We are thrilled to announce that KOAN, a leading embedded software engineering company based in Italy, is officially member of NXP Partner Program

Starting this autumn, we will resume offering in-person courses, both public and private, directly at companies around the world. Our first in-person public course will be held in Bergamo, Italy, in November. This will be a comprehensive four-day course on Linux embedded and Yocto Project, focusing on a board with an NXP i.MX8MM CPU. The course will include several exercises for managing additional peripherals (I2C, SPI and GPIO) mounted on an dedicated expansion board.

KOAN is supporting with Yocto Project the new Texas Instruments (TI) AM62x System-on-Chip This SoC offers impressive capabilities to meet diverse project needs. Our company is here to help you harness the power of this dynamic duo.

A free guide to programming Linux kernel modules and device drivers. An excellent guide for anyone wishing to get started on kernel module programming.

Due to a very frequent requests for an updated version we decided to provide an unofficial Yocto Project 2.7 'warrior' setup system for Engicam iMX6 boards family.

We are currently working to complete activities started before the lockdown but more surprisingly we started new projects too, because companies that want to remain competitive must take advantage of this moment for a rapid recovery. With our services we help companies as always and more than before by offering solutions to speed up their time to market. Here you can learn what we have been doing.

KOAN CEO Marco Cavallini has been nominated the first european "Yocto Project ambassador" in recognition of the continued support, promotion and help for the growth of the Yocto Project community. A Yocto Project Ambassador actively promote, create and deliver assets that drive technical audiences to adopt the Yocto Project. Nominations are made based on activity as education and teaching, contribute to social media or other online channels which promote the project.

Yocto Project can nowadays be considered the 'de facto' standard among the automated generation systems of embedded linux distributions. Experienced users appreciate the features offered by Yocto Project and its complete customization that allows to adapt it to any specific requirement. However, from the beginner's point of view, the situation is a bit more complicated due to the Yocto Project's particularly steep learning curve. The tools that can support the development with Yocto Project are Toaster, that allow the configuration of the builds through a web interface, and the 'extended SDK' (eSDK), based on Devtool which allows the system to be tuned or extended without editing configuration files.

Koan is proud to provide the unofficial Yocto Project BSP for STM32MP1 based boards. This project is not endorsed nor supported by ST. ST OpenSTLinux is based on OE, our BSP extends the use of ST meta layers with Yocto, using latest commits on the branch 2.6 ‘thud’ on each meta layer.

Marco Cavallini presented a workshop at LinuxLab 2018 which took place on 3 and 4 December 2018 in Florence. Title of the workshop was Yocto Project, an automatic generator of embedded linux distributions.

Koan offers an enterprising 3-day course which provides you with everything you need to get started with embedded Linux embedded and Yocto Project. You will be guided step-by-step by experienced trainer Marco Cavallini. The course is for a maximum of 10 attendees and will be held in English.

How to add RS485 support to the UART on a Freescale iMX6 (SABRELITE) with kernel 3.10.17 Remember to set the appropriate GPIO for RTS signal in the Device Tree.