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In the previous post we prepared a setup with a FriendlyElec NanoPC-T4 single board computer (SBC) we connected it through PCIe to a host computer. This time we will setup a Pine64 Rockpro64 board which comes with a more convenient PCIe 4x female edge connector instead of an M.2 slot. Both boards are based on the same Hexa-Core Rockchip RK3399 chip. In this post we will explore how to build a custom Linux kernel and load a PCIe endpoint function…

The Linux Kernel is under constant development and improvement. Everyday patches are submitted to the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML). Some of these patches get accepted and merged into the mainline Linux kernel and become available to the user, other patches never do. Sometimes it is useful to get patches from the LKML, for example if you are developing in the kernel or simply because you want to stay at the bleeding edge. Another reason could be that you need…

FreeRTOS is a popular free and open-source real-time operating system (RTOS) for embedded platforms. It has its own scheduler, tasks, and synchronisation primitives. Writing concurrent applications for FreeRTOS requires to learn the environment and make use of the provided tools. In some cases, a developper might want to port an existing concurrent application written with POSIX interfaces (such as pthreads, semaphores, message queues, etc.). Usually there are two approaches here : Convert everything to FreeRTOS primitives. Write an OS abstraction…

28-29 November 2019, Swiss Aeropole / Payerne (CH) The REDS institute of the Haute École d’Ingénierie et de Gestion of the Vaud canton (HEIG-VD), specialized in the development of high-performance reconfigurable systems, is organizing a conference on Software Defined Radios (SDRs) in the context of SDR Makerspace, a European Space Agency (ESA)-sponsored project. These “software radios” are transceivers that take advantage of the flexibility of software to attain unsurpassed performances in terms of robustness and adaptability, and this turns out…