Cyber Resilience Act: The Hidden Engineering Work for Compliance
A vulnerability is reported in a library your product uses. The firmware shipped three years ago, the original developer has…
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Zephyr Logging Subsystem: Best Practices for Better Performance
When an embedded application misbehaves, one of the first tools developers use is breakpoints. Unfortunately, breakpoints are one of the…
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Embedded Build Process: 5 Signs It's Holding You Back
A new developer joins the team. They clone the repository, install the toolchain, and try to build the firmware. It…
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From AI-Assisted to Agentic Zephyr Development: Build, Flash, Fix
Whether we like it or not, AI-assisted development is here, and it’s only going to become more common. That brings…
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Why RTOS Functional Safety Certification Matters Even If You Don’t Need It
When you evaluate an RTOS, you probably start with its memory footprint, scheduling behavior, and APIs. You want to know…
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Book Review: Practical Debugging for Embedded ARM Systems
Debugging embedded systems is one of the most expensive activities in software development, yet it rarely appears as an explicit…
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Your Embedded CI Pipeline Runs Linux. Can Your Desktop?
Your build runs in a Linux container. Every commit triggers the CI pipeline. The compiler version is pinned, the environment…
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Tuning Zephyr Kconfig with AI: Stop Guessing at Build Options
One of the most powerful features of Zephyr RTOS is also one of the easiest to get wrong: Kconfig. Kconfig…
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The 2026 RTOS Benchmark Study Is Now Available
Most teams choose their real-time operating system (RTOS) the same way. Someone used FreeRTOS on the last project. It worked;…
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How to Add an RTOS to a Bare-Metal Embedded Application in 45 Minutes
Learning how to add an RTOS to bare-metal firmware is often treated as the point at which a project must…
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How to Write a Zephyr Devicetree with AI
Writing a Zephyr Devicetree with AI is appealing for one reason: doing it by hand is slow and easy to…
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Embedded Toolchain TCO: The Hidden Cost of Free Compilers
Ask a procurement manager or a software lead why they use open-source toolchains, and you’ll likely hear the same shrug:…
