FoundriesFactory: A Cloud Platform Specially Designed for IoT
How FoundriesFactory can help IoT and Edge Linux-based device management & more
FoundriesFactory is an open-source cloud platform designed to both simplify and reduce the cost of developing, deploying, managing and maintaining your secure IoT and Edge Linux-based devices. It accelerates your product firmware, OS and applications development; shortens your time to market; and provides you with the ability to monitor and update IoT and Edge devices and fleets, keeping them secure over their product lifetime.
The benefits of FoundriesFactory
- Accelerated time to market
- Substantial reduction in IoT & Edge product development, management and maintenance costs
- Increased IoT & Edge device and fleet security and interoperability
- Secure, flexible software platform to build a wide range of products, services and applications
- Unlimited secure OTA updates to devices & fleets
- Simple per-project subscription with no per unit costs
Key Features
Software Development
- Tailor the firmware, kernel, operating system and user space for your own hardware and application
- Your own private source code for different builds, using Git management
- Optional full support for Docker containers to simplify the development and orchestration of services and applications
- Secure connection examples for public and private clouds
- Comprehensive Cloud Build System with user defined tags for target builds; locally replicate builds if needed
- CI Builds on every change; test on local or remote devices using OTA updates without re-flashing
- Promote to releases when development is completed
Device and Fleet Deployment & Management
- Provision secure devices with individual keys during or post manufacture
- Option for NXP EdgeLock 2GO secure device provisioning to simplify device security management
- Optionally leverage OP-TEE, TPM and external Hardware Security Modules for secure protocols and trusted applications
- Firmware, OS, User Space and Container updates use OSTree and Aktualizr-lite for incremental TUF-compliant minimum payloads
- Update remote devices and fleets using the Factory CLI or REST API, or use third party device management platforms
- Orchestrate and manage your IoT and Edge device/fleet software platform, applications and services
- Optional secure access to remote devices using WireGuard VPN
Maintenance and Update for Product Lifetimes
- Secure configuration management for devices/fleets
- Use our continuous Factory lifetime CVE patches and updates
- Maintain your IP to keep your product software updated for lifetime (up to 20+ years)
- Deploy updates as needed based on your use case, validation, compliance and market requirements
- Or, use your Factory to manage traditional LTS maintenance on your shipping kernel
Latest FoundriesFactory Releases
94 (v. 2646)
17-07-2024
Highlights
- LMP release based on the OE/Yocto 4.0.19 Kirkstone release
- Bitbake updated to the 2.0.19 release
- Linux-lmp updated to the v6.1.90...
93 (v. 2545)
29-02-2024
Highlights
- NEW: Composectl now used in favor of skopeo for managing compose apps
- LMP release based on the OE/Yocto 4.0.16 Kirkstone release ...
92 (v. 2488)
07-01-2024
Highlights
- NEW: Support for encrypted rootfs images with on-line re-encryption using TPM 2.0 or PKCS#11
- NEW: Common configuration fragment for...
91 (v. 2306)
12-07-2023
Highlights
- NEW: FoundriesFactory now supports fast first build target from pre-built images
- NEW: Initial support for TI AM62XX HS-FS EVM
- NEW:...
90 (v. 2189)
05-05-2023
Highlights
- NEW: Initial support for NXP i.MX 93 Evaluation Kit (imx93-11x11-lpddr4x-evk)
- NEW: Initial support for NXP i.MX 8ULP Evaluation Kit...
89 (v. 1938)
13-12-2022
Highlights
- NEW: Support for TF-A Trusted Boot on STM32MP15 devices
- NEW: Support for SE05X Plug-And-Trust demonstration applications
- NEW: Support...
Software Stack
The FoundriesFactory service combines many open source projects to provide a complete software platform for your product. Your own Factory enables you to easily customize each of these to your own product requirements, and to add your own proprietary IP
Linux kernel
Yocto
Docker Containers
U-Boot
UEFI
OP-TEE
User space
WireGuard
Connect to the Cloud
Hardware Support
We support any hardware that can run the Linux operating system
To get started you can use a growing range of standard development boards for Arm, Intel and RISC-V SoCs. FoundriesFactory is designed to give you maximum flexibility to configure to your own hardware, add your own IP, and meet your customer needs
Arduino Portenta X8
Arm64
Intel x86-64 products with UEFI
NVIDIA Jetson Xavier AGX
NXP iMX6ULL-EVK
NXP iMX8M-MINILPD4 EVK
NXP iMX8M-PLUS-LPD4 EVK
ST STM32MP157
TI Sitara AM62 SKEVM
TI Sitara AM64 SKEVM
Xilinx Kria