Open AccessSystem for Remote Collaborative Embedded Development
Author(s) -
Martin Domajnko,
Nikola Glavina,
Aljaž Žel
Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.18690/978-961-286-516-0.4
Subject(s) - firmware , debugging , emulation , computer science , embedded system , software , operating system , microcode , resource (disambiguation) , arm architecture , software engineering , computer architecture , computer network , economics , economic growth
This paper explores the challenges and devised solutions for embedded development which arose during the COVID-19 pandemic. While software development, nowadays with modern tools and services such as git, virtual machines and commu-nication suits, is relatively una˙ected by resource location. That is not the case for firmware and embedded systems, which relies on physical hard-ware for design, development, and testing. To overcome the limitations of remote work and ob-structed access to actual hardware, two ideas were implemented and tested. First, based on inte-grated circuit emulation using QEMU to emulate an ARM core and custom software to facilitate communication with the embedded system. Sec-ond, remote programming and debugging over the internet with a dedicated computer system acting as a middle man between a development environ-ment and physical hardware using OpenOCD de-bugger.