Justin Schneck, co-founder and chief product officer of Peridio, explained that embedded developers’ either have to choose a packaged Linux distribution which can work immediately but which is difficult to scale and secure in volume production, or build their own security-hardened, scalable one to implement with the Yocto Project.
It is designed to help developers manage the “dramatically compressed” development and release timescales imposed by edge AI applications to release new models in production designs on demand to incorporate the latest cybersecurity protection.
The OS features immutable and deterministic runtines, fault tolerance, modular updates, simplified secure boot implementation, full disk encryption, boot modes for manufactruing, recovery and test and live NFS-mounted extensions to reflect code changes instantly on target hardware without rebuilds or flashing cycles.
At Microelectronics UK, the company showed an edge AI application built on the Avocado OS, running on a Qualcomm Dragonwing QCM6490 chipset. It showed the same application compiled to the Avocado OS running on an Nvidia Jetson Orin AI processor module and demonstrated how it can be used to migrate Linux-based applications from one hardware target to another.
The Avocado OS is also ready for use in production-grade hardware such as the Advantech ICAM-540, an AI camera based on the Nvidia Jetson Orin module, added the company.
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