Dear *|FNAME|*,

Welcome to the Embedded Bytes newsletter issue #152.

In this edition are three articles published in the past few weeks that I think you will like:

• Do You Know What Your Default Interrupt Service Routines (ISRs) Are Doing?

• Will AI Replace Embedded Software Developers?

• Will Zephyr Become the Dominate RTOS?

Webinar next week: Tracing & Profiling Your Zephyr RTOS Applications – LIVE Thursday, May 30, at 9am EDT.

A new episode of The Embedded Frontier podcast is live! In this episode, Jacob talks with Carsten Gregerson about the fight for true open-source RTOSes. Listen via your favorite podcast app or with subtitles on YouTube.

And then join us in June for the webinar Getting Started with Embedded Rust. The webinar runs live on Wednesday, June 19, at 11am EDT with the recording available to those who registered.

Happy coding,

Industry News and Cool Stuff

Do You Know What Your Default ISRs Are Doing? (Embedded.com)

Interrupts can dramatically improve system performance by limiting the number of wasted CPU cycles. Make it a priority to review your default interrupt handlers and make sure that they won’t lock your system in the rare and unlikely chance they execute on a production system. 

Will AI Replace Embedded Software Developers? (DesignNews.com)  

Does the promise that one day AI will be able to do everything for us mean that pretty much “all of us” will be out of a job? How realistic is it that your job will be replaced by AI? Should you be concerned that your embedded software development job will become obsolete? 

Will Zephyr Become the Dominate RTOS? (Embedded.com)

With many different RTOSes available, it seems unlikely that a single RTOS will become the gold standard. However, Zephyr adoption and development has been snowballing recently, which might make you wonder if Zephyr will become the dominant RTOS.

Tracing & Profiling Your Zephyr RTOS Applications (LinkedIn.com)

Tune in Thursday, May 30, at 9am EDT for a Zephyr Tech Talk live stream where Benjamin Cabé will be joined by Johan Kraft from Percepio® and Anas Nashif from Intel Corporation to dive into the topic of tracing and profiling in Zephyr RTOS.

The Embedded Frontier Podcast

In this episode of The Embedded Frontier, Carsten Gregerson shares his background in the embedded systems industry and how he got into it. He discusses his work at Nabto, a company that provides remote access to small devices using peer-to-peer technology.

Carsten then delves into the topic of real-time operating systems (RTOS) and the battle for open-source RTOS. He explains the difference between a real-time operating system and a high-end operating system and how the introduction of the internet into embedded devices has increased the need for RTOS.

He also discusses the consolidation happening in the industry with the acquisition of RTOS by big tech companies.

Jacob shares his thoughts on Zephyr, an open-source RTOS, and its place in the market. He also explores the challenges of adopting Zephyr for embedded developers and the potential future of embedded software development with the integration of interpreters and AI.

Listen via your favorite podcast app or with subtitles on YouTube.

June Webinar

Getting Started with Embedded Rust

Wednesday, June 19, at 11am EDT

The recording will be made available to those who register.

Will Rust be the long-awaited language that finally displaces C and ushers in a modern programming language?

Attendees at this webinar walk away understanding the advantages and disadvantages of using Rust in an embedded system. We’ll also demonstrate Rust techniques using the STM32U5 NUCLEO board.

Topics covered:

• How Rust fits into the industry in the big picture

• Containerizing the Rust environment

• The peripheral access crate (PAC)

• Creating your first blinky LED program

• Rust language fundamentals

Embedded Software Academy