Field notes

Short guides we share with clients during engagements—published here for your firmware leads.

Choosing an MCU when your industrial sensor must sleep for years

Leakage current, wake sources, and why the cheapest part on paper becomes expensive after three PCB spins.

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A bring-up checklist we use on every new board spin

Power rails first, then clocks, then one peripheral at a time—plus the log fields we insist on from day one.

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When bare-metal still wins over an RTOS on Cortex-M

RAM budgets, certification friction, and the maintenance cost of tasks you never schedule.

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