Description: Embedded Nation.
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We are a team of professionals who have dedicated ourselves to the art and craft of embedded system development. We're based in Stockholm, Sweden and we're working with some of the most interesting and innovative companies of our region.
Our experience is that many embedded software development projects are made unnecessarily difficult by the lack of open specifications of the underlying hardware. The lack of documentation prevents the open source community from developing robust and easily integratable drivers for that hardware. Instead, what we find is that much driver and software feature development is done behind closed doors, with binary drivers being common for newly released chipsets.
We believe that the problem is twofold. First, in selecting a hardware platform for a next generation product, the quality and availability of open specifications and software drivers is (in our experience) rarely a major factor. Instead the determining factors are cost and the promised feature set of the new SoC. Secondly, whereas available development time before deployment is usually very scarce, when a deployed system exhibits unstable behaviour there is usually no limit to the resources that will be sp