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On October 6, 2025, Ginzinger once again hosted its internal technology demo event, “Weißwurst und Technik” (White Sausage and Technology). The aim of the event was to generate broad interest in current technologies within the company.
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Technology demo for employees
On October 6, 2025, Ginzinger electronic systems once again hosted its “Weißwurst und Technik” event. The aim of this event is to generate broad interest in the latest technologies within the company and to promote lively discussion between departments. In this way, we ensure technological progress for our customers by driving forward new trends and processes in production and development.
Featured topics
Once again, there was a colorful mix of topics, including the following presentations:
- Technology roadmap Latest news from GELin
- Image processing in test equipment using the example of a test keyboard
- Experience report: Open source home automation with Home Assistant
- News from GELin
Afterwards, we invited everyone to enjoy a relaxed get-together with white sausage and drinks. We are already looking forward to the next round!
From technology development
Ginzinger technology
The presentation focused on the technological priorities for the coming months. Ginzinger's goal is to offer technology, product development, and production from a single source, thereby further expanding its expertise, problem-solving capabilities, and long-term support. The roadmap covers several areas:
- New i.MX93 platform with stamp module and devboard, ready for use in new customer products in 2026.
- Implementation of security and compliance measures such as SBOM creation, CVE checks, and automated security monitoring.
- Switch to Mainline Linux kernel for various processor families to extend long-term support.
- Expansion of the Ginzinger Platform Test Framework (PTF) and CI/CD automation to further optimize development and testing processes.
From software development
Image processing in test equipment
In his presentation “Image processing in test equipment construction,” Stefan Hager introduced a system for automated quality control of a test keyboard. The goal was 100% testing in real time to ensure that all keys were complete, correctly placed, and correctly aligned.
The original machine learning approach proved to be error-prone, which is why Stefan tested alternative image comparison methods such as SSIM and feature extraction.
His conclusion: The feature extraction approach is promising, but requires more image material to reliably distinguish between correct and faulty installations.
software development
GELin Roadmap
The major GELin release covers the i.MX28, i.MX53, i.MX6, i.MX6UL, i.MX8M, and i586 platforms and brings significant innovations such as the
- Buildroot branch 2025.02 (LTS 1 year),
- Qt 5.15 with the latest community fixes, the
- switch to the mainline kernel for i.MX8M, and
- a new Rust template.
The next release, GELin 25.11, provides bug fixes and improvements, including optimized graphics card selection, display tearing fixes, and support for the Y10 pixel format for cameras.
Future focus areas include the integration of Qt6, Y2038 compliance, Cyber Resilience Act-compliant security mechanisms (including SBOM and security monitoring), and support for new i.MX91 and i.MX93 processors.
From the Customer Service Department
Experience report: Open source home automation with Home Assistant
Andreas' presentation focused on his experiences with the open source smart home system Home Assistant. Andy showed us how he used it to automate his house—from heating and lighting to the PV system and energy monitoring. He highlighted the advantages in terms of stability, setup, selection of integrations, and local, cloud-free operation. Technically, his system is based on an Intel NUC with Home Assistant OS and numerous interfaces (e.g., MQTT, Zigbee, Shelly).
