Embedded Engineering

System Software For Devices

What’s caused the recent proliferation of pervasive computing solutions? Efficiencies in the miniaturization of processing power. This trend also escalated the demand for software intended to run on constrained devices – not a full-configuration personal computer.

Everest Consultants’ enviable track record and expertise span application development and optimization over a wide range of popular real-time operating systems and microkernels. We develop time-critical applications for real-time operating systems with limited resources. Everest develops device drivers, protocol stacks and complete board support packages for various hardware platforms with established real-time operating systems.

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Consumer electronic devices

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Automotive electronics

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Smart card/POS terminals

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Internet access devices

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Network routers and switches

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Global positioning devices

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Intelligent telemetry/control devices

We develop for a wide range of leading platforms and operating systems

Linux Drivers

Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS, SUSE and Yellow Dog
Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS, SUSE and Yellow Dog
Functional device drivers and hardware interfacing drivers — UAS, UASP, flash media, camera, storage devices, audio, video, smart card readers, printers, biometric, PCI, PCIe, USB, xHCI, EHCI, NIC
Porting device drivers across kernel versions

Windows© Drivers

Functional, Filter and Bus drivers — USB, flash media, camera, storage devices, audio, video, biometric, printers, photo printers, smart card readers, USB-UART, firewire, PCI, PCIe, USB, Ethernet and file system drivers
WDM and WDF (KMDF and UMDF) models — 32 bit and 64-bit architectures
Operating Systems — Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 Windows 8 and Windows 10

CODECS & DSP Algorithms

Digital Signal Processing (DSP) CODECs — X86 and MPPA (Massively Parallel Processor Arrays) architectures
Fixed-point and floating-point arithmetic
CODECs — Speech (AMR-NB, AMR-WB, and iLBC), Video (H.263 and H.264 AVC Intra), Transforms library (Wavelet transform, BPSK, 1K FFT (16-bit, 32-bit), 2D 1024×1024 FFT, Image Transpose, Image Correlation and Convolution, and Radix-4 FFT)

Firmware Development

Micro and media controllers — ARM, PowerPC, Rabbit, Freescale, MSP430, MIPS, Intel x86 and 8051
8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit microcontrollers — RISC and CISC architectures
Domains — home automation, bootloaders, wireless communication (ZigBee and RFID), agriculture, industrial, digital signal processors and hardware test scripts (POST)

Protocol Stacks

Operating Systems – Linux, Windows & all Real-Time Operating Systems
Wireless protocol stacks — ZigBee, RFID and GSM/GPRS Services
Communication protocol stacks — UASP, USB 3.0, USB 2.0, USB OTG, BOT, Custom USB – Biometric, TCP/IP, SNMP, I2C and RS-232

RTOS Development

End-to-end solutions — Nucleus, LynxOS, WinCE, QNX, eCos, OpenWRT, VxWorks, Palm OS, Embedded Linux, Windows Embedded Standard 7 and Windows Embedded Compact 7
Hardware architectures —ARM, X86, PowerPC and MIPS

System Programming

System applications — Middleware API, Abstraction Layers, GPL module separation interfaces from proprietary modules, RPM packages, NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA APIs, test tools, automated Windows installers and uninstallers, smart card applications
GUI applications — Windows CE devices, Windows XP embedded devices, Windows Embedded Standard 7 devices and Windows Embedded Compact 7 devices

Board Support Packages (BSP)

Operating Systems — Windows CE, Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, Redhat, and SUSE), eCos, OpenWRT, Windows Embedded Compact, Windows Embedded Standard, and LynxOS
Modules — boot loaders (U-Boot, Redboot, e-boot), device drivers and Hardware Abstraction Layers (HAL)
Micro controllers and processors — ARM, Samsung, AMD, Power PC, TI, 8051, Cirrus Logic and Freescale

Mobile Applications

Android kernel porting
Application development — Android, iOS and Metro applications, Windows CE

BIOS

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) — BIOS level before OS starts
Security applications — Preboot Authentication Security (PAS) for laptops and desktops

Verification and Validation

Embedded domains — device driver testing (Windows, Linux and RTOS), firmware testing, mobile applications testing, memory and performance testing, POST, wireless protocols and DSP algorithms
Simulators — hardware, storage devices (UAS, SD, MMC, Memory Stick, XD), biometric devices, PCI and PCIe controllers (xHCI), smart card controller, USB communication, audio and video devices, ZigBee and GPRS
Operating systems — MS-DOS, Windows PE, Microsoft Windows, Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, Redhat, SUSE) and RTOS (Windows CE, Nucleus, VxWorks, Palm OS, etc.)
Test tools – WHCK Testing, WHQL Testing, Windows Embedded CTK, UEFI Self Certification Test Tool, Windows App Certification Kit, open source tools (CrystalDiskMark and SPEW), functional testing and manual test scripts

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