• Visualizing Real-time Data With STMViewer

    by Piotr Wasilewski

    If you’ve ever wanted to plot data acquired on your embedded target, this article is for you. It explores common use cases for real-time data visualization using STMViewer. Say goodbye to manual, time-consuming, and error-prone data collection and display methods to speed up your debugging process.

  • Counting Crashes to Improve Device Reliability

    by Tyler Hoffman

    This post will cover the most common reliability metrics that hardware manufacturers use. It will explore which are best for IoT devices, including a novel measurement, Crash Free Hours. We’ll cover exactly what you’ll need to collect on your devices within firmware to measure device reliability and ensure your devices are working as expected.

  • What we've been reading in October (2023)

    by Tyler Hoffman

    Here are the articles, videos, and tools that we’ve been excited about this October.

  • Rust on Yocto: A Seamless Integration

    by Thomas Sarlandie

    At Memfault, our love affair with Rust began in late 2022. What drew us to Rust? Well, the typical allure of a modern programming language: an impressive type-system, memory safety without the constant jitters, efficient concurrency management, a thriving package ecosystem, and overwhelming support from our engineering team. To put it simply, we’re smitten. Our journey with Rust has been nothing short of transformative, enabling rapid progress and leading us to conquer challenges we previously deemed … non-trivial.

  • MCU Peripheral Forwarding

    by Evgeny Chormonov

    PC applications that interact with MCUs are used by developers for a number of reasons, such as data visualization, monitoring during testing campaigns, and command and control via a GUI. In this article, we’ll explore mapping an MCU’s peripherals to your personal computer to simplify development of PC applications built for embedded systems.

  • What we've been reading in September (2023)

    by Tyler Hoffman

    Here are the articles, videos, and tools that we’ve been excited about this September.

  • Exploring printf on Cortex-M

    by Noah Pendleton

    The C printf function is a staple of embedded development. It’s a simple way to get logs or debug statements off the system and into a terminal on the host. This article explores the various ways to get printf on Cortex-M microcontrollers.

  • A Simple Scheduler via an Interrupt-driven Actor Model

    by Raman Filipau

    In this article, we’ll weigh the benefits of using the Cortex-M interrupt model as a scheduler and go over a simple implementation of this concept.