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Testing firmware tooling without hardware
A device-management client needs a device. We publish SMP servers that run as host processes, so a test suite can launch one over a real transport.
Tags: Firmware and embedded software · Manufacturing and test
Zephyr's kernel APIs on ESP-IDF
Boreas puts k_timer, k_work, k_sem and a Zephyr-style device model on FreeRTOS, for ESP-IDF projects. What it gives you, and where it still diverges.
WSL2 for Firmware Development
Setting up WSL2 to build, debug and flash embedded firmware, including the USB passthrough that makes a hardware debugger work from Linux.
Comparing Firmware Development Environments
Developer experience and toolchain speed across Windows 11, WSL2, Ubuntu 24.04 and VMware Workstation 17, benchmarked with a Zephyr build.