Pengutronix at ESE Kongress

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The Embedded Software Engineering Kongress is also taking place online this year and we would like to take the opportunity of easy participation to watch the lectures, join in the discussions and get into conversation.

In order to get into a concrete conversation, we also use the digital conference bag. We cannot distribute our well-known pencils, but our Pengutronix News #30.1 is available for download :-)

Already on 27.11., there will be the ESE Pre-Conference, which can be booked free of charge before the congress. Robert Schwebel will explain how easy it can be to handle complex embedded systems with Mainline Linux.

Tipps, Tricks, Lösungen 2
Fr, 15:45
Komplexe Embedded Systeme mit Mainline Linux beherrschen (Robert Schwebel)
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Komplexe Embedded Systeme mit Mainline Linux beherrschen

Wer kennt das nicht im Entwickler-Alltag: Wie so oft soll in der Industrie ein Gerät gebaut werden, das man so in der Form noch nicht auf dem Markt kaufen kann. Vernetzt soll es sein, bunte Grafik haben, natürlich eine Reihe von auf die Anwendung zugeschnittenen I/Os bedienen. Die Werbung der SoC-Prozessoren und Software-Frameworks verspricht, dass alles ganz einfach ist. Ein Toolpartner- und Werkzeuge-Universum um den Hersteller soll die Entwickler schnell ins Thema bringen. Und dann kommt die Realität.

Entwickler von Geräten in der Industrie kennen das Problem seit langem: Die Komplexität der Technologie steigt immer weiter, und damit auch die Anzahl der Projekte, die ihren Zeitplan und ihr Budget reißen. Dabei gibt es vielversprechende Ansätze - zumindest wenn man langfristig denkt.

Als Embedded-Linux-Experten werden wir oft zu Projekten gerufen, in denen "eigentlich" schon fast alles fertig ist; wo die zuständige Abteilung der Kunden aber festgestellt hat, dass die "nur nochs" sich plötzlich zu handfesten Problemen auswachsen und es absehbar oder schon eingetroffen ist, dass die Zeit- und Budgetpläne gesprengt werden. Leider kann man da oft mit "ein bisschen Drüberwischen" keine Wunder mehr vollbringen - die Fehler sind nicht selten schon viel früher in den Projekten verortet. Oft ist die technologische Basis wackelig und die vermeintlich schnellen Lösungen stellen sich als nicht zu Ende gedacht heraus.

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