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Issue Highlights

🦀 Infineon Expands Rust Safety Ecosystem
🛠️ ESP32-C6 Resources & Hardware Emerge
🔒️ Open Titan Releases Open Source Security Chip
🧰 🍎 Embedded Swift SwiftIO Hardware Emerges
🏗️ 🍎 Embedded Swift ARM and RISC-V Projects Emerge
🛟 Initiative to make C Safe with Xr0
🚗 Infineon and NXP roll-out SDV Platforms
🧠 AMD Announces 2nd Generation Versal Devices
🦀 Two New Rust Releases
📺️ Rust Nation Recordings go Live on YouTube
🤖 State of Edge AI report release
💪 ARM releases new designs and platform for edge AI

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News & Article Roundup

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

Embedded Rust News 📰

• Infineon expands Rust ecosystem for AURIX™ with HighTec’s ISO 26262 ASIL D qualified Rust compiler and other solutions ⭐️

• HighTec and Doulos offer Rust training including use with legacy C/C++ code

• EtherCrab 0.4

Rust News 🗞️ 🦀 

• Security advisory for the standard library (CVE-2024-24576)

• Changes to Rust's WASI targets

• Announcing Rust 1.77.2 ⭐️ 

• Changes to u128/ i128 layout in 1.77 and 1.78

• Announcing Rust 1.77.1 ⭐️ 

• Leadership Council March Representative Selections

• Rust Nation UK 2024 Videos are Live ⭐️ 

• Critical Rust flaw enables Windows command injection attacks

• Rust, Python, Apache Foundations, and Others Announce Big Collaboration on Cybersecurity Process Specifications

• Google devs ditched C++ for Rust

• Rust Bindings Are Being Worked On For Linux CPUFreq Drivers

General Embedded News/Trends 📈 

• 2024 State of Edge AI Report ⭐️ 

• Arm Targets the AIoT with High-Performance Ethos-U85 NPU and Corstone-320 Platform ⭐️ 

• Automated Vehicles Insights 👀 

• Aethero wants to become the space industry’s Intel or Nvidia

• Canonical announces collaboration with Qualcomm

• Synopsys Collaborates with Arm to Drive Automotive Design Excellence

• Battery Ventures Strategically Invests In Safety Systems Company AdaCore

• Infineon Levels Up Machine Learning Performance With Three New MCUs

• Canonical joins ELISA

• Infineon expands automotive offering with programmable high voltage PSoC 4 family

• AMD Enables Single-Chip Intelligence for AI-Driven Embedded Systems with 2nd Gen Versal Devices ⭐️ 

• Road to embedded world: MIPS Unlocks Power of Edge AI Through Data Movement

• NXP simplifies security for IoT devices

• NXP intros industrial MCX W series for multi-mode IoT – with high-accuracy BLE

• Automotive computer chip maker NXP rolls out new platform ⭐️

• Espressif’s ESP32-P4 Application Processor: Details Begin To Emerge 

• Infineon and Green Hills Software present integrated platform for real-time applications for software-defined vehicles ⭐️ 

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️ 

• Is C/C++ Memory Safe?

• Swapping C++ for Rust: The Upskilling Opportunity You have Been Waiting for

• Xr0 Makes C Safer than Rust ⭐️ 

• Understanding Memory Management in Rust: A Comparative Insight with C++ and Java/Kotlin

• Rust Bytes: Is Rust the Future of JavaScript Tooling?

• Rust Doubles the Greatness of C and C++?

Hardware Announcements 🛠️ 

• Seeed Studio's SenseCAP Watcher Combines Local TinyML with Cloud LLMs to Deliver Smart Monitoring

• Arduino announces the Pro 4G Module and Portenta Mid Carrier board at Embedded World 2024

• M5Stack BugC2 programmable robot base has an STM32 control chip and a four-way motor driver

• The Arduino PLC Starter Kit aims to teach programmable logic control to high school and university students

• Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32C6 Dev Board Features a Compact Form Factor ⭐️ 

• Waveshare’s New ESP32-C6-Pico Board Shares the Same Form Factor as the Raspberry Pi Pico ⭐️ 

• SwiftIO Micro ⭐️ 

• ArduCam PiNSIGHT is An AI Camera Board for the New Raspberry Pi 5

• Run mainline Linux on $5 dollar hardware

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Embedded Rust Bluetooth on ESP: BLE Client

• Embedded Rust Bluetooth on ESP: Secure BLE Client

• Writing a Unix-Like OS in Rust

• Rust Apps on Apache NuttX RTOS and QEMU RISC-V

• Programming ESP32 with Rust: OTA firmware update

• Embedded TypeScript: Hosting a Front End on a ESP32 with Rust

• How to write unit tests in Rust

• Learning Rust: System Calls

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• Rust Beyond Software: A Hardware Company's Journey with Rust

• Why is Linux and open source in general in danger now?

• Neural Networks in Rust: Calculate gradient

• Zed Decoded: Async Rust

• Will C++ Become a Safe Language Like Rust and Others?

• Streamlining Strategies for Embedded Software Development

• Prioritize Embedded System Security for Edge Applications

• Rust: Beyond the Hype – A Deep Dive into Its Lasting Impact

• Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability

• Is your roadmap prioritizing memory safe programming languages?

• Memory Safe or Bust?

• Rust developers at Google are twice as productive as C++ teams

General Embedded 📟️ 

• Computer Architecture / Processor Design (RISC-V) Playlist ⭐️ 

• Embedded Swift Example Projects for ARM and RISC-V Microcontrollers ⭐️ 

• Open-Source Security Chip Released ⭐️ 

• Espressif's Guide Offers Easier Risk-Free ESP32-C3 Security Experimentation via the QEMU Emulator ⭐️ 

• A Technical Deep Dive Into Signaloid's Uncertainty-Tracking Computation Platform

• Diving into JTAG - BSDL (Part 4)

• Address Sanitizer for Bare-metal Firmware

• The Impact of Embedded Systems in Digital Finance

• Smart Parking for Smarter Cities: Building an End-to-End Data Pipeline with Raspberry Pi HMIs, AWS, TensorFlow, and N3uron

• WebAssembly Adoption: Is Slow and Steady Winning the Race?

• How to install STM32 VS Code Extension

• How to create projects using the STM32 VS Code Extension

• How to debug using the STM32 VS Code Extension

• Effective Malware Detection for Embedded Computing Systems with Limited Exposure

• Arduino UNO R4 WiFi Experiments

• GDBFuzz - Fuzzing Embedded Systems Using Hardware Breakpoints

• Embedded Systems: Difference between Software Breakpoint and Hardware Breakpoint

• Diving Into Zephyr’s New Hardware Model

• How Embedded Systems Are Transforming Robots in Manufacturing

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫 

🏫 First steps with Rust - Microsoft

Noteworthy Book 📚️ 

📕 Code like a Pro in Rust

Noteworthy Newsletter 📰 

📰 TLDR - Keep up with Tech in 5 mins

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Updates, Events, & Announcements

Updates & announcements from the community

Notable Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨 

• nrf51-hal v0.17.0

• nrf52810-hal v0.17.0

• nrf9160-hal v0.17.0

• nrf5340-net-hal v0.17.0

• nrf5340-app-hal v0.17.0

• nrf52840-hal v0.17.0

• nrf52833-hal v0.17.0

• nrf52832-hal v0.17.0

• nrf52811-hal v0.17.0

• imxrt-rt v0.1.4

• mips-rt v0.3.6

• svdtools v0.3.14

• svd2rust v0.33.0

Upcoming/New Learning Resources & Training 📚

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

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• 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

• Espressif DevCon - CFP Deadline May 3rd, September 3-5, 2024, Online

• RustConf 2024 - CFP Deadline April 25th, September 10-13, 2024, Montreal, Canada

• EuroRust - CFP Deadline June 3rd - 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 🌍️ 

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

• 🦀 (New) 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

• 🦀 Master thesis: WebAssembly AoT (Ahead of Time translator) for Aurix - Infineon, Munich, Germany

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

• 🦀 Rust developer for robotics infrastructure - Sevensense, Zurich, Switzerland

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

• 🦀 Senior Embedded Software Engineer - Yaak, Berlin, Germany

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

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

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

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

• 🦀 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 🌎️ 

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

• 🦀 (New) Embedded Linux Software Engineer - Canonical, Global, Hybrid

• 🦀 Associate Software Engineer - Edge Protocols - SmartThings, Minneapolis, MN

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

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

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

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

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