 So here the Linaro connect and who are you? I am Marcelo Zufo. I am a professor from Sao Paulo University, Brazil So what are you talking about here the Linaro connect? Well My topic is embedded computing So I do teaching on embedded computing. I do research and also I promote innovation my country on embedded computing So you are in Sao Paulo? Yeah, I'm down in Sao Paulo, Brazil the financial capital of Brazil a very active city with a very strong industry in electronics there and How many students did you work with? Well at the electronic systems department. We have 40 students per year is studying several degrees of embedded systems Particularly last year we have wonderful Workshops at Linaro about how to design drones from scratch using the 96 boards And I'm replicating these experiments at my classrooms in Brazil So and you also have a SMT PCB design lots of different things. Yeah One of our major projects is to design from scratch Drones with the 96 board platforms. It's a wonderful experience because we can Embed but virtually any software on this so it's very interesting embedding artificial intelligence Computer vision techniques on such drones and that is what we do for education We have drones. We are this moment looking how to swarm then The 96 boards are the ideal platforms to such kind of activity in parallel to that we have a SMT line there and we are successfully manufacturing some shield boards and some single board computers and This all this is on open source software Yeah, that is the beauty of Linaro is this wonderful community on open source and I do believe that is the future of the IOT industry and Your students and the people that you work with have a great skills in that kind of space Yeah in the open source. Some of these students are going to key Companies in market on the automotive sector in the aerospace sector to Brazil is quite strong On the aerospace. We have the third biggest aircraft company located there and there are a range of applications for IOT on agro mining and weather weather environment environment stuff. Yes, and So, so you what kind of drones you're working with? Well, our idea is to work with what we call intelligent drones or Autonomous drones drones that human doesn't touch and they do everything for you for this particular class of drones We need a lot of artificial intelligence and we need to do these artificial intelligence inside the drone what we we say Edge of the drone so that is why ideally the 96 boards are a Good platform for that because they basically are full computers with enough run and processors and storage to run complex artificial intelligence our inside it and Maybe there are some new boards that will come out with new processors with more more AI And so you're working on the AI algorithms and all that stuff. Yeah we had started with I mean we had played with virtually all 96 boards in our drone we have used before the high keys the bubble guns and the Snap trackers more recently we start to play with the ultra 96 boards That have a tremendous potential because they have a very strong Xynex FPGI FPGA inside it and that is quite relevant to optimize Neural networking artificial intelligence based algorithms in such kind of platform and You have experience with doing stuff for the FPGA also right some students have done some projects Oh, yeah, we support from the narrow. We are successfully also designing open GPUs So we have a project down there where using 96 boards. We are designing from scratch a GPU that is getting complex and complex Time-to-time and we hope on a near future Synthetizing the GPU on ASICs based on 96 board technology So a synthesizing Complex algorithms for FPGA to an ASIC. How is it some how complicated is that? Is that the high-end? The knowledge in the space also that's that is the beauty of Linaroo we have here in this conference a perfect integration Between hard and softer what we call the continuum between hard and softer. So we have engineers here designing state-of-art embedded computing But at the same time Engineers designing the whole software pipeline. So that's a continuous Continuum and this continuum is going further In terms of microelectronics when we start to play with FPGAs We are approaching the very low level Hardware in such platforms and that is also about Linaroo so in the several degrees of the technology stack microelectronics embedded systems and software We has a community on an open source fashion our approach in this in this conference and one of the things I heard from John Maddock Hall is a lot of talking about the optimization of the multi-core processors using performance getting most performance possible, right and you working a lot on that because if you have this amazing a 96 board high performance board you want to use all the performance there, right? Some something that very few people pay attention particular on arm technology is This low energy footprint Something that is intrinsic to the 96 boards they offer high-performance computing with a very low Power footprint That is a ideal for autonomous vehicles where energy constraints is a requisite So that is the case of drones. We successfully are using the 96 boards in drones Because we forget to talk about that. We have multi-cores. We have multi-treading In fact, we have parallel processing offering incredible high performance With low power footprints. Usually when we say low power Footprint is lower than two what that are quite relevant to enhance the autonomy of such autonomous flying vehicles But so then to take advantage of that you need to be able to to program the software is so perfectly and optimize and and do new new Re-optimization there all the time to get even more out of it with even less power Well, that is the linear community. I mean at this conference. We have experts on software optimization compiling security and connectivity So all these three elements general purpose high performance computing sensors and actuators Connectivity are the foundations of what we call modern IoT and all these Relevant aspects could be find out in such conference everywhere And what is a relationship you have with the John meddock hall? Well, John is a very long Activist on open source Has I am in my country? So John pushed me to this conference and it what is really cool on linear is this continue between Industry and the open source community. So the guys at this conference are fully based on open source but doing very deep Technology for the foundations of modern industry Nice, and he's right now. He's in Sao Paulo. Oh, yeah, that is a very interesting thing This this week is the engineering student week in Brazil So at our university we have around a thousand five hundred students attending and They invited John my dog to be the keynote this time So John unfortunately could not be Two places at the same time So it was really interesting because John is in Brazil Being a keynote in this conference in fact exactly this moment He's running a number of workshops in open source embedded computing and I'm here attending Nice and you are networking with the all the people around here some interesting Things that could happen. Oh, it's fantastic all the time. We can see the enhancement of the linear ecosystem So it's amazing The 96 board is an infinite source of innovation Every time that I came to this conference a bigger number of 96 boards show up a bigger number of Meson in boards are showing up and every day these boards are more interesting new processors with the amazing Capacity of processing we just See today the first arm service with more than 24 cores the social next technology An incredible amount of new meson in boards meson in boards with Laura sick Fox LTE Unincredible precise sensors and actuators. So that is linear. It's a continuous growing Cooperative community so did you have some conversations with a sheer attack or with the Scylings and everyone Marvell We always go there and we'll have more information to To have so sheer attack zionics arrow Marvell social next our key technology providers on the IOT workspace and It's very nice because all key engineers are here and you call you go How deeper do you wish in the technical discussions and you bring that home? And you'll be ready to deploy real solutions to society based in the formation that you get Do you think there's a potential that several of your students will Come work at linear companies or at the narrow? Well Linar is still not strong in the region where I live but in bed the computing industry it is So what we see is that the arm ecosystem is growing dramatically because the IOT revolution And I can see a value to my students because what they learn from the technical point of view in such conferences Could be immediately applicable on real industry and real industry means the agro industry The automotive industry the mining industry and the aerospace industry And hopefully all the politicians are gonna understand this and say the huge priority Let's do something big with robotics With drones all that in Brazil Well, that is that is interesting humanity now Robotics Mechanism thing has a major trend everywhere You walk here around Vancouver on toy shops, and you'll see Robot toys everywhere, and we're pretty sure that Leonardo technology are inside these devices