Awesome-Embedded

A curated list of awesome embedded resource.

Table of content

• Awesome-Embedded
  • Interview
  • Embedded Software Skill
  • Common
  • MCU programming
    • Bare-metal programming (Don't need MCU)
    • MSP430
    • TM4C123
    • MSP432
    • STM32
    • STM32F7
    • STM8
    • ESP8266
  • Raspberry
  • Beaglebone
  • Linux Kernel and device driver development
  • Assembly
  • RTOS
  • Automotive
  • OS
  • WindowCE
  • Compiler
  • Bootloader
  • Makefile
  • Peripheral
    • Memory Protection Unit
    • USB
  • Others
  • Embedded GUI Development
  • Machine Learning & AI on MCU
  • Utilities
  • Tips & tricks
• Tech blogs
  • FAQ_Embedded
  • Looking for more lists like this?
  • BOOKs

Interview

• Questions which are frequently asked in an interview.

On the way to be a full-stack embedded software engineer.

• coding-interview-university - A complete computer science study plan to become a software engineer.

Embedded Software Skill

• Skills/Knowledge required to become a champion Embedded Software Developer.
• How to be low-level programmer
• Programmer Competency Matrix

Common

• Integer size in C on 32-bit and 64-bit system
• TeraTerm - TTL command reference
• TeraTerm Scripts
• Linker Command File Primer
• The C build process
• Building Bare-Metal ARM Systems with GNU
• ELF – Executable and Linkable Format
• Toolchains
• What is an application binary interface (ABI)?
• ARM Cortex M4 Blink Example (Linker Script)
• A Sample Linker Script
• Linking and Loading
• Embedded Software _ Getting started
• How to convert from an armlink scatter file to a GNU ld linker script
• Using the GNU Linker

MCU programming

Bare-metal programming (Don't need MCU)

• Simplest bare metal program for ARM (table of content)

MSP430

• MSP430-GCC
• CS4101: Introduction to Embedded Systems - The course is designed around labs, using TI MSP430 LaunchPad and Arduino Uno to discuss concepts such as basic I/O, timing and clocking, interupt handling, serial communication, embedded operating systems, synchronization, etc.
• msp430-template - A template for MSP430 firmware.
• MSP430 reference

TM4C123

• EmbeddedSystems.Playground
• Macros in TivaWare
• Analog to Digital Conversion, Data Acquisition and Control
• Embedded Systems - Shape The World
• HowTo: Develop on the TI Tiva LaunchPad using Linux
• Linux command line build system to generate binaries for TM4C123 (ARM Cortex M4)
• The complete tutorial for Stellaris LaunchPad development with GNU/Linux (I)
• Getting Started with the TI Stellaris LaunchPad on Linux
• Embedded Systems with TM4C123 @Valvano
• Create FreeRTOS Demo Project using the GCC Compiler
• Serial bootloader on TM4C12x Microcontroller
• Tivaware bootloader
• Diagnosing Common Development Problems and Tips & Info for TM4C Devices
• FreeRTOS-GCC-tm4c123glx - A port of FreeRTOS to the Texas Instruments Tiva TM4C123GLX Launchpad.
• Stellaris_TM4C123G_GCC_Template - Texas Instruments template project for the TM4C123 series using GNU toolchain.
• tm4c-gcc - TM4C123 GCC project template.
• tivaapps - Example hello-world apps for Texas Instruments TI-RTOS for Tiva C using a Linux host

MSP432

• Real-Time Bluetooth Networks - UTAustinX - Learn the design fundamentals of a real-time operating system (RTOS) and how to build a Bluetooth network in this hands-on project-based course.

STM32

• STM32 bootloader
• Tests to program STM32 Nucleo in C with GCC ARM embedded toolchain and libopencm3
• A demo project of FreeRTOS running on a STM32F4 Discovery board.
• DFU Bootloader for STM32 chips
• Customizable Bootloader for STM32 microcontrollers.
• Lightweight USB device Stack for STM32 microcontrollers
• STM32 programming with Embedded GNU Compiler
• A tiny portable 3D graphics lib for micro controllers (Oled display)
• Getting started with the STM32F4-Discovery board using the EmBitz IDE
• libopencm3 and FreeRTOS projects using the STM32F103C8T6 MCU
• A template for builting STM23F0 ARM projects with GCC
• Open source flash program for STM32 using the ST serial bootloader
• stm32-hid-bootloader - Driverless USB HID bootloader and flashing tool for STM32F10X devices
• stm32l1xx-template - A template for building firmware for the STM32L1xx.
• STM32F103C8 Examples
• stm32f103 - Bare metal programming on a generic STM32F103c8 board
• stm32_samples
• stm32f4de example code

STM32F7

• STM32F7 Series
• STM32 eLinux
• STM32F7 os.mbed

STM8

• stm8-bare-min - Tiny peripheral library for STM8S
• stm8-bootloader - Serial bootloader for STM8S microcontrollers
• stm8-multi-tasker - STM8-Multi-Tasker - Preemptive/Cooperative Round Robin Scheduler for STM8
• Wolk STM8 stuff

ESP8266

• An open source bootloader for the ESP8266
• An esp8266 rom creation tool
• Wi-FI ESP8266 learning journey
• Wi-FI ESP32 learning journey

Raspberry

• Raspberry Pi Bare Metal & related link
• ChibiOS/RT on the Raspberry Pi
• Raspberry Pi ARM based bare metal examples
• Bare metal Raspberry Pi 3 tutorials
• Open Projects: Raspberry, Beaglebone BSP
• A Real-Time Operating System on the Raspberry Pi
• A port of FreeRTOS to the raspberry pi
• FreeRTOS Sucessfully Ported
• Exploring AArch64 assembler - Raspberry
• A bootloader for the Raspberry Pi using the ethernet device
• Bare Metal Raspberry Pi
• Bare Metal Programming in C
• Baking Pi – Operating Systems Development
• Search for 'Raspberry' topic on Github
• elinux: Raspberry Pi Programming or elinux: RPi Hub
• Stanford CS104e - An Experimental Course on Operating Systems
• Computer Systems
• Build a Debian-based ARM64 system for Raspberry Pi 3
• Learning operating system development using Linux kernel and Raspberry Pi
• A port of FreeRTOS to the raspberry pi 2B. With USB+Ethernet+TCP/IP.
• 64-bit Tiano Core UEFI for the Raspberry Pi 3
• CXCORE-RaspberryPi3-ubuntu-18.04-aarch64
• Sample source: Baremetal source code for Raspberry
• Sample source: NarcOS - A bare metal ultralight kernel for Raspberry Pi 3
• Sample source: FreeRTOS v9.0.0 port for Raspberry Pi 1
• Sample source: A bare-metal experiments with the RaspberryPi
• 「BareMetalで遊ぶ Raspberry Pi」のプログラムです。
• UEFI for RaspberryPi2 and RaspberryPi3 based on Linaro EDK2
• ARM-episodes & ARM exploitation for IoT
• ARM shellcode and exploit development - BSidesMunich 2018
• 64 bit Bare Metal Programming on RPI-3
• Raspberry Pi 3 Bare Metal
• Assembly code for Raspberry Pi
• A public Baremetal Raspberry Pi code
• Raspberry-Pi Bare Metal Tutorial
• uCOS-II on Raspberry Pi
• Porting uCOSII to the raspberry pi A+/B+/2B
• Bare-metal examples
• Bare-metal lab

Beaglebone

• BeagleBone Black I2C References
• Learning BeagleBone Python Programming
• Simple implementation of an OS for the BeagleBoard C4 with ARMv7 A8 processor.
• Various projects that utilize low level hardware instructions to interface with leds, speaker output and joystick input.
• Windows Embedded Compact BSP for TI's Beaglebone
• BBB-BareMetal- Works on the beaglebone black (bare metal)
• Running a Baremetal Beaglebone Black & Part 2
• Bare Metal on the BeagleBone (Black and Green) & link1 + Link2
• A tutorial on bare-metal [OS] development on the Texas Instruments BeagleBoard.
• bare metal c project for beaglebone, ti sitara am335x
• Bare Metal Applications on OSD335x using U-Boot
• bbb-asm-demo - Extremely tiny baremetal application for BeagleBone Black
• Beaglebone - Getting started with JTAG and CCS
• BeagleBoardJTAG
• beaglebone_samples
• FreeRTOS for BeagleBone Black

Linux kernel and device driver development

• Linux inside - A little bit about a linux kernel
• Writing device drivers in Linux
• YOLINUX Tutorials
• Linux driver programming
• Free training materials and conference presentations
• eBook: Linux Drivers or Slides: Linux Drivers
• c-periphery - A C library for peripheral I/O (GPIO, SPI, I2C, MMIO, Serial) in Linux.
• OpenEmbedded,
• Linux driver practices
• Linux Kernel Exploitation - A bunch of links related to Linux kernel exploitation
• Linux Kernel Module Cheat
• Start linux kernel module development!
• Minimal Linux Live - a tiny educational Linux distribution
• low-level programming university #linux-kernel-and-device-driver

Assembly

• GCC-Inline-Assembly-HOWTO
• Assembly programming

RTOS

• List of open source real-time operating systems
• ROS
• FreeRTOS
• FreeRTOS - Explaination
• FreeRTOS API Reference Documentation
• How to Write a Small RTOS
• RTOS From Scrach
• mini-arm-os & qemu with a stm32 or here - Build a minimal multi-tasking OS kernel for ARM Cortex-M series from scratch
• Writing a simple operating system from scratch
• Free real-time operating system (RTOS) designed for deeply embedded applications
• MPSoC FreeRTOS Development
• Atomthreads: Open Source RTOS
• High performance motor control
• MINIX3: Open source RTOS
• 30 Days make OS --> YOS @Yannik
• Community: OSDEV.org, reddit/osdev
• Real-time System Group
• object-oriented C++ RTOS for microcontrollers
• RT-Thread is an open source IoT operating system from China.
• How to create an OS from scratch
• Sample Source: TetrOS is a small feature rich Tetris clone which is written in Assembly.
• Sample Source: RTOS for microcontrollers
• Sample Source: A Powerful embedded RTOS for ARM Cortex M microcontrollers
• Sample Source: An embedded operating system for ARM Cortex-M based microcontrollers
• Sample Source: rnk is a RTOS targeting ARM architecture.
• Sample Source: RTOS-From-Scratch
• Sample Source: Embeded OS for PIC32MX270F256B
• How I ended up writing a new real-time kernel
• Sample Source: TNeo - a well-formed and carefully tested preemptive real-time kernel for 16- and 32-bits MCUs
• yaos is an embedded operating system for Internet of Things(IoT) devices, specifically for a single-core processor without MMU virtualization.
• RT-Thread for Raspberry Pi 2B
• tock - A secure embedded operating system for Cortex-M based microcontrollers.
• AliOS-Things - AliOS Things released by Alibaba is an open-source implementation of operating system (OS) for Internet of Things (IoT).
• CoRTOS & CoRTOS Simple Cooperative RTOS - An open source minimalist RTOS.
• µOS++ Reference
• TNKernel - a compact and very fast real-time kernel for the embedded 32/16/8 bits microprocessors.
• Femto OS - a very concise portable real time - preemptive operating system (RTOS) for embedded microcontrollers with minimal ram and flash, say 2KB .. 16KB flash and 128 .. 1024 bytes ram.

Automotive

• Sample Source: Trampoline is a static RTOS for small embedded systems. & labs
• Sample source: An integration an example AUTOSAR project which every part in AUTOSAR (OS, RTE, BSW, MCAL) are collected from different open source.
• automotive software(OSEK & AUTOSAR) - Because I am not powerful so I decided to develop tiny but smart part of automotive software based on open source, and create a general AUTOSAR & Automotive Software study environment.

OS

• ucLinux: The Embedded Linux/Microcontroller project is a port of Linux to systems without a Memory Management Unit (MMU).
• Tizen
• Bootstrap yourself to write an OS from scratch. A book for self-learner.
• Kernel 101 – Let’s write a Kernel
• The little book about OS development
• TetrOS - Tetris that fits into the boot sector.
• Writing a Simple Operating System from Scratch
• JamesM's kernel development tutorials
• Bare Bones - a simple kernel for 32-bit x86 and boot it.
• Operating System Development Series
• 7 Steps to Writing a Simple Cooperative Scheduler
• A simple OS kernel for research, teaching, and fun
• Operating Systems C Term 2018

WindowCE

• GuruCE Blog
• Windows CE Base Team Blog
• DevWinCE blog
• Windows Embedded Compact BSP for Raspberry Pi
• Windows Embedded Board Support Package for BeagleBone

Compiler

• ARM Compiler - armasm User Guide

Bootloader

• Writing a boot loader in Assembly and C
• Writing a Bootloader Part 3
• A bootloader for ARM Cortex-M based microcontrollers
• ARMv7M ELF loader
• Writing a Bootloader Part 1
• can-bootloader - The bootloader used to flash our CAN-connected boards
• Bootloaders 101
• Understand boot process: link1, link2, link3
• Keywords: hello world bootloader, writing a bootloader from scratch, how to write a bootloader in assembly, ...

Makefile

• Managing projects with GNU Make
• GCC and Make

Peripheral

Memory Protection Unit

• Building Hardware Components for Memory Protection of Applications on a Tiny Processor
• KeyStone Architecture: Memory Protection Unit (MPU)

USB

• tinyusb - A silly USB stack for Embedded System.

Others

• A practical approach to Kalman filter and how to implement it
• Embedded System programming: Diving into Syllabus for investigation.
• ELC 2018 Presentations
• ARM Edition: Sparky ARM Edition is a Sparky version created for a single board mini computer RaspberryPi.
• The gem5 Simulator is a well-known sophisticated simulator used for computer system research at both architecture and micro-architecture levels. Main page is here.
• LineageOS Android Distribution
• The NoCAN platform
• Realtime OS on Embedded Systems
• These projects were produced in the five weeks of ECE 4760 each year.
• Advanced fault backtrace library for ARM Cortex-M series MCU
• mcu-starter-projects - Simple starter projects for bare-metal MCU development.
• DirtyJTAG - JTAG adapter firmware for STM32F1
• Generic_MCU_Software_Infrastructure - Provide necessary software infrastructure, service, macros to support some high level abstruct concept or paradigm, such as OOPC, FSM, delegate (event-driven) and etc.
• apollo - An open autonomous driving platform.
• • A Development Environment for ARM TrustZone with GlobalPlatform Support

Embedded GUI Development

• Embedded Wizard - Sophisticated GUI for Your Embedded Platform
• lvgl - Graphics library to create an embedded GUI with easy-to-use graphical elements, beautiful visual effects and low memory footprint. It offers anti-aliasing, opacity, and animations using only one frame buffer.

Machine Learning & AI on MCU

• nnom - A higher-level Neural Network library for microcontrollers.
• nn4mp
• Embedded Learning Library (ELL) - Microsoft's library to deploy intelligent machine-learned models onto resource constrained platforms and small single-board computers.
• Qualcomm Neural Processing SDK for AI - Libraries to developers run NN models on Snapdragon mobile platforms taking advantage of the CPU, GPU and/or DSP.
• CMSIS NN - A collection of efficient neural network kernels developed to maximize the performance and minimize the memory footprint of neural networks on Cortex-M processor cores.
• ARM Compute Library - Set of optimized functions for image processing, computer vision, and machine learning.
• uTensor - AI inference library based on mbed (an RTOS for ARM chipsets) and TensorFlow.
• EmbededAI - A library that provides elements of AI to C++ applications.
• kann - A lightweight C library for artificial neural networks

Utilities

• lm4tools
• mspdebug - Debugging tool for MSP430 MCUs
• pycs - Python Based ARM CoreSight Debug and Trace Tools

Tips & tricks

• Awesome Cheat Sheets

Awesome Cheat Sheets for Developer Utility, like Git, Vim , Tmux, SublimeText, Markdown, Shell.

• Vim Config for Reading Linux Kernel Source Code
• GNU GDB Debugger Command Cheat Sheet

Tech blogs

• What a C programmer should know about memory
• What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
• What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior part 2 part 3
• A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++
• Software Engineering Takeaways

FAQ_Embedded

• Boot section is removed (gcc, ld, ar, as)
• What are .axf files?

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BOOKs

• Mastering the Raspberry Pi
• Modern C