Freed from MCU supplier lock-in with AI-enabled cross-vendor configuration tool

Embedd.it has released its cross-vendor Graphical MCU Configurator. The launch removes a major barrier to hardware decoupling, enabling electronics manufacturers to achieve vendor independence, accelerate development, and enhance supply chain resilience.

Free to use, the product leverages AI to retrieve and organise data on more than 1,400 MCU families from all major manufacturers, including Renesas, STMicroelectronics, NXP Semiconductors, and Texas Instruments. The Graphical MCU Configurator presents a single, unified tool for configuring MCUs and boards, allowing users to visually assign pin functions, configure settings, and generate device trees and overlays. Support for bare-metal configuration outputs will be added soon.

The tool's intuitive configuration interface provides developers with a productivity boost, relieving them from the task of working through thousands of pages of datasheets to discover pin functions and device operating parameters.

For the leaders of electronics OEMs, the configurator accelerates go-to-market with new hardware while strengthening supply chain resilience. It significantly reduces the friction that slows down new integrations, enabling engineers to upload and reconfigure existing DTS files, as well as port configurations across MCU families and even between different vendors.

By making it easy to migrate between hardware, the company enables OEMs to implement second-sourcing strategies and to maintain the freedom to choose between different MCU vendors when updating the design of an existing product.

Michael Lazarenko, CEO and co-founder of Embedd.it, said: "Today, we are giving electronics manufacturers a faster path to market with new hardware. By enabling true hardware-software separation, the Graphical MCU Configurator makes software-defined design a reality. Engineers can seamlessly port and reconfigure across vendors, while our tools handle configuration and driver generation automatically in the background."

The Graphical MCU Configurator forms part of a suite of embedded developer tools set for release by the company, powered by the Embedd Data Hub, the industry's first standardised, AI-enabled database covering hundreds of categories of active components. By centralising hardware-specific data for thousands of parts, the Embedd Data Hub enables new capabilities, such as automated driver generation, and further streamlines every stage of embedded software development.

The free Graphical MCU Configurator is available as both a Visual Studio Code extension and a web-based application. For enterprises, the company also provides a self-hosted option.