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Zephyr RTOS Programming (AC6401)

Turn Zephyr RTOS mastery into career momentum – Learn to architect modern embedded systems and accelerate your path to senior roles in IoT, firmware, and real-time application development.

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Who Is It For
This course is designed for embedded systems engineers or technicians, as well as developers transitioning from Embedded Linux, bare-metal, or traditional RTOS environments.
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What You’ll Learn
Develop, configure, and debug modern embedded applications with Zephyr RTOS. Through hands-on labs and real-world examples, learn west, devicetree, Kconfig, multithreading, drivers, and secure design to create scalable, reliable, and connected embedded systems.
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What It Prepares You For
Position yourself for in-demand embedded roles, from senior engineering to firmware architecture and leadership, with the expertise to tackle complex challenges and design secure, connected, high-performance systems for IoT, automotive, and industrial applications.
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Course Outline
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Image Introduction
- The Linux Foundation
- The Linux Foundation Training
- The Linux Foundation Certifications
- Laboratory Exercises, Solutions and Resources
- Labs
Image Ch 1. Course Introduction
- Introduction and Course Flow
Image Ch 2. Introduction to Zephyr
- Zephyr ecosystem
- Installation and use of Zephyr
Image Ch 3. Zephyr Build System
- Toolchains and Zephyr SDK
- Zephyr CMake functions
- Application structure
- Code structure
- Lab: Getting started with Zephyr and using west
Image Ch 4. Configure Zephyr
- Kconfig from an application perspective
- Config fragments
- Device tree syntax
- Device tree overlay
- Lab: Writing a device tree overlay
Image Ch 5. West
- Repository management
- West commands
- Lab: Writing a custom west manifest
Image Ch 6. Zephyr Fundamentals
- Common Subsystems: GPIO, I2C
- DeviceTree specification structures dt_spec
- Preprocessor meta-programming macros
- Data Structures
- Shell
- Lab: Using X-Macros in Zephyr and understanding CONTAINER_OF
Image Ch 7. Thread Management
- Thread Fundamentals
- Main and Idle Threads
- System Initialization
- Delays and timeout
- Lab: Creating and managing threads
- Lab: Creating periodic threads
Image Ch 8. Tracing and Logging
- Scheduling Traces
- Thread analyzer
- Logging
- Lab: Creating config overlay for visual trace diagnostics with Tracealyzer
Image Ch 9. Memory Management
- Memory Overview
- Iterable Sections
- Dynamic memory managers
- Stack Memory Analysis
- Stack Overflow detection
- Lab: Understanding dynamic memory allocation in Zephyr
- Lab: Displaying threads information and detecting stack overflow
Image Ch 10. User Mode
- Memory Domains
- Syscalls
Image Ch 11. Traditional Multithreading Primitives
- Mutual Exclusion
- Critical Sections and Spinlocks
- Semaphores
- Polling
- Lab: The producer-consumer problem, synchronizing and avoiding concurrent access problems
Image Ch 12. Inter-Thread Communication
- Message Queues (MSGQ) & Queues
- Mailboxes
- Zephyr Bus (Zbus)
- Lab: Creating a print gatekeeper thread using message queue
- Lab: Synchronous communication using mailboxes
Image Ch 13. Interrupt Management
- Interrupts in zephyr
- Handler thread
- Workqueue
- Lab: Understanding how to wait on multiple events and interrupt safe APIs
- Lab: Understanding how to pass data using Queues from an interrupt to a thread
- Lab: Creating and submitting work items from interrupts to custom WorkQueue
Image Ch 14. Modules
- Creating a new module
- Module Structure
- Lab: Creating a basic module
Image Ch 15. Writing Kconfig Symbols
- Kconfig syntax
- Kconfig extension
- Lab: Creating and configuring a module that uses custom Kconfig options
Image Ch 16. Device Driver Architecture
- Device driver model
- Define and allocate devices
- Matching drivers with device trees
- Device tree bindings
- Standard and common properties
- Interrupts and devices
- Lab: Creating a driver that respects the Zephyr Device Driver Model and define devices
- Lab: Creating a driver that uses custom device tree and Kconfig
Image Ch 17. Power Management
- System Power Management
- Device Power Management
- Power domains
- Lab: Writing a driver compatible with power management subsystem
Image Closing and Evaluation Survey
- Evaluation Survey
Prerequisites
This course is primarily intended for embedded systems engineers or technicians looking to dive deep into Zephyr RTOS. This course assumes you have good C programming skills and are familiar with multithreading concepts.
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$3500
Mar, 2 - 6, 2026
9:00 am - 4:00 pm US/Central
Virtual, Instructor-Led
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Image 5 days of Instructor-led class time
Image Hands-on Labs & Assignments
Image Resources & Course Manual
Image Certificate of Completion
Experience Level: Intermediate
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