Agent
GitHub's coding assistant and its agent mode, in VS Code and on GitHub, applied to firmware and hardware repos.
The most active tools first.
2 mo ago
AURIX AI Agent connects GitHub Copilot's agent mode in VS Code to Infineon AURIX iLLD drivers, code examples and documentation through MCP. Copilot then builds with GCC and flashes the board with AURIX Flasher. The author's linked videos show a one-sentence prompt blinking every LED on a TC387 and a pose-detection game on a TC375. The extension is Windows-only.
6 mo ago
FreeOCD flashes, verifies, recovers and soft-resets microcontrollers from VS Code through a CMSIS-DAP probe, and opens a two-way SEGGER RTT terminal. The extension registers the same actions as MCP tools for Copilot and other MCP clients. The README lists the Nordic nRF54L15 as the only built-in target; other chips need a target definition file.
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22 d ago
Silicon Labs opened a public beta of its Simplicity AI SDK on 22 September, connecting AI coding assistants to its SDKs, tools and hardware. RFID Journal reports that GitHub Copilot and Codex are validated and that support starts with Bluetooth LE. A Hardware Intent Agent that drafts projects from board schematics is due in alpha in January 2027.
45 d ago
Tech-AD-venture's 23-minute video walks through using AI agents in VS Code for STM32 firmware, contrasting autocomplete with task-based agents. Tools covered include GitHub Copilot, Claude, Codex and PlatformIO. An STM32 RTOS example runs from requirement to review. Its description lists MCP hardware access as a possibility; we could not confirm on-board debugging in the video.
2 mo ago
The author of a dev.to post built a MicroPython voice-announcement player on a Pimoroni Tiny2040 with a MAX98357A amplifier without editing code by hand. GitHub Copilot wrote it until it looped on out-of-memory errors, and Google Antigravity fixed the storage problem. The post says the agent reported all tests passing while a playback-speed change had no effect.
2 mo ago
Espressif published a four-hour workshop on using AI coding agents in Cursor or VS Code for ESP-IDF v6.0.2 work on an ESP32-C5-DevKitC. Six assignments cover agent setup with the Espressif documentation MCP server, spec-driven prompts, token use and debugging. An optional exercise decodes LED frames from a Saleae Logic 2 capture. We found no captures or photos.
5 mo ago
Nordic Semiconductor released 2 MCP servers that connect coding assistants such as Claude Code to its SDK and cloud. The Nordic MCP server adds documentation search, an nrfutil reference, a UART monitor script and SDK workflow commands. The nRF Cloud server reads fleet data such as logs and coredumps, without write access. The post shows no hardware runs.
5 mo ago
Keysight has released version 0.1 of its MCP Server for Instrument Control as a Windows executable. The release notes list 18 tools that discover VISA instruments, resolve SCPI commands from each instrument's definition file and run them. An engineer approves a plain-language preview of every command before it reaches hardware. Sessions are logged, and a simulation mode needs no instruments.
