Embedded Systems

Ircona has extensive experience in Embedded System Design, IOT, Security, and BSPs on a wide range of platforms, technologies and protocols. Our experience ranges across the software stack from the embedded firmware, to drivers, libraries and user applications. Ircona leverage our expertise in Firmware, High Reliability Computing and Security to deliver a fully integrated and customized solution.
We have unique skills in Software Optimization of applications on Intel architectures using Intel toolsets and we can make your software faster.
Below is a cross section of the expertise we have delivered to our customers. If you have requirements with embedded software contact us.

Firmware and Board Support Packages

coreboot porting and optimisation for fast and secure boot
FSP Integration with BIOS, coreboot, RTOS, bootloaders
BLDK Intel Boot Loader Development Kit customization and distribution.
IOT, Security, Embedded AI
Board Support Package (BSP), Root file system, and device driver development
Driver and BSP development for Intel Quark and Edison boards
Linux drivers, kernel, and bootloader development
Standard and custom first and second stage bootloaders: GRUB, U-Boot, SysLinux
Dual boot, Multi-boot for multiple payload and OS selection
Customised boot paths, boot devices, secure boot, chain of trust

Networking and Data Comms, nework drivers and libraries, security

Flow Control, Buffer and Queue Mgmt
TCP/IP drivers, libraries, XAUI, GbE, SGMII
Cryptography, QOS, Security, Schedulers
OpenStack, Software-defined networking (SDN), Open vSwitch, DPDK
Packet processing, network protocols, and network acceleration solutions.

Operating Systems

RTOS: VxWorks, VelOSity, Integrity, VRTX, ThreadX, FreeRTOS, RTEMS
Embedded Linux: Yocto, Open Embedded, MontaVista, Android, Wind River
Other Linux distros including Ubuntu, CentOS, Gaisler
QNX, Unix, Solaris, Windows Embedded, FreeBSD, ARM Mbed

Products, Platforms, Protocols

Intel and AMD x86, Atom, PowerQUICC, 68k, ARM Cortex, MIPS, Sparc, LEON
Computing, networking, data and voice communications, video processing.
IP, TCP, UDP, SIP, SCTP, SSH/SSL, USB, C / C++
Graphics libraries: OpenGL, Video4Linux, DirectFB, Qt, OpenCV