Services

Establish

BRING-UP

Platform bring-up and takeover

Bring up a custom board or take over an existing vendor Linux BSP. Exeter establishes the bootloader, kernel, device tree, root filesystem, peripherals, and Yocto build, then documents the working baseline.

Schematic and boot-configuration review
U-Boot, JTAG, and early-console debugging
Kernel, device tree, and root filesystem
Memory, storage, networking, and peripherals
Yocto layers and board configuration

BUILDS AND RELEASES

Reproducible builds and releases

Replace workstation-dependent builds with a controlled environment that produces versioned Linux, FPGA, and coprocessor firmware releases.

Containerized Yocto and cross-toolchain builds
Versioned Linux, FPGA, and firmware inputs
CI/CD connected to real hardware
Secure boot and signing-key integration
Signed artifacts, SBOMs, and release records

Integrate

HARDWARE INTEGRATION

FPGA and real-time integration

Connect Linux to FPGA logic, accelerators, and real-time processors through drivers, control APIs, DMA paths, firmware loading, and application-facing interfaces.

Memory-mapped registers, interrupts, and DMA
Linux device drivers and user-space APIs
OpenAMP, RPMsg, and remoteproc
SDK libraries, headers, examples, and documentation

Operate

UPDATES

Updates, rollback, and recovery

Deploy signed updates online or offline, with A/B installation, health checks, automatic rollback, provisioning, and tested recovery.

Signed and encrypted update packages
A/B installation and boot health checks
Coordinated Linux, FPGA, and firmware updates
Rollback, interrupted-update, and recovery testing

MAINTENANCE

Platform maintenance

Exeter maintains the build and release system, tracks vendor changes and CVEs, tests on hardware, and delivers scheduled releases.

Yocto, kernel, and vendor BSP updates
CVE monitoring, triage, and patch integration
CI/CD, signing, and release infrastructure
Scheduled hardware-tested releases