Rob Oshana on software licensing
From Embedded World 2024 Interview: Rob Oshana of Analog Devices · · Embedded
“The licensing is also very permissive so that means that there's no restrictions that you have to contribute anything you innovate around it back you can leverage it and deploy without necessarily having to do that so the permissive licensing is another big benefit of leveraging that specific technology.”
On , Rob Oshana, Senior VP of Software & Digital Platforms Group at Analog Devices, spoke about software licensing during Embedded World 2024 Interview: Rob Oshana of Analog Devices on Embedded.
About Rob Oshana
Rob Oshana, senior vice president of the software and security group at Analog Devices (ADI), discussed the company's approach to reducing software complexity in a September 2024 interview at Embedded World. He stated that ADI provides hardware abstraction layers to enable interoperability among its hundreds or thousands of analog and digital parts, as well as with other vendors' components. Oshana said ADI uses the open-source Zephyr environment as that abstraction layer, citing its permissive licensing and support for multiple vendors as benefits. He also noted that ADI integrates into Linux and uses a common device model for its low-level drivers to promote reuse and scalability. Oshana described ADI's strategy of "single die, multimarket," which he said involves creating fewer devices and using software to address different markets. He said the company is "shifting left" its software enablement to influence hardware design earlier in the process, resulting in more software being available with first silicon. Oshana added that ADI is increasingly engaging with open-source communities such as Zephyr and Linux to drive support for its products in a more interoperable manner.