Paris, June 1st, 2023 – French-Canadian company Savoir-faire Linux, a leader in open-source technological innovation and digital transformation across Canada and Europe, is set to unveil its first-ever commercial support offering for the Seapath project. This key initiative will be launched at two pivotal events in the energy industry: the LF Energy Summit in Paris […]
Our personal and professional lives are often punctuated by encounters with men and women who have left their mark and inspired us, whether through their skills, their social or political commitment, their vision or their leadership. We have this tradition at Savoir-faire Linux of paying tribute to some of these remarkable personalities and highlighting their […]
PipeWire, implementation and evaluation In the last article, we prepared an audio system on which we could replace the sound server. In addition, we explained the main concepts of JACK and PulseAudio in audio recording and playback. This second part presents PipeWire, how to use it in our audio system and measures its performance. PipeWire PipeWire is […]
Android development is always moving forward with new features to make building apps easier; UI construction with compose, dependency injection with Hilt, game development extensions, emoji compatibility libraries, the list goes on. New projects have no concerns leveraging these sorts of features. However, legacy projects have to find a balance when migrating to new software […]
Audio system set-up In Linux embedded system world, ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) is the lowest level way to provide an API for sound card device drivers. However, its limitation is to only allow one process to open a device. This is why we need sound servers, which take care of handling sound streams between applications. They are the […]
Introduction Continuous Integration (CI) is a development practice that consists in constant and frequent merges of a team’s contributions into a shared repository. Code quality, reliability and non-regression are verified thanks to automated builds and testing prior merging each modification. Unlike software applications, there are multiple things to consider when setting up a CI with […]
How to bring fully distributed and secure communication capabilities to embedded products and IOT (Part 2). In a previous article, we presented our work on including Jami in Yocto. This was a huge step to make Jami available on all types of devices. But this Yocto layer was only usable for x86 architectures. In fact, […]
How to bring fully distributed and secure communication capabilities to embedded products and IOT (Part 1). Jami is a communication tool developed by Savoir-faire Linux. It is available for Windows, MacOS, standard Linux distribution like Ubuntu or Fedora and smartphones (Android and iOS). In order to give the opportunity to use Jami in embedded products […]
A previous article was dealing with recommendations concerning the set up Linux RT and its application software. This article will provide an industrial use case and focus on the performance measurement on a dedicated hardware. A Practical Demonstration SFL performed tests to demonstrate these principles on a custom board containing a Cirrus Logic EP9302 […]
