Called on Pentalog’s Embedded Technologies Development Team

The solution

Pentalog’s delivery center in Bucharest took on this challenging project in 2014. Our 7-member team, experienced in outsourced R&D projects, wrote drivers for a family of USB devices. The goal was to have drivers independent of kernel space and deploy them easily on various operating systems. The team also implemented multiple features on the device’s firmware.

To find the software solution, Pentalog’s engineers used hardware equipment (oscilloscope, measuring device, test bench).
For programming languages, they used C/C++, Python, C#, and many more.

Over the past 6 years, our team has collaborated with the client in several critical areas:

1. Software optimization for image processing on various architectures and platforms
2. Porting of client’s solutions on various operating systems
3. Design and development for a few operating systems
4. Hardware integration for a few sensors on different platforms
5. Porting in-house debuggers

QA automation
For the QA, we developed a faster and more efficient testing/feature validation process. In Python, we developed wrappers over the native code that allowed the QA team to create and run tests faster and more easily. QA automation helped with efficiency by creating a faster learning curve instead of the QA team having to learn C.

We helped set up a unified automated testing infrastructure for the devices by also having the wrappers integrated into the automated test framework and having them deployed in the continuous integration process.