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Embedded Firmware Development Services in Massachusetts

Massachusetts turns research into hardware faster than almost anywhere in the country. Robots leave Boston labs, surgical devices come out of Cambridge startups, and defense electronics ship from the Route 128 corridor. Electrobit Tech gives these teams firmware engineers who can keep pace with that speed.

We write the code that sits closest to your silicon: boot sequences, BSPs, peripheral drivers, real-time control loops, low-power sleep modes and the secure update path that keeps devices current in the field. You can bring us in for one module or hand us the full firmware stack.

Our clients include university spin-outs moving from lab prototype to first product, established OEMs in Greater Boston and suppliers in Worcester and the Merrimack Valley. If you need dependable Embedded Firmware Development Services in Massachusetts without growing your payroll, we are ready to start.

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What we deliver for Massachusetts teams

Motor control and sensor fusion firmware
Low-power firmware for wearables and medical devices
Embedded Linux, Yocto and BSP development
Secure boot and signed OTA updates
BLE, Wi-Fi, UWB and cellular connectivity
Code audits and end-of-life MCU migration

Industries

Firmware Built Around Massachusetts Industries

The state’s hardware economy is spread across a few strong clusters. Each one asks something different of its firmware, so we adapt our process to the sector you serve.

Boston and Cambridge – Robotics and Medical Technology

Greater Boston is one of the world’s largest robotics hubs, and Kendall Square feeds a steady stream of medtech startups. We build motor control firmware, encoder and IMU drivers, ROS integration, and power-managed firmware for handheld and wearable medical devices, with test records your quality team can review.

Route 128 and I-495 Belt – Defense, Aerospace and Semiconductors

The ring of technology parks around Boston hosts defense contractors, analog chip companies and aerospace suppliers. We deliver deterministic RTOS firmware, DSP code for signal chains, secure bootloaders and evaluation-board firmware for new silicon.

Worcester – Life Sciences and Precision Manufacturing

Worcester’s biomanufacturing and engineering base relies on lab instruments, process controllers and automated equipment. We write firmware for pumps, dosing systems, sensor interfaces and industrial protocols such as Modbus and CAN.

Lowell and the Merrimack Valley – Test, Measurement and Industrial Electronics

The Merrimack Valley has a long history in electronics manufacturing and instrumentation. We develop data-acquisition firmware, calibration routines, production test firmware and embedded Linux builds for measurement and control equipment.

We also work with companies in Springfield, Framingham, Burlington, Waltham, Andover and across Western Massachusetts.

Services

Firmware Services for Massachusetts Companies

Product Firmware from Scratch

We plan and write firmware for new products, from the first blinking LED on a prototype board to a release candidate ready for compliance testing. Sensors, actuators, displays, radios and power management are brought together into one stable codebase.

Chipset and SDK Integration

Our engineers work daily with toolchains from ARM, Texas Instruments, NXP, Nordic, STMicroelectronics, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Intel and Analog Devices. That familiarity shortens ramp-up time when your hardware uses a chip your team has not touched before.

Board Bring-Up and Driver Development

When first-article boards arrive, we verify clocks, memory, power rails and peripherals, then write the drivers and bootloader that the rest of the firmware depends on. Problems found at this stage cost far less to fix than problems found in the field.

Process

Our Firmware Development Process

We run every engagement in four stages and share a written review at the close of each one.

01. Discovery

We study your schematics, datasheets and product requirements, then list every open question before a line of code is written.

02. Firmware architecture

We define the task model, memory map, interfaces, power states and update strategy, and agree them with your engineers in a short design document.

03. Build

We develop in Embedded C, C++ and Python, write drivers, port RTOS or embedded Linux, and add connectivity and OTA updates in planned sprints with regular builds you can test.

04. Verification and handover

We run unit, integration and hardware-in-the-loop tests, then hand over source code, build instructions, test reports and maintenance notes.

Capabilities

Technical Capabilities

Real-Time Operating Systems

FreeRTOS, Zephyr, ThreadX (Azure RTOS), NuttX, RTEMS and VxWorks for products where timing must be guaranteed.

Bare-Metal Development

Tight, interrupt-driven firmware for small MCUs where every microamp and every kilobyte counts.

ARM Cortex-M, Cortex-A and Cortex-R

From Cortex-M0+ sensor nodes to Cortex-A application processors running embedded Linux.

Motor Control and Robotics

Field-oriented control, stepper and BLDC drivers, encoder feedback and ROS 2 integration for robots and automated equipment.

Signal Processing

DSP firmware for filtering, FFT and sensor fusion on TI C2000 and C6000, Analog Devices SHARC and Blackfin, and Arm CMSIS-DSP.

Low-Power Design

Sleep-state planning, current profiling and duty-cycled radios to extend battery life on wearables and portable devices.

Wireless and IoT Protocols

BLE, Wi-Fi, UWB, Thread, Zigbee, LTE-M and NB-IoT, with MQTT, CoAP and TLS/DTLS to the cloud.

Firmware Security

Secure boot chains, signed images, encrypted storage and hardware crypto acceleration.

Testing and Debugging

Unit tests, hardware-in-the-loop rigs, JTAG/SWD debugging and logic-analyzer traces for hard-to-reproduce faults.

Legacy Code Takeover

We audit inherited firmware, stabilise it and port it to a supported MCU when a part reaches end of life.

Platforms we work with

STMicroelectronicsTexas InstrumentsNXPNordic SemiconductorAnalog DevicesRenesasMicrochipSilicon LabsQualcommLinux/Android-based processors

Why Us

Why Massachusetts Companies Work With Electrobit Tech

Research-to-product experience

We are comfortable turning a working lab prototype into firmware that is stable, testable and ready for production.

Eastern Time overlap

We hold calls during your Boston morning and continue work while your team is offline, so progress is waiting when you log in.

Senior engineers at a lower cost

You get experienced firmware talent without competing in one of the most expensive engineering hiring markets in the US.

Clear IP ownership

NDA before kickoff and full source code ownership when the project closes.

Hardware, IoT and manufacturing support

Firmware, PCB design, cloud connectivity and production support from one team.

Start Your Massachusetts Firmware Project

Whether you are spinning a robot out of a Cambridge lab, preparing a medical device for verification or updating a defense product on the 128 corridor, Electrobit Tech can move your firmware forward. Send us your requirements and we will reply with a suggested approach, timeline and estimate.

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