Embassy in Production

By Gerhard de Clercq

Talk - Wednesday, 16 September
10:15

This talk covers my journey of building an embedded electronics product powered by Embassy (a Rust-based RTOS-like platform for microcontrollers). Since Embassy is not widely used in commercial systems yet, there were quite a few hurdles I needed to cross along the way. Nonetheless, the community was helpful and I managed to sort things out in the end. Since the product includes a web-server, there were also quite a few gotchas related to that.

As both an electronics designer and the firmware engineer on this project, I experimented with hardware simulation as a core part of both these development aspects. Thus, I will also give a brief overview of how these techniques worked out.

Speaker

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Gerhard de Clercq

I am an electronics engineer with a long history of (and strong interest in) software development. My electronics expertise is mostly in the digital domain, but I have had various encounters with the analogue domain and I currently work at an RF company. My software experience is quite diverse (everything from bare-metal to web UIs) but my passion is making software for hardware. Previously I specialised in C++, but for the past 5 years, Rust has been my primary language. I am a generally curious person with an interest in various technical domains.