Intermediate

This course is designed to provide an in-depth understanding of the Arm Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A) project and the underlying security architecture.

This course covers foundational concepts, environment setup, and hands-on skills for creating custom embedded Linux systems, and developing custom components like recipes and layers.

This course is for experienced programmers, covering the fundamentals of the Rust language, its ecosystem (Crates, Cargo), advanced topics like the Type System and Taming the Borrow Checker (ownership, lifetimes), and specialized applications such as Embedded Rust and Rust for Linux kernel development.

This course details the technical and social process of contributing code to the mainline Linux kernel, covering its organizational structure, the benefits of upstreaming, the culture and rules of mailing list communication, and the use of tools like b4 and clang-format for creating, formatting, and submitting high-quality patch series.

This course covers the foundational concepts, architecture, and components of the Open Portable Trusted Execution Environment (OP-TEE), including TEE principles, compliance with GlobalPlatform standards, shared memory, cryptography, compatibility with ARM Trusted Firmware, and practical guidance on building and porting the system.

U-Boot is the most widely used embedded bootloader, backed by a large community, and this module explains why: covering its core features, configuration options, and practical build and deployment on real hardware.