FLASH
Board-aware AI platform

The AI platform for embedded software.Validated on real hardware.

Flash gives AI agents deep hardware-aware context from your firmware, schematics, datasheets, and board logs — so they can build, debug, test, and validate on real devices. Run local or cloud models with production-ready performance.

30-minute engineering eval: board map, init plan, and first firmware diff.

Run locally, on-prem, or in the cloud. No public AI APIs required.

Loop 042STM32H747ILive
Request“The I²C sensor drops frames after 30 s of runtime — find it and fix it.”
Step 1 / 6Firmware projectINDEXING
rtt attached · 3v3 stablei2c1 · 400 kHz
Re-runs on board stateCYCLE 042
11+
MCU SDKs
12+
RTOS / platforms
6
EDA formats
0
data leaves your network

Works across your embedded + AI stack

Firmware & SDKs

ESP-IDFSTM32CubenRF Connect SDKPlatformIOArduino

RTOS & frameworks

ZephyrFreeRTOSVxWorks

Hardware design

KiCadAltium Designer

Local & cloud AI

OllamaLM Studiollama.cppOpenAI-compatibleOpenAIAnthropic

+ more integrations

See it run

Not a chat box. A board-aware engineering surface.

One engine, two surfaces: the Flash CLI in your terminal and Flash Desktop. Board model, firmware context, build output and the serial-debug loop — all on your machine.

flash · CLI — the real TUI layout

Illustrative mock of the Flash terminal UI: a chat transcript adding a BME280 i2c driver — plan, datasheet lookup, a file edit awaiting approval, the build and the serial read — next to a board panel with the Platform, System and Peripherals views.

flash — ~/Projects/Firmware/esp32-sdk-c
Flash
add a BME280 driver over i2c and log temperature every 2 s
plan
  1. 1resolve BME280 · datasheet from cache
  2. 2add component bme280 — i2c driver + 2 s sampling task
  3. 3build for esp32c6 · flash · verify on serial
read_datasheetBME280 · Bosch Sensortec ➔ addr 0x76 · i2c · 8 regs
write_filecomponents/bme280/bme280.c +148 −0

Allow edit? components/bme280/bme280.c

  • yes, and don't ask again for this file
  • yes, once
  • no, tell Flash what to do differently

↑↓ move · ↵ confirm · esc deny

esp_err_t bme280_init(i2c_port_t port, uint8_t addr)
ESP_RETURN_ON_ERROR(i2c_master_probe(port, addr, 50), TAG, "probe");
xTaskCreate(bme280_task, "bme280", 3072, NULL, 5, NULL);
build_firmwareidf.py build ok 42.6 s · 102 KB / 4 MB
read_serialusbmodem1101 · 115200

I bme280: 24.8 C · 41 %RH

driver added, built and verified on the board
~/Projects/Firmware/esp32-sdk-c ψ feature/bme280*
!bash/commands@files
qwen2.5-coder:7b
PROJECT

ESP32-C6normalized

Core
Architecturerisc-v
MCUESP32-C6
Board○ unset
CPU freq160 MHz
Memory
Flash4 MB
RAM512 KB
External RAM○ none
Software
OSfreertos
Frameworkesp-idf
Toolchainriscv32-esp-elf-gcc
Capabilities
wifible802.15.4low-power
[r] recollect[c] copy[e] export[] details

Illustrative data · read-only demo — every tab, sub-tab and view control works

The problem

AI can already write code. It still can’t reach your board — or your IP.

Two separate gaps, and most teams hit both. Fixing one without the other leaves the tool unusable in the lab.

GAP 01 · CONTEXT01/02

The model doesn’t know your hardware

It has never seen your schematic, pin map, clock tree, SDK version or power rails. Four things stay manual:

01

Reconstruct the board

Read schematics, trace pins, identify buses, check clocks, map peripherals.

02

Translate hardware into SDK configuration

Pin muxing, peripheral setup, init code, build settings.

03

Apply senior embedded judgment

Clock trees, reset circuits, voltage domains, bus timing, SDK quirks.

04

Debug the hardware–firmware gap

Wrong SPI mode. Invalid alternate function. Missing pull-up. Clock mismatch.

GAP 02 · DEPLOYMENT02/02

And the assistants that could help can’t run where your IP lives

Every useful answer costs you a copy of the design. For most hardware teams that price is not payable:

01

Cloud-only by design

Every prompt ships schematics, firmware and board data to a third-party API.

02

The contract already forbids it

NDA’d customer designs, defence, medical and automotive programmes.

03

The bench has no internet

Air-gapped labs, secure sites, export-controlled projects.

04

So the tool gets banned

Or used off the record on a personal account — which is the worse outcome.

Flash is built so that closing one gap never opens the other.

Architecture

One platform. Any approved model.

Flash builds the hardware context itself — that part never leaves your machine. The model is a slot: a local runtime, a private endpoint, a frontier API, or a hybrid split. Your security policy picks it, not us.

ARCHITECTUREFIG. 01
SCHEMATICSDATASHEETSREQUIREMENTSFIRMWARESDKBOARD LOGS
Flash Context EnginePROJECT INTELLIGENCE
STATIC ANALYSISBOARD MODELDATASHEET & DOC RETRIEVALEVIDENCE GRAPHFIRMWARE INDEXTASK CONTEXT
Approved model layerSWAPPABLE · YOUR POLICY DECIDES
LOCAL RUNTIMESPRIVATE ENDPOINTSFRONTIER CLOUDHYBRID

OLLAMA · LM STUDIO · LLAMA.CPP · OPENAI-COMPATIBLE · OPENAI · ANTHROPIC

Flash Execution LayerPLAN · EDIT · BUILD · FLASH · DEBUG · TEST
Validation on the real deviceBUILD · TEST · RE-RUN ON BOARD

BOARD STATE, BUILD OUTPUT, TRACES AND FAILURES RETURN TO THE CONTEXT ENGINE

ANSWERS GAP 01

The context engine is the product. It reconstructs the board once and keeps it loaded across bring-up, integration and debugging.

ANSWERS GAP 02

The model layer is swappable. Air-gapped labs run fully local; regulated teams run private endpoints; the rest can use frontier models or split the work.

CLOSES THE LOOP

Nothing is accepted because the model said so. Build output, traces and failures come back as evidence.

Better firmware generation starts before the model generates code.

Why Flash

The same task, with and without the board.

The difference is not the model — it is the hardware context around it, and where that context is allowed to run.

Hardware context

Generic AI assistants

You describe the board manually every session

Flash

Reads schematics, datasheets, specs, and existing code

SDK targeting

Generic AI assistants

Guesses from broad training examples

Flash

Targets your SDK version, APIs, and build system

Where it runs

Generic AI assistants

Cloud-only. Your design leaves the building

Flash

Local, private, or hybrid — inside your security boundary

Debug loop

Generic AI assistants

You paste errors into a new prompt

Flash

Reads build logs, runtime errors, and debug output to iterate

Impact

Built for how embedded teams actually work.

Close the hardware feedback loop

Flash keeps board and firmware context loaded while you iterate through build logs, runtime errors, and debug feedback.

Reduce repetitive bring-up work

Flash handles repetitive bring-up, driver init, and boilerplate so senior engineers focus on architecture.

Help junior engineers move with senior context

Flash explains constraints, trade-offs, and patterns as it works, so juniors move faster without flying blind.

Stop explaining your hardware to tools that don't understand it.

Flash is in private beta. Request a demo and we'll run Flash on your board using a private, local-first workflow.

No commitment · Board map, init plan, and first firmware diff · 30 minutes · Private deployment available

Private / air-gapped deployment → request a secure deployment demo