Speed Up Your Embedded Software Development

Development time depends on how many steps are involved and how complex they are. Here's how our embedded development process typically breaks down:

1. Initiation: signing NDAs, gathering and clarifying requirements, and scoping out the work.
2. Planning: analysing requirements, building a timeline, flagging risks, planning communication, and putting the project team together.
3. Development: moving through defined milestones — firmware development, prototyping, and thorough QA testing.
4. Validation: releasing the firmware, preparing technical documentation, and giving deliverables a final review.
5. Release: bringing designs to life, integrating components, and deploying the system for its intended use.
6. Support and maintenance: ongoing firmware support, functional improvements, and updates to SDKs or libraries as needed.

There's no single fixed price for embedded software development — cost tracks with the amount of work and time involved. For turnkey engineering, the price depends on:

• whether requirements are already defined or need to be shaped with our help;
• whether the design exists or needs to be built from scratch;
• which platforms need support;
• code design, including documentation;
• testing and other project documentation.

Under a "team as a service" arrangement, cost tracks the time your dedicated team spends building your embedded system.

Yes — we start by signing an NDA and nailing down the project details. From there, we put together a business proposal, and once it's signed off, our engineers get to work turning your idea into something real.

Yes. We work along the V-model, so every design level has a matching test level — see Every design level has a test level. Unit, integration, system, penetration and endurance tests run inside our CI/CD pipeline, and only a build that passes all of them becomes a production binary. Our own engineers carry out the tests.

Yes. Specially trained AI agents run automated tests on our products continuously, around the clock, in addition to the tests in our CI/CD pipeline. They explore the product, repeat test scenarios, report what they find and keep the test documentation current. Our engineers review every finding.

On a mockup test device we build for each product — a hardware-in-the-loop rig. Every firmware build from the pipeline is flashed to it and tested with the real hardware, simulated inputs and live measurements, so problems between the two show up before production. See step 5 in From commit to production binary.

A versioned production binary that has passed every stage of the pipeline, together with the documentation generated along the way: test reports, release notes and the technical documents agreed for your project.

We put clear agreements in place to cover ownership and protection of intellectual property throughout our work together. As standard practice, we sign NDAs to protect sensitive information and spell out ownership rights in the project contract. And we'll only reference your project publicly — on our site or elsewhere — with your permission.

Documentation on client projects generally falls into four groups:

• Requirements and architecture.
• Technical description of features.
• Comments within the code itself.
• User documentation.

We work through the architecture documentation together with you. The scope of the technical documentation is agreed separately, based on how complex the application is and whether a third-party team will need to support it — which also shapes the timeline and cost.

Test reports and release documentation come out of the CI/CD pipeline itself, and our AI test agents keep them current, so they always match the version you receive.