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Published at February 18, 2021 · Piotr Konkol · Kamila Banecka · 5 min read
Pros and cons of automated testing and the process of performing transparent validation....
Measuring memory and CPU usage on Orange Pi with Yocto & Armbian
Published at May 14, 2020 · Piotr Konkol · 6 min read
This article will show you how to perform and interpret measurements CPU usage, temperature and memory on OrangePi Zero...
Categories: iot miscellaneous
RTE v1.1.0 - enhanced remote testing now available!
Published at June 21, 2019 · Artur Raglis · 4 min read
Get familiar with new RTE revision - what has been changed, which features are now more sophisticated and which items have been added to the RTE kit available at our online shop....
Categories: manufacturing miscellaneous
Published at May 8, 2019 · Łukasz Wcisło · 4 min read
RTE used to control tested devices could be used as a programmer. But RTE doesn't have SWD interface, which is crucial. We tried to walk around this using Bit Banging method....
Categories: firmware manufacturing miscellaneous
Yocto meta-rte is now open for everyone
Published at March 13, 2019 · Marta Szelecka · 3 min read
Yocto meta-rte is now open for everyone We are happy to announce that our 3mdeb’s Yocto meta-rte is now available on our GitHub. But let’s say briefly what the Yocto Project is and why we decided to work with it. First of all, like everything that we love the most, Yocto Project is open sourced. The project is hosted by the Linux Foundation and gives you templates, methods, and set of interoperable tools for creating OS images for embedded Linux systems....
Categories: os-dev
Published at February 23, 2019 · Marta Szelecka · 2 min read
3mdeb at Embedded World 2019 We are excited to inform You that 3mdeb will take part in embedded world Exhibition & Conference - Embedded World 2019 next week! In place full of enthusiasts You can meet us personally between 26.02-28.02 in Nuremberg, Germany. Come and talk with us about amazing world of embedded systems. We will tell You not only about our work and innovations, but also share our knowledge, help and present to You our products and demos:...
Categories: miscellaneous
Quick start guide to kas - best tool for setting up the Yocto projects
Published at February 7, 2019 · Maciej Pijanowski · 8 min read
Introduction If you are using the Yocto Project, you certainly have encountered the hassle of managing multiple layers and tracking their revisions. I’ve been using the Yocto Project for nearly 3 years by now and have mostly been using the tool for this purpose. While I’m not a huge fan of it, it is relatively simple to use and gets the job of fetching layers and controlling their revisions done properly....
Categories: os-dev
PC Engines APU2 platform validation with RTE
Published at September 13, 2018 · Artur Raglis · 6 min read
Introduction Remote work is trending nowadays. The best example is the IT industry - purely software tasks with handheld devices allow you to work practically from anywhere. This approach saves a big amount of time and makes a job easier. Unfortunately, as an embedded / firmware developer, there are often situations when interaction with hardware such as a power cycle is required. This leads to a barrier for successful remote work....
Categories: firmware
Minnowboard Turbot remote firmware flashing with RTE (Remote Testing Environment)
Published at March 23, 2018 · Arkadiusz Cichocki · 7 min read
Minnowboard Turbot remote firmware flashing with RTE (Remote Testing Environment) Introduction Work related to a hardware carries some restrictions which don’t occur when working only with a software. One of them is a limited number of devices. This one may cause a problem with a accessibility to the platform. The limited number of users could slow development and testing. What is more work with a hardware requires a minimal knowledge of the theory of circuits and signals to eliminate platform damage by a user....
Categories: firmware
PC Engines apu2 python Robot Framework validation automation
Published at November 2, 2017 · Piotr Król · 8 min read
Recently we attended ECC2017 conference. One of topics that we considered was a system for development and validation automation. Unfortunately this talk was not accepted, but we present some research below and plan to provide more soon. As maintainers of PC Engines platforms in coreboot we debug and fix quite a lot of bugs, but to take full responsibility for our code everything should be validated each time we do release....
Categories: firmware