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Sakoman Incorporated provides consulting and design services for embedded systems.

Services offered include:

Board bringup and debug
Embedded Linux board support package development
Device drivers
Kernel modifications
U-boot ports and customization
Root file systems
Power management
Boot time optimization
Yocto and OpenEmbedded support
Development environment setup
PCB design and layout

Yocto Participant Badge

The Yocto Project™ is an open source collaboration project that provides templates, tools and methods to help you create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products regardless of the hardware architecture. It was founded in 2010 as a collaboration among many hardware manufacturers, open-source operating systems vendors, and electronics companies to bring some order to the chaos of embedded Linux development.

Sakoman Incorporated has been a Yocto Project Advisory Board Gold member since the project's inception in 2010. We have been using the technologies underlying the Yocto project (bitbake and the recipes provided by the OpenEmbedded project) since 2006.

Visit the Yocto Project web site to learn more.

There are times when cost or power constraints won't allow a Linux based solution. In these cases the MSP430 and Stellaris M4 processor families from Texas Instruments can be an ideal solution.

TI provides excellent low cost Launchpad development boards for both processor families.

Sakoman Incorporated can help with your Launchpad based development efforts:

Board bringup and debug
Device drivers
Application development
Standard function booster boards for rapid prototyping
Design of custom booster boards
Integration of Launchpad + booster boards into custom PCB design

Where is all the old content?

After more than 3 years of service the server for this site got a bit long in the tooth. With the start of 2013 we moved to a brand new dedicated server.

The most popular content from the old site will be moved over during the coming weeks, in the mean time you can access the old site at: http://www2.sakoman.com

Retro computing on a Stellaris Launchpad

Texas Instruments recently introduced a new member of the Launchpad development board family based on the Stellaris LM4F120H5QR Microcontroller. This 2" x 2.6" board is attractively priced at $12.99 from the TI eStore.

With a 32 bit ARM M4F 80 Mhz processor, 256 KB of flash, and 32 KB of SRAM this board is significantly more powerful than the earlier MSP430 based Launchpad.

After installing TI's Code Composer Studio development environment and building the standard "blinky" test app I felt the need to go a bit beyond flashing an LED. Inspired by the current popularity of "retro" computing, I decided to see if code from the earliest days of microcomputers might find a comfortable home on the Stellaris Launchpad: Tiny BASIC.