How Zephyr Simplified Pre-Silicon and Production Firmware Development

Open Source Summit North America 2026 and Embedded Linux Conference brought together the open source community in Minneapolis from May 18-20, 2026. As part of the Zephyr track, Dev Bhaveshbhai Joshi from Qualcomm Technologies presented “From Pre-Silicon to Production: Firmware Development on Zephyr.” The session explained how Qualcomm’s PMIC software team adopted Zephyr to streamline its pre-silicon and production firmware development workflow. Pre-silicon testing is important because final silicon often arrives late in the development process.