Services

Over the past four years, Embedded Alley has assembled open source software, industry experience and our own technology so our customers can quickly build stable, high-performing products. While we have particular skill and experience in power management, multimedia and open embedded solutions, the depth of our engineering team's expertise runs the gambit of embedded software requirements:

Power Management
The Embedded Alley power management solution provides OEMs with the necessary technology, documentation and training to build products with "best in class" battery life. Leveraging the latest power saving techniques and Open Source software technology with optimizations and enhancements, Embedded Alley delivers an architecture that balances aggressive power saving with performance, tuned to real-world use cases.

Design and Development Services
Embedded Alley has assembled open source software, industry experience and its own technology to enable OEMs to quickly build stable, high-performing products. The depth of the engineering team's expertise runs the gambit of embedded software requirements:

Hardware Bring-up and Board Support Packages

• Devices ranging from small 8-bit microcontrollers and dedicated SoCs up to multi-blade, multi-core 32/64bit systems
• Architectures: Power Architecture, ARM, Intel Architectures and AMD x86, MIPS, 8-bit (ATMega, MC51), 32bit [SuperH (SH), Xtensa, Sparc]
• Storage devices and file systems from small block devices (like flash) to SCSI and high-throughput storage interfaces

Drivers

• Network drivers ranging from Ethernet and CAN through complex converged networking, as well as wireless base station and client networks
• Bus drivers: PCI, USB, low level buses (CAN, I2C, SPI, RS482)
• Multimedia drivers: audio, video, codecs, hardware acceleration, displays, TV, cameras, codecs

Multimedia building on open source technologies, integrated with hardware acceleration. 3D/OpenGL; Audio/Video hardware offload; Linux ALSA; Video4Linux; STB Cryptographic Processing; HD Video (up/down convert); Trick Play Management; Input/Output; HDMI; S/PDIF; Analog Conversion; Satellite Tuning/Transport; Cable/NTSC/ATSC

Software Updates: Changes and updates captured and documented in tight integration with your source control throughout the product lifecycle

Turnkey product development: Top-to-bottom product development developed from market requirements

Technology development for customer-specific technology not available from open source or a third party

Application development in Unix, Linux, C++, Java, Eclipse, Scripting, X Windows

Firmware development: No-OS environment, straight code-to-hardware. Firmware for telecom (hardware-optimized implementation of network protocols, e.g., IPSec), industrial (control of sensors and motors, information gathering), medicine (sensors and motors). Hardware architectures: 8-bit, custom (optimized) 32bit processors

Operating system bring-up and porting: Experts in Linux with strong knowledge of VxWorks, Windows CE, QNX, RTEMS, and experience with LynxOS, BSD, L4, Solaris, pSOS, custom OSes

Bootloaders: Experts in u-boot with strong knowledge of redboot, yamon, Windows CE and VxWorks bootloaders, and experience with custom bootloaders and many hardware-specific configurations

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