If you’re building with Texas Instruments MCUs, we’ve got a new tool that we hope will make your life a lot easier. The Temboo agent, our AI-driven embedded programming agent, now works directly inside Code Composer Studio and supports SimpleLink devices.

Why build an AI for TI?

As you’re no doubt aware, generative AI has transformed how people write code. Foundation models like Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and others produce high-quality code on demand, dramatically reducing the amount of time it takes to make progress on dev tasks. However, these general purpose AI models often run into trouble when it comes to the specifics of embedded systems development. They don’t know your MCU, they don’t know your SDK, your peripherals, your toolchain, your IDE, and all the rest. This is where the Temboo Agent comes in.

“General purpose AI models often run into trouble when it comes to the specifics of embedded systems development.“

The Temboo Agent is built specifically for people developing on top of TI hardware. It understands SimpleLink MCUs, TI drivers, TI-RTOS patterns, peripheral configuration flows, and the realities of building and debugging firmware in a resource constrained environment. The Temboo Agent runs in CCS, so it has the context it needs to give you answers that directly reference your work, not just decent guesses.

If you want the full backstory on why we built the Temboo Agent and how it’s differs from general-purpose AI coding agents, you can find that over here. In this post we’ll tell you what you can do with the Temboo Agent today and show you how you can quickly put it to work in developing with your TI SimpleLink hardware.

In Action: The Temboo Agent for TI SimpleLink

The Temboo Agent is a chat-based AI agent that helps you write, debug, and refactor firmware for TI SimpleLink devices. It’s designed to feel like having an expert embedded developer at your disposal at all times. The Temboo Agent knows the layout of TI projects, understands the SimpleLink SDK, is fluent in SysConfig settings, can help you configure peripherals without getting lost in PDFs, and lots more.

“It’s designed to feel like having an expert embedded developer at your disposal at all times.“

Crucially, you don’t need to change where you write code. The Temboo Agent integrates directly into TI’s CCS IDE, meaning it can see your project structure, reference your code, access build error logs, and ultimately help you in very specific ways so that you can move faster without breaking your workflow.

Let’s jump in and take a look at some examples of The Temboo Agent at work.

Examples of the Temboo Agent in CCS

1. Generating application code

You talk to the Temboo Agent like you would any AI chatbot i.e., you give it commands in the form of text prompts, and it returns answers to you. There’s a lot going on behind the scenes to make sure those answers are as TI-specific as possible, and frankly, as good as possible, but for you it’s simple – just tell the Temboo Agent what you’d like it to do, as if you’re talking to an engineering colleague. For example, you can say something like:

“I want to set up a GPIO interrupt on DIO15 on a CC2652R1. Falling edge trigger. Please give me a complete code example and setup instructions.”

And the Temboo Agent returns all the code, configs, and instructions you need. Check it out.

2. Debugging tricky behavior, with context

If you encounter a build error, the Temboo Agent will automatically detect it and will ask you if you’d like the error fixed. If there’s a more subtle error that you want to address, you can share project context with the Temboo Agent (by uploading the relevant code and config files), describe the problem via prompt, and collaborate on the solution.

3. Get board-level, hardware-aware guidance

Need help whittling down power consumption on a battery-powered SimpleLink design?

The Temboo Agent can walk you through sleep modes, sensor-read batching, RF duty cycling, and all the TI-specific levers that a generic AI coding model tends not to focus on. These aren’t hallucinated “maybe this will work” suggestions, they’re based on the SDKs, datasheets, examples, reference implementations, and patterns that exist across the TI SimpleLink ecosystem.

Here’s an example of the Temboo Agent getting to work, optimizing power consumption on a simple blinky app that uses UART to communicate LED status.

The Future of AI-Assisted Embedded Development

While the Temboo Agent is already very powerful, we feel that we’re just scratching the surface of what’s possible when it comes to using AI to assist with building embedded systems on top of TI hardware.

We’re moving towards a reality in which AI-assisted embedded development feels much less like wrestling with toolchain and SDK quirks, or trawling through documentation, and much more like collaborating with someone who deeply understands your hardware, your codebase, and what you’re trying to build. Beyond generating code and fixing build errors, we’re building features around runtime debugging, power and memory optimization, peripheral simulation, and lots more. Imagine all the aspects of firmware development that you’d like the best engineers to work on – that’s what the Temboo Agent will help with. Ultimately, we see the future as one in which the your embedded toolchain ceases becoming a point of friction, and starts being an active development partner.

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Try the Temboo Agent for TI SimpleLink Now!

If you build on TI SimpleLink hardware, we’d love for you to take the Temboo Agent for a spin!

Sign up for the Temboo Agent, install the CCS extension, and see how much faster and smoother embedded development can feel with an AI agent that actually understands your hardware.

If you have feedback, examples of things you’d like the Temboo Agent to handle, or ideas for deeper TI support, we’d love to hear from you.