Embedded systems
engineering, reimagined

HARDCOREAI brings AI-powered intelligence into your embedded workflow — starting with the VS Code extension every firmware engineer needs.

Real challenges. No hype.

Embedded engineering is brutal. We're fixing the specific bottlenecks that steal your weekends.

HardFault Black Holes

Debugging a random hardfault shouldn't take three days of manually tracing CFSR registers and stack frames.

DTS Conflicts

Discovering a pin-mux conflict after a 3-hour Yocto image build is a failure of tooling, not of the engineer.

Datasheet Fatigue

Peripheral configs are often copy-pasted from Stack Overflow or old projects because complex datasheets are a pain to parse.

Available Now — Free

HARDCOREAI for VS Code

The only AI assistant that actually understands your hardware. No generic code snippets—just hardware-aware intelligence.

  • HardFault Decoder

    Paste a raw register dump. Get the root cause, fix, and exact datasheet citation in 5 seconds.

  • Inline DTS Validation

    Real-time pin-mux conflict detection. Catch hardware mapping errors before you compile.

  • Peripheral Generator

    Generate perfect C register configurations directly from actual datasheet specs, not hallucinations.

  • Datasheet Hover Docs

    Hover over a register name in code to see the bit layout and description directly from the datasheet.

vscode/extension/hardcoreai
void HardFault_Handler(void) {
  // Register Dump Detected...
SCB->CFSR = 0x01000000; AI Analysis
  // → ROOT CAUSE: Unaligned access at 0x20004001
  // → REF: Cortex-M4 RM §4.3.11
}
Releasing Soon secondary product

hardcoreai CLI

The same intelligence — in your terminal and CI/CD pipeline

  • hardcoreai validate dts Catches conflicts before your 3-hour build
  • hardcoreai debug hardfault Root cause in the terminal
  • hardcoreai generate peripheral Correct register config for any SoC
  • Exit code 1 on errors Drop into GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI

✓ You're on the list. We'll ping you when hardcoreai validate ships.

hardcoreai-validate.sh
$ hardcoreai validate dts board.dts --soc imx8mp
✗ ERROR line 247 — PIN_MUX_CONFLICT: i2c2 + uart2 share PAD_GPIO_B0_08
→ FIX Use PAD_GPIO_B0_10 for I2C2_SCL
→ REF IMX8MP RM §8.2.4
exit code 1

Built with engineers, for engineers

Early pilot & validation conversations

"Finding the I2C pull-up missing in 60 seconds instead of 4 days. That's the difference."

Firmware Engineer Industrial IoT pilot

We're at the beginning.

Here's what's coming:

LIVE

VS Code Extension

Core hardware intelligence & validation.

SOON

CLI Tool

Bringing validation into CI/CD pipelines.

Q3 2026

Boot Log Analyzer

Semantic log parsing for early-stage bring-up.

Q4 2026

Formal Constraint Validator

Multi-domain system integrity checking.