Embedded Systems Programming

lwIP is a light-weight implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite that was originally written by Adam Dunkels of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science but now is being actively developed by a team of developers distributed world-wide headed by Leon Woestenberg. Since its release, lwIP very...

Tachyon is a multiprocessor ray tracing system which can be used as a standalone program, or as a library within other programs. The project is written in C, uses POSIX Threads and/or MPI for using multiple processors, and can also run on uniprocessor machines. It supports almost any Unix-like...

FreeWRT project is a meta GNU/Linux distribution for embedded systems. In this context "meta" means, you can build the complete distribution from source. FreeWRT is meant to be an appliance development kit (ADK) especially designed for embedded system developers and advanced users. The FreeWRT...


Platforms: *nix

FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images). It can be used in graphics libraries, display servers, font conversion tools, text image generation tools, and many other...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, C/C++, BSD Solaris

wview is a collection of unix daemons which interface with a supported weather station to retrieve archive records (if generated by the station) and current conditions. The stations currently supported are: * Davis Vantage Pro/Pro2/Vue (Serial, USB and IP) * Vaisala WXT510/WXT520 * Texas...


Platforms: Mac, *nix, C/C++, BSD

TinyGL is a small, free and fast Subset of OpenGL for embedded systems or games. It is a software only implementation. Only the main OpenGL calls are implemented. All the calls I considered not important are simply *not implemented. The main strength of TinyGL is that it is fast and simple...


Platforms: *nix

Protothreads are extremely lightweight stackless threads designed for severely memory constrained systems, such as small embedded systems or wireless sensor network nodes. Protothreads provide linear code execution for event-driven systems implemented in C. Protothreads project can be used with...


Platforms: *nix

StrongBox is a next generation Linux-based operating system, incorporating tight version control, digital signatures, high security and built-in change management. StrongBox represents a shift in the Linux paradigm. Moving away from monolithic systems where everything runs together, StrongBox...


Platforms: *nix

Happytime Onvif Client is a Network Video Client (NVC) to manage Network Video Transmitters (NVT) devices. Full support ONVIF specification, compatible with ONVIF Profile S and ONVIF Profile G, implements Device discovery, Device management, Media management, Image setting, PTZ management,...


Platforms: Windows, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server

Secret Rabbit Code (aka libsamplerate) is a Sample Rate Converter for audio. One example of where such a thing would be useful is converting audio from the CD sample rate of 44.1kHz to the 48kHz sample rate used by DAT players. SRC is capable of arbitrary and time varying conversions ; from...


Platforms: *nix

MinML provides a small XML parser. MinML is an XML parser written in Java which implements nearly all of the XML language (it ignores DTDs). It was developed for use in small embedded systems and has a code footprint of less than 10Kb. It is designed to minimise the amount of heap space...


Platforms: *nix

ROCK is a Distribution Build Kit. You can configure your personal build of ROCK and easily build your own distribution (see the screenshots). Rock Linux is software for managing operating environments. In a way it is a software development toolkit for building OS solutions. The available config...


Platforms: *nix

polyBSD is a "multi"-purpose (hence "poly") framework for building embedded systems based on NetBSD. Of the three major *BSD flavors, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are often in the spotlight. FreeBSD is touted for its stability, while OpenBSD usually claims the title of the most secure operatin system...


Platforms: *nix

Iguana is designed as a base for the provision of operating system (OS) services for embedded systems. Among others, it provides the underlying OS for Wombat, our version of paravirtualised Linux designed to provide legacy support for embedded systems. Iguana runs on top of the L4 microkernel,...


Platforms: *nix

RTEMS (Real-Time Executive for Multiprocessor Systems) is a commercial grade real-time operating system designed for deeply embedded systems. The project is a free (as in beer and speech) open-source solution that supports multi-processor systems. RTEMS is designed to support applications with...


Platforms: *nix

KernelKit is a Knoppix GNU/Linux derivative targetting the development of Linux kernel and drivers, as well as Free Sofware embedded systems. It is currently being used in our Embedded Linux Training sessions. Differences with standard Knoppix GNU/Linux: - Removed applications not related to...


Platforms: *nix

OOWeb is a lightweight, embedded HTTP server for Java applications that maps objects to URL directories, methods to pages and form/querystring arguments as method parameters. This allows for unparalleled ease in creating, deploying and testing web applications and most importantly, its fun to...


Platforms: *nix

Mbedthis AppWeb is the leading web server technology for embedding in devices and applications. It is an open source, feature rich, embedded web server that has been designed from the ground up with security in mind. It is integrated directly into embedded systems and applications for simple...


Platforms: *nix

nss-myhostname is a GNU libc NSS module that statically translates the local host name to the IP address 127.0.0.2 (which is on the loopback device) and vice versa. This is useful to make sure that the local host name is always resolvable. Some programs (such as sudo) require this...


Platforms: *nix

XSD/e is a XML Processing for Embedded Systems. CodeSynthesis XSD/e is an open-source XML parser generator for mobile and embedded systems. It provides event-driven, stream-oriented XML parsing, XML Schema validation, and C++ data binding while maintaining a small footprint and portability....


Platforms: *nix