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Issue Highlights

📄 MISRA-C:2025 Guidelines Launched
🐧 Oxidizing Ubuntu with oxidizr 
🛒 Edge Impulse Acquired by Qualcomm
🪁 Zephyr 4.1 is out with Rust Support
🚗 Infineon brings RISC-V to Automotive
🐜 Zant is a new Zig-based Edge AI SDK
🤖 LLM Automated Embedded Development
↗️ Vector Announced MICROSAR IO
🚪 ESP Backdoor Discovery
🛜 New WiFi HaLow Hardware
🔌 eFabless shuts down
🪲 TrustInSoft Adds Rust Support
 

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Zephyr RTOS 4.1 Now Available with Rust Support ⭐️

• TrustInSoft Launches Rust Code Analysis Services for Secure, Reliable Hybrid Codebases ⭐️

• Introducing mayheap - A no_std crate that abstracts alloc and heapless

• Slint now runs on NuttX OS

• Slint 1.10 Released (GUI crate) with Figma Plugin, Menus, and Live-Preview Data Editing

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu ⭐️

• Announcing Rustup 1.28.0

• February Project Goals Update

• Rust participates in Google Summer of Code 2025

• Announcing rustup 1.28.1

• Inferred const generic arguments: Call for Testing!

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Our Next Chapter: Edge Impulse is Joining Forces with Qualcomm Technologies ⭐️

• Undocumented commands found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices ⭐️

• ESP32 Undocumented Bluetooth Commands: Clearing the Air ⭐️

• Espressif’s Response to Claimed Backdoor and Undocumented Commands in ESP32 Bluetooth Stack ⭐️

• MISRA-C launches 2025 guidelines for safer C ⭐️

• Infineon brings RISC-V to the automotive industry and is first to announce an automotive RISC-V microcontroller family ⭐️

• eFabless Shutting Down ⭐️

• Introducing Zant: An Open-Source SDK for Neural Network Deployment on Microprocessors ⭐️

• MICROSAR IO – Lightweight Software Platform for Sensor/Actuator ECUs ⭐️

• TI introduces the world's smallest MCU, enabling innovation in the tiniest of applications

• Espressif’s ESP32-C6: the World's First RISC-V MCU to Achieve PSA-L2

• Renode support for the NXP S32K Automotive General-Purpose MCU

• Arduino and System Electronics partner for industrial vision and AI-powered inventory and logistics

• Infineon Introduces RISC-V to the Automotive Industry, Becoming the First to Unveil an Automotive RISC-V MCU family

• Canonical, Renesas Partner to Bring Ubuntu Core to RZ Processors for the IoT and Edge AI

• High School Program Empowers Students to Code and Create Microelectronics for Artificial Intelligence Development

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• C++ creator calls for help to defend programming language from 'serious attacks' ⭐️

• Why do I find Rust inadequate for codecs?

• Rust is the New C ⭐️

Hardware 🛠️

• Espressif Launches a Revised ESP32-C3 V2, Delivering Additional RAM and Flash

• ESP32-C2 v2.0 wireless SoC adds 20 KB of additional SRAM, 100 KB of extra flash

• Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 adds industrial/extended temperature range

• Adafruit Metro RP2350 development board follows Arduino UNO form factor

• Waveshare Launches a Pair of Smart Espressif ESP32-S3 Thermal Camera Modules

• Seeed Studio Launches Wi-Fi HaLow Connectivity Boards ⭐️

• STMicro STM32WBA6 2.4 GHz wireless MCU gets up to 2MB flash, 512KB SRAM, USB OTG, and more

• STMicro releases Teseo VI quad-band GNSS receivers for automotive and robotics applications

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Rust Meets Bare Metal: I’m Building an OS While Barely Knowing Rust

• Writing bare metal OS in Rust — #2 Setup base project

• Rust & Slint — TL;DR

• Build an Async Runtime in Rust — Part 1

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Building an open-source Wi-Fi Mac layer for the ESP32

• Generating AutoML-based models for embedded in Kenning

• Translating bzip2 with c2rust

• First Official SDK In Rust

• eserde: Don't stop at the first deserialization error

• Trait in Rust Explained: From Basics to Advanced Usage

• Open Source Isn't Dead...It's Just Forked

• Transform Your Embedded Software Architecture with These Powerful Practices

• Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software

• Grepit develops the use of Rust for Swedish car manufacture

General Embedded 📟️

• Fully automating Arduino development - Giving Claude Code access to hardware ⭐️

• Building Embedded Linux System from scratch – Practical series – Part 4/4 – Building root filesystem & booting final OS on Orange Pi zero

• Building Zephyr RTOS for Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040)

• What I learned about Zephyr threads

• Simplifying Renode model generation with SystemRDL-to-C# conversion

• Why Zephyr’s Success in the Embedded Industry is Just the Beginning – And How MicroEJ Takes It Further

• Dendron: Enhancing Human Activity Recognition with On-Device TinyML Learning

• Adapting Embedded Devices with Qt 6 Plugins: A Coffee Machine Case Study

• Unlocking the Future of IoT Security with Wi-Fi HaLow

• How Embedded AI is Driving Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing with the Help of TinyML

• Learning Swimming Techniques by Means of Real-Time Monitoring with Embedded Devices

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫

🏫 Rust for System Programmers

Noteworthy Book 📚️

📕 Async Rust

Noteworthy Newsletter 📰

📰 Techpresso - Keep up with AI & Tech in 5 mins

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Updates, Events, & Announcements

Updates & announcements from the community

Notable Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨

• rtic-sync v1.3.1

• svdtools v0.4.5

• rt v0.16.0

• svd2rust v0.36.0

• zerocopy v0.8.23

• espup v0.14.1

• rp235x-hal v0.3.0

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• Rust in Paris  - March 14, 2025, Paris, France

• Rustikon - March 26, 2025, Warsaw, Poland

• RUSTAsia - March 28, 2025, Hong Kong + Online

• Rust Konf Türkiye - April 20, 2025, Istanbul, Turkey

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

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

• Rust Summit -- Call For Proposals Open - June 7, 2025, Belgrade, Serbia

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

• RustConf - September 2-5, 2025, Seattle, USA

• Oxidize - September 16-18, 2025, Berlin, Germany

• NDC Techtown - Call for Papers Open - September 22-25, Kongsberg, Norway

• EuroRust - October 9-10, 2025, Paris, France

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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 🌍️

• 🦀 (NEW) Rust Firmware Intern - ViRust-AI, Global, Remote

• 🦀 Embedded Linux Developer - Distran, Zurich

• 🦀 Rust Developer/Promoter - Collabora, Remote

• 🦀 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

North America-Based Jobs 🌎️

• 🦀 (NEW) Rust Firmware Intern - ViRust-AI, Global, Remote

• 🦀 Rust Software Engineer, Vehicle Simulation - Tesla, Palo Alto, CA

• 🦀 Open Source Robotics Engineer - rerun.io, Remote

• 🦀 Sr. Embedded Software Engineer, Customer Hardware (Starlink) - SpaceX, Bastrop, TX

• 🦀 Rust embedded Software Engineer - General Dynamics, Dedham, MA

• 🦀 Sr. Embedded Software Engineer, Energy Products - Tesla, Palo Alto, SF

• 🦀 Flight Software in Rust - NASA, USA

• 🦀 Sr Embedded Systems Engineer (Gateway Experience) - Lynq, Boulder, CO

• 🦀 Satellite Flight Software Engineer (Rust), Senior - Lynk, Falls Church, VA

• 🦀 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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