As a machine or device manufacturer, you probably have some sleepless nights because of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). What do you have to do so that you can sell your products after 11 December 2027 and don't
Overview of my posts and talks about risk assessment of the essential product requirements of the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
Many embedded Linux systems use a Wayland compositor like Weston for window management. Qt applications act as Wayland clients. Weston composes the windows of the Qt applications into a single window and displays it on a screen. I still have
Once we have removed an item from a BitBake variable, we cannot re-append it. The evaluation of the following three assignments of the variable BB_VAR yields the same result, no matter in which order the assignments are executed. # Code
When we look closer at the support period, we'll find more and more interesting questions. * Does the support period start, when the end user buys a product or when a product is released, manufactured or sold for the
According to Annex I Part II of the EU CRA, manufacturers must actively search for vulnerabilities in their embedded devices, fix them and publicly disclose them to their users and the cybersecurity authorities. Manufacturers must implement a process to release
When developing the operator terminals for their machines, OEMs must reinvent the wheel over and again. Each OEM implements home-grown solutions for standard features like OTA updates, user authentication, factory installation, machine gateways and IoT gateways. None of these features
Every manufacturer must implement the essential requirements in Annex 1 Part 1 of the EU CRA in their products. They must also document how they comply with the essential requirements in a conformity assessment. The wording of the essential requirements
Which devices are covered by the EU Cyber Resilience Act (EU CRA)? * An X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyser connected with the Internet over WiFi. * A metal-sheet bending machine with an Ethernet port, which will only be used in the future. * The
Unlike consumer devices, machines, ECUs or medical devices are in the field for 15 or more years. There inevitably comes the time in their life, when you must update their boot loader. I'll show you how to do
How hard can it be to write a Yocto recipe for building a Qt application with CMake? Actually, it turns out to be pretty hard. I have seen my fair share of slow-and-dirty workarounds (nothing is ever quick with Yocto,
The ports-and-adapters architecture should be the standard architecture for HMI applications. Its parts are loosely coupled, cohesive, easy to test and easy to extend. We can apply the reverse Conway manoeuvre to create self-dependent teams with minimal dependencies on other