TimeSys Corporation FREE Webinars

Select any of the webinars below to watch an embedded Linux development discussion from Timesys. These webinars are a sample of the resources available to LinuxLink subscribers, who have access to more webinars, along with hundreds of how-to articles, FAQs, and guides for embedded Linux development. Additionally, LinuxLink provides the software, tools, and support you need to build a custom software platform.

View our Summer 2008 Webinar Series, below.

Embedded Linux Development Topics

• Adopting a Common Embedded Linux Toolset
  This webinar will describe our flexible tool set designed to integrate into an existing project while still providing all the necessary components for new projects.
  
  
• Linux Boot-Up
  Learn what happens when a Linux kernel boots and how you can minimize boot time.
  
  
• Survey of Linux Filesystems
  Several filesystems suitable for embedded Linux development are discussed in this webinar.
  
  
• Solving Common Board Bring-Up Problems
  This webinar discusses common problems encountered with getting supporting software properly configured to host a development board and suggests solutions.
  
  
• Great Small Packages for Embedded Developers
  Learn about packages in the open source community that can provide the extra functionality you need while consuming minimum resource on your target platform.

This summer, Timesys presented a series of webinars that focused on technical topics of interest to embedded engineers. The Summer 2008 Webinars were technical deep dives into areas that Timesys discusses with partners, subscribers and prospects. As with all Timesys webinars, the Summer 2008 Series stuck to the technical facts — with no sales or marketing pitches.

• Spotting Memory Leaks with MPatrol
  Allocating memory on the heap without properly releasing it (leaking memory), can have disastrous effects on an embedded system once in the field. This webinar will explain how MPatrol works and illustrate how to use it to locate memory leaks and verify their repair. Attendees will understand the types of problems MPatrol can find and the types it can't.
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• LinuxLink's Embedded Linux Factory
  With LinuxLink’s Embedded Linux Factory engineers create a complete starting point for a project: root file system, kernel and cross-compiler. The Embedded Linux Factory helps users by suggesting space-saving packages and coordinating kernel and root file system configuration options. Plus, the built-in RFS “pruning” feature removes common space-consuming files that don’t belong on most embedded systems. This webinar explained why Timesys created the Embedded Linux Factory and walked through the process of creating a distribution.
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• Getting the most out of OProfile
  OProfile is an open-source, low overhead profiling tool for Linux systems that allows users to track how many times a certain "counter" was incremented over a period of time. Users can track counters on a system-wide or program-by-program basis. During this webinar, you will learn how you can use OProfile to examine your system for bottlenecks so you can focus on optimizing the code that will make the biggest difference in overall performance.
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• Reducing the Size of the Linux Kernel
  Embedded engineers face a constant demand to reduce the size of the kernal, even when confronted with expanding requirements. Making the kernel small means removing the code not used by the project and reducing the RAM requirements once its running. This webinar will cover how to identify which parts of the kernel unnecessarily increase its static size and how to locate them, and it will introduce attendees to the available open source projects dedicated to minimizing the run-time memory footprint.
  Recorded webinar will be available soon.