OSS + ELC EU 2026

This talk shares practical lessons learned from building multi-platform sensor firmware on Zephyr RTOS for industrial alignment tools. Zephyr enabled our team to deliver a high-quality solution despite an extremely tight project schedule. Early prototyping along with Zephyr’s native simulator (native_sim) enables firmware development and testing long before first PCBs are available. A modular architecture based on message queues and the Kconfig system allows for independent, testable components.
Finally, we dive into the hardware-facing challenges we encountered and solved: deterministic event handling under tight timing constraints and zero-CPU data acquisition using DMA-driven ADC pipelines.
Attendees will gain insights into structuring scalable Zephyr firmware, accelerating development without hardware, and building high-performance embedded systems with confidence.