How RidgeRun helps bring NVIDIA Jetson-based products to market faster with Yocto

The Yocto Project has become one of the leading frameworks for creating production-ready systems thanks to its highly customizable and maintainable design, layer-based modular architecture, and support for multiple hardware platforms. In addition, its strong ecosystem and open-source community provide valuable resources for troubleshooting issues, supporting common packages, and sharing insights.

The use of Yocto Project on NVIDIA Jetson has grown over the years, making it a preferred path for scaling quickly from prototype to production. The Yocto Project enables teams to generate reproducible OS images while maintaining full control over every component running on NVIDIA Jetson platforms, with the same image consistently reproduced by the entire engineering team and without depending on a single engineer with custom BSP knowledge.

Combined with access to experienced Yocto experts who can quickly adapt to your development cycle, the ability to maintain a centralized internal repository while easily pulling updated packages from the community, and the benefits of a free and open-source framework with no royalties or licensing fees, Yocto Project offers a powerful foundation for production-ready embedded systems.

RidgeRun, as a NVIDIA Jetson Preferred Partner, has helped dozens of customers explore, adopt, and integrate Yocto Project into their OS and BSP build pipelines for NVIDIA Jetson products. A typical process includes:

• Custom Yocto layer creation and machine definition

• BSP integration, including kernel, bootloader, and device tree

• Filesystem configuration and package integration

• Boot chain and full-system validation

• Integration of additional features such as OTA updates, Secure Boot, Full Disk Encryption, and CI/CD pipelines

By leveraging RidgeRun’s Yocto expertise, customers can accelerate time to market while developing their own custom BSPs and Yocto build pipelines for NVIDIA Jetson systems. Multiple customers in the different industries have engaged with RidgeRun in co-development efforts to build complete Yocto-based system architectures.

NVIDIA’s official Yocto Project support will help customers adopt Yocto Project in their OS build pipelines while increasing confidence in its potential and benefits. Customers will be able to rely on official NVIDIA documentation to better understand how Yocto Project works and how to bring it up more easily on NVIDIA Jetson-based products. This new release represents a major step forward in accelerating time-to-market strategies and reducing development time for OS and BSP work, empowering customers to focus on their unique value proposition.

Contact us to learn more about how NVIDIA’s official Yocto Project support can boost your project and speed up time to market: https://www.ridgerun.com/contact