Mike Szczys
Mike is a Developer Relations Engineer at Golioth. His deep love of microcontrollers began in the early 2000s, growing from the desire to make more of the BEAM robotics he was building. During his 12 years at Hackaday (eight of them as Editor in Chief), he had a front-row seat for the growth of the industry, and was active in developing a number of custom electronic conference badges. When he's not reading data sheets he's busy as an orchestra musician in Madison, Wisconsin.
Past talks:
Building a Modular Codebase with Zephyr RTOS and Devicetree
Status: Available NowIf there’s one thing the chip shortage has taught us, it’s to be ready to pivot to different hardware on a short timeline. I’ve found that the Zephyr Real-Time Operating System makes this much less painful for firmware engineers. It borrows many concepts from the Linux ecosystem, delivering Devicetree, Pin Control, and Kconfig to microcontroller-land.
In this talk I will detail how I use Zephyr to maintain one codebase that can be built for many different hardware combinations. Once a Kconfig and Devicetree overlay files have been created for each target, compiling the same project for Nordic, Espressif, or NXP chips (to name just a few) is simple. Changing vendors or models of sensor and other peripherals is a similar experience. The C code grabs all necessary hardware information like what pins are connected and which peripheral bus should be used for a particular build. From there it’s just a matter of changing the board name in the build command.
Join me for a tour of what this looks like in real-world examples where changing out a microcontroller or sensor no longer leads to premature hair loss and hypertension.
Live Q&A - Building a Modular Codebase with Zephyr RTOS and Devicetree
Status: Available NowLive Q&A with Mike Szczys for the theatre talk titled Building a Modular Codebase with Zephyr RTOS and Devicetree