What’s new? We’re happy to announce the release of v2.7.0, which includes a few new features as well as bug fixes. Check out the summarized changelog below: Add bitbake environment scan for global variables Add skipped recipes to the tree view with skip reason Add support for latest Yocto devtool status output Add sanity check […]
Nuremberg, April 9th, 2024 – In an era where cybersecurity threats are increasingly sophisticated and pervasive, Savoir-faire Linux, a leading provider in open-source technological innovation and software engineering for embedded systems across North America and Europe, is proud to announce the launch of its Cybersecurity professional services tailored specifically for product engineering and embedded systems. […]
2023 was a very prolific year for Savoir-faire Linux. To mark the announcement of our sponsorship of the LF Energy Summit 2024, we were keen to share a retrospective of the conferences we took part of in 2023. With captivating projects thanks to our R&D investments and our customers, we were able to present our […]
Power saving has always been a major preoccupation in embedded systems, as by definition, they could have energy constraint. Of course now, energy saving is still on the heart of the discussions. Energy saving is always a set of compromise. In terms of system or peripherals availability, time to wake… In this blog, we will […]
We are delighted to announce our continued collaboration with the Embedded Recipes conference, scheduled for September 28th and 29th at the Biermans Lapotre Foundation in Paris. For its 5th edition this year, we will be participating as a sponsor, delivering an engaging presentation, and having our team on-site to meet and greet you in person! […]
TL;DR Audio pipelines often use asynchronous devices, which must be synchronized with resampling. Measurements show CPU load of resampling reach almost 30% of a CPU core on an i.MX8M Nano. A possible optimization is to use feedback with USB UAC2 audio gadget. alsaloop already supports it, as Pipewire since a recent version. A sound server […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]