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Issue Highlights

🐷 A new release of pigg is out
📟️ New AMD Epyc Series for Embedded
🦀 Rust-based MicroFlow for optimizing edge AI
📰 Vector on Writing AUTOSAR SW Components in Rust
🍓 Raspberry Pis new AI Camera
🏡 Analog Devices Expands it Embedded Ecosystem
✍️ A C to Rust Survey

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Quote of the Issue

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• SEGGER’s Ozone debugger now supports Rust

• A new release of "pigg" for Pi is out ⭐️

• Google's Rust belts bugs out of Android, helps kill off unsafe code substantially

• For Better TinyML, Just Go with the Flow ⭐️

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Survey: C to Rust conversion and corresponding tools ⭐️ 

• RustBird (Early Bird APC Injection in Rust)

• Thanks For Joining Us at RustConf 2024

• Return type notation MVP: Call for testing!

• Leadership Council September 2024 Representative Selections

• This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.82

• This Month in Our Test Infra: September 2024

• New version of kellnr released

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Cisco is abandoning the LoRaWAN space

• Analog Devices Introduces the Embedded Software Development Environment, CodeFusion Studio™, and Developer Portal ⭐️

• MicroEJ and Qt Group Join the Zephyr Project to Advance their Commitment to Secure, Connected, Future-Proof Devices

• AMD Introducing Energy-Efficient EPYC ™ Embedded 8004 Series for Embedded Systems ⭐️

• Linux 6.12 Brings 9p Network USB Gadget Driver To Ease Embedded Device Development

• Arduino Launches Arduino Cloud Availability in AWS Marketplace

• Quake runs in just 276 kB RAM on the Arduino Nano Matter board

• Espressif Expands Its Secure Matter Manufacturing Service to External Factories, In-Field Upgrades

• Linux 6.12 Features Are Super Exciting With Real-Time, Sched_ext, Intel Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5

• Intel Released 12-Qubit Chip

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• Learning Rust WASM for JS/TS Developers

• A Comparison of Ada and Rust, Using Solutions to the Advent of Code

• C# benchmark beats Go and Rust

• Optimized API Calls with TypeScript: Performance Showdown vs. Rust & Go

• Rust vs. C++: Differences and use cases explained

• C++20 coroutines without heap allocation

Hardware 🛠️

• Go Wireless with the NXP FRDM Platform

• Raspberry Pi gets AI vision superpowers ⭐️

• Raspberry Pi's AI Eye: Hands-On with the Raspberry Pi AI Camera Module ⭐️

• Hamboo - A Smartwatch based on Esp32, Rust, and Slint

• Jumperless V5 programmable breadboard is based on Raspberry Pi RP2350B

• Introducing DeepSleepr - My module to turn any SBC low-power via I2C and an Attiny

• HiFiBerry Brings Eight-Channel Audio to the Raspberry Pi 5

• Radxa X4 review – An Intel N100 alternative to Raspberry Pi 5 tested with Ubuntu 24.04

• Pimoroni Pips Raspberry Pi to the Post with the Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 W Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Board

• Quartz64 Zero – A customizable, cost-optimized Rockchip RK3566T SBC with Raspberry Pi PCIe connector

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Building Real-Time Communication with Rust

• Learning Rust Through Documentation — Part V

• Understanding Rust Macros: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers

• How to Write AUTOSAR Classic Software Components (SWCs) in Rust ⭐️

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Rust is rolling off the Volvo assembly line

• Rust in Linux now: Progress, pitfalls, and why devs and maintainers need each other

• Rust GPU: The future of GPU programming

• Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source

• Google & Arm - Raising The Bar on GPU Security

• Eclipse uProtocol

• 5 Techniques to Simulate Embedded Software

• Fast multi-arch Docker build for Rust projects

• Mastering Adversarial Search: Implementing an M,N,K-game Solver (featuring Rust)

• Inspiring Education with Raspberry Pi

• Rust isn’t very hard, in my experience

• Why Chiplets Are the Next Big Innovation in Silicon

• Espressif SoCs and LCD screens: trends and solutions

General Embedded 📟️

• EdgeAI Made Ease - Small Language Models (SLMs)

• Create an ESP32 Project With PlatformIO: An Guide for Beginners

• Exploring Zephyr: Secure Code Execution, Board Support, OpenAMP, and Documentation Improvements

• Integration of AI With IoT Brings Agents to Physical World

• How to add AI superpowers to your Raspberry Pi

• Building with Zephyr RTOS: Remote Processing, SoC Design, and Production Challenges

• Booting an embedded system like a PC

• A Deep Dive into Zephyr RTOS: Spinlocks, AR Solutions, Userspace, and Picolibc Integration

• How to set up VNC on a headless Raspberry Pi with Ubuntu Server 24.04

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫

🏫 Applied Kalman Filtering Specialization

Noteworthy Book 📚️

📕 100 Exercises To Learn Rust: A hands-on course by Mainmatter

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 🚨

• esp-wifi v0.10.1

• esp-wifi-sys v0.6.0

• lpc55-hal v0.3.1

• zerocopy v0.8.3

• rt v0.12.0

• stm32f4xx-hal v0.22.0

• portable-atomic v1.9.0

• esp32-nimble v0.8.1

• rp235x-hal v0.2.0

• rtt-log v0.4.0

• hopter v0.2.5

• esp-hal-embassy v0.4.0

• esp-hal v0.21.0

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• EuroRust - (Currently Running) October 10th & 11th, 2024 , Vienna, Austria, and Online

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

• Open Hardware Summit - Call For Proposals Open - May 30 & 31st, 2025, Edinburgh, Scotland

• Rust Forge - Call For Sponsors Open - August 2025, Wellington, New Zealand

• RustWeek by RustNL - May 13-17, 2025, Utrect, The Netherlands

• Rust Nation UK 2025 - CfP Open - February 19 & 20 2025, London, UK

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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 🌍️

• 🦀 Research assistant: WiMi Embedded Rust Development for Cybersecurity in Low-Power Distributed System Software - Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany

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

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

• 🦀 Software Architect for Embedded Systems - Siemens, Portugal

North America Based Jobs 🌎️

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer, Rust - Anduril, Costa Mesa, CA

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

• 🦀 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

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