Embedded Devices
High-quality Embedded Engineering across the Stack
Perhaps your expertise lies in other areas and you need a leg up into the world of embedded software to keep your competitive advantage. KDAB helps you create well-built, easily maintained and cleanly extended software, letting you meet your market milestones and exceed customer expectations irrespective of your embedded hardware. We are able to craft every aspect of your embedded product from development processes, software frameworks, application code and build automation right through to testing frameworks, so your team can pick up after we're gone. We do all this with an unwavering focus on continuing quality, reliability and performance.
“Working with KDAB was very rewarding. They felt like part of the team and channeled their substantial expertise into a very collaborative process.”
Kevin Spannaus
Project Manager at Speidel
Full Stack Engineering
Creating an exceptional embedded product calls for specialized knowledge and expertise across the software stack. At the lowest level, KDAB helps with software development for device drivers, peripheral integration, security connectivity, functional safety and hardware access, as well as with adding support for graphics standards where needed. Above that layer, KDAB is proficient with multiple middleware components that power your application and can assist either by developing them or making use of open-source or commercially available software components. At the apex of the software stack, we build applications for you using languages such as C++ and Rust, as appropriate for the task at hand.
Software Process
When dealing with complex software, it can be challenging to onboard new engineers to a large team or manage the build process. KDAB helps your team build fully automated, reproducible system images with complete traceability. We also build you custom software development kits (SDKs), so your engineers can easily onboard external contractors and new employees within a precisely controlled and identical environment. Cross-platform intelligence is incorporated from the outset, enabling your team to support multiple hardware architectures.
Performance Optimization
Although embedded systems are increasingly powerful, they come with limitations. KDAB can help you find and remedy inefficiencies across your software stack, including slow performance, excess memory use, or slow boot times. We offer our expertise in software analysis with high-powered tools, many of which have been developed or contributed to by KDAB and are de facto standards in the industry. In this way, your team is empowered to maximize your hardware's potential.
Software Lifecycle
Especially for embedded devices, software deployment, updates and maintenance are complex. Not only because of recent regulatory developments such as the Cyber Resilience Act in the European Union, a well-planned lifecycle process and technical prerequisites for over-the-air updates (OTA) are increasingly significant for device creators and vendors. KDAB can help you plan and design this process and provide you with the necessary tools.
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If you have questions about embedded devices or want to discuss your project, we look forward to hearing from you.
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