Kernel Driver and User Space Libraries for our Products
- Device drivers for CAN/CANopen products and other I/O interface products.
- Well defined user space libraries providing stable and documented APIs.
- Especially setod's CAN/CANopen Interface Boards are also directly supported by the mainline Linux kernel ('SocketCAN').
Embedded Linux
In times of new Linux capable SOC CPUs coming up nearly every day, Linux is the OS of first choice. Linux is often the first OS that is available for brand new embedded CPUs.
- setod's embedded computing platforms are developed with a strong focus on the Linux OS. This also includes using the open source bootloader U-Boot when possible.
- setod has Linux experience on many platforms: from ARM to PowerPC, from below 100 MHz to above 1 GHz, from low cost SOCs (e.g. ARM9) to high-end multicore CPUs (e.g. QorIQ).
- We provide Linux BSPs for our standard and custom specific platforms. This includes kernel adaption and userland composition. Especially for custom projects this process will be trimmed according to our customers' and projects' needs.
Real-Time Linux
To fulfil the demand on Linux in real-time applications setod supports PREEMPT_RT. PREEMPT_RT (also known as Linux with RT-patch) makes the standard Linux kernel suitable for real-time scenarios. For application programmers PREEMPT_RT is the simplest approach because the typical Linux POSIX API can be used. Only minimal care must be taken when going real-time. The RT-patch makes the standard Linux kernel preemptable and more deterministic and allows scheduling latencies of about 100 µs with today's typical embedded platforms. In detail setod provides:
- PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels for setod's embedded platforms and customized products
- Linux device drivers for setod's interface products that have been tested on PREEMPT_RT systems
Customer specific Software Development
- Among our standard products, we offer customer specific software solutions based on Linux as engineering service.
- This ranges from adding special functions to our drivers, extending APIs up to application development with GUI toolkits like QT.
- Please contact our sales team.
Support, Training and Workshops
- We offer training courses that are especially suited for our off-the-shelf or customized projects based on embedded Linux.
- setod provides long term support for drivers and BSPs - even back to far outdated Linux kernels.
- Support and training are provided by setod's highly motivated and experienced engineers and developer team.
- Please contact our support team.
Do you miss Linux support for specific setod products?
setod's software support for Linux is subject of continuous development. For missing Linux support and for customer specific software solutions, please contact our support team. We will send you the required software or find a different solution based on your requirements.
About Linux
Linux is an open source Unix-like operating system (OS) that gained significant occurrence in the last years. Linux has been ported to a wide range of target architectures. The most prominent architectures are x86, ARM and PowerPC. It's driving force is last but not least a strong community of open source developers. Linux' high scalability brought it into applications from tiny embedded devices up to high end multi-processor systems. Applications range from multimedia and mobile devices, industrial control up to super-computing. Linux is one of the major operating systems used by setod.
You will find more information about Linux at the numerous web pages of the Linux community.
Linux Features
- Free and open source Unix®-like operating system
- Extensive architecture support: ARM, PowerPC, x86 and many more
- Highly flexible: approved on tiny embedded systems up to high performance computing
- Highly scalable: 32/64 bit, single/multi core
- Vast device driver support
- Real-time frameworks available
- Active developer community
