Firmware Subteam Overview

[Day of the week], [month][numerical date][time]

Virtual standups: Saturdays at 1:00pm and Wednesdays at 8:00pm.

• We’ve written a lot of firmware, but now we need to make it actually work on hardware! That means writing, running, and debugging smoke tests so that we can be sure that each driver and each hardware component works, and debugging our projects until everything runs on hardware correctly.

• We need all our projects on different boards to work together smoothly.

• The end goal for the term is an electrical mockup: we connect the boards together, flash our firmware onto all of them, and test that the whole system works.

• Telemetry is the system that sends the car’s data into the cloud and broadcasts it over both LTE and Wi-Fi to the chase car.

• This project will hopefully let us run simulate running projects on multiple boards at the same time so that we can catch integration bugs before they happen.

• Create more tools like smoke tests that we and the hardware team can use to quickly validate boards and the firmware on them.

C Programming Language

All of our firmware is written in bare-metal C!

Git

Version control

GitHub

Code review, hosting our code

GNU Make

Build system

Travis CI

Continuous integration: checking that every pull request builds and passes unit tests!

VirtualBox + Vagrant

VM for development

Jira

Ticket tracking

Confluence

Documentation