Why Forged?

Forged was developed by embedded system engineers to solve issues faced during the development and manufacturing of hardware.

Some specific goals that forged is trying to solve:

• Easily and reliably deploy firmware to production, where the production house may be an external department or even out-of-house contract manufacturer continents away.
• Guarantee data discoverability, retention, and preservation
• Allow easy device-specific configuration management
• Enable non-technical individuals to easily use complex manufacturing processes without complex training
• Enable traceability within the manufacturing and provisioning process to well-defined requirements and data layouts.
• Enable manufacturers to easily validate device behaviors before shipping product to customers