Awesome Embedded Resources for Developers
:stars: List of software (HW interfaces, libs, protocols, etc) specifically suitable for resource-constrained Embedded Systems (low-memory and low-power) like 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit microcontrollers.
This page lists names, links and short descriptions. The original list on GitHub is the source and belongs to its authors.
General
Common
wiselib
Generic algorithms library for heterogeneous, distributed, embedded systems.
util.embedded
Useful support code for embedded development.
embxx
Embedded C++ Library.
embedded-libs
Libraries for embedded software (mainly for STM32).
ETLCPP
Embedded Template Library where the user can declare the size, or maximum size of any object upfront.
eFLL
Embedded Fuzzy Logic Library is a standard library for Embedded Systems.
Collection of miscellaneous portable C snippets
Collection of miscellaneous portable C snippets.
sc
Portable, stand-alone C libraries and data structures (C99).
MicroTBX
Open source Microcontroller ToolBoX consisting of software components commonly needed in embedded software applications. MicroTBX is written in the C programming language (C99) with MISRA compliance in mind.
umlibc
A bare-bones libc for memory constrained systems.
µClibc-ng
Embedded C Library.
Embedded Artistry's libc
A stripped-down C standard library implementation targeted for microcontroller-based embedded systems. Reduced set of functionality (due to embedded nature). Chosen for portability and quick bringup.
HWlib
C++ OO micro-controller library for close-to-the-hardware programming.
ctl
C Container Template Library. There is a fast compiling, type safe, header only, template-like container library for ISO C99/C11.
FSMLang
State machine description language with C language generator. Supports flat and hierarchical machines and event subsystem.
Memory >Memory management
libmemory
Memory management library with implementations for malloc(), free(), and other useful memory management functions.
lwmem
Lightweight dynamic memory manager library for embedded systems with memory constraints. It implements malloc, calloc, realloc and free functions.
umm_malloc
Memory Manager For Small(ish) Microprocessors.
o1heap
A highly deterministic constant-complexity memory allocator designed for hard real-time high-integrity embedded systems.
Memory >Buffers
EmbeddedProto
C++ Protocol Buffers implementation specifically suitable for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers. It is small, reliable and easy to use.
protobuf-embedded-c
Protocol buffers generator for resource constrained embedded applications written in the C programming language.
Memory >Ring Buffer
LwRB
Lightweight generic ring buffer manager library.
RingBuffer
Simple Interrupt Safe Ring (Circular) Buffer Queuing Library for Embedded platforms.
lfbb
Lock-free bipartite buffer, a variant of the ring buffer which can always provide contigous space inside the buffer for reading, writing or modifying the data in-place.
Memory >FIFO
fifofast
A fast, generic fifo for MCUs.
Storage >Filesystems
lwext4
An ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem library for microcontrollers.
FatFS
FAT filesystem implementation.
LevelX
Provides Flash Wear Leveling for FileX and Stand Alone purposes.
ufat
Low-memory feature-complete VFAT implementation.
fat_io_lib
Small footprint, low dependency, C code implementation of a FAT16 & FAT32 driver.
SdFat
Arduino FAT16/FAT32 exFAT Library.
fat32
Lighweight FAT32 file system written in C with no thirdparty dependencies. It requires a small port which provide functions for initializing, reading and writing to the MSD.
emfat
FAT32 emulation library for stm32f4.
OpenFAT
FAT filesystem implementation for embedded processors.
uC-FS
Compact, reliable, high-performance, and thread-safe embedded file system for microprocessors, microcontrollers, and DSPs. An optional journaling component provides fail-safe operation while maintaining FAT compatibility.
littlefs
Little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers.
UFFS
Filesystem for NAND devices with wear leveling and good fault tolerance.
Storage >Data Bases
FlashDB
Ultra-lightweight database that supports key-value and time series data.
PureDB
Portable and tiny set of libraries for creating and reading constant databases.
Vedis
Embedded Implementation of Redis (an embeddable datastore C library built with over 70 commands similar in concept to Redis but without the networking layer since Vedis run in the same process of the host application).
microkvs
Tiny key-value store for persisting configuration data on microcontrollers.
Storage >Flash Memory
Protocols
nanoPB
Small code-size Protocol Buffers implementation in ANSI C. It is especially suitable for use in microcontrollers, but fits any memory restricted system.
interchange
Request/response mechanism for embedded development, using atomics.
xmodem
XMODEM Library for embedded, mobile, iot, and desktop systems.
TinyFrame
Simple library for building and parsing data frames for serial interfaces (like UART / RS232).
nanoMODBUS
A compact MODBUS RTU/TCP C library for embedded/microcontrollers.
aem-modbus-simulator
Open-source Python Modbus RTU/TCP slave simulator emulating an industrial DC monitor (147 holding registers, 6 baudrates). Useful for testing embedded firmware Modbus master implementations without physical slave hardware on the bench.
rcobs
Reverse-COBS encoding (rCOBS) is a variant of COBS encoding designed to allow encoding with zero lookahead.
Protocols >Radio Frequency Protocols
RadioHead
Packet Radio library for embedded microprocessors.
Adafruit's RadioHead
Packet Radio library for embedded microprocessors with docs.
Protocols >Network protocols
uIP
Very small implementation of the TCP/IP stack that is written by Adam Dunkels.
LwIP
Small independent implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite that has been initially developed by Adam Dunkels. lwIP suitable for use in embedded systems with tens of kilobytes of free RAM and room for around 40 kilobytes of code ROM.
HttpClient
Http Client Library.
httpio
Stand-Alone Cross Platform request parser and response generator for the HTTP protocol.
PicoTCP
Small-footprint, modular TCP/IP stack designed for embedded systems and the Internet of Things.
RawTCP_Lib
C library for creating and using TCP/IP packets with raw network sockets.
LRNDIS
Ethernet over USB (rndis + lwip).
CycloneTCP
A dual IPv4/IPv6 stack dedicated to embedded applications. The stack is distributed as a full ANSI C and highly maintainable source code (examples not included in GitHub's sources).
StaticNet
C++ TCP/IP and SSH stack with all-static allocations designed for bare metal (no operating system) embedded applications with minimal footprint.
LiveKit
ESP32 SDK for LiveKit: real-time audio, video, and data streaming.
Protocols >Web Server
mongoose
Embedded Web Server and Embedded Networking Library. It implements event-driven non-blocking APIs for TCP, UDP, HTTP, WebSocket, MQTT.
libevhtp
Extremely-fast and secure embedded HTTP servers with ease.
libμhttpd
Very flexible, lightweight and fully asynchronous HTTP server library based on libev and http-parser.
sandbird
Tiny (800sloc) embeddable HTTP server written in C89.
Protocols >MQTT
libemqtt 1
Embedded C client library for the MQTT protocol.
libumqtt 2
Lightweight and fully asynchronous MQTT client C library based on libev.
Paho MQTT
C client library for embedded systems.
Protocols >Protocol Parsers
RegExp
Regular expressions library for embedded systems.
LwGSM
Library for SIMCOM GSM modules to communicate with AT commands and RTOS from host device.
GSM_Engine
Generic AT parser for AT command based modules.
TinyGSM
Small Arduino library for GSM modules, that just works.
LwGPS
Lightweight GPS NMEA parser for embedded systems.
minmea
Lightweight GPS NMEA 0183 parser library in pure C.
atat
Lib for AT-like custom commands processing.
cAT
Plain C library for parsing AT commands for use in host devices.
gzat
Portable AT command parsing library in C++ language.
ATParser
An mbed-os compatible AT command parser.
atcommander
Portable C++ library for sending AT commands and parsing their responses.
LwESP
Lightweight ESP AT commands parser library to communicate with ESP8266 or ESP32 Wi-Fi module using AT commands.
lwpkt
Lightweight packet protocol structure for multi-device communication focused on RS-485.
lwow
Lightweight onewire protocol library optimized for UART hardware on embedded systems.
panStamp-SWAP
Simple Wireless Abstract Protocol for any existing ISM radio.
panStamp-uSWAP
Micro SWAP stack for MCU's connected via UART.
MIN
Microcontroller Interconnect Network protocol version 2.0.
Data processing >Math
liquid-fpm
Software-Defined Radio Fixed-Point Math Library for embedded signal processing.
FPM
C++ header-only fixed-point math library.
Eigen
C++ template library for linear algebra: matrices, vectors, numerical solvers, and related algorithms.
Data processing >DSP and Filtering
liquid-dsp
Digital signal processing library for software-defined radios.
minfft
Small and fast Discrete Fourier Transform library.
iir1
DSP IIR realtime filter library written in C++.
kalman-clib
Microcontroller targeted naive Kalman filter implementation in pure C.
libdspl
Cross-platform digital signal processing algorithm library, written in C language.
pocketfft
Heavily modified implementation of FFTPack.
KISS FFT
Mixed-radix Fast Fourier Transform based up on the principle, "Keep It Simple, Stupid".
CMSIS-DSP
Embedded compute library for Cortex-M and Cortex-A.
SigLib
Digital Signal Processing and Machine Learning Library (x86, Cortex-A and Cortex-M, RISC-V, DSPs from TI, ADI etc).
lsp-dsp-lib
DSP library for digital signal processing provides set of functions that perform SIMD-optimized computing on several hardware architectures. All functions currently operate on IEEE-754 single-precision floating-point numbers.
Data processing >Compression
heatshrink
Data compression library for embedded/real-time systems.
shoco
C library to compress and decompress short strings. It is very fast and easy to use. The default compression model is optimized for english words, but you can generate your own compression model.
SMAZ
Compression for very small strings.
ECL
Embedded Compression Library is not only for embedded, it is mostly oriented for small data and has special optimized low-memory modes for restricted environments.
Unishox2
Hybrid encoder for Short Unicode Strings (Unishox provides the best compression for short text and not to be compared with general purpose compression algorithm like lz4, snappy, lzma, brottli and zstd).
TCOBS
Short messages compression with COBS framing using implicit run-length-encoding, optimized for data containing statistically a bit more 0 and FF bytes in a row, as data often carry 16, 32 or 64 bit numbers with small values.
Data processing >AI ML
Cranium
Portable, header-only, feedforward artificial neural network library written in vanilla C99.
μTensor
TinyML AI inference library.
Fido
Lightweight C++ machine learning library for embedded electronics and robotics.
nnom
Neural Network on Microcontroller (NNoM) is a high-level inference Neural Network library specifically for microcontrollers.
caffepresso
Optimized Library for Deep Learning on Embedded Accelerator-based platforms.
libonnx
Lightweight, portable pure C99 onnx inference engine for embedded devices with hardware acceleration support.
TinyMaix
A tiny inference Neural Network library specifically for microcontrollers (TinyML). Designed to follow the rule: Easy-to-Use > Portable > Speed > Space.
edge-agents (ForestHub)
Open-source (AGPL-3.0) 30 MB AI agent runtime for edge devices. Offline by default; GPIO/UART/MQTT as first-class nodes; local SLMs alongside cloud LLMs. Runs on Raspberry Pi, Jetson, STM32MP25.
Data processing >CV
Embedded SOD
Embedded Computer Vision & Machine Learning Library (CPU Optimized & IoT Capable).
QR-Image-embedded
QR library fork for embedded systems.
Cryptography >General
trussed
Minimal, modular way to write cryptographic applications on microcontroller platforms (Rust).
wolfSSH
Lightweight SSHv2 client and server library written in ANSI C and targeted for embedded, RTOS, and resource-constrained environments - primarily because of its small size, speed, and feature set.
LibHydrogen
Lightweight, secure, easy-to-use crypto library suitable for constrained environments.
krypton
Embedded TLS/DTLS library, source and binary compatible OpenSSL subset.
wolfTPM
Highly portable TPM 2.0 library, designed for embedded use.
mbedTLS
Open source, portable, easy to use, readable and flexible TLS library, and reference implementation of the PSA Cryptography API.
liblithium
Lightweight cryptography library that is portable by design. It requires only standard C99 and does not assume 8-bit addressability, making it suitable for use on some DSP architectures as well as mainstream architectures.
trezor-crypto
Heavily optimized cryptography algorithms for embedded Devices.
poly1305-donna
Implementations of a fast Message-Authentication Code (8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit and 64 bit multiplies versions).
arduinolibs
Arduino Cryptography Library.
tlse
Single C file TLS 1.2/1.3 implementation, using tomcrypt as crypto library.
LibTomCrypt
Fairly comprehensive, modular and portable cryptographic toolkit that provides developers with a vast array of well known published block ciphers, one-way hash functions, chaining modes, pseudo-random number generators, public key cryptography and a plethora of other routines.
Monocypher
Easy to use, easy to deploy, auditable crypto library written in portable C.
minicrypt
Library of crypto primitives for embedded systems.
tinycrypt
Library of cryptographic algorithms provides an implementation for constrained devices of a minimal set of standard cryptography primitives.
tiny-AES-c
Small portable AES128/192/256 in C.
µAES
Lightweight, highly flexible, portable and ANSI-C compatible implementation of the AES encryption and block cipher modes.
CycloneCRYPTO
A cryptographic toolkit designed for use in embedded systems. It provides a comprehensive set of cryptographic primitives (hash functions, stream and block ciphers, public key cryptography) that can be used to add security features to your embedded application.
Cryptography >Elliptic Curve Cryptography
salty
Ed25519 signatures with assembly optimizations for Cortex-M4 and Cortex-M33.
micro-ecc
ECDH and ECDSA for 8-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit processors.
libuecc
Very small generic-purpose Elliptic Curve Cryptography library compatible with Ed25519.
c25519-and-ed25519
Curve25519 and Ed25519 for low-memory systems (Curve25519 scalar multiplication uses less than half a kB of peak stack usage).
Cryptography >Random Number Generation
pcg-c-basic
Code provides a minimal implementation of one member of the PCG family of random number generators, which are fast, statistically excellent, and offer a number of useful features.
pcg-c
Code provides an implementation of the PCG family of random number generators, which are fast, statistically excellent, and offer a number of useful features.
OS
citrus
Bare metal ARM® Cortex®-A5 operating system.
vanilla
Bare metal ARM® Cortex®-M7 operating system.
chaos
Bare metal multicore ARM® Cortex®-A operating system based on a microkernel architecture.
LK kernel
The Little Kernel Embedded Operating System is SMP-aware kernel designed for small systems ported to a variety of platforms and cpu architectures.
QuarkTS
OS for embedded applications that supports prioritized cooperative scheduling, time control, inter-task communications primitives, hierarchical state machines and CoRoutines.
micro-ROS
Micro-ROS puts ROS 2 onto microcontrollers.
OS >RTOS
FreeRTOS™
FreeRTOS.
Zephyr
New generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Apache NuttX
Apache NuttX is a mature, real-time embedded operating system (RTOS).
scmRTOS
Tiny Real-Time Preemptive Operating System intended for use with Single-Chip Microcontrollers. scmRTOS is capable to run on tiny uCs with as small amount of RAM as 512 bytes. The RTOS is written on C++ and supports various platforms.
ChibiOS/RT
Compact and fast real-time operating system supporting multiple architectures designed for embedded applications on microcontrollers of 8-, 16-, and 32-bits.
Azure RTOS ThreadX
Advanced real-time operating system (RTOS) designed specifically for deeply embedded applications.
eCos
Real-time operating system intended for embedded applications (Closed source).
embox
Configurable RTOS designed for resource constrained and embedded systems. Embox main idea is using Linux software without Linux.
RIOT
Real-time multi-threading operating system that supports a range of devices that are typically found in the Internet of Things (IoT): 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit microcontrollers. RIOT is based on the following design principles: energy-efficiency, real-time capabilities, small memory footprint,…
Arm Mbed OS
Platform operating system designed for the Internet of Things. It includes all the features you need to develop a connected product based on an Arm Cortex-M microcontroller, including security, connectivity, an RTOS and drivers for sensors and I/O devices.
RT-Thread
RT-Thread was born in 2006, it is an open source, neutral, and community-based real-time operating system (RTOS). RT-Thread has Standard version and Nano version. For resource-constrained microcontroller (MCU) systems, the NANO kernel version that requires only 3KB Flash and 1.2KB RAM memory…
distortos
Object-oriented C++ RTOS for microcontrollers.
R3-OS
Experimental static (μITRON-esque) RTOS for deeply embedded systems, testing the limit of Rust's const eval and generics (Rust).
Tock Embedded OS
Embedded operating system designed for running multiple concurrent, mutually distrustful applications on low-memory and low-power microcontrollers (Rust).
dandelion
Microkernel Real-Time Operating System in Rust.
MuditaOS
Mobile operating system based on FreeRTOS optimized for E Ink displays - developed for Mudita Pure minimalist phone.
µC/OS-II
Preemptive, highly portable, and scalable real-time kernels. Designed for ease of use on a huge number of CPU architectures.
µC/OS-III
Preemptive, highly portable, and scalable real-time kernel. Designed for ease of use on a huge number of CPU architectures.
QP/C
Real-time embedded framework/RTOS for embedded systems based on active objects (actors) and hierarchical state machines (FuSa, MISRA-C 2023 compliance).
Quite Ok RTOS
Tickless, minimal, 500 lines of code, 7 functions.
OS >Event based scheduler
uevloop
Fast and lightweight event loop for embedded platforms.
lwevt
Lightweight event management system for embedded systems.
async
Asynchronous framework in C for systems where low memory usage is important.
Protothreads
Provide linear code execution for event-driven systems implemented in C designed for severely memory constrained systems, such as small embedded systems or wireless sensor network nodes.
EventOS
Event based system designed for Arduino Framework.
vsf
Versaloon Software Framework - a tiny preemptive-capable event-driven incremental software framework for Embedded Systems.
User Interface >CLI
cli
CLI (Command Line Interface) example build in pure C. Designed for MCU, support block/non-block mode input.
terminal
Command Line Interface for microcontrollers. Flexible terminal settings allow you to integrate it with any microcontroller, without much effort.
SerialMenu
Arduino library to easily create menus on the serial console.
terminal-server
Terminal server for MCU.
microsh
Shell for Small Embedded Devices.
cmd-l
Command line handler for embedded devices.
embedded-cli
Single-header CLI with history and autocompletion for embedded systems.
microshell
Lightweight pure C implementation of virtual shell, compatible with VT100 terminal. Support root tree, run-time mounting paths, global commands, and much more.
microrl
Micro read line library for small and embedded devices with basic VT100 support.
User Interface >Menu
ProMenu
Advanced Generic Application Menu Library. ProMenu Library is used for fast implementing advanced user menus. It supports nesting, numeric settings, text settings, boolean values and events. Library is implemented in C++ with build-in Arduino port, but it is easy to port to different architecture.
BBmenu
Simple portable CLI menu for misc tasks (it is based on text menus, easily defined in a file).
micromenu-v2
Tiny text-orientated menu library in C for embedded use.
User Interface >printf
lwprintf
Lightweight printf library optimized for embedded systems.
Embedded_Printf
Embedded version of the famous "printf( )" function. The idea is create an simple and efficient library to meet some common needs in embedded systems.
tinyprintf
Tiny printf and sprintf library for small embedded systems.
xprintf-fp
Printf for embedded system with floating point support.
xprintf-io
Compact string I/O library. It is ideal for tiny microcontrollers that has insufficient program memory for regular printf function. The recommended use is: writing formatted strings into LCD or UART and for debug/maintenance console.
xprintf
Complete fprintf() formatting implementation, suitable for embedded use.
tiny-printf
Tiny, fast, non-dependent and fully loaded printf implementation for embedded systems. Extensive test suite passing.
tiny-printf new
Enhanced and maintained fork of tiny-printf. Tiny, fast(ish), self-contained and fully loaded printf, sprinf etc.
mini-printf
Minimal printf() implementation for embedded projects.
nanoprintf
The smallest public printf implementation for its feature set.
fmt
Modern formatting library providing a fast and safe alternative to C stdio and C++ iostreams.
emio
Very small binary footprint std::format like formatting using C++20.
User Interface >scanf
User Interface >Logging
embedded-log
Small and beautiful embedded log library for mcu.
EasyLogger
Ultra-lightweight (ROM<1.6K, RAM<0.3k), high-performance C/C++ log library.
trice
Super fast and tiny embedded device C printf-like trace code (works also inside interrupts) and real-time PC logging (trace ID visualization).
embedded-diagnostic-logger
Lightweight logger framework for small microcontroller based projects. Multilevel log and token based string transfer.
elog
Log system is thinked for embedded systems with mininmal resource utilization. The log system is designed to minimize memory compsumition in flash or RAM, enable an eficient in-ram loggin buffer with very efficient storage.
GUI
lvgl
Powerful and easy-to-use embedded GUI with many widgets, advanced visual effects (opacity, antialiasing, animations) and low memory requirements (16K RAM, 64K Flash).
EasyGUI
EasyGUI for embedded systems (highly optimized for STM32).
TouchGFX
User-friendly graphical C++ tool integrated as a free tool in the STM32 ecosystem.
eGUI
An eGUI embedded graphic library.
ESLowGraphics
Low level software graphics library by ErrorSoft (ESLGL).
ftk
GUI library for embedded system.
u8glib
Universal Graphics Library for 8 Bit Embedded Systems.
u8g2
U8glib library for monochrome displays, version 2.
SGFX
Lightweight embedded library for displays and touchscreens providing everything required to build a fully featured embedded GUI.
GUIX
Provides a complete, embedded graphical user interface (GUI) library and design environment, facilitating the creation and maintenance of all graphical elements needed by your device.
GUILib
GUI library for embedded systems.
HMI_Library
Human Machine Interface suitable for embedded system.
AFGUI
Embedded GUI Library.
MakiseGUI
Graphics and GUI library for embed systems.
emGUI
Simple C UI Library for embedded platforms.
HAGL
Lightweight Hardware Agnostic Graphics Library for embedded devices. It supports basic geometric primitives, bitmaps, blitting, fixed width fonts. Library tries to stay lightweight but targets reasonably powerful microchips such as ESP32. There is no dynamic allocation.
Embedded-graphics
2D graphics library that is focused on memory constrained embedded devices to draw graphics without using any buffers (Rust).
LovyanGFX
Display (LCD / OLED / EPD) graphics library (for ESP32 SPI, I2C, 8bitParallel / ESP8266 SPI, I2C / RP2040 SPI / ATSAMD51 SPI and more).
UGUI (µGUI)
A graphic library. It supports color, grayscale, monochrome and multiple displays, touch screen, windows and objects, basic geometric primitives, fonts, console. There is no required dynamic allocation and memory for screen buffer. Documentation available on developer's website.
GUI >GUI editors
lv_gui_designer
Drag-and-drop, simple GUI designer built with LittlevGL.
walv
Online, WYSIWYG GUI designer for LittlevGL. Cross-platform supported(Even Android and IOS).
GUI >Font utils
bitmap-OSD-font
A 'C' bitmap font for on screen display.
ttf2mesh
Library for TrueType font tessellation. Allows to convert font glyphs to mesh objects without rasterization.
sfam_generator
Simple scripts for generating bit fonts for STM32, AVR, Arduino or other MCU.
mcufont
A font rendering library for microcontrollers.
picon
Pico-icon set with Hackable Ligature (Designed on a 8-grid: to be readable at 8px 16px 24px 32px 48px).
GUI >Picture manupulation tools
lcd-image-converter
Tool to create bitmaps and fonts for embedded applications; allows you to create bitmaps and fonts, and transform them to "C" source format for embedded applications.
Hardware
embedded-driver
Embedded driver library for various peripheral.
Hardware >IO
FastIO
Fast GPIO forked from http://os.mbed.com/users/Sissors/code/FastIO/ .
Hardware >USB
tinyusb
Cross-platform USB stack for embedded system.
libusb_stm32
Lightweight USB device Stack for STM32 microcontrollers.
CherryUSB
Tiny, beautiful and portable USB host and device stack for embedded system with USB.
Hardware >Flash
SFUD
Serial Flash Universal Driver (using JEDEC's SFDP standard serial (SPI) flash universal driver library).
Hardware >CAN bus
libcanard
Compact implementation of the UAVCAN/CAN protocol in C for high-integrity real-time embedded systems.
Canbus-Message
CAN message assembly and disassembly library for teensy & stm32.
CanBoot
Can Bootloader for MCUs (Currently lpc176x, stm32 and rp2040 MCUs are supported).
Hardware >Sensors
stm32-async-1wire
Non-blocking, register-level 1-Wire master for STM32 (DS18B20 temperature driver on top). Hardware-timed (TIM1+DMA, DMAMUX on G0), interrupt-free, RTOS-agnostic; header-only backends for STM32F1/F0/G0; hardware-validated on Blue Pill (F103) and STM32G031; strong-pull-up parasite powering; released…
Others >Thread management
C-Thread-Pool
Minimal but powerful thread pool in ANSI C.
Others >Bootloaders
mcuboot
Secure boot for 32-bit Microcontrollers.
OpenBLT
Open source bootloader for STM32, XMC, HCS12 and other microcontroller targets. It supports communication interfaces such as: RS232, CAN, USB, TCP/IP and it ships with the easy-to-use MicroBoot PC tool for initiating and monitoring the firmware update. Performing firmware updates directly from an…
TinyUF2
Bootloader based on TinyUSB for embedded devices such as ESP32, STM32 and iMX RT10xx.
wolfBoot
Portable, OS-agnostic, secure bootloader for microcontrollers, supporting firmware authentication and firmware update mechanisms.
Others >Firmware updates
UF2
USB Flashing Format specification for flashing microcontrollers over MSC (Mass Storage Class; aka removable flash drive).
SWupdate
Software Update for Embedded Linux Devices to update system in field. SWUpdate supports local and OTA updates, multiple update strategies and it is designed with security in mind.
Others >Touch Screen
tslib
Touchscreen access library.
Others >Time Management Libs
Others >Embeddable Scripts and Languages
little
A small, fast, easily embeddable language implemented in a single .c file.
Compilers
SDCC
Small Device C Compiler (that targets the Intel MCS51 based microprocessors (8031, 8032, 8051, 8052, etc.), Maxim (formerly Dallas) DS80C390 variants, Freescale (formerly Motorola) HC08 based (hc08, s08), Zilog Z80 based MCUs (Z80, Z180, SM83, Rabbit 2000, 2000A, 3000A, TLCS-90), Padauk (pdk14,…
tcc
Tiny C Compiler (~ 100KB for x86 TCC executable, including C preprocessor, C compiler, assembler and linker).
lcc
Retargetable ANSI C Compiler (fork for ULP in ESP32).
pcc
Portable C Compiler (mirror).
TinyGo
Go compiler for small things: Microcontrollers, WebAssembly (WASM/WASI), and command-line tools (Based on LLVM).
chibicc
Yet another small C compiler that implements most C11 features.
rvcc
Bootstrapped C compiler for 32-bit RISC-V and ARM ISAs (generates executable Linux ELF binaries for RV32IM and ARMv7).
Uncategorized
Apache NuttX Apps
Collection of tools, shells, network utilities, libraries, interpreters and can be used with the NuttX RTOS.
modm
Barebone embedded C++20 library generator for AVR, SAM and ARM Cortex-M Microcontrollers (supported 3534 devices).
cembed
Small utility for embedding files in a C header.
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