Welcome to Welma Tech Tour!

Deep dive into Welma Yocto Linux technical capabilities.

Welma is a preconfigured Yocto layer designed to accelerate and secure the development of custom embedded Linux systems. It acts as a technical abstraction layer that simplifies the deployment of complex applications, while preserving the flexibility and power of Yocto.

What is Welma?

In practical terms, Welma is a ready-to-use Yocto setup that lets you generate a fully customized Linux image for your embedded product, integrating all the components relevant to your business.

Yocto is known for its robustness, but its configuration is demanding and requires deep expertise. Welma accelerates your project by providing:

an optimized, proven, and maintained technical foundation,
hardware agnosticism to avoid vendor lock-in and enable multi-sourcing
built-in cybersecurity compliance mechanisms
simplified integration of your drivers, middleware, and application stacks,

It a nutshell, it lets you focus on what matters most: your product business value!

Why choose a preconfigured Yocto like Welma?

Delegate the technical foundation: Focus on your core expertise. Welma handles the integration and configuration of your embedded system.
Built-in cybersecurity: Secureboot, secure storage, secure update, and other critical security features are available out of the box, enabling fast compliance with cybersecurity regulations.
Proven industrial platform: Used by dozens of device manufacturers and thoroughly tested, Welma is a reliable industrial base for embedded Linux systems.
Evolving maintenance and support: Quarterly updates aligned with Yocto LTS releases, backed by support from the development team.

Welma’s role in your system architecture

In classic embedded architecture, the most strategic layer is your business application. It defines your product’s value, differentiation, and expertise.

Just below sits the Linux operating system, often built with Yocto. This layer includes essential components: application frameworks (Python, Qt…), update mechanisms, drivers, kernel, cybersecurity features, etc.

However, configuring this layer requires precision and expertise to meet the specific needs of your hardware and business logic. This is where Welma comes in.

Welma manages the full configuration of your Yocto-based distribution, allowing you to:

integrate your drivers,
tailor the kernel to your board or SoC,
embed your business-specific application stacks,
all while relying on a standardized, maintained, and secure technical base.

Welma acts as an industrialization framework for your embedded system, offering both the flexibility of a custom setup and the reliability of a proven solution.

Your system needs more than vendors’ Yocto layers

If you rely solely on the Yocto layers provided by your hardware vendor, you’ll get a basic starting point. However, it will lack the critical mechanisms needed to ensure security, maintainability, and long-term quality for your embedded system.

How we guarantee industrial-grade quality

Continuous investment in a robust automated test system
Development methodology based on peer-reviews
Continuous integration embedded in our development workflow
Quarterly maintenance aligned with Yocto LTS
Customer support handled by the dev team with tight feedback loops

How does this Tech Tour work?

This Tech Tour guides you step by step through Welma key features. Each section, accessible via the left-hand menu, lets you explore the technical building blocks of our solution and understand how Welma supports you in building a robust, maintainable, and derivable core Linux platform.