Mastering Zephyr RTOS with DeviceTree and Board Bring Up

Zephyer workspace and toolchain setup
10 Lessons
- Why Zephyr?
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- Zephyr RTOS setup [Windows]
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- Zephyr RTOS setup [Ubuntu]
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- Zephyr RTOS setup [MacOS]
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- Setting up Python virtual environment
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- Installing West
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- Clone Zephyr using West and install Python build tools
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- Installing Zephyr Python requirements via pip
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- Installing the Zephyr SDK
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- Course repository
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Build and run your first Zephyr application
2 Lessons
- Building and testing the Zephyr Hello World application on QEMU
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- Running the Zephyr Blinky application on real hardware.
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Zephyr application structure and configuration basics
6 Lessons
- Application development in Zephyr: introduction
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- Creating an application in Zephyr
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- Understanding the important files in a Zephyr application
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- Understanding the important files in a Zephyr application (continued)
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- prj.conf file and configuration items: menuconfig and .config explained
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- Application specific Kconfig file
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Zephyr application 001 LED Blinky on a custom board
3 Lessons
- Zephyr application 001: LED Blinky on a custom board
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- Creating a new application
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- What is DeviceTree and why it matters
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Writing DeviceTree from scratch for a custom board
14 Lessons
- Key DeviceTree files and types
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- Writing DeviceTree from scratch for your board
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- Creating a minimal DTS file layout
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- Updating DTS file includes
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- Understanding DeviceTree nodes
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- Understanding DeviceTree properties: 'reg' property and its significance
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- Using the 'compatible' property
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- How to select compatible strings and DT binding document
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- Compatible strings in a driver
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- About root level 'compatible' property
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- 'phandle' property in DeviceTree
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- 'phandles' property in DeviceTree
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- 'phandle-array' type
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- Understanding specifier space of the 'phandle-array' type
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Zephyr Blinky on a custom board: board porting and bring up
12 Lessons
- Understanding LED blinking in Zephyr (App to driver layer)
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- Adding an LED node to the DTS file
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- Zephyr board directory setup: Part 1
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- Zephyr board directory setup: Part 2 (board Kconfig)
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- Zephyr board directory setup: Part 3 (board defconfig)
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- Build flow of zephyr application
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- Building and configuring the Zephyr application
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- Fixing DTS related issues
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- Manual Flash and SRAM configuration
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- Flash and RAM address setup: best practices
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- Flashing and testing the Blinky application on the custom board
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- About 'choosen' node
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Zephyr application 001: writing the Blinky application for a custom Board
6 Lessons
- Using DT Macros
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- How Zephyr turns DeviceTree nodes into device instances
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- Zephyr GPIO APIs and macros to control GPIO pins
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- Configure stdout logs to UART console and test
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- Add a custom property to a standard DeviceTree node
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- Application overlays
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Zephyr application 002: Interrupt driven LED burst with workqueue
12 Lessons
- Introduction
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- Basic setup
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- Configuring button and interrupt
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- Adding button node in DT
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- Button ISR implementation
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- Message queues and queues
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- Creating threads in zephyr
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- Thread handler implementation
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- About Workqueues
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- Using workqueues
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- Workqueue handler
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- Summary and build
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Zephyr application 003: Tilt based brick breaker game with AI assisted coding
27 Lessons
- Introduction
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- Game development plan explanation
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- Basic project setup
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- About AI assisted coding
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- Claude Code installation and basic setup
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- Adding Claude Code to VS code
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- About slash commands and project initialization
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- Creating specification document spec.md
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- Reading Schematic and user manual to extract key information using AI
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- Updating project features , gameplan and requirements in spec.md
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- Updating spec.md with device orientation details
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- Summary so far
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- Adding Kconfig items related to LCD orientation
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- Verifying LCD orientation Kconfig items in menuconfig
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- Display bringup plan with checkpoints
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- Implementing chekpoint 1 : DT nodes and smoke test for display
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- Understanding &spi1 device tree node
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- Understanding MIPI DBI controller and Display DT nodes
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- Display testing with smoke test code
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- Fixing colour issue
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- Display testing with different orientation
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- Implementing and testing game startup/splash screen
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- Implementing and testing game play screen
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- About slow display rendering
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- Generating plan to increase display rendering speed
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- Configuring PLL and RCC through Device Tree nodes to boost the system clock
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- Next : Implementing Game end screen and full game sequence
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Mastering Zephyr RTOS with DeviceTree and Board Bring Up

Complete workflow: toolchain setup, DeviceTree from scratch, custom board porting, and real world applications on STM32

Course Curriculum

Zephyer workspace and toolchain setup

Build and run your first Zephyr application

Zephyr application structure and configuration basics

Zephyr application 001 LED Blinky on a custom board

Writing DeviceTree from scratch for a custom board

Zephyr Blinky on a custom board: board porting and bring up

Zephyr application 001: writing the Blinky application for a custom Board

Zephyr application 002: Interrupt driven LED burst with workqueue

Zephyr application 003: Tilt based brick breaker game with AI assisted coding

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