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Issue Highlights

🦀 Espressif Publishes Rust Quarterly Update Report
🚗 Renesas Launches R-Car Open Access (RoX)
🐧 Linux Foundation Publishes Software Defined Industry Report
🏢 Rust Type Team Updates
🎯 Rust Core Library in Dart Release
📶 SmartThings Update Expands Matter Footprint
🤝 Vector & Hightech Collaborate on Rust & AUTOSAR
🐧 Ferrous-Codethink Partnership to Lift 64-bit RISC-V Linux Target

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Rust on Espressif chips - 21-06-2024 ⭐️ 

• Improving 64-bit RISC-V Linux support in Rust ⭐️

Rust News 🗞️ 🦀 

• Types Team Update and Roadmap ⭐️

• Rust Nation UK 2025 Announced

• Rust Meets Dart With Release of rust_core 1.0.0 ⭐️

General Embedded News/Trends 📈 

• Vector and HighTec Bring Safety Applications With Rust and AUTOSAR Classic to the Road ⭐️

• Kernel tweaks improve Raspberry Pi performance, efficiency

• Renesas and Altium Announce the Conclusion of the Regulatory Review for Renesas’ Proposed Acquisition of Altium

• A major SmartThings update brings support for appliances, robot vacuums, and more through Matter ⭐️

• Renesas’ R-Car Open Access platform accelerates software-defined vehicle development with market-ready software ⭐️

• Raspberry Pi 5 Now Supports AlmaLinux

• Infineon building R&D facility in Warstein

• Raspberry Pi Connect Gets an SSH-Like Remote Console, Expands Support to All Models

• NXP Adds to AI Automotive Portfolio With Audio Processing DSP Chips

• Auterion Announces New All-In-One solution for Small Unmanned Systems 

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️ 

• MoonBit: Wasm-Optimized Language Creates Less Code Than Rust

• I am not yet ready to switch to Zig from Rust

• CISA looked at C/C++ projects and found a lot of C/C++ code. Wanna redo any of it in Rust?

• Zig vs. Rust at work: the choice we made

Hardware 🛠️ 

• Nordic-powered multi-sensor platform monitors device movement, environmental conditions, and air quality

• LILYGO's T-Glass Is a Low-Cost Espressif ESP32 Platform for Head-Up Display Projects

• Pocket Z project hopes to rekindle pocket PC form factor with a RPi Zero 2W

• ADLINK Unveils NXP i.MX 93 and i.MX 8M Plus Based Open Standard Modules

• Orange Pi's CM5 Offers a High-Performance Alternative to the Raspberry Pi CM4

• The Pico Display Base Board offers a simpler way to create Raspberry Pi Pico LCD projects

• An Arduino Nano Clone in a DIP-Sized Footprint

• Infineon's CY8CKIT-062S2-AI Dev Kit Targets Low-Power ML and AI at the Edge

• FourThirdsEye is an open-source hardware 10.7MP IMX294 camera module for the Raspberry Pi 5/CM4

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Rust Networking with the Raspberry Pi Pico W

• Embedded Rust: learning the toolchain

• Connecting to a UART serial device using Rust

• Packing two u16s into a [u8; 4]

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• The Smarter Way to Rust

• I discovered Rust's zero-cost abstraction

• How Open Source is Driving Technical Transformation of Vertical Industries ⭐️

• Will Rust be alive in 10 years?

• Parallel Processing with Rayon: Optimizing Rust for the Multi-Core Era

• Data-driven Software-based Power Estimation for Embedded Devices

• Embedded Edge Devices are Getting Smarter, More Efficient

• AOSP: What is it? And why does your next embedded device need to be made with it?

• The Challenges and Opportunities in Developing Next-Gen Embedded Systems

General Embedded 📟️ 

• Updating NVIDIA Jetson devices with Memfault

• Autopilot: Flight Simulator for Embedded Systems Development

• Speech Transcription Using Raspberry Pi Zero

• Coupling STM32 And Linux? Consider HID over I2C

• Windows 1.01 on the Raspberry Pi Pico

• LExCI: A Framework for Reinforcement Learning with Embedded Systems

• How to Quickly Create AWS Cloud-Controlled IoT Endpoints

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫 

🏫 Embedded Software and Hardware Architecture

Noteworthy Book 📚️ 

📕 Applied Embedded Electronics

Noteworthy Newsletter 📰 

📰 Aimply Briefs - News that doesn’t waste your time

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Updates, Events, & Announcements

Updates & announcements from the community

Notable Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨 

• svdtools v0.3.16

• zerocopy v0.7.35

• rhai v1.19.0

• esp-idf-svc v0.49.0

• embedded-svc v0.28.0

• esp-idf-hal v0.44.0

• esp-idf-sys v0.35.0

• ldproxy v0.3.4

• embuild v0.32.0

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• Rust Ukraine - CFP Deadline July 6th - July 27th, 2024, Online, and Kiev, Ukraine

• Scientific Computing in Rust - CFP Deadline June 14th - July 17th- 19th, Online

• Forge Rust - August 2024, Wellington, New Zealand

• Conf42 Rustlang 2024 - CFP Deadline July 22nd - August 22nd, Online

• Espressif DevCon -  September 3-5, 2024, Online

• RustConf 2024 - September 10-13, 2024, Montreal, Canada

• EuroRust - October 10th & 11th, 2024 , Vienna, Austria, and Online

• RustLab 2024 - November 9th-11th, 2024, Florence, Italy

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Jobs & Adoption

Keeping track of companies involved with embedded Rust

The Embedded Rust Adoption Tracker 🧭

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 🌍️ 

• 🦀 Technical Lead, Onboard Software Platform- Wayve, London, UK

• 🦀 Software Engineer - AdaCore, Paris, France or Bristol, UK

• 🦀 Internship | Software development (C#/C++) in the area of ​​vehicle diagnostics, Software developer TCP/IP in Rust- Vector Informatik, Stuttgart, Germany

• 🦀 Rust Engineering Lead - Linux and Open Source - Canonical, Global, Hybrid

• 🦀 Embedded Linux Software Engineer - Canonical, Global, Hybrid

• 🦀 Doctoral Thesis: Automotive Software Development with Artificial Intelligence - Infineon, Munich, Germany

• 🦀 Doctoral Thesis: Functional Software Generation - Infineon, Munich, Germany

• 🦀 Embedded Linux Software Engineer - ZF, Plzeň, CZ

• 🦀 Research Scientist – Applied Security for Industrial Systems - ABB, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

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

• 🦀 IoT DevOps Engineer/Full Stack Developer - Liebherr, Ulm, Germany

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

• 🦀 Software Architect for Embedded Systems - Siemens, Portugal

North America Based Jobs 🌎️ 

• 🦀 Senior Firmware Engineer, Pixel - Google, Mountain View, CA

• 🦀 Rust Software Engineer - K2 Space, Los Angeles, CA

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Edge Protocols - Hub Applications - SmartThings, Minneapolis, MN

• 🦀 Rust Engineering Lead - Linux and Open Source - Canonical, Global, Hybrid

• 🦀 Embedded Linux Software Engineer - Canonical, Global, Hybrid

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

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

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