Zephyr Developer Summit 2022

Zephyr Project infrastructure and tools can be leveraged to dramatically simplify development and maintenance with a silicon vendor Software Development Kit integrating the Zephyr RTOS. in this short talk we describe how Nordic Semiconductor makes use of this principle to build the nRF Connect SDK; a scalable, modern SDK that supports our wireless System on Chip ICs.

Laptops typically include an always-on Embedded Controller (EC) which looks after power, keyboard, battery and many other functions. Google is working on creating a flexible EC implementation based on Zephyr OS, which OEMs can use as a base for innovation and differentiation across Chrome OS, Windows and Linux laptops. This short talk describes the vision and potential benefits of this initiative, along with a progress report.

Consistency or the planning for it is a must as you build and grow an open-source project with 1000s of contributors and 100s of vendors participating in the development. The Zephyr project would not have gone far without some level of consistency in each of its layers, starting with supporting the various hardware architectures, how the code is structured and coded all the way to how hardware is abstracted and implemented.

Consistency establishes reputation, creates accountability, help maintaining the message and above all, makes a project relevant.

In this short talk we describe how Intel, a contributor and a user of every aspect of the project on various hardware architectures, benefits from the power of consistency in the Zephyr project.

Zephyr’s structured approach to describing platforms opens the door to building transparent and scrutinizable systems, championed by initiatives like RISC-V and CHIPS Alliance which are empowering innovation in open hardware. With the growing importance of digital sovereignty, teams need the ability to rapidly move between platforms, make informed decisions around hardware choice and understand the composition and interrelations between hardware platform components and software. In this keynote we will present a new project which aims to create a thorough and actionable description of the hardware landscape available to Zephyr developers, allowing you to try out, develop and test real software in practice, without having to source devboards or chips.

Creating connected, secured and low power solutions is a complex task for any product maker. By joining the Zephyr Project and enabling board support, Infineon is working to ease the design process and speed time to market.  Join this short talk will explain what we have brought to the Zephyr Project and what we will be focused on bringing in the coming year.

We are experiencing a constantly changing technological landscape, and the Internet of Things (IoT) is at the core of it. Apache Software Foundation, Eclipse, the Linux Foundation and Fiware, four of the main actors in Open Source, have put in place their own IoT architectures powered by different Open Source projects. In this talk, we take a step back and look at the communities behind these projects. The goal is to uncover collaboration and community behaviors within each ecosystem and possible crossover between communities. The project uses activity and community analysis based on the data extracted from Git and Github issue trackers using the open source GrimoireLab platform. Let’s take a look together at the open source IoT landscape and discuss afterwards what this means for the future of IoT.