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GOAL:
- Ramp-up in Linux device drivers domain to write drivers by the end of workshop. Learn practical device driver writing skill from our linux device drivers training institute
TARGET AUDIENCE:
- Engineers with exposure to Linux environment
DURATION:
- 4 days (Two weekends) + One month lab assistance
BENEFITS:
- Weekend option: Comfortably take time-off from your busy work schedule
- Skill building: Gain edge at your workplace by having faster career growth.
- Workshop model: High stress on hands-on approach for quick ramp-up
- Self learning kit: Continue learn at your own pace, even after the workshop.
- Expert trainers: Delivered by industry experienced expert trainers
- Lab support: For one month to ensure follow-up on assignments and projects.
WORK ON REAL-TIME PROJECTS:
- USB Mass Storage (MMC) driver
- USB to Serial converter
- Various Serial character drivers
- Complex matrix keypad driver using interrupts and synchronization
- USB Input drivers
ADMISSION PROCEDURE:
- Call us at +91 809 555 7333 (Mobile), +91 80 4128 9576 (Office) and enroll
- Simply send an email to training@emertxe.com
Course Features
- Course duration 4 days
- Daily Duration 8 hours (Class & labs)
- Assessments Projects
- Skill level Beginner
- Mode Classroom delivery (30%) Practical labs (70%)
- Support mode Online
Linux device drivers courses start with introduction to drivers ecosystem and takes further deeper topics consisting of character driver, block driver, USB driver and PCI driver. This workshop also covers various Kernel debugging techniques based on real-practical use cases. Hands-on approach, Expert mentors, Workshop based delivery followed by projects makes best institute for linux device drivers courses and workshops.
Key takeaways:
- To write character drivers, using serial and USB interfaces
- Learn how to access I/O and memory mapped devices
- Create interrupt handlers efficiently using differed execution methods
- Develop block device drivers and mount file system drivers using them
- Become proficient in USB device drivers.
- Learn PCI interfacing
- Kernel Debugging using KDB / KGDB
Topics covered:
- Day1: Introduction & Character device drivers
- Day2: Hardware access mechanisms, Interrupts, Time keeping, delays and deferred work
- Day3: Concurrency, USB drivers
- Day4: Block drivers, PCI drivers, Kernel debugging techniques
- Special Focus: Live hands-on with Character and USB “Device” Drivers
- One month lab assistance
Prerequisites:
- Good C & Programming Skills
- Basic Hands – On Linux Usage
- Good to have – Understanding of basic File related system calls
Platform Details:
- OS – Ubuntu Linux
- Hardware – Emertxe Linux Device Drivers learning kit SDK
- Kernel version – 3.x/4.x






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Schedule – Linux Device Drivers
Linux Device Drivers Weekend Workshop – For working professionals
COURSE NAME | START DATE | DURATION | REGISTRATION STATUS |
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Emertxe Certified Embedded Professional (Online) | 9th Nov - 2020 | 4.5 Months | Register Now |
Emertxe Certified Embedded Professional (Evening) | 19th Oct - 2020 | 4.5 Months | Register Now |
Virtual Online Internships | To be Announced | 6 Weeks | Register Now |
Other weekend workshops – For working professionals
COURSE NAME | START DATE | DURATION | REGISTRATION STATUS |
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Emertxe Certified Embedded Professional (Advanced) | To be Announced | 13 Weekends / 26 Days | Register Now |
Emertxe Certified Embedded Professional (Intermediate) | To be Announced | 11 Weekends / 22 Days | Register Now |
FullStack Embedded IoT (Internet of Things) Course | To be Announced | 11 Weekends / 22 Days | Register Now |
Embedded Android System Development | To be Announced | 4 days + 1 month lab assistance | Register Now |
Embedded Weekend Workshops – For Working Professionals
COURSE NAME | START DATE | DURATION | REGISTRATION STATUS |
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Yocto project – Building Embedded Linux | Contact Office | 3 days + 1 Month Lab Assistance | Register Now |
UI Programming with Qt-Quick and QML | Contact Office | 2 days + 1 Month Lab Assistance | Register Now |
Qt Application Development for Embedded systems | Contact Office | 2 days + 1 Month Lab Assistance | Register Now |
Linux Systems & Basic Shell Scripting | 29, 30 June – 2019 | 2 days + 2 Weeks Lab Assistance | Register Now |
Advanced C / Embedded C | 6, 7, 13, 14, 20 July – 2019 | 5 days + 1 Month Lab Assistance | Register Now |
Micro-Controllers | 21, 27, 28 July – 2019 & 3 Aug – 2019 | 4 days + 1 Month Lab Assistance | Register Now |
Data Structures | 4, 10, 11 Aug – 2019 | 3 days + 1 Month Lab Assistance | Register Now |
Linux Internals & Network Programming | 17, 18, 24, 25 Aug – 2019 | 4 days + 1 Month Lab Assistance | Register Now |
Embedded Linux on ARM (ELARM) | 31 Aug – 2019 & 1, 7, 8 Sept – 2019 | 4 days + 1 Month Lab Assistance | Register Now |
C++ | 14,15 Sept – 2019 | 2 days + 1 Month Lab Assistance | Register Now |
Qt Application Programming with C++ | 21, 22, 28, 29 Sept – 2019 | 4 days + 1 Month Lab Assistance | Register Now |
Linux device drivers | 1, 2, 8, 9 June – 2019 | 4 days + 1 Month Lab Assistance | Register Now |
Co-created with top notch companies
Emertxe training programs are co-created with companies who are building real-time solutions. Our tightly integrated model with companies ensure we teach what companies actually want. Have a look into what some of them have to say. Such backward integration approach makes us as best institute for Linux device drivers courses and workshops.
Emertxe student performance was Excellent
Our interview rounds were extremely rigorous. Emertxe students performance was excellent during all 3 rounds of F2F interviews. Though they have 6 months training background, interviewers mentioned that their performance was equivalent to 30 months experienced engineers. This immensely saved ramp up time of the team. Emertxe approach of focusing on the core knowledge along with the attitude-transformation is commendable. Looking forward for long term association with Emertxe.

Sai Madhav P
Director of Engineering, Aricent (An Altran Group)
Very Commendable Performance
Emertxe has helped us strengthen our team with talented new engineers. The recruits though fresh grads from have shown excellent confidence in handling our projects, very commendable performance especially since we work in niche space. Emertxe service and personal attention is extraordinary. We are expanding and Emertxe will surely be a part of our plans. Our thanks to the dedicated team at Emertxe and wish them all the best.

Ashwini Subbaiah
Manager, Human Resources, Chelsio
Very Good Knowledge in System Programming
We have been engaged with Emertxe for fresher’s hiring and corporate training since couple of years. I find the trainers in Emertxe are very qualified and committed. The students from this institute comes with very good knowledge in system programming. They excel in their assignments. They are hardworking , always eager to learn.

Keshav Karunakar
VP – Engineering, PathPartner Technologies
Have Good grasp over the subjects
Our company SHARP Software Development India Pvt Ltd. is a division of SHARP Corporation, Japan and a CMMI Level 5 organization. We are front-runners in the printer products and hence strongly rely on embedded programming. We had some fresher openings in Embedded Systems. Thus, during research we came across Emertxe institute and it proved to be very fruitful as we hired candidates from here. These candidates had a good grasp over the subject expertise they underwent during their course under Emertxe and are proving to be a valuable asset till date. We wish this institute to keep evolving and adapting to the future technological trend and be producing good candidates like always, every year. This immensely saved ramp up time of the team. Emertxe approach of focusing on the core knowledge along with the attitude-transformation is commendable. Looking forward for long term association with Emertxe.

Sagar Madalagi
HR - Sharp India
Knowledge to Skill Transformation by Emertxe
Skilled workforce is the desire of any company. Our system of education system has not aligned itself to cater to this requirement. The industry needs more players like Emertxe who not only understand technology, but also understand how to convert that knowledge quotient into skilled resources. Best wishes to team Emertxe.

Srinivas AN
Regional Head - South - ESSCI (Skill India)
Substantial Contributions by Emertxe Students
Thanks team Emertxe for providing us with good quality candidates to fill important positions at NXP over the last couple of years. The engineers who joined different teams ramped up quickly and are making substantial contributions in Dev, Test and Tools teams. This was possible only because of high quality training (with emphasis on fundamentals) that was imparted to engineers during their stint, while undergoing embedded systems course at Emertxe.

Anish Damodaran
Technical Manager, NXP Semiconductors






Course flow – Linux Device Drivers

Delivery Approach
- Workshop based fast-track delivery
- In-depth subject coverage by heavy hands-on and projects
- Best institute for Linux device drivers courses and workshops
09:30 AM – 11:00 AM Introduction
- Linux Driver Ecosystem
- The Kernel Source Organization
- Driver Development Environment
- Knowing the commands
11:15 AM – 1:00 PM Writing your first Driver
2:00 PM – 03:30 PM Character Drivers
03:45 PM – 05:30 PM File Operations
09:30 AM – 11:00 AM Hardware Access Mechanisms
- System Memory
- Device Memory
- I/O Ports
11:15 AM – 1:00 PMGetting familiar with “Emertxe’s LDD Kit”
2:00 PM – 03:30 PMInterrupts
03:45 PM – 05:30 PMTime keeping, Delays, and deferred work
09:30 AM – 11:00 AMConcurrency
- Concurrency and Its Management
- Semaphores and Mutexes
- Spinlocks
- Alternatives to Locking
- Other Synchronization mechanisms
- Illustration of these concepts using demo drivers
11:15 AM – 1:00 PMUSB Drivers
2:00 PM – 03:30 PMUSB Driver Registration
03:45 PM – 05:30 PMImplementation of USB driver
09:30 AM – 11:00 AMBlock Drivers
- Introduction
- Driver Registration
- Disk Drive Registration
- Block Device Operations & its related Kernel DS
11:15 AM – 1:00 PMRequest Queues & their Processing
2:00 PM – 03:30 PMPCI Driver
03:45 PM – 05:30 PMDebugging
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Writing your first Driver
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Character Drivers
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File Operations
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Projects to upskill yourself
For working professionals applied learning plays paramount of importance. In our workshops our mentors ensure participants are provided with a list of projects. These projects will ensure you will be able to build on what you have leant during the workshop and have something working. Such comprehensive approach makes us as the best institute for Linux device drivers courses and workshops for working professionals.
USB Mass Storage (MMC) Driver
Project brief |
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is one of the most versatile and popular interface that exists in any computing device today. The goal of this project is to get a hands-on experience in implementing a USB mass storage driver by understanding Linux block driver interface.
This involves understanding the USB mass storage specification and implementing a block driver for a USB storage device. Familiarity with Linux USB subsystem and Linux block driver interface is essential for this project. By the end of this project you would have gained real-time exposure in building driver for USB device and do successful data-transfer. |
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USB to Serial Converter
Project brief |
Implement a USB to Serial driver for Linux. This involves understanding the USB Communication Device Class (CDC) – Abstract Control Model (ACM) specification and implementing a character driver for USB to serial convertor device. Such converters can be used to communicate with legacy devices (ex: CNC machines) where USB interface may not be available.
Familiarity with Linux USB subsystem and Linux character driver interface are mandatory prerequisites to implement this project. By the end of this project you would have gained hands-on experience in developing character drivers and understanding RS232 protocol. |
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I2C EEPROM driver for BeagleBone Black
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The objective of this project is to implement an EEPROM driver for I2C EEPROM device on beaglebone black target board. User should be able to access the EEPROM as a character device using an application. Driver should use the Linux I2C subsystem to interact with the EEPROM device.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Linux character driver interface. Knowledge of I2C protocol will be good to have. |
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FAQ – Linux Device Drivers Course
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