Platform choices are the hardest to reverse and the least visible when they are made. Get the Linux-or-RTOS decision wrong and you find out at certification, or the first time a customer asks for a security patch on a device with no update path.
What the work is
Platform selection, decided against requirements
Linux or RTOS is one question standing in for four: timing, connectivity, service life and certification. Teams who write those down first usually find the decision already made for them.
BSP and board support
Bringing a platform up on your hardware, and keeping it maintainable when the vendor kernel diverges from mainline.
Yocto and build pipelines
Reproducible builds that a new engineer can run, rather than a machine in the corner that nobody dares reinstall.
Secure boot and update
Signed images, A/B partitioning and a rollback path. Once a device is network-connected, a device that cannot be patched cannot be secured, and regulators increasingly treat that as a product safety question.
Long-term maintenance strategy
Who holds the signing key, what happens when it expires, and how a product in the field is supported for its full service life.
Where an engagement usually starts
Where a platform decision is still open, a short written assessment against your actual requirements. Where it is already made and causing pain, an audit of the update and maintenance path, which is usually where the risk sits.
What we do not do
We do not do desktop or server Linux administration, and we are not a managed IT provider. This is platform engineering for products, not infrastructure operations.
Related practices
Problems here usually touch these too
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FPGA & Engineering Software Tools
HDL work, hardware acceleration, and the internal tools that make an engineering team faster.
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ONVIF & Video Interoperability
Conformance engineering, third-party device validation, and the Profile S to T and V transition.
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Innovation & R&D
Applied research for problems without a known answer yet: feasibility work and de-risking a concept.
Bring us the challenge
The one that has been handed back, sits between two suppliers, or nobody can say is possible yet. A short call costs you nothing and you will speak to one of our consultants.
Engineer to engineer. No handoffs.