June 1, 2026
As embedded systems grow in complexity, connectivity, and become more software-defined, developing, testing, and debugging firmware has become an increasingly critical process for modern hardware teams looking to bring products to market faster.
But AI makes it much easier to automate and speed up these processes.
Firmware, embedded, and silicon teams shipping production code on MCUs, MPUs, and custom silicon can benefit from a platform designed to act as an AI firmware engineer, enabling hardware context and overcoming the barriers of general-purpose coding tools.
BootLoop is a software development platform designed to support the creation, verification, and diagnosis of modern hardware systems. BootLoop Test enables automated, hardware-verified end-to-end hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing. The platform also leverages AI to help understand and debug hardware constraints.
BootLoop test behavior
Hardware understanding and interaction are two key capabilities of an AI platform. Get project-specific context from your silicon, schematics, toolchain, existing codebase, logs and traces. Additionally, the platform supports oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, debug probes, and power monitors, as well as simulation models that allow agents to execute, observe, and verify their behavior.
At the firmware level, BootLoop leverages agent-generated firmware on systems with an existing or starting-from-scratch codebase to deeply understand the system’s hardware.
HIL frameworks help users build benches, test suites, and track results. Tests are generated by agents and built into suites to extend automated coverage. The main features of HIL testing are:
- Using a single command installation, teams can move from zero test infrastructure to a complete CI pipeline on real hardware in hours.
- BootLoop’s agent takes PCB design files and component datasheets and automatically generates tests that verify actual hardware operation down to the register level.
- A comprehensive framework that unifies bench, CI, and end-of-line validation on a single platform.
For debugging, root cause analysis tools automatically uncover new issues and bugs, find solutions, and notify users of solutions, allowing agents to learn and improve over time.
Starting the BootLoop test
BootLoop supports engineers developing, testing, and debugging modern hardware systems. In development, agents help bring up new boards, migrate chips, develop chips, tune performance, harden security, and understand code. With Test, you can start, install, configure, generate, and promote BootLoop in under 30 minutes. Testing supports bench onboarding, test generation, and suites running in CI or end-of-line. With debugging, the platform captures bugs as they occur in real time, finds root causes, and learns the system over time.
For more information about BootLoop and BootLoop Test, see https://bootloop.ai/.
Tiera Oliver is an associate editor at Embedded Computing Design. She is responsible for web content editing, product news, and story development. She also manages, edits, and develops content for the ECD podcast. embedded insider.
She will leverage her journalism and content management expertise to oversee editorial content and coordinate with editors to ensure high-quality output across web, print, and multimedia platforms. She manages a variety of projects, helps produce digital magazines, and hosts corporate podcasts by conducting in-depth interviews with industry leaders to provide engaging and insightful discussions.
Tierra attended Northern Arizona University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science. She was also a reporter for a student-run newspaper. Lumberjack.
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