About LABCSMART

LABCSMART is a French embedded Linux consultancy specializing in Linux kernel engineering, BSP development, and professional training. Founded by a Linux kernel contributor and published author with over 11 years of industrial experience, LABCSMART brings the kind of depth that only comes from years of upstream kernel work, real-world driver bring-up, and delivering training to engineering teams across Europe.

Clients choose LABCSMART for one reason: access to specialized expertise that is difficult to find elsewhere — engineers who have written the drivers, contributed the patches, and can train your team to do the same.

Our Expertise

LABCSMART covers the full embedded Linux stack, from bare silicon to production BSP, with active upstream Linux kernel contributions across multiple subsystems.

Training Programs

LABCSMART delivers professional embedded Linux and RTOS training to engineering teams across Europe. Every course combines solid theoretical foundations with extensive hands-on lab sessions on real hardware — not slide decks, but working code on actual boards. Current clients include teams in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Germany from sectors including automotive, industrial, defense, and medical.

• Embedded Linux Principles and Practices — full system bring-up from bootloader to user space
• Linux Kernel and Device Driver Development — character devices, platform drivers, I2C/SPI, DMA, PCie, V4L2, ALSA SoC, interrupt management
• Yocto Project Mastery — layer architecture, custom recipes, SDK generation, BSP development
• Linux Power Management — system sleep, runtime PM, CPUFreq, CPUIdle, GENPD
• Zephyr RTOS — threading, scheduling, BLE, device tree, bootloaders (MCUboot)
• Bare Metal / STM32 — peripheral drivers, libopencm3, custom bootloaders
• OTA Updates with RAUC — A/B strategies, bundle signing, Yocto integration

Custom on-demand sessions are available for teams with specific technology stacks or project requirements. Contact us to discuss your needs.

Published Works

LABCSMART’s expertise is documented in two technical books published by Packt Publishing, totaling over 1,300 pages. These are reference works used by embedded engineers worldwide and reflect the same depth brought to every client engagement.

Trusted by Industry Leaders

LABCSMART has delivered engineering services and training to companies including Renesas, Faurecia/Forvia, Continental, EDF, Baylibre, Valeo, Elektrobit, Leica Geosystems, Carestream Dental, Qorvo, and Faiveley — across automotive, industrial, IoT, and defense sectors.

Open Source Contributions

LABCSMART is an active upstream Linux kernel contributor. Recent accepted and in-review contributions include PCIe host controller drivers for RZ/G3S and RZ/G3E, audio support for RZ/G3E in the rcar_sound/ASoC subsystem, thermal drivers (RZ/G3E TSU), Ethernet improvements in the GBETH/stmmac driver, DMA controller fixes in rz-dmac and ICU, and clock framework migrations in the rzv2h-cpg driver.