Difficulty Communicating Microcontroller Flash and RAM Usage to Non-Technical Stakeholders
Embedded engineers repeatedly need to show clients, project managers, or executives how much microcontroller flash and RAM is used and whether a new feature fits within the remaining budget. Standard tools such as arm-none-eabi-size and spreadsheets convey this precisely to engineers but fail to communicate it clearly to non-technical audiences. The recurring problem across many contracting engagements is translating low-level memory-usage numbers into something an outside stakeholder can grasp instantly.
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