06-03-2025 New kernel features for embedded Linux systems
By Ben Hutchings

The Linux kernel is constantly evolving, with 5 or 6 stable releases per year. Each release brings new functionality and adds support for new hardware. This talk will cover some of the changes in 2024 and 2025 that are particularly useful for embedded systems development.

Everyone is welcome to attend, and questions are warmly encouraged. You don't need to register, just join us online on 06-03-2025 12:00 CET

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06-03-2025 New kernel features for embedded Linux systems
By Ben Hutchings

The Linux kernel is constantly evolving, with 5 or 6 stable releases per year. Each release brings new functionality and adds support for new hardware. This talk will cover some of the changes in 2024 and 2025 that are particularly useful for embedded systems development.

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06-02-2025 FOSDEM 2025: An overview and summary
By Arnout Vandecapelle, Frederik Van Bogaert, Hugo Cornelis, Raphaël Mélotte and others

Each year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the FOSDEM event in Brussels. This year, this busy and organic conference hosted 79 tracks with 1143 speakers and 1088 events. Our Mind colleagues, Arnout, Frederik, Hugo, Raphaël and others, attended the FOSDEM conference and present a summary of some of the presentations during this free format Mind Tech Talk. Everyone is welcome to attend and questions are warmly welcome.

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09-01-2025 FPGA - A Possibility for Embedded System Design
By Lu Dai

System design can be a process to explore better possibilities, FPGA is one flexible possibility to embedded system design. This presentation uses a traffic offloading example to illustrate why FPGA is a possibility worth trying; explains the junction of FPGA and Linux development work flow using Zynq-7000 as the target hardware. It shows a naive but real example to illustrate the meaning of (better or worse) possibility. Finally, it skims through some novel trending in the Linux and FPGA area.

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26-11-2024 What we learned in the Kernel Recipes conference
By Charles-Antoine Couret and Olivier L'Heureux

Charles-Antoine and Olivier have attended the small and cosy Kernel Recipes conference in Paris of which Mind is a sponsor. They will explain what important people involved in Linux kernel project (Steven Rostedt, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Julia Lawall, Hans de Goede) are doing, which are the trends, the challenges and the hot topics in kernel development. During these 3 days, the main subjects were security, Rust, performance and real time!

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14-11-2024 Binary File Parsing : Bits & Tools
By Thomas Perale

At some point, every engineer will use a tool and think, “I could probably create a better solution.” About two years ago, I had an experience examining activity files from a sports smartwatch, which prompted me to explore various libraries for parsing binary files. Ultimately, this led me to create my own solution. While a binary file parser is fundamentally straightforward software, I found the process tedious and overly detailed when done “manually.” In this talk, I’ll cover the different libraries and tools I discovered in my research, which can simplify the task if you ever need to delve into the contents of a binary file.

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29-10-2024 MicroPython
By Benoit Debled

MicroPython is a lean and efficient implementation of Python 3 optimized to run on microcontrollers and in constrained environments. The goal of this tech talk is to introduce you to MicroPython, explore its history, guide you on how to get started, and conclude with demos on an ESP32. Several demos will be showcased, ranging from blinking an LED and controlling the ESP32 LED via MQTT, to hosting a snake game served by a web server on the ESP32.

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