Awesome-Embedded

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Awesome-Embedded
Tech blogs

Interview

Embedded Interview Questions
Interview Questions Archive by Company
Coding Interview University - A complete computer science study plan to become a software engineer.

Embedded Software Skill

Common

MCU programming

General

McuOnEclipse - Everything about Eclipse, microcontrollers, software and tools.

Bare-metal programming (Don’t need MCU)

Simplest bare metal program for ARM (table of content)
Bare metal programming guide - a detailed guide for beginners
Real-Time C++ - companion bare-metal code to Real-Time C++ book.
hypervisor - ARM64 Type-1 bare-metal hypervisor in no_std Rust, runs at EL2 on QEMU virt, boots Linux with FF-A v1.1 SPMC.

MSP430

MSP430-GCC
CS4101: Introduction to Embedded Systems - The course is designed around labs, using TI MSP430 LaunchPad and Arduino Uno to discuss concepts such as basic I/O, timing and clocking, interrupt handling, serial communication, embedded operating systems, synchronization, etc.
msp430-template - A template for MSP430 firmware.
MSP430 reference

TM4C123

EmbeddedSystems.Playground
Macros in TivaWare
Analog to Digital Conversion, Data Acquisition and Control
Embedded Systems - Shape The World
HowTo: Develop on the TI Tiva LaunchPad using Linux
Linux command line build system to generate binaries for TM4C123 (ARM Cortex M4)
The complete tutorial for Stellaris LaunchPad development with GNU/Linux (I)
Getting Started with the TI Stellaris LaunchPad on Linux
Embedded Systems with TM4C123 @Valvano
Create FreeRTOS Demo Project using the GCC Compiler
Serial bootloader on TM4C12x Microcontroller
Tivaware bootloader
Diagnosing Common Development Problems and Tips & Info for TM4C Devices
FreeRTOS-GCC-tm4c123glx - A port of FreeRTOS to the Texas Instruments Tiva TM4C123GLX Launchpad.
Stellaris_TM4C123G_GCC_Template - Texas Instruments template project for the TM4C123 series using GNU toolchain.
tm4c-gcc - TM4C123 GCC project template.
tivaapps - Example hello-world apps for Texas Instruments TI-RTOS for Tiva C using a Linux host
Drivers and examples - Drivers for internal peripherals and external modules for Tiva C, examples of FreeRTOS features under development/FreeRTOS

MSP432

Real-Time Bluetooth Networks - UTAustinX - Learn the design fundamentals of a real-time operating system (RTOS) and how to build a Bluetooth network in this hands-on project-based course.

STM32

STM32 bootloader
Tests to program STM32 Nucleo in C with GCC ARM embedded toolchain and libopencm3
A demo project of FreeRTOS running on a STM32F4 Discovery board.
DFU Bootloader for STM32 chips
Customizable Bootloader for STM32 microcontrollers.
Lightweight USB device Stack for STM32 microcontrollers
STM32 programming with Embedded GNU Compiler
A tiny portable 3D graphics lib for micro controllers (Oled display)
Getting started with the STM32F4-Discovery board using the EmBitz IDE
libopencm3 and FreeRTOS projects using the STM32F103C8T6 MCU
A template for building STM32F0 ARM projects with GCC
Open source flash program for STM32 using the ST serial bootloader
Standalone TCP/IP stack for STM32, bare metal or RTOS
stm32-hid-bootloader - Driverless USB HID bootloader and flashing tool for STM32F10X devices
stm32l1xx-template - A template for building firmware for the STM32L1xx.
STM32F103C8 Examples
stm32f103 - Bare metal programming on a generic STM32F103c8 board
stm32_samples
stm32f4de example code
stm32f4xx with Rust at the HAL - A series of tutorials for building STM32F4xx applications with Rust.
stm32-rf-scanner - STM32 and nRF24L01+ based 2.4GHz RF scanner
stm32-dc-dc - STM32 based DC-DC converter
rustlink - small set of Rust tools to program STM32 devices

STM32F7

STM8

stm8-bare-min - Tiny peripheral library for STM8S
stm8-bootloader - Serial bootloader for STM8S microcontrollers
stm8-multi-tasker - STM8-Multi-Tasker - Preemptive/Cooperative Round Robin Scheduler for STM8
Wolk STM8 stuff
STM8S001J3_tiny_board - A tiny dev board for STM8S001J3 MCU designed in KiCad.

ESP8266

Raspberry

Beaglebone

BeagleBone Black I2C References
Learning BeagleBone Python Programming
Simple implementation of an OS for the BeagleBoard C4 with ARMv7 A8 processor.
Various projects that utilize low level hardware instructions to interface with leds, speaker output and joystick input.
Windows Embedded Compact BSP for TI’s Beaglebone
BBB-BareMetal- Works on the beaglebone black (bare metal)
Running a Baremetal Beaglebone Black & Part 2
Bare Metal on the BeagleBone (Black and Green) & link1 + Link2
A tutorial on bare-metal [OS] development on the Texas Instruments BeagleBoard.
bare metal c project for beaglebone, ti sitara am335x
Bare Metal Applications on OSD335x using U-Boot
bbb-asm-demo - Extremely tiny baremetal application for BeagleBone Black
Beaglebone - Getting started with JTAG and CCS
BeagleBoardJTAG
beaglebone_samples
FreeRTOS for BeagleBone Black

Linux kernel and device driver development

Linux inside - A little bit about a linux kernel
Writing device drivers in Linux
YOLINUX Tutorials
Linux driver programming
Free training materials and conference presentations
eBook: Linux Drivers or Slides: Linux Drivers
c-periphery - A C library for peripheral I/O (GPIO, SPI, I2C, MMIO, Serial) in Linux.
OpenEmbedded,
Linux driver practices
Linux Kernel Exploitation - A bunch of links related to Linux kernel exploitation
Linux Kernel Module Cheat
Start linux kernel module development!
Minimal Linux Live - a tiny educational Linux distribution
low-level programming university #linux-kernel-and-device-driver
Yocto Project - Create custom Linux-based systems regardless of the hardware architecture.
Buildroot - Simple, efficient and easy-to-use tool to generate embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation.

Assembly

RTOS

List of open source real-time operating systems
ROS
FreeRTOS
FreeRTOS - Explanation
FreeRTOS API Reference Documentation
How to Write a Small RTOS
RTOS From Scratch
mini-arm-os & qemu with a stm32 or here - Build a minimal multi-tasking OS kernel for ARM Cortex-M series from scratch
Writing a simple operating system from scratch
Free real-time operating system (RTOS) designed for deeply embedded applications
MPSoC FreeRTOS Development
Atomthreads: Open Source RTOS
High performance motor control
MINIX3: Open source RTOS
30 Days make OS –> YOS @Yannik
Community: OSDEV.org, reddit/osdev
Real-time System Group
object-oriented C++ RTOS for microcontrollers
RT-Thread is an open source IoT operating system from China.
How to create an OS from scratch
Sample Source: TetrOS is a small feature rich Tetris clone which is written in Assembly.
Sample Source: RTOS for microcontrollers
Sample Source: A Powerful embedded RTOS for ARM Cortex M microcontrollers
Sample Source: An embedded operating system for ARM Cortex-M based microcontrollers
Sample Source: rnk is a RTOS targeting ARM architecture.
Sample Source: RTOS-From-Scratch
Sample Source: Embeded OS for PIC32MX270F256B
How I ended up writing a new real-time kernel
Sample Source: TNeo - a well-formed and carefully tested preemptive real-time kernel for 16- and 32-bits MCUs
yaos is an embedded operating system for Internet of Things(IoT) devices, specifically for a single-core processor without MMU virtualization.
RT-Thread for Raspberry Pi 2B
tock - A secure embedded operating system for Cortex-M based microcontrollers.
AliOS-Things - AliOS Things released by Alibaba is an open-source implementation of operating system (OS) for Internet of Things (IoT).
CoRTOS & CoRTOS Simple Cooperative RTOS - An open source minimalist RTOS.
µOS++ Reference
TNKernel - a compact and very fast real-time kernel for the embedded 32/16/8 bits microprocessors.
Femto OS - a very concise portable real time - preemptive operating system (RTOS) for embedded microcontrollers with minimal ram and flash, say 2KB .. 16KB flash and 128 .. 1024 bytes ram.
Real-Time Kernel ‘0’ - A lean, highly deterministic, low-latency real-time kernel for ARMv6/7M.

Automotive

Sample Source: Trampoline is a static RTOS for small embedded systems. & labs
Sample source: An integration an example AUTOSAR project which every part in AUTOSAR (OS, RTE, BSW, MCAL) are collected from different open source.
automotive software(OSEK & AUTOSAR) - Because I am not powerful so I decided to develop tiny but smart part of automotive software based on open source, and create a general AUTOSAR & Automotive Software study environment.
BlackFlag ECU - Automotive CAN bus security testing and analysis tool for ECU research, fuzzing, and reverse engineering of vehicle communication protocols.

OS

ucLinux: The Embedded Linux/Microcontroller project is a port of Linux to systems without a Memory Management Unit (MMU).
Tizen
Bootstrap yourself to write an OS from scratch. A book for self-learner.
Kernel 101 – Let’s write a Kernel
The little book about OS development
TetrOS - Tetris that fits into the boot sector.
Writing a Simple Operating System from Scratch
JamesM’s kernel development tutorials
Bare Bones - a simple kernel for 32-bit x86 and boot it.
Operating System Development Series
7 Steps to Writing a Simple Cooperative Scheduler
A simple OS kernel for research, teaching, and fun
Operating Systems C Term 2018

WindowCE

Compiler

ARM Compiler - armasm User Guide

Bootloader

Writing a boot loader in Assembly and C
Writing a Bootloader Part 3
A bootloader for ARM Cortex-M based microcontrollers
OpenBLT - an open source and portable bootloader for microcontrollers.
ARMv7M ELF loader
Writing a Bootloader Part 1
can-bootloader - The bootloader used to flash our CAN-connected boards
Bootloaders 101
Understand boot process: link1, link2, link3
Keywords: hello world bootloader, writing a bootloader from scratch, how to write a bootloader in assembly, …

Makefile

Peripheral

Memory Protection Unit

USB

tinyusb - An open source USB stack for a variety of Embedded Systems.

Others

A practical approach to Kalman filter and how to implement it
Embedded System programming: Diving into Syllabus for investigation.
ELC 2018 Presentations
ARM Edition: Sparky ARM Edition is a Sparky version created for a single board mini computer RaspberryPi.
The gem5 Simulator is a well-known sophisticated simulator used for computer system research at both architecture and micro-architecture levels. Main page is here.
LineageOS Android Distribution
The NoCAN platform
Realtime OS on Embedded Systems
These projects were produced in the five weeks of ECE 4760 each year.
Advanced fault backtrace library for ARM Cortex-M series MCU
mcu-starter-projects - Simple starter projects for bare-metal MCU development.
DirtyJTAG - JTAG adapter firmware for STM32F1
Generic_MCU_Software_Infrastructure - Provide necessary software infrastructure, service, macros to support some high level abstract concept or paradigm, such as OOPC, FSM, delegate (event-driven) and etc.
apollo - An open autonomous driving platform.
- A Development Environment for ARM TrustZone with GlobalPlatform Support
A C++ template library for embedded applications
Embedded rework of C++ STL - basic_string, basic_ostream etc. leaned way down. Cross platform (including AVR).
RAMEN 🍜 - flow-based programming implemented in a simple single-header unopinionated library.

Embedded GUI Development

Embedded Wizard - Sophisticated GUI for Your Embedded Platform
lvgl - Graphics library to create an embedded GUI with easy-to-use graphical elements, beautiful visual effects and low memory footprint. It offers anti-aliasing, opacity, and animations using only one frame buffer.

Machine Learning & AI on MCU

nnom - A higher-level Neural Network library for microcontrollers.
nn4mp
Embedded Learning Library (ELL) - Microsoft’s library to deploy intelligent machine-learned models onto resource constrained platforms and small single-board computers.
Qualcomm Neural Processing SDK for AI - Libraries to developers run NN models on Snapdragon mobile platforms taking advantage of the CPU, GPU and/or DSP.
CMSIS NN - A collection of efficient neural network kernels developed to maximize the performance and minimize the memory footprint of neural networks on Cortex-M processor cores.
ARM Compute Library - Set of optimized functions for image processing, computer vision, and machine learning.
uTensor - AI inference library based on mbed (an RTOS for ARM chipsets) and TensorFlow.
EmbededAI - A library that provides elements of AI to C++ applications.
kann - A lightweight C library for artificial neural networks.
m2cgen - A CLI tool which allows to transpile trained classic ML models into a native code of various programming languages with zero dependencies including C.
nn2 - Tiny zero-dependency neural network inference engine in pure C with hand-written SIMD kernels (AVX-512 / AVX2 / NEON). Runs the FaceX face recognition stack on Apple Silicon, ARM SBCs and ESP32-P4. Apache 2.0.
edge-agents (ForestHub) - Open-source (AGPL-3.0) 30 MB AI agent runtime for edge devices. Offline by default; GPIO/UART/MQTT as first-class nodes; local SLMs alongside cloud LLMs. Runs on Raspberry Pi 5, Jetson Orin Nano, STM32MP25, ctrlX CORE.

Utilities

Jumpstarter - Open source hardware-in-the-loop testing framework for automated testing on real and virtual embedded hardware with CI/CD integration.
lm4tools
mspdebug - Debugging tool for MSP430 MCUs
pycs - Python Based ARM CoreSight Debug and Trace Tools
NaiveSystems Analyze - Static Analysis Tool for Code Security and Compliance
Serial Studio - Visualize, analyze and stream over the internet data generated by your MCU project
Scrutiny Debugger - An open source debugging, visualization and testing tool for C/C++ embedded applications that works through instrumentation.
MemBrowse - Memory footprint tracking for ELF binaries with CLI and CI integration to monitor flash/RAM usage across commits.
aem-modbus-simulator - Open-source Python Modbus RTU/TCP slave simulator emulating an industrial DC voltage monitor (147 holding registers, 6 baudrates). Lets SCADA/PLC firmware engineers test Modbus integration in CI pipelines without physical hardware on the bench.
memprobe.dev - ELF firmware analysis as a web app, CLI, and GitHub Action. Break down flash and RAM usage by section, file, library, and symbol, compare builds, track project history and memory growth over time, and set CI size budgets.

Tips & tricks

Awesome Cheat Sheets

Awesome Cheat Sheets for Developer Utility, like Git, Vim , Tmux, SublimeText, Markdown, Shell.
Vim Config for Reading Linux Kernel Source Code
GNU GDB Debugger Command Cheat Sheet

Tech blogs

FAQ_Embedded

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