Firmware

Writing code is only half the job in embedded systems. The other half — the critical half — is the system design you do before you even open your editor. After 3 years in AIoT Space, I’ve experienced the same across projects. Developers jump straight into coding, hack everything into main(), and only realize the real problems when devices start failing in the field. By then, the cost of fixing is 10x higher or just not feasible.

Story Imagine this scenario: you are working on a firmware project written entirely in C. Midway through development, your team finds a new sensor that is 10× cheaper than the current one. Naturally, management wants it integrated into the next hardware version. Here’s the catch — the official driver for this sensor is only available in C++. Now, instead of rewriting the entire driver in C (which is time-consuming and error-prone), you can integrate the C++ driver into your C-based firmware with minimal changes.