WebAssembly and Embedded Software Development

About
Would your embedded product benefit from application logic updates that do not require changes to the full firmware? Or a mechanism for your customers to tweak and extend the functionality of the product? Using their favourite language(s), without proprietary tooling? And all that while your product stays secure, no matter how creative said customers get?

WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) might be exactly what you are looking for.

Join us this evening to learn about the state of the art of running WebAssembly on MCUs, and to experience a practical example of a real world, production grade embedded code base targeting WebAssembly and running in a browser.

Merging the two approaches is then left to the visitors as a take-home exercise.

Presentations

1. 15’: Welcome (Urs/Reto and SCS)
2. 40’: Browser technology on the MCU? Introduction to WebAssembly, overview of existing embedded runtimes, use cases, discussion. (Pascal Mainini)
3. 30’: Unlocking Bluetooth Connectivity in Browsers: From Sensors to Audio (Matthias Ringwald)

Presentations start at 19:00. Afterwards we’ll have plenty of time to discuss and socialize.

About the speakers

• Pascal Mainini is a teacher and researcher at Berner Fachhochschule, focussing on the security of embedded systems and the Internet of Things.
• Matthias Ringwald is a Co-Founder of BlueKitchen GmbH and develops their Bluetooth stack. He knows everything about Bluetooth.