Which Flash fits your work?

Hardware + firmware

You design the board and write its firmware

Electronics engineers who draw the schematic, lay out the PCB, bring the board up and write the code that runs on it.

• Board and code in one app. Schematic, PCB and BOM editors sit next to the firmware, in the same project.
• An agent that sees both sides. It follows nets from MCU pins to parts and updates the schematic and the pin map together.
• Design and validate your board. Pick parts with their datasheets, then build, program and debug the board you just designed.

Firmware

You write firmware for a board

Firmware and embedded engineers who write drivers and applications, often for a board someone else designed.

• Keep your setup. Flash for VS Code adds the agent to your editor; your extensions and key bindings stay as they are.
• See the board without KiCad. Open the schematic, PCB and BOM next to your code to check a pinout or follow a net.
• Build, flash and debug in one place. Flash Monitor has the build, the debugger, serial, MQTT and Bluetooth LE.

Prefer a dedicated app? Flash IDE gives you the same, plus the hardware editor for when you need to change the board.

Terminal, lab and CI

You work in the terminal, the lab or CI

Engineers who live in the shell, work over SSH on the machine the boards are plugged into, or automate builds and checks.

• The full agent in any terminal. Local or over SSH, with panels for the build, the board and its debug output.
• The design without a viewer. The agent reads the schematic and PCB, and flash hardware inspects them as JSON.
• Commands for scripts and CI. Create, import and build projects and validate the design, with machine-readable output.