Embedder
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The Enterprise AI Platform For Embedded Software

Solve the firmware work that slows releases: board bring-up, hardware debugging, HIL testing, platform migrations, and performance optimization.

Embedder is an AI platform for firmware that solves board bring-up, hardware debugging, HIL testing, platform migrations, and performance optimization.

Rapid Prototyping

Working firmware in days, not weeks

Embedder reads your datasheet and schematic, drafts a cited implementation plan, writes part-specific drivers, and validates them on your hardware and existing bench equipment—cutting weeks of bring-up work down to days.

Datasheet Intelligence

Every register value, cited to the manual

Embedder reads the entire reference manual, from register maps to clock trees to errata, and cites the section behind every value it writes.

Schematic Ingestion

Drivers that match the board you built

Embedder resolves your netlist against the datasheet: pin muxing, pull-ups, bus addresses, errata workarounds. Nothing is assumed from the vendor's dev kit. Every driver is grounded in your actual design.

Hardware Debugging & RCA

Hardware evidence attached to every conclusion

Embedder investigates firmware bugs across code, schematics, and live hardware. It drives the bench, tests hypotheses, and attaches hardware evidence—serial traces, register dumps, and schematic context—to every root-cause conclusion.

Serial & Debug

Diagnosed against what the chip did

Embedder reads serial output and drives GDB sessions, stepping breakpoints, inspecting registers and memory, and correlating runtime state with the code under review. Failures get diagnosed against what the chip actually did.

Signal Observation

Signals as reviewable evidence

Embedder turns logic analyzer captures and oscilloscope waveforms into structured data. Timing violations, protocol errors, and signal integrity issues surface as reviewable evidence, grounding firmware changes in electrical behavior.

Power Profiling

Every microamp traced to a line of code

Embedder drives power profilers to capture current draw across a workload, correlates the high-draw windows back to what the firmware was doing, and proves every low-power change by re-measuring on real silicon.

Automated Testing

Catch regressions before they hit the field

Embedder generates tests from your hardware docs, runs them on real probes and instruments, and diagnoses failures against firmware and live signals. It proposes a fix, then reruns the test on silicon.

Parallel Testing Agents

Divide test work across specialized agents

Embedder splits a firmware test campaign across specialized agents that run cases concurrently and merge pass/fail results.

Closed-Loop Validation

Build, flash, test, and fix autonomously

The orchestrator chains compilation, flashing, runtime observation, and code repair into a tight loop. When a test fails the agent diagnoses the fault, patches the source, and re-validates without human intervention.

Security & Compliance

Security &
IP Protection

Embedder operates on your most sensitive IP: schematics, source code, and live bench access. It is built to clear security review, and it runs wherever your policy requires, from our audited cloud to infrastructure you own.

Audited Controls

SOC 2 Type II

Independently attested security, availability, and confidentiality controls across our infrastructure, code, and customer data handling.

Certified & Compliant

ISO 27001 / GDPR

A formal ISMS covering risk, access, and incident response, paired with GDPR-ready data protection. Lawful basis, data minimization, and DPA support.

Custom Deployments

On-Prem / BYOC

Run Embedder fully on-premise or bring your own cloud. Ensure your IP, schematics, and source code never leave infrastructure you control.

Purpose-built for firmware

Generic AI vs. Embedder

General-purpose assistants can help write code. Embedder adds the firmware-specific evidence, toolchain, and hardware loop needed to test whether that code matches the actual part and board.

General-purpose AIEmbedder

Documentation grounding

Depends on context supplied by the user

Indexed manuals, datasheets, errata, and SVD files

Board context

Schematics and live signals must be supplied manually

Native schematic ingestion and hardware signals

Verification

No native firmware bench loop

Integrated HIL/SIL and instrument control

Compliance workflows

External traceability and evidence process required

Traceability and evidence workflows for regulated industries

Static analysis

Separate tooling and manual handoffs

Integrates with enterprise-grade static analysis tooling

Project context

Repository context varies by tool and session

Project, toolchain, hardware, and documentation together

Product FAQ

FAQ

Hardware fit, verified workflows, data handling, and deployment.

01Coverage

Which platforms and peripherals does Embedder support?

Embedder's catalog covers 500+ platforms across 13 manufacturers and 5,500+ peripherals, from sensors and radios to power, displays, memory, and connectors. You can add custom platforms and peripherals with their documentation and target details.

Which EDA tools do you support for schematics?

Altium, KiCad, Eagle, PADS, and Xpedition. Embedder turns native design files into board context—including components, nets, pin assignments, addresses, and power topology—so the firmware reflects the board you built.

What languages and RTOSes does Embedder work with?

C, C++, and Rust across bare-metal and RTOS projects. Embedder works with the stacks already in your repository, including FreeRTOS, Zephyr, nRF Connect SDK, ESP-IDF, STM32Cube, and MCUXpresso.

Does Embedder support embedded Linux?

Yes. Linux-class boards such as Raspberry Pi and other application processors work alongside MCU targets, with the same repository, documentation, and hardware context.

02Workflow

How does Embedder work?

Embedder brings your codebase, hardware documentation, schematics, toolchain, and live board into one engineering loop. It carries a task from understanding the requirement through implementation and physical verification, using each build, serial log, debugger state, or instrument capture to guide the next step. The result is a reviewable change backed by evidence from the target hardware.

How does testing work?

Embedder creates and runs checks at the right layer: host tests, target builds, flash-and-serial smoke tests, debugger assertions, or bench measurements. It coordinates reusable hardware scripts with probes and instruments, then preserves the commands, captures, and pass/fail evidence with the project.

Do I have to change my toolchain?

No. Embedder works in your existing repository with the compiler, build system, flasher, debugger, RTOS, and CI you already use. The VS Code extension is the primary interface; the CLI and daemon bring the same project context to terminal, GitHub, Slack, and CI workflows.

03Trust & Deployment

How do engineers stay in control?

Engineers define the task, can review a cited plan before work begins, inspect every diff, and choose which actions need approval. Session and project policies govern file writes, commands, and external actions, while hardware arbitration and hard safety checks remain active.

How does Embedder keep hardware-specific code grounded?

Embedder checks register values, bit fields, timing constants, and pin assignments against the exact datasheet, reference manual, SVD, schematic, and errata. It cites the source behind hardware-specific decisions and flags unsupported values for review.

Can the agent damage my hardware?

Embedder treats hardware access as a controlled operation. Programming and flash actions can require explicit approval, and an exclusive hardware lease prevents multiple sessions from driving the same board or probe at once.

How is our code and hardware data handled?

You retain ownership of your source code, schematics, documentation, and data. Secure-cloud deployments process the context needed to provide the service, and neither Embedder nor its model providers use that content to train generalized AI models. On-premises deployment keeps the work inside infrastructure you control.

04Getting Started

What do I need to get started?

Bring a firmware repository, VS Code, a representative board, its documentation, and your normal flash or debug connection. Install the extension, select the hardware, run /init to capture the project's build and test workflow, and connect the Monitor for live verification.

How is pricing scoped?

Pricing is scoped case by case based on your team, deployment, and requirements.