October 2025 monthly summary for Northeastern-Electric-Racing/Embedded-Base. Delivered Ethernet networking capabilities by integrating a LAN8670 PHY driver and a NetX Duo-based Ethernet module, including initialization, link management, physical layer clocking (PLCA), and network messaging readiness. Also resolved a NetX build issue by including the missing stdbool.h header to ensure proper boolean handling in Ethernet headers.

September 2025 monthly summary for Northeastern-Electric-Racing/Embedded-Base. Delivered portability and correctness improvements to the timer module, strengthening cross-family STM32 compatibility and code reliability. Implemented two commits that generalize the HAL include path and ensure fixed-width integer definitions, reducing future maintenance and enabling smoother multi-family builds.

Monthly performance summary for 2025-08 for Northeastern-Electric-Racing/Embedded-Base. This period delivered two primary features and addressed a critical build reliability issue, with clear business value through improved CAN capabilities, observability, and maintainability. 1) Key features delivered - FDCAN Protocol Support on STM32H563: implemented CAN protocol support including data structures for CAN messages, CAN interface initialization, message sending, and filter configuration. This enables robust, real-time CAN communication for the vehicle subsystem. (Commits: 8d4af8dd3df668a8e665c7fd125d0313ca21937a; ffb4f37c0c54e2e1875afd34dd2214f915d08e06) - Enhanced Serial Communication with Monitoring and Graphing: added enhanced serial monitoring and graphing capabilities, plus a new serial2 build command and related header/source files to improve observability and developer experience. (Commit: 9bedb0bb7a48f92a240971fc1336cf552906b77b) 2) Major bug fixes - Fixed build warnings caused by STM32H563 fdcan.c, improving compile reliability and reducing maintenance burden. (Commit: ffb4f37c0c54e2e1875afd34dd2214f915d08e06) 3) Overall impact and accomplishments - Business value: Expanded CAN hardware support and enhanced telemetry enable safer data exchange, faster issue diagnosis, and reduced field risk. The changes improve subsystem reliability, facilitate downstream feature work that depends on CAN data, and streamline development with better observability. - Technical impact: Clean, maintainable code with clearer CAN data paths, improved terminal experience, and stronger CI/build stability, contributing to lower integration risk and faster iteration cycles. 4) Technologies/skills demonstrated - Embedded C and STM32 HAL/FDCAN integration, CAN bus protocol design, serial I/O and data visualization integration, and build system integration for improved reliability.

July 2025 - Build System Modernization and CMake Integration for Northeastern-Electric-Racing/Embedded-Base. This month focused on expanding build flexibility, CI compatibility, and developer onboarding by introducing CMake alongside Make, updating the ARM toolchain in Docker, and auto-detecting and invoking CMake when a CMakeLists.txt is present. These changes deliver tangible business value by reducing local/CI setup friction, ensuring reliable ARM builds, and laying groundwork for future feature work.

June 2025 performance summary focusing on delivering CAN-based voltage monitoring capabilities and improving subsystem visibility across two repositories. Key work included implementing a Total Voltage CAN message for system voltage monitoring and enabling CAN-based reporting of segment voltages (total and average) with dedicated message IDs and refactored handling. These changes provide granular voltage visibility, faster diagnostics, and improved safety for the vehicle electronics stack. The work spans Embedded-Base and Shepherd-BMS, with a focus on end-to-end data flow over CAN and clear data paths for future monitoring and analytics.

May 2025 monthly summary for Northeastern-Electric-Racing/Embedded-Base: Focused on improving bit-level data handling and reliability. Delivered a bug fix for the EXTRACT_BIT macro and introduced signed integer support in the bitstream, with clear commits and validation to strengthen data integrity in embedded processing.

April 2025 monthly summary focused on delivering safety, thermal management, and configuration standardization across three repositories. Key features were implemented to reduce risk and improve maintainability: in Shepherd-BMS, Battery Balancing Safety Control During Shutdown disables balancing when the shutdown circuit is open, renames the interlock read pin to a shutdown pin, and updates the state machine to reflect the new input. In Cerberus, Battbox Fan control was integrated into the main BMS loop to regulate temperature using CAN-reported data, improving thermal management. In Embedded-Base, JSON serialization/deserialization for shutdown and fuse configurations standardizes critical system parameter handling. These changes collectively enhance safety, reliability, and cross-repo configurability, while leveraging existing CAN-based telemetry and state-machine patterns to maintain system predictability and ease of maintenance.

March 2025 focused on extending CAN interoperability, upgrading hardware interfaces, and improving diagnostics across three Northeastern Electric Racing repos. Delivered extended CAN ID support, modernized CAN initialization, and RMF-level improvements to visibility, diagnostics, and fault handling. Migrated GPIO expander drivers to newer hardware, aligned PDU control with hardware revision 2, and integrated charging detection. These efforts increased interoperability, reliability, and maintainability while enabling smoother hardware integration and richer telemetry for operators and developers.

February 2025 Monthly Summary for Northeastern Electric Racing Key features delivered - 24A System Driver IO and PDU 24A Support (Embedded-Base). Implemented driver input/output and added PDU 24A hardware support. Commits: 24A Driver IO (#227) — 8f2af22f94051fe067cec13cc2ea817753652abf; Implement PDU 24A (#194) — 0b142dff6bb9e282ead0fcdaf1e468e3998fe5a5. - Bitstream Data Structure Enhancements. Introduced a new bitstream data structure with initialization, bit-by-bit addition, reading sequences, and overflow detection. Commits: Bitstream Datastructure (#241) — fdcbbf78ee9763ad485d7fa8a17bc1979e79d5d9; Added Overflow Property to Bitstream (#251) — fe86f9ddd49ccfd65c9232ce7bb8eccaf8ba45d2. - INA226 Driver 16-bit Address Support. Updated driver to accept 16-bit register addresses, adjusted function pointers, and stopped bit-shifting device address during initialization. Commit: Changes to INA226 driver (#249) — 348d592ccf782ce4319d810888e9e8d831659374. - Torque Dial Driver (Cerberus). Added torque dial driver IO to set torque limits via dial input; introduced new CAN IDs and handling for dial and button updates; integrated dial state with torque limit control in the efficiency function. Commit: Added Torque Dial Driver IO (#273) — 17439e1cd885897ca13fd49076e7d8a747cbf352. Major bugs fixed - MPU Fault Handling Reliability Improvement. Refactored fault handling to use bitwise operations for robustness and clarity. Commit: Changed MPU faults to bitwise (#234) — 11229fdf0434058349addc09329ffc5f3852169a. Overall impact and accomplishments - Expanded cross-repo hardware support and reliability: Embedded-Base gains 24A I/O and PDU support, bitstream processing, and 16-bit addressing; Cerberus gains torque dial integration, enabling dynamic torque control. These changes reduce onboarding time for new hardware, improve data integrity, and strengthen fault visibility. - Established a scalable foundation for future hardware variants with modular driver updates and robust data structures. Technologies/skills demonstrated - Embedded driver development (I2C/SPI-like patterns, 24A, INA226) and CAN bus integration (Cerberus). - Data structure design and bit-level operations (bitstream, overflow detection, bitwise fault handling). - Initialization safety and pointer management for hardware drivers. - End-to-end feature integration from hardware interface to control logic (torque limits, efficiency function).

January 2025 performance narrative: Delivered diagnostic-focused features across three embedded subsystems, established standardized CAN messaging for fault timer data, and refactored steering input handling to improve maintainability. These changes enhance fault visibility, enable faster diagnostics, and reduce future integration risk.

Monthly summary for 2024-11: Delivered key sensor driver work in the Northeastern-Electric-Racing/Embedded-Base repository, focusing on robust electrical monitoring capabilities and cross-platform maintainability. Key developments include a new INA226 current sensor driver with register-level access and complete current, power, and voltage measurement support, plus calibration and configuration options for precise monitoring. In addition, the Ads131m04 driver was hardware-abstracted and corrected to fix the CS pin handling, significantly improving portability across platforms. Impact: Enables real-time energy monitoring and safer power management for embedded systems, reducing integration risk and setup time for different hardware targets. These changes lay groundwork for broader sensor integration and energy analytics in power electronics applications. Technologies/skills demonstrated: embedded C driver development, register-level I/O, hardware abstraction layer (HAL) design using function pointers, calibration/configuration workflows, and git-based engineering practices.