Working with embedded hardware from anywhere in the world

By Stephan Glinz of ADIT
Time: 12:30 Room: S6

Abstract

A developer at Advanced Driver Information Technology Corporation usually works with multiple embedded platforms. The constant change of the targets can consume a lot of hours till days and causes a cable tangle on the desk. Furthermore, the developer must build and flash the correct software. Therefore, and triggered by the Corona Pandemic and the short-term of home office, the Remote Target Access (RTA) project was started.
RTA is a development framework that enables remote control of the embedded development platforms such as reset, power on and off and switching system states, e.g. enter flash mode. It also supports Audio Input/Output forwarding, USB over IP and remote touch input with commonly used technologies like SSH, USB/IP, Arduino, GStreamer and Virtual Network Computing (VNC).
In this presentation, Stephan Glinz will present the concepts and the main requirement "Working with this system should feel like having the target on the table" of this project, as well as the hardware construction and the configuration to enables power cycles and switching hardware system states remotely. Stephan will also present the booking system for the remote systems, which enables developers to share common development resources.

Biography

Stephan Glinz is an embedded software engineer at Advanced Driver Information Technology GmbH, where he evolves a remote development system for embedded systems. Stephan graduated from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover in 2022 with a Master's degree in Applied Computer Science with a specialization in IT security, computer graphics and complex software systems. Outside of work, he enjoys BBQ's with friends and play handball in a sports club.