Pigweed#

Sustained, robust, and rapid embedded product development for large teams

Get started#

Overview

Understand the core components of Pigweed and determine whether Pigweed is a good fit for your project.

Tour of Pigweed

Explore key Pigweed features, such as hermetic building, full C++ code intelligence in VS Code, communicating with devices over RPC, host-side and on-device unit tests, and lots more in a guided walkthrough.

Bazel quickstart

Fork our minimal, Bazel-based starter project to create a new Pigweed project from scratch. The project includes a basic blinky LED program that runs on Raspberry Pi Picos and can be simulated on your development host.

More get started guides

Set up a C++-based Zephyr project, set up GitHub Actions, integrate Pigweed into an existing Bazel project, and more.

Pigweed SDK launches with Raspberry Pi RP2350#

The first preview release of the Pigweed SDK has launched with official hardware support for Raspberry Pi’s newest microprocessor products, the RP2350 and Pico 2! Check out the following blog posts to learn more:

What is Pigweed?#

Libraries

Over 150 libraries (“modules”) enabling you to use modern C++ and software development best practices without compromising performance, code size, or memory

Automation

Easier automated building, testing, and linting for Bazel, GN, and CMake projects

Environments

Hermetic and replicable development environments for your entire team - no more struggling with toolchains and “it worked on my machine”

Who’s using Pigweed?#

Pigweed has shipped in millions of devices, including Google’s suite of Pixel devices, Nest thermostats, satellites, and autonomous aerial drones.

Showcase: pw_console#

pw_console is our multi-purpose, pluggable REPL and log viewer. It’s designed to be a complete development and manufacturing solution for interacting with hardware devices via pw_rpc over a pw_hdlc transport. Gone are the days of hacking together a REPL and log viewer for each new project!

Using pw_console to interact with a device#

What’s new in Pigweed#

Our changelog (What’s new in Pigweed) is paused while we investigate how to further automate our changelog authoring process to make the workload more manageable. Only the changelog is paused; Pigweed itself is still a highly active project! In the meantime, you can join our monthly community meeting (Pigweed Live) or check out our commit log to get a sense of what we’ve been working on recently.

Talk to us#

Chat room

For real-time discussion with the Pigweed team, head over to our Discord.

Monthly community meeting

Our next Pigweed Live is Mon Jun 30, 2025 1PM (PDT). Please join us to discuss what’s new in Pigweed and anything else Pigweed-related that’s on your mind. Join our mailing list to receive an invite to the next meeting.

Issues

Found a bug? Got a feature request? Please create a new issue in our tracker.