Course Highlights:

Embedded Linux is all the rage these days, and for good reasons: it’s powerful, portable, and Free. That makes Linux the right choice for many kinds of embedded systems, but it doesn’t make Linux easy to adapt for use in your next embedded design.

Embedded Linux Jumpstart^tm to the rescue! This multi-day workshop goes over the nuts and volts of getting Linux running in an embedded system. Soak up useful and relevant information on how to port and use embedded Linux on embedded hardware, then try it yourself on hardware to make the training even more practical.

New! The lab exercises for this class now incorporate hardware for controlling a custom-designed N-scale model train layout. You apply what you are learning as you learn it, on a training platform that looks more like your own hardware than anything else currently available anywhere in an instructional setting.

You won’t find an embedded Linux course of this depth and breadth anywhere else. Bill Gatliff is a seasoned embedded developer, instructor and author on a variety of important embedded Linux subjects. As a result, each course presentation and lab exercise is concise, enlightening, and filled with immediately useful information that you will put to work on your own embedded projects as soon as you get home.

New! The lab exercises for this class now incorporate hardware for controlling a custom-designed N-scale model train layout. You apply what you are learning as you learn it, on a training platform that looks more like your own hardware than anything else currently available anywhere in an instructional setting.

You won’t find an embedded Linux course of this depth and breadth anywhere else. Bill Gatliff is a seasoned embedded developer, instructor and author on a variety of important embedded Linux subjects. As a result, each course presentation and lab exercise is concise, enlightening, and filled with immediately useful information that you will put to work on your own embedded projects as soon as you get home.Hardware
Embedded Linux Jumpstart uses Cogent CSB6xx single-board computers. The Cogent CSB637 is an AT91RM9200-powered system, the CSB625 uses a PXA255. Both boards offer 64 MB SDRAM, Ethernet, USB, Compact Flash, SD/MMC, GPIO and VGA out. Other single board computers are available by special request. Students are also encouraged to bring their own hardware, to use with lab exercises as time permits.

Who Should Attend:
This advanced workshop is ideal for embedded developers who are evaluating or using Linux in an embedded application. The course materials presume familiarity with the C programming language, and an understanding of the basics of operating system and embedded system operation.

Pre-requisite:
Prior experience with the GNU toolchain, or training via Embedded GNU Jumpstart is helpful but not required. Prior Linux experience in non-embedded environments is encouraged, but not required.

Each student must provide their own laptop computer. The computer must have either a recent Linux distribution (RHEL/Fedora, Debian, Mandrake, etc.), Mac OS X, or a Win32 operating system (WinNT or Win2000 only; required for stable operation with Cygwin) installed before class begins. Course activities will require one available DB9 serial port, one 10/100T ethernet port, approximately 600MB of free disk space, and a Pentium-III/400MHz/128MB performance level or better. Students are strongly encouraged to bring their OS installation CDs to class.

Why do I have to bring my own computer?

Put simply, how else are you going to take your new GNU toolchain, embedded Linux kernel, and other course materials home with you at the end of class?

This course offers a unique combination of intensive, embedded Linux training and take-home hardware that you won’t find anywhere else. The goal is to for the student to be a proficient embedded Linux developer and user in one week, and to carry that knowledge back home after class is over. Bringing and using your own computer is the best way to meet that objective.

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