification (VISS) provide. This will be followed by a discussion of how the KUKSA.val VSS implementation has been integrated into the AGL demonstration stack.

The following week, Scott will be on hand at the AGL stand at Embedded World (Hall 4, Stand 4-171) in Nuremberg, March 14-16. He’ll be happy to talk about VSS, KUKSA.val and many other AGL technical topics. Please stop by if you are visiting the show.

Konsulko connects RDP with Wayland, Weston & Yocto at FOSDEM

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Taking place February 4 & 5, 2023 in the beautiful city of Brussels (Belgium), FOSDEM is a two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of free and open source software.

This year, Konsulko Group senior software engineer Leon Anavi will present Ups and Downs with Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) on Wayland, Weston and the Yocto Project.

Leon’s tutorial provides the exact steps to build-from-scratch core-image-weston, setup RDP and remotely access the embedded device using wlfreerdp (for Wayland) or xfreerdp (for X11) from a personal computer with Linux in the same network. Examples will be based on the kirkstone long-term support release of Yocto Project.

Leon will also discuss the advantages and the disadvantages of RDP as well as some troubleshooting guidelines.

If you are attending FOSDEM, be sure to to catch this lightning talk at the Embedded, Mobile and Automotive devroom on Saturday.

Konsulko Group to speak at Yocto Project Virtual Summit

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Konsulko Group’s Leon Anavi will present Porting Mender to New i.MX 8M Plus Machine and Working with Toradex BSP at the Yocto Project Virtual Summit. Leon will focus on porting Mender, a popular open source over-the-air software update solution, to Toradex Verdin iMX8M Plus SoM. He’ll examine the exact steps to build images for it and the Dahlia carrier board using the long-term support release of Yocto Project and the Toradex BSP.

Tim Orling will present two technical “lightning talks.” Running QEMU Images with virtio, virsh and virt-manager will discuss some experiences building and launching QEMU images with tools that leverage libvirt and virtio on a host. Creating an Installer that Leverages bmaptool will describe how to create an installer image using output from another image and writing all the partitions at once to the target using bmaptool.

The Yocto Project Virtual Summit is a 3-day technical conference for engineers, open source technologists, students and academia in the OSS space. Learn about Yocto Projects’ direction, get training on the next wave of embedded Linux technologies and network with industry peers, Yocto Project maintainers, OpenEmbedded maintainers and other experts.

Registration is $40 for the whole event. We hope you are able to join us.