How I fell in love with Zephyr - A system architects tale / Zephyr Meetup Karlsruhe - May 23, 2024

Tobias has been involved with system and software architectures for medical devices for more than ten years.

In this time he has seen and and suffered through a lot of woes and problems, stemming from decades-old development procedures and ineffective communications within product development teams. In his talk I want to explain what profound impact technologies such as Kconfig or Devicetree can have on the collaboration of hardware and software developers. Being a big fan of model based systems engineering Tobias wants to provide numerous examples inspired by some of my real-world projects to show how system models can inform downstream engineering activities. In particular the Devicetree becomes an extremely powerful tool that once mastered can change the way you develop embedded systems for good.

The talk concludes with some ideas about what the future might hold and what still needs to be done for the Zephyr project to succeed in the medical device and similar industries.