Zephyr: A Game Changer for the Automotive Industry
Talkat Open Source Summit Japan + AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit + Automotive Linux Summit 2025 · 2025-12-08..12-10·
summary
Zephyr is a tiny real‑time OS used on automotive MCUs and SOCs with 8KB flash/5KB RAM footprints, a roadmap to ISO26262/FuSa, and production features like POSIX, Bluetooth and a native TCP/IP stack. Upstream supports 260+ sensors, synchronous SPI at ~5 Mbps and I2C, plus BSD‑sockets and CAN‑FD bindings. Honda integrates Zephyr as an MCU domain alongside an Android V4H guest VM on a Type‑1 hypervisor in an SDV reference platform; a CAN‑FD simulator feeds real‑time vehicle signals and the demo runs end‑to‑end.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:46Zephyr RTOS overview
- 7:07Hardware flexibility
- 10:23Security for automotive
- 12:50GUI and IP stack
- 17:10Virtual machine support
- 19:04ISO 26262 certification
- 22:39Open source integration
- 26:17AGL and SDV reform
- 27:01SOC and MCU support
- 31:21SDV reference platform demo
- 35:30MCU demo and conclusion
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