Designing Embedded Systems with Linux and Python
- Type:
- Talk
- Audience level:
- Intermediate
- Category:
- Embedded Systems
March 10th 4:55 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Description
The continual decrease in the cost of computer hardware is allowing more embedded systems to be built with Linux and Python, instead of the traditional approach of a real-time operating system and C. This talk reviews the differences between those approaches and describes problems, solutions, and tools that can be used when building embedded systems with Python.
Abstract
- Intro - goal of talk (2 minutes)
- Debian vs Fedora vs source distributions vs building your own (5 minutes)
- Different from the Desktop (10 minutes)
- user interfaces: toolkits vs. browsers
- setting the time
- network
- storage and backups
- upgrades: images vs packages vs deployment
- Portability, or ifdefs are Harmful in Python too (5 minutes)
- Not Python: C extensions, Swig, and import subprocess (5 minutes)
- Summary (2 minutes)