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The Zephyr Podcast

The Zephyr Podcast

Benjamin Cabé & Fabio Baltieri 52 Episodes Oct 9, 2026

A weekly podcast all about the Zephyr real-time operating system, covering community news and technical discussions from the project's ecosystem. Hosts Benjamin Cabé and Fabio Baltieri talk with developers and contributors about embedded development with Zephyr RTOS. Episodes mix project updates, interviews, and deep dives into technical topics. It is aimed at embedded engineers and anyone following the open-source Zephyr community.

Episodes

Live from Prague
Live from Prague Oct 9, 2026 46:02 The first Zephyr Maintainers Forum The Zephyr Community Awards winners Zephyr Network Buffers, Johan Hedberg Fake Drivers: A Practical Guide To Zephyr Test Doubles, Henrik Brix Andersen Where Zephyr Fits in Space Computer Architecture and From TTEthernet To TSN on Zephyr, Yasushi Shoji Network Subsystem Status and Overview, Jukka Rissanen USB Development and Testing on Native Simulator, Johan
Fifteen Million Amps
Fifteen Million Amps Oct 2, 2026 42:45 Three picks from the ZDS schedule: USB Development and Testing on Native Simulator, Network Subsystem Status and Overview and From Zero Hardware To Production: High-Performance Sensors With Zephyr TI and Infineon upgrade to Platinum membership Git 2.56 adds git history drop CMSIS-Zephyr, examples for the Arm CMSIS Debugger and Keil Studio with Zephyr Price increases for the 2GB Raspberry Pi
Long-Term Support, Short-Term Freeze
Long-Term Support, Short-Term Freeze Sep 25, 2026 42:40 Canonical's Zephyr 26.04 LTS, with up to 15 years of security maintenance The Zephyr docs assistant, also available as an MCP server for your editor Raspberry Pi locks boards to their factory RAM capacity mpipe gains player utilities and base plugins A native_sim video source A semihosted flash driver, backed by a file on the host A LIN driver API FIDO2 over BLE DMA2D direct rendering on all app
The Off-Highway Kite
The Off-Highway Kite Sep 18, 2026 37:43 Three more picks from the ZDS schedule: A Generic RF PHY Driver API for Proprietary Protocols, Where Zephyr Fits in Space Computer Architecture, and Playing Audio on a SoC DAC Output An RFC for an Automotive & Off-Highway Working Group, comments welcome USBTMC, the USB test and measurement class native_sim on macOS Qualcomm Hexagon, the DSP in your Snapdragon, is now an architecture Zephyr sup
Caught Sleeping at Work(queue)
Caught Sleeping at Work(queue) Sep 11, 2026 34:12 Three picks from the ZDS schedule: Ten Years of Zephyr: Replace Linux, or Work With It?, Zephyr Network Buffers, and the Linus Torvalds keynote Analog Devices to acquire Alif Semiconductor A Plantower PMSA003I driver, for PM1.0, PM2.5 and PM10 over I2C QEMU support for the Espressif DevKitC boards SMP freeze/thaw in coredump, capturing every CPU's registers at panic Modbus RX on a dedicated w
An RTOS for Ages Two and Up
An RTOS for Ages Two and Up Sep 4, 2026 41:32 The Dato DUO and the Teenage Engineering catalogue: lovely open-firmware noise machines that do not run Zephyr ...yet! Using the pytest harness in Twister to coordinate a device under test with its jig Seven new Silver members, and roughly 500 unique contributors to the tree last month Arduino Core for Zephyr reaches 1.0, running on Zephyr 4.4.1 The Zephyr Maintainers Forum agenda is out SPI n
150,000 Commits Later
150,000 Commits Later Aug 28, 2026 40:22 Pre-orders open for the Arduino VENTUNO Q, and what $300 actually buys you 150,000 commits in main, and 1,455 PRs merged in August against 700 a year ago Create your own debug adapter with custom hardware and almost no code A VirtIO block disk driver, with a VirtIO GPIO driver close behind An I2C target register-set library, with a fake TMP103 to go with it west spdx --init is no longer necessar
UBSan, ASan, and the Other San
UBSan, ASan, and the Other San Aug 21, 2026 53:13 We're back from the summer break, with three weeks of PRs to catch up on Listener follow-up: the Microchip XC32 compiler is now free Nominations still open for the Zephyr Community Awards The 2026 RTOS Performance Report: more RTOSes, more targets, Zephyr most improved PINE64 pauses Linux board production until RAM prices drop Linux staging now rejects LLM-generated patches Rust's AI policy: nob
From BIOS to BioZ
From BIOS to BioZ Jul 31, 2026 51:40 A 150 MB Copilot CLI binary accidentally committed to the FreeBSD ports repo Microchip acquires Hailo and its edge AI vision accelerators Arduino Core on Zephyr hits 0.90.0 and officially leaves beta Keychron kicks off an open source initiative with a Zephyr-based open source gaming mouse firmware on the way Developer Survey 2026 results Nominations are open for the Zephyr Community Awards 
Two Hundred Pull Requests Later
Two Hundred Pull Requests Later Jul 24, 2026 48:04 A refreshed Zephyr merge list with clearer status indicators, filtering, mobile support, and built-in guidance A redesigned documentation page for the list of Zephyr services, grouping Zephyr's many capabilities into visual categories The hwsim virtual Wi-Fi driver for testing access points, scanning, authentication, and connectivity on native_sim Multi-toolchain Twister builds, including GCC and
Make Love, Not (Trade) War
Make Love, Not (Trade) War Jul 17, 2026 33:13 Linus on AI tooling for kernel development, sparked by the Patchwork/Sashiko discussion A new timeout management benchmark Doxygen top-level group cleanup and a new CI check to keep stray groups out dependency-mode devicetree property key for reversed initialization dependencies TLA2528 combined ADC and GPIO expander driver ADIS16470 ruggedized IMU driver (a 400 € component!) LLEXT support for O
Github vs. Raspberry Pi in a Closet
Github vs. Raspberry Pi in a Closet Jul 10, 2026 40:48 Device filesystem for /dev-style access and Linux portability CDAC THEJAS32 RISC-V support Proposed fan subsystem Twister preferred_toolchain support for better LLVM coverage (among other things) Initial DWC2 USB host controller support Pouch, portable data across devices, gateways, and transports A trigger.py workaround for delayed GitHub Actions schedules Microchip SmartFusion2 FPGA + SoC su

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