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Embassy
Embassy is the next-generation framework for embedded applications. Write safe, correct, and energy-efficient embedded code faster, using the Rust programming language, its async facilities, and the Embassy libraries.
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Rust + async ❤️ embedded
The Rust programming language is blazingly fast and memory-efficient, with no runtime, garbage collector, or OS. It catches a wide variety of bugs at compile time, thanks to its full memory- and thread-safety, and expressive type system.
Rust's async/await allows for unprecedentedly easy and efficient multitasking in embedded systems. Tasks get transformed at compile time into state machines that get run cooperatively. It requires no dynamic memory allocation and runs on a single stack, so no per-task stack size tuning is required. It obsoletes the need for a traditional RTOS with kernel context switching, and is faster and smaller than one!
Batteries included
Hardware Abstraction Layers
HALs implement safe, idiomatic Rust APIs to use the hardware capabilities, so raw register manipulation is not needed. The Embassy project maintains HALs for select hardware, but you can still use HALs from other projects with Embassy.
embassy-stm32, for all STM32 microcontroller families.
embassy-nrf, for the Nordic Semiconductor nRF52, nRF53, nRF54 and nRF91 series.
embassy-rp, for the Raspberry Pi RP2040 and RP23xx microcontrollers.
embassy-mspm0, for the Texas Instruments MSPM0 microcontrollers.
embassy-mcxa, for NXP's MCX-A series of microcontrollers.
esp-rs, for the Espressif Systems ESP32 series of chips.
Embassy HAL support for Espressif chips, as well as Async Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and ESP-NOW, is being developed in the esp-rs/esp-hal repository.
ch32-hal, for the WCH 32-bit RISC-V(CH32V) series of chips.
mpfs-hal, for the Microchip PolarFire SoC.
py32-hal, for the Puya Semiconductor PY32 series of microcontrollers.
ra-hal, for the Renesas RA family of microcontrollers.
Time that Just Works -
No more messing with hardware timers. embassy_time provides Instant, Duration, and Timer types that are globally available and never overflow.
Real-time ready -
Tasks on the same async executor run cooperatively, but you can create multiple executors with different priorities so that higher priority tasks preempt lower priority ones. See the example.
Low-power ready -
Easily build devices with years of battery life. The async executor automatically puts the core to sleep when there's no work to do. Tasks are woken by interrupts, there is no busy-loop polling while waiting.
Networking -
The embassy-net network stack implements extensive networking functionality, including Ethernet, IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, and DHCP. Async drastically simplifies managing timeouts and serving multiple connections concurrently.
embassy-ptp-driver provides a network-stack-independent interface for reading and adjusting PTP hardware clocks.
Bluetooth
The trouble crate provides a Bluetooth Low Energy 4.x and 5.x Host that runs on any microcontroller implementing the bt-hci traits (currently
nRF52, nrf54, rp2040, rp23xx and esp32 and serial controllers are supported).
The nrf-softdevice crate provides Bluetooth Low Energy 4.x and 5.x support for nRF52 microcontrollers.
The embassy-stm32-wpan crate provides Bluetooth Low Energy 5.x support for stm32wb microcontrollers.
LoRa -
The lora-rs project provides an async LoRa and LoRaWAN stack that works well on Embassy.
USB -
embassy-usb implements a device-side USB stack. Implementations for common classes such as USB serial (CDC ACM) and USB HID are available, and a rich builder API allows building your own.
Bootloader and DFU -
embassy-boot is a lightweight bootloader supporting firmware application upgrades in a power-fail-safe way, with trial boots and rollbacks.
Sneak peek
use defmt::info;
use embassy_executor::Spawner;
use embassy_time::{Duration, Timer};
use embassy_nrf::gpio::{AnyPin, Input, Level, Output, OutputDrive, Pin, Pull};
use embassy_nrf::{Peri, Peripherals};
// Declare async tasks
#[embassy_executor::task]
async fn blink(pin: Peri<'static, AnyPin>) {
let mut led = Output::new(pin, Level::Low, OutputDrive::Standard);
loop {
// Timekeeping is globally available, no need to mess with hardware timers.
led.set_high();
Timer::after_millis(150).await;
led.set_low();
Timer::after_millis(150).await;
}
}
// Main is itself an async task as well.
#[embassy_executor::main]
async fn main(spawner: Spawner) {
let p = embassy_nrf::init(Default::default());
// Spawned tasks run in the background, concurrently.
spawner.spawn(blink(p.P0_13.into()).unwrap());
let mut button = Input::new(p.P0_11, Pull::Up);
loop {
// Asynchronously wait for GPIO events, allowing other tasks
// to run, or the core to sleep.
button.wait_for_low().await;
info!("Button pressed!");
button.wait_for_high().await;
info!("Button released!");
}
}
Examples
Examples are found in the
examples/ folder separated by the chip manufacturer they are designed to run on. For example:
examples/nrf52840 run on the
nrf52840-dk board (PCA10056) but should be easily adaptable to other nRF52 chips and boards.
examples/nrf5340 run on the nrf5340-dk board (PCA10095).
examples/stm32xx for the various STM32 families.
examples/rp are for the RP2040 and RP235x chips.
examples/mcxa266 run on the FRDM-MCXA266 board.
examples/mcxa577 run on the FRDM-MCXA577 board.
examples/std are designed to run locally on your PC.
Running examples
Install probe-rs following the instructions at https://probe.rs.
Change directory to the sample's base directory. For example:
cd examples/nrf52840
Ensure Cargo.toml sets the right feature for the name of the chip you are programming.
If this name is incorrect, the example may fail to run or immediately crash
after being programmed.
Ensure .cargo/config.toml contains the
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