AI Can Write Firmware. Can You Trust What It Wrote?
AI coding agents are changing how software gets built, but embedded development plays by different rules. Firmware is bound to specific hardware, which means AI-generated code can compile successfully but still fail when deployed to the target.
Linux Foundation Education, in partnership with AC6, has launched AI-Assisted Embedded Development (AC6402), a hands-on, 3-day instructor-led course focused on using AI coding agents effectively in embedded development. Through live instruction and practical exercises, you’ll work from specification through hardware validation while learning how to evaluate AI-generated firmware against real engineering requirements. You’ll learn how to:
- Get the most out of AI coding agents by applying best practices for prompting and orchestrating them.
- Write functional specification documents (FSDs) that steer AI coding agents before any code gets generated.
- Ground AI agents in engineering sources such as SVD files, reference manuals, and errata, and extend their capabilities with MCP servers and reusable skills.
- Review, test, and validate AI-generated firmware to confirm it runs correctly on the target hardware.
- Apply security practices to AI-assisted workflows, including defining trust boundaries before generated code reaches hardware.
The course is designed for embedded engineers, firmware developers, and technical leads. Participants should have working knowledge of C, hands-on experience with embedded targets, and basic familiarity with Git and the command line. No prior AI experience is required.
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to take a feature from specification to validated firmware and confidently evaluate and explain AI-generated changes during a design review.
