Embedded Firmware Development

Firmware determines exactly how your product behaves, including in edge cases where robustness is most important. Embedded systems have limited memory, hard power budgets and hardware that behaves differently once sensors, radios, batteries and real users are involved. Poor firmware architecture tends to show up in familiar ways: battery life not meeting specification, wireless links drop for no obvious reason, or a device locks up once every few days. Those problems are usually cheaper to remove while the architecture is still flexible than after units are already in the field.

We develop firmware alongside the electronics because the two constantly affect each other. Sensor sampling rates, power domains and radio shutdown behaviour are much easier to get right when the firmware engineer understands exactly how the board works, ideally because the same team designed it. We work across many platforms, including Arduino, ESP32, STM32 and NRF52 platforms and more, along with the wireless protocols connected products tend to need. Across all of them, we keep the same standard: clean architecture, measured power use and code that another engineer can maintain without fear of breaking unrelated parts of the system.