What are Safety & Security in Embedded Systems?

Cybersecurity and functional safety work together for connected products and industrial IoT. Anchored in the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and standards like IEC 62443, IEC 61508, and ISO 26262 (plus ETSI EN 303 645 and NIS2), the goal is to prevent hazards, withstand attacks, and keep devices dependable throughout their lifetime—from concept and development to updates in the field.

Modern platforms provide strong building blocks out of the box: secure boot chains (TF-A/U-Boot, HAB/AHAB, SBSFU/TF-M), isolation with TrustZone-M and OP-TEE, and Linux hardening features (SELinux/AppArmor, dm-verity/IMA, namespaces, seccomp). On the safety side, practices like MISRA/CERT coding, static analysis, FMEA/FTA, watchdogs, and CRC/ECC reduce faults without slowing development.

Our ac6 training courses help you master this ecosystem—covering risk and threat analysis, SBOM/VEX and vulnerability handling, key management and secure update/rollback, Linux/MCU hardening and TrustZone partitioning, and the safety lifecycle with evidence (plans, traceability, safety case). The outcome: products that are both secure and safe, ready for real-world assessments.

These courses are designed for developers with a basic understanding of programming concepts and are suitable for a wide range of applications, including the development of real-time systems, firmware, and drivers.

The C, C++ languages, and OpenCL for embedded systems category includes courses on language fundamentals, advanced programming techniques, and the use of these technologies in specific embedded systems applications.

Why design with FPGAs & VHDL?

FPGAs are reconfigurable chips for custom digital hardware; VHDL is the language that describes that hardware at the register-transfer level. Together they deliver high performance and low latency for control, vision, networking, and signal processing—without the cost and lead time of an ASIC.

Modern ecosystems accelerate development: AMD/Xilinx Vivado/Vitis (with IP Integrator and Zynq UltraScale+™ MPSoC) and Intel Quartus Prime (with Platform Designer/Qsys and Nios II/V). Standard interconnects (AXI, Avalon), DDR/LPDDR controllers, DMA and AXI4-Stream pipelines, high-speed PCIe/Ethernet MACs, plus simulation (Vivado Simulator/ModelSim/Questa) and on-chip debug (ILA/SignalTap). Constraints and static timing (XDC/SDC) keep designs timing-clean and CDC-safe.

Our ac6 FPGA & VHDL courses help you master the ecosystem—writing clear VHDL (and optionally Verilog/SystemVerilog), building testbenches, synthesizing and place-and-routing designs, applying timing constraints, and assembling systems with IP blocks, AXI/Avalon, and external memory. We also cover embedded processors (MicroBlaze, Nios, Zynq MPSoC), DMA data paths, and practical debug—so your designs are robust, debuggable, and production-ready.

An embedded real-time operating system (RTOS) is a software platform that is specifically designed to support the development of real-time applications. These systems are used in a wide range of applications, including aircraft control systems, military systems, industrial control systems, and medical devices.

The courses cover a range of topics related to embedded RTOS, including RTOS fundamentals, RTOS architecture and design, and RTOS development using specific platforms such as FreeRTOS, AzureRTOS ThreadX and ZephyrOS. These courses are designed to provide professionals with the skills and knowledge they need to develop and maintain real-time systems that are reliable, efficient, and scalable.

Moreover as creating systems that work in real-time pose specific challenges ac6 provides also courses to explain you all the specific techniques and tools to use in this context.

With ac6 training, you’ll learn Embedded Linux for industrial and IoT devices—from boot to user space. We walk you through the full path: U-Boot/TF-A → Linux kernel → device tree → root filesystem, cross-compiling for Arm, RISC-V, and x86, and bringing new boards to life quickly and repeatably.

Our lineup matches real project needs: Embedded Linux, Embedded Linux using Yocto, Yocto Project Development, Yocto Project Expert, Comprehensive Yocto Usage, Linux User-Mode Programming, and Linux Drivers. Together, these tracks take you from application basics to BSP creation, driver work, and production workflows.

Hands-on labs cover kernel configuration, device-tree editing, driver scaffolding, systemd and BusyBox, debugging with gdb/strace/perf/ftrace, networking, security (SELinux/AppArmor, dm-verity), real-time options (PREEMPT_RT), and OTA updates with SWUpdate. We also work with vendor BSPs like OpenSTLinux for STM32MP. You finish with reproducible builds, clean logs, and a deployment-ready checklist.