Why teams pick FirmwareForge
Firmware development teams often have the weakest CI/CD practices in an engineering organisation. A typical embedded project has a shared build server with a manually maintained toolchain, tests that only run manually before a release, and a signing process that involves copying the private key to a developer machine. None of these practices would be acceptable in a software development team, but the tooling to do better has not existed in an accessible form.
FirmwareForge brings standard software engineering practices to firmware. Every commit builds in a pinned, reproducible environment. Tests run on QEMU for fast feedback and on real hardware for confidence before a release. The signing pipeline uses an HSM so the private key is never in a file, never on a developer machine, and never in a CI environment variable.
The binary size tracking feature catches a category of problem that is unique to embedded development. An application with a memory leak is bad; a firmware that exceeds the flash capacity of the target device simply does not fit and cannot be deployed. FirmwareForge tracks binary size per module across every build and alerts when a commit is approaching or exceeding the configured limit.
Who it is for
FirmwareForge is used by embedded development teams who want CI/CD practices equivalent to their software counterparts, hardware product companies with security requirements that mandate HSM signing, and organisations with regulatory requirements for firmware SBOM and reproducible builds.