Jun 23
2023
Besides main application cores that are directly exposed to the users, many industrial and consumer devices include embedded controllers, which, although fairly invisible to the user, perform critical system tasks such power management, receiving and processing user input, or signals from sensors like thermal. Given their role in the system, those MCUs need to be rigorously tested in CI, and using physical hardware for that can only go so far - that is why Antmicro often helps customers adopt Renode, its open source simulation framework, to enable testing of embedded controllers in CI at scale, in a deterministic manner and with complete observability. Read more
May 31
2023
Creating real-world test cases for a project plays a key role in releasing bug-free and secure software, especially for mission-critical embedded systems. The Zephyr RTOS, which Antmicro often uses (and ports) for building real-world industrial devices for its customers, features many tools to facilitate better testing, including Twister, a dedicated test runner which can orchestrate testing on hardware and in simulation. Read more
May 16
2023
Porting software to new hardware is one of Antmicro’s staple services which we often perform as part of larger customer and R&D projects. As a Platinum member of the Zephyr Project, we actively participate in developing this open source, compact RTOS intended for resource-constrained, connected devices. In this area, we often work for and with silicon vendors, product makers, and hyperscalers, advocating for the use of the open source RTOS and helping in the implementation process itself. Read more
May 5
2023
Kenning helps develop real-world Machine Learning solutions for ARM and RISC‑V platforms such as NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, Google Coral or HiFive Unmatched by seamlessly interconnecting different underlying optimization and deployment frameworks and creating rich reports on model quality and performance, like in the recently described industrial use case. The latest developments extend Kenning’s applicability to two new domains, adding bare-metal runtimes for non-Linux targets and integration with Renode for simulation-based machine learning RISC‑V silicon co-development. Read more
Apr 14
2023
Propelled into widespread use by the rise of the smartphone in the 2010s, ARM Cortex-A SoCs are now found everywhere, powering Linux-based devices in areas like IoT, embedded, mobile, and - increasingly - servers. The currently prevailing variant, implemented by many SoCs in this space, is ARMv8A, the first architecture in the ARM family to introduce a 64-bit instruction set while remaining backward compatible with ARMv7-A and earlier versions. Antmicro uses ARMv8-A-based SoCs extensively for projects involving hardware such as Jetson Orin, NXP i.MX8, Qualcomm Snapdragons, or Xilinx US+ Kria. Read more