arm-university / embedded-linux-education-kit

Develop an embedded Linux system on low-cost Arm based platforms

Embedded-Linux-Education-Kit

Welcome to our Embedded Linux Education Kit!

Download the EdKit here

Our flagship offering to universities worldwide is the Arm University Program Education Kit series.

These self-contained educational materials offered exclusively and at no cost to academics and teaching staff worldwide. They’re designed to support your day-to-day teaching on core electronic engineering and computer science subjects. You have the freedom to choose which modules to teach – you can use all the modules in the Education Kit or only those that are most appropriate to your teaching outcomes.

Our Embedded Linux Education Kit covers the fundamental knowledge of the Linux architecture, and practical skills involved in configuring and building a full Linux operating system stack. A full description of the education kit can be found here.

Kit specification:

• A full set of lecture slides, ready for use in a typical 10-12-week undergraduate course (full syllabus below)
• Lab manual with solutions for faculty. Labs are based on low-cost yet powerful Arm-based single board computers donated by partners (subject to availability)
• Prerequisites: Basics of operating systems, basics of software programming in C

Course Aim

To produce students who can develop an embedded Linux system on low-cost yet powerful Arm based platforms, including customer peripheral development for various applications using standard software tools.

Syllabus

1. Introduction to Linux and Embedded Systems
2. Linux-based Embedded System Component Stack
3. Anatomy of a Linux-based System
4. Configuration and Build Process
5. Linux Kernel Modules
6. Communication Between Kernel and User Space
7. Application Demo: Building a Ranging Sensor Kernel Module
8. System Debugging and Profiling

License

You are free to fork or clone this material. See LICENSE.md for the complete license.

Inclusive Language Commitment

Arm is committed to making the language we use inclusive, meaningful, and respectful. Our goal is to remove and replace non-inclusive language from our vocabulary to reflect our values and represent our global ecosystem.

Arm is working actively with our partners, standards bodies, and the wider ecosystem to adopt a consistent approach to the use of inclusive language and to eradicate and replace offensive terms. We recognise that this will take time. This course may contain references to non-inclusive language; it will be updated with newer terms as those terms are agreed and ratified with the wider community.

Contact us at [email protected] with questions or comments about this course. You can also report non-inclusive and offensive terminology usage in Arm content at [email protected].

embedded-linux-education-kit's Issues

Error on slide 11, lecture presentation 3 (Raspberry Pi)

Slide states:

Interrupt type:
Slow: traditional interrupt (e.g. coming from a disk driver)
Fast: interrupt corresponding to very fast operations (e.g. processing a keyboard input)

The examples are the wrong way round.