Yocto: Part 3 – Build & run your first ever image!

Liked our last posts that introduced Yocto and showed how to set up your host PC for builds? Let us learn how to build our first ever Yocto image...read on!

Yocto: Part 1 – A Definitive Introduction

Yocto is the most popular build system used to generate linux images for a wide variety of hardware systems across the world. Looking for a good intro to this wonderful enabler that is omni-present? Read on...

Using SPI in Linux using C (spidev)

Looking for a basic guide to understanding how to use the SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) in Linux? This post tries to address that very concern using a practical example… read on!

ARMv7, Cortex Cores and SOCs – A Primer

As a beginner in the field of embedded systems, we often get confused with terms like architecture, core, CPU, SOC and so on. This primer talks about these using a popular ARM architecture as an example.

Embedded Security #4 – Diversify Everything!

Diversification is at the heart of a lot of commercially successful embedded systems. However, it is not very well understood. Let us attempt to understand what it is all about...