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AC6 is a registered company established in Paris region, France. AC6 deliver a full range of services ranging from training to technical support and consulting services for embedded electronic systems. Development tools were recently added to the portfolio of solutions to offer a complete service to electronic developers. Partners include STMicroelectronics, Freescale, Microsoft and Lauterbach.

AC6 offers are structured in several entities:

ac6-training provides a full range of training courses covering all the fields of industrial computing, embedded and real-time systems design and programming.
ac6-conseil provides engineering, consulting and expertise to help you in the development of embedded systems.
ac6-tools provides a set of tools for the development of embedded systems

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Free Webinar on Embedded Linux with System Workbench for Linux

Ac6 invite you to a one hour webinar around Embedded Linux and System Workbench for Linux on STMicroelectronics STM32MP1 SoC

October 9^th 2019

Register on-line for the USA session:

10am to 11am (PDT)

11am to 12am (MDT)

12pm to 1pm (CDT)

1pm to 2pm (EDT)

Register on-line for the Europe session:

14:00 to 15:00 (BST)

15:00 to 16:00 (CEST)

16:00 to 17:00 (EEST)

This webinar will answer the following questions:

How to build a Linux platform, include an application and debug it seamlessly,

How to master your Linux platform to optimize it to your needs and gain independence,

Why Embedded Linux platform building must take into account the whole system and application development life cycle,

How the integration of System Workbench for Linux and System Workbench for STM32 will simplify assymetric multicore system development and debug,

How Ac6, can help you in your Linux Embedded projects,

How to jumpstart your first project with System Workbench for Linux.

Agenda :

The benefits of System Workbench for Linux with respect to open-source tools like Buildroot or YOCTO,

Tool presentation and showcasing using an Avenger96 board based on the STM32MP1 assymetric multicore MPU from STMicroelectronics

Multicore debugging of an assymetric application running on both the Cortex-A7 under Linux and the Cortex-M4

Trainings and associated services.

Motor control by gestures with System Workbench for Linux on STM32MP1 MCU (video presentation)

In the following video we showcase an assymetric application showing interaction between real-time and multimedia activities through OpenAMP:

On Cortex A7

We run a Linux kernel and rootfs generated using System Workbench for Linux

We capture images from the camera using gstreamer

We analyze it using OpenVG to detect the number of fingers raised

We display the camera output and the analysis output in a graphical interface built with QT

Depending on the fingers configuration, we send speed and direction orders to the Cortex-M4 through OpenAMP

On Cortex M4

We receive speed and direction orders from the Cortex-A7 through OpenAMP

We control a motor, using two timers of the Cortex-M4 configured to generate PWM control signals to the motor

Download the video (registration needed) MP4 video file

Motor-controlled-by-fingers.mp4

Asymmetric debugging with System Workbench for Linux video presentation

In the following video we are going to launch two debug sessions

On Cortex M4

It runs without an operating system

To run and debug the application we are using the SW4STM32 tool

Debug is associated with the Linux running on the cortex A7

On Cortex A7

It is running on Linux kernel and rootfs generated using SW4Linux

It is a remote application debug session

The Demo example: sending and receiving messages

Send a message from Linux side to the Cortex M4 side

Receive the message on Cortex M4 and reply

Receive the message on Linux from Cortex M4

Download the video (registration needed) MP4 video file

Debug-AMP.mp4