Documentation grounding
Depends on context supplied by the user
Indexed manuals, datasheets, errata, and SVD files
Embedder is an AI platform built for embedded software. It reads your datasheets, writes the code, flashes the board, runs the tests, and fixes its own mistakes, autonomously.
Embedder is an AI platform for firmware that reads your datasheets, writes the code, flashes the board, runs the tests, and fixes its own mistakes, grounded in reference manuals, schematics, and errata, with closed-loop validation across 500+ MCUs, 4,000+ peripherals, and 30+ pieces of test equipment.
Embedder reads the entire reference manual, from register maps to clock trees to errata, and cites the section behind every value it writes. A value without a source gets flagged for human review instead of shipped.
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.
Embedder drives the bench your team already owns (30+ instruments in all) and folds every measurement back into the loop. What the silicon reports is the final word on every change.
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, not what the source implied.
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 the electrical behavior of the bus.
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.
Agents split the work and run in parallel: one plans while others research, generate, and validate. When a test fails on hardware, the loop diagnoses the fault, patches the source, and re-verifies on the board.
Embedder decomposes multi-step firmware tasks into parallel subagent work streams that execute concurrently and merge their results.
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.
Embedder works inside your most sensitive IP: schematics, source code, and bench access. It is built to clear security review, with SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, and deployment options from your VPC to fully air-gapped.
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.
Depends on context supplied by the user
Indexed manuals, datasheets, errata, and SVD files
Schematics and live signals must be supplied manually
Native schematic ingestion and hardware signals
No native firmware bench loop
Integrated HIL/SIL and instrument control
External traceability and evidence process required
Traceability and evidence workflows for regulated industries
Separate tooling and manual handoffs
Integrates with enterprise-grade static analysis tooling
Repository context varies by tool and session
Project, toolchain, hardware, and documentation together
| Capability | General-purpose coding AI | Embedder |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Frequently asked questions about Embedder.
Embedder works with major semiconductor ecosystems, covering more than 500 MCUs in total. Not seeing your part? There’s no approved-parts list: any part with a PDF datasheet can be brought into scope through custom upload, usually same-day.
The catalog covers 4,000+ peripherals, not just the blocks inside the MCU but the long tail of the bill of materials: sensors, radios, power management, displays, memory, and connectors. In-house and custom components come in the same way, by uploading their datasheets, so a board built around your own module is as legible to the agent as a vendor reference design.
Altium, KiCad, Eagle, PADS, and Xpedition. Schematics are parsed from native design files, not exported PDFs, into a queryable graph: components, nets, pin assignments, pull-ups, and power topology, so the agent knows what’s actually wired to what on your board.
C throughout, with C-to-Rust porting for safety-critical paths. FreeRTOS and Zephyr are supported natively, with migrations from ThreadX and bare metal.
Yes. Embedder supports embedded Linux projects alongside MCU-class Cortex-M, RISC-V, and Xtensa targets. If your product spans an application processor and an MCU, Embedder can work across both sides of the stack.
Embedder plans by turning datasheets, schematics, and your existing code into a concrete specification with citations back to the reference manual; acts by generating firmware and verifying it against real hardware; and debugs by running root-cause analysis against the live board and connected test equipment. Engineers approve the plan before code is written and review every change as a normal pull request; the loop runs on its own, the merge stays human.
Embedder generates hardware-in-the-loop tests from your part’s documentation, runs them on real silicon, and when a test catches a regression, patches the firmware and re-verifies on the board. It drives the instruments already on your bench, including debug probes, logic analyzers, power profilers, oscilloscopes, and programmable power supplies. That is more than 30 integrations, plus ingestion of exported logs and traces from anything without an API.
No. Embedder runs in VS Code alongside the toolchain you already use, works in your existing repos, and lands changes as pull requests. The same CLI your engineers run at the bench runs inside your CI, so hardware tests gate merges without new infrastructure.
Generic AI writes plausible code; Embedder verifies code against your actual hardware. Every generated value is cited to the reference manual or flagged, and every change is tested on the live board before it ships. It’s also cheaper to run: benchmarked across multiple customer environments, Embedder’s harness used 40%+ fewer output tokens than a general-purpose coding agent doing the same work.
Spec-first planning means you review and approve a cited plan before any code exists. You can configure autonomy as complete, partial, or none. With partial autonomy, approval policies are set per operation, so engineers can gate any action—including every operation that interacts with hardware.
Every value the agent emits is checked against the reference manual, SVD device file, schematic, and vendor errata before it reaches hardware. Anything without a source is flagged for human review instead of shipped.
Destructive operations like flash erase and fuse programming require explicit human confirmation, hardware I/O is rate-limited so a runaway loop can’t burn out a part, and instrument access is arbitrated so parallel agents never fight over the same JTAG line.
Your firmware, schematics, and documentation stay under your control, and every query and derivation is logged so you can trace how any value made it into your code. For enterprise teams, on-premises and air-gapped deployment options are available.
A board, its datasheet, and a probe you already own. That’s the whole setup: drop the documents into a project, plug in the board, and the first result shows up on the serial terminal inside the hour.
Plans are scoped to the team and the hardware, so the honest answer is a short call rather than a pricing table. Evaluation periods are available if you’d rather see it work on your own board before committing.
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