Keynote: Towards an Industry-Standard EC

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Google is building an Zephyr-based EC as a unified, upstream-friendly Embedded Controller implementation, with about a million lines of existing EC code to port and an aim to ship first devices later this year. A proof of concept passed validation tests in five months, the full USB‑C stack needs roughly 0.5 MB flash and 64 KB RAM, test coverage sits at ~60% and rises, and an app mechanism lets OEM diagnostics run without upstreaming.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:27What is an EC
3. 1:58How an EC works
4. 5:00Our approach to Zephyr
5. 7:33Why Zephyr

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