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Issue Highlights

🌐 We’re on LinkedIn! Follow us here.
🤝 Newsletter Sponsorship Storefront Launched (Link).
📖 A call for embedded Rust book proofreaders (see below).
🦀 Rust 1.76.0 Released.
🤖 Matic Robotics - A new addition to the Rust adoption tracker.
🦀 Oxide conference is back!
🔐 Rust Foundation publishes 2nd security initiative report.
🍓 Raspberry Pi Pico breaks BitLocker encryption.
🐬 Flipper Zero gets an update.
💻️ AMD announces Embedded+.
🥧 Raspberry Pi confirms IPO plans.
🌐 Google invests $1 Million in Rust
📺️ RustConf 2023 Videos Published

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A Call for Proofreaders

We're excited to invite you to apply to beta-test the latest book on Embedded Rust. Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, your feedback is invaluable. Apply via the link below by Feb 23rd to participate. Limited spots are available. As a token of appreciation, the selected participants will receive a free copy of the final e-book version. Don't miss out on this opportunity to shape the future of Embedded Rust!

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News & Article Roundup

A curation of embedded Rust-related news, articles, and posts

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Tock now compiles on stable Rust

• Ferrocene Project Looking for a Project Manager

• “Rust: A game changer in automotive software development” Webinar announced featuring Florian Gilcher of Ferrous Systems

• RustNL Speaker Lineup Announced - Includes an embedded talk by Dario Nieuwenhuis

Rust News 🗞️ 🦀 

• RustConf 2023 recordings are up on YouTube 🌟 

• Announcing Rust 1.76.0 🌟 

• Google Contributes $1M to Rust Foundation to Support C++/Rust “Interop Initiative” 🌟 

• Rust Foundation Publishes Second Security Initiative Report Detailing Rust Security Advancements 🌟 

• rust-analyzer financial report 2023

• crates.io: API status code changes

• Announcing Tyler Mandry as Lang Team co-lead

• February 2024 Leadership Council Update

• This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.77

• New Rust book: Asynchronous programming in Rust is released

• Slint 1.4 released

General Embedded News/Trends 📈 

• Arduino IDE 2.3 is out with Debug features

• OpenTitan® Partnership Makes History as First Open-Source Silicon Project to Reach Commercial Availability

• Renesas to acquire Altium for A$9.1 billion

• Oniro: A Versatile, Vendor Neutral Operating System Platform for Smart Devices

• AMD Announces New Architectural Solution, Embedded+ 🌟 

• Raspberry Pi Confirms a Planned IPO, But Says Hobbyists Will Remain "Incredibly Important"

• Infineon attains ISO/SAE 21434 certification for SLI37 auto security

• Infineon, Honda forge automotive semiconductor partnership

• Announcing NVIDIA Metropolis Microservices for Jetson for Rapid Edge AI Development

• Nordic Semiconductor and Arm reaffirm partnership with licensing agreement for latest low power processor designs, software platforms, and security IP

• SYSGO's PikeOS Blasts to the Top of ECSS-E-ST-40C Certification

• Microchip Releases PIC16F13145 Family of MCUs

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️ 

• Rust: Bridging the Gap in High-Level Language IoT Innovation

• Best Programming Languages for Cybersecurity

• Accelerating Python Programs with Rust: A Performance Comparison

Hardware Announcements 🛠️ 

• Flipper Zero - Introducing Video Game Module Powered by Raspberry Pi 🌟 

• The M1, a Flipper Zero alternative

• Sparkfun Announces ESP32-C6 Thing Plus

• ElectronicsV2 – An NXP S32K144 development board for DIY automotive projects

• Wiser wireless-to-serial kit eases the debugging and programming of embedded devices (Crowdfunding)

• Banana Pi Unveils an Eight-Core Edge AI Development Board Built around a RISC-V Chip: the BPI-F3

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Edge IoT with Rust on ESP: Ping!

• ESP Embedded Rust: Command Line Interface

• Rust on ESP32 - Hall sensor speedometer!

• Rust: From Jim to Him Pt 1 — CHIP8 Emulator

• Never Missing the Train Again, Thanks to Rust

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Why Rust? It's the safe choice 🌟 

• Rust for hardware vendors 🌟 

• Allocation-free decoding with traits and high-ranked trait bounds

• Moving from C to Rust for embedded software development

• New Rust in Production episode

• A review after using Rust on embedded in production for over a year

• Unlocking Rust's power through mentorship and knowledge spreading, with Tim McNamara :: Rustacean Station

• Debugging ARM Cortex-M with Jlink-mini and Arduino (Portenta H7) GIGA R1 WiFi board (with Rust bare metal) with VSCode

• Memfault::What we’ve been reading in January (2024)

• WebAssembly (Wasm) With Rust: Revolutionizing Software Engineering

• Aerugo – RTOS for aerospace uses written in Rust

• Design safe collection API with compile-time reference stability in Rust

General Embedded 📟️ 

• Getting into robotics as a software engineer

• Why and How: Implementing GitLab for Embedded Systems Development

• Using 3 Microcontrollers in 1 Board with Arduino

• Measuring Stack Usage the Hard Way

• Ensure embedded system security using DSCs and MCUs supported by dedicated security ICs

• BitLocker encryption broken in 43 seconds with sub-$10 Raspberry Pi Pico 🌟 

• Can a $10 Raspberry Pi break your PC’s disk encryption? It’s complicated

• Debugging the Linux kernel with GDB

• Continuously Test Embedded Systems Keyword-Driven with Qt's Squish

• Comprehensive (bottom-up) study on the Security of Arm Cortex-M systems

• The Usage Of Embedded Linux In Spacecraft

• Benchmarking Latency Across Common wireless Links for MCUs

• Practical Zephyr - Devicetree basics (Part 3)

• Arduino Sleep and Interrupts - Electronics with Becky Stern

• The Best IoT Arduino Shields to Start 2024

• How to Design a BootLoader for STM32 Series MCU?

• Micro ros on ESP32 using arduino IDE

• Building a Simple Proxy Server with Raspberry Pi

• Arduino Servo Smoothing: How to Easily Eliminate Jerky Motion

• Embedded Excitement: Unraveling Embedded Systems in Online Slot Experiences

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫 

🏫 Comprehensive Rust

Noteworthy Book 📚️ 

📕 Getting Started with Secure Embedded Systems: Developing IoT Systems for micro:bit and Raspberry Pi Pico Using Rust and Tock

Noteworthy Newsletter 📰 

📰 TLDR - Byte-Sized Daily Tech

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Updates, Events, & Announcements

Updates & announcements from the community

Notable Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨 

• espup v0.11.0

• defmt v0.3.6

• defmt-print v0.3.11

• embedded-test v0.3.0

Upcoming/New Learning Resources & Training 📚

• ARM CMSIS v6 Masterclass - ARM, Online, Feb 27, 2024 (Free, Registration Required).

• Introduction to Rust - KDAB/Ferrous Systems, Online, February, 26th, 2024

• Embedded Rust - KDAB/Ferrous Systems, Online, March, 6th, 2024

• Embedded Rust - KDAB/Ferrous Systems, Online, May, 22nd, 2024

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• STM32 Wireless Innovation Design Contest - Submission Deadline: February 19th, 2024

• Rust: A game changer in automotive software development - Webinar, March 12th, 2024

• Unlocking Edge AI: Advanced Features of Edge Impulse - Webinar - March 12th, 2024

• RISC-V Foundation Mentorship Proposals (Summer 2024 Session) - Submission Deadline: March 25th, 2024

• Rust Nation UK - March 26th - 28th, 2024

• Automotive Tech Forum 2024 - Virtual - March 27th & 28th, 2024

• Embedded World - April 9th - 11th, 2024, Nurnberg, Germany

• Embedded Open Source Summit - April 16th - 18th, 2024, Seattle, Washington

• Tinytapeout 6 - Submission Deadline: April 19th, 2024

• Embedded Online Conference - April 29th - May 3rd, 2024, Online

• Open Hardware Summit - May 3rd & 4th, 2024, Montreal, Canada

• RustNL - May 7th & 8th, 2024, Delft, Netherlands

• Oxidize - May 28th - 30th, 2024, Berlin, Germany

• RustFest Zurich - June 19th - 24th, 2024, Zurich, Switzerland

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Jobs & Adoption

Keeping track of companies involved with embedded Rust

The Embedded Rust Adoption Tracker 🧭

🌟 New Addition: Matic ⭐️ 

The number of entities that believe in a future involving Rust in embedded is continuously growing. Any new additions will be mentioned here. Meanwhile, click here to access the full list of entities known to adopt/use embedded Rust.

Jobs Postings 🏭

Contrary to common belief, many embedded job posts nowadays prefer some knowledge of Rust. Additionally, there is a good amount that requires Rust. The list captures some of the interesting opportunities out there but is not comprehensive by any means. Listings that appear in the newsletter will remain as long as they’re posted/open online.

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Europe Based Jobs 🌍️ 

• 🦀 (NEW) Project Manager - Ferrous Systems, Germany

• 🦀 (NEW) Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Yaak, Berlin, Germany

• 🦀 (NEW) Embedded C++/Rust Developer - Fernride, Munich, Germany

• 🦀 (NEW) OS Tool Software Engineer - 42dot, Warsaw, Poland

• 🦀 (NEW) Zephyr Embedded Software Engineer - UL Solutions, Erlangen, Germany

• 🦀 (NEW) Software Engineer - Rohde & Schwarz, Dresden, Germany

• 🦀 Working Student job/internship Embedded Software/Connected Systems & IoT DevOps Engineer/Full Stack Developer - Liebherr, Ulm, Germany

• 🦀 Embedded Software Innovation Engineer - Codasip, Munich, Germany

• 🦀 Embedded Systems Engineer, Software Platform - Wayve, London, UK

• 🦀 Internship: Industrial Setup for Formal Verification of Microcontroller - Infineon, Germany

• 🦀 Working student: Rust C/C++ interoperability and support - Bosch, Germany

• 🦀 Rust Developer - Intervall, Germany

• 🦀 Software Architect for Embedded Systems - Siemens, Portugal

• 🦀 Embedded Software Developer - Siemens, Portugal

North America Based Jobs 🌎️ 

• 🦀 Flight Software Engineer - York Space Systems, Greenwood Village, CO

• 🦀 Sr Software Engineer - Toyota Connected NA, Plano, TX

• 🦀 Embedded Software Dev Engineer II, Project Kuiper Ground Gateway Services - Amazon, Redmond, WA

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer - SmartThings, Minneapolis, MN

• 🦀 Various Rust Oriented Positions - MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer - Umbra, Santa Barbara, CA

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Umbra, Santa Barbara, CA

• 🦀 Robotics Software Engineer (Rust) - Pictorus, Oakland, CA

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