Yocto Project 2021 – A Year in Review (italian translation)

Despite the challenges the pandemic has thrown our way, the Yocto Project team is very happy about the progress accomplished last year! Many thanks to everyone from the Yocto Project membership and community!
AMD bergamo cpu

AMD announces CPUs with Italian names: Bergamo has 128 cores

AMD announces the new CPU names: Bergamo with the name of our city! AMD Genoa disclosures are that the chip will hit 96 Zen 4 cores and AMD Bergamo is going to be the cloud variant.
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Yocto Project 2.7 support for MX6 Engicam boards

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.
Aaeon NVIDIA Yocto Koan

Yocto Project Support Recently Added for AAEON Boxers

AAEON Europe has officially released support on the latest Yocto 3.1 Dunfell on AAEON AI  embedded box PC,  Boxer-8220AI, BOXER-8221AI, BOXER-8250AI, and BOXER-8251AI, powered by NVIDIA. Software services are provided in conjunction with AAEON’s software partners, such as KOAN, to provide customization, integration, and support for Yocto Project on AAEON BOXER-8200 series.
GitHub archive program

KOAN elected GitHub Arctic Code Vault Contributor

On February 2, 2020, GitHub took a snapshot of all active public repositories on GitHub to archive in the vault. GitHub plan was for their team to fly to Svalbard, Norway and save the most important open source projects for future generations. We’re happy to report that KOAN was admitted to the program.
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Yocto Project on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier

In this article we discuss how to get started with Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier and build a minimal custom Linux distribution using the Yocto Project (YP) and OpenEmbedded (OE). At KOAN we are long time developers and users of the Yocto Project (since 2012) and OpenEmbedded (since 2009). Those open source projects are our favorite tools for creating customized distributions for IoT and AI.
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Linux embedded development after the lockdown

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.
Yocto Project online training

Yocto Project online training course

This week we started teaching Yocto Project in our first online training ever. In our virtual class we have seven participants attending the lesson through our teaching platform Whereby. We are preparing the training calendar that will start in April stay tuned to get the latest updates or contact us if you are interested to participate to one of our online courses.
Linux embedded online training

Covid-19: KOAN offers online training courses

KOAN is now offering all training as online courses. Our goal is not to reduce our teaching service to providing a mere seminar where participants listen passively, but rather continue to follow our participatory teaching style. For this reason, the sessions will still have 'hands-on' workshops although more limited and compatible with the material available from each. Read below for more details.
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Covid-19: KOAN update from Italy’s hardest-hit city

Our headquarter in the heart of Bergamo is still open and operative. Our engineers are actively working from home and supporting our customers on the ongoing tasks. We applied the protection rules before the decrees arrived and we implemented the best possible solution in every working environment in which we operated. This is thanks to each of the colleagues who has been responsible and acted with discipline, strength and creativity. This is thanks to the resilience of our staff.
Marco Cavallini Yocto Project Ambassador

Marco Cavallini nominated Yocto Project ambassador

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.
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Yocto Project with Artificial intelligence & ML on NXP I.MX

KOAN an Yocto Project Participant since 2010, is pleased to announce the participation to the "Artificial intelligence & ML on NXP I.MX families" roadshow in collaboration with NXP and EBV Elektronik where will be illustrated some types of existing CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) in order to give you the bases to understand which could be the most suitable for your next application.