EMBEDDED LINUX ON BLUEBOARD-AT91RM9200

Workshop
Embedded Linux on BLUEBOARD-AT91RM9200 workshop is an exclusive practical training for building the Embedded Linux System.

Who should Attend?

Enabling ARM Learning in INDIA www.easyarm.com Those who want to bringup the Linux kernel on real target and want to start learning Embedded Linux right from scratch.

Registration:
Drop a mail to info@easyarm.com with your contact details. For any query please call on 9535504414 Hardware providers at unbelievable price. www.ngxtechnologies.com

Blueboard-AT91RM9200 salient features:

The board ships with pre-loaded LINUX kernel 180 MHz ARM9 processor (Atmel AT91RM9200) 4 MBytes of serial flash 16MBytes of SDRAM 1 SD/MMC slot USB 2.0 host I2C port 1 10/100 Ethernet interface 1 high speed USB 2.0 interface GPIO lines brought out on to a header JTAG support Low-Cost [Rs. 3300.00]

Blueboard-AT91RM9200

Course : Linux Internals & Advanced Programming ( 4 Days )

Day1
Introduction to Linux
- GNU Project / GPL Licensing - Evolution of Linux & Development Model - Device Identities in Linux - Partitioning Schema Introduction to Kernel - History of Linux - Types of Kernel - The Linux kernel - Kernel Architecture Shell Commands & Shell Scripting - Basic Shell commands - Bash Shell Essentials - Creating Makefiles Creating Lilbraries - Creating Static Library - Creating Shared Library The Boot Process - BIOS Level - Boot Loader - Setup, startup_32 functions - The start_kernel() function

Fees: Rs. 3400.00

Day-2 ( Kernel Internals )

The File System - Virtual File system & its role - Files associated with a process - System Calls Process management - Process Defined - Process Descriptor Structures in the kernel - Process States - Process Scheduling - Process Creation

- System calls related to process management Memory Management - Defining and Creating secondary memory areas - Memory allocation & deallocation system calls malloc, calloc, alloca, free - Demand Paging defined - Process Organization in Memory - Address Translation and page fault handling - Buddy System Algorithm - Slab Allocator - Swapping Memory Areas - Memory Mapping - Virtual Memory Management

Day-3
Multi Thread Programming - Creating multiple threads - Parent synchronization with other Threads Inter Process Communication - Pipes, Fifo's, signals - System-V IPC's - Message queues - Shared memory - Semaphores

Day-4
Sockets - An Overview - System calls related to TCP and UDP sockets Network Programming - TCP Server Client Programming - UDP Server Client Programming - Netlink socket interface Programming & Debugging Tools - strace : Tracing System calls - ltrace : Tracing Library calls - Tools used to detect memory access error and Memory leakage in Linux : mtrace - Using gdb and ddd utilities - Core Dump Analysis etc

Course : Building Embedded Linux Systems ( 2 Days )

Day-1
Lecture: Introduction to Embedded Linux and Blueboard-AT91RM9200 Lecture: - Toolchain Components - Building Toolchain - Build Systems for compiling toolchain Lab: Toolchain compilation and usage.
Lecture: - Bootloader Architecture - U-Boot Bootloader Porting on New Hardware. - U-Boot Commands

Fees: Rs. 1700.00

Lab: Bootloader compilation and downloading on Target board.

Lab: - Bootloader commands and usage, - Bootloader code customization, adding new Ethernet drivers to U-Boot.

Lab: Downloading pre-compiled Linux kernel images on Target board. > Using SD-Card for rootfs. > Configuring NFS and using rootfs over NFS. > Configuring TFTP and downloading kernel image over TFTP.

Day-2
Lecture: Linux Kernel Architecture. Lecture: Linux Source code browsing & code changes for a new Target [ Porting ] Lab: Configuring and compiling Linux Kernel. Lecture: Root file system. Lab: Building Root file system with Busybox and booting the Linux Kernel Lab: Cross compilation of libraries for target. Lab: Application development and Cross compilation.

Course : Device Drivers Programming ( 2 Days )

Day-1
An introduction to device drivers - Role of the Device Drivers - Splitting the kernel - Classes of devices and modules - Kernel Architecture or Model - kernel modules Module Basics -Introduction to Modules & Device Drivers - Modules Defined - Types of Modules in the kernel - Writing Your first kernel module - Module Related Commands - Kernel Module vs Applications - User space vs Kernel space - Statically linked vs Dynamically linked drivers/modules - Exporting symbols from modules - Concurrency in the kernel - Module Parameters - Version dependency - Kernel Module Programming - Lab exercises The proc file system - Creating proc file system entries - Making read & write operations on proc entries - Lab exercises Character Device Drivers - Registering a character device driver - File operations - The file structure - devfs / lseek /ioctl - Blocking, non blocking and asynchronous operations

Fees: Rs. 1700.00

- Programming with ioctl( ), mmap() - Lab exercises

Day-2
Hardware and Interrupt Handling - Using IO Ports - Installing and implementing an interrupt handler - Tasklets and Bottom halves - Task queues, Work queues - Lab exercises Block Device Drivers - Block drivers structures - Flash memory Drivers - Lab exercises Network Drivers - The net_device structure in detail - Making changes in Ethernet drivers in kernel Source. - Lab exercises

Payment Mode: [Complete Payment should done be in advance]

1. Bank Deposit: Bank: State Bank of India, Name: AJAY GOSH REDDY ARE, A/C No. : 00000020024769162, Branch Code: 10508, Koramangala, Bangalore 2. Demand Draft: DD on Name of NGX Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore can be sent to NGX Address http://shop.ngxtechnologies.com/contact_us.php Once the payment is done send a mail with the transaction details to info@easyarm.com

Venue Details:
# 38, 1st Floor, 2 nd Main, Ashwini Layout, E.G.Pura, Oppt. Life Style Building, Koramangala, Bangalore- 560047

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