diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 4e476c406c..bcda8a64d0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         make arm_sdk_install --trace
 
+    - name: Setup Rust
+      run: |
+        rustup install nightly
+        rustup target add thumbv7em-none-eabihf
+        cargo install cbindgen
+
     # EmuFlight version
     - name: Get Firmware Version
       id: get_version
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 3e4bfaa6eb..230947ffab 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ jobs:
       - name: Prepare environment
         run: make arm_sdk_install
 
+      - name: Setup Rust
+        run: |
+          rustup update stable
+          rustup target add thumbv7em-none-eabihf
+          cargo install cbindgen
+
       - name: Execute Build
         run: make all RELEASE=${{ inputs.release_build && 'yes' || 'no' }}
 
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8a6e74d6c0..97da0fa07e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -50,3 +50,6 @@ ubuntu*.log
 
 # EEPROM image file (created by SITL)
 eeprom.bin
+
+src/rustemu/include/*
+src/rustemu/target/*
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 456205e781..5d25fec59a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -218,6 +218,18 @@ INCLUDE_DIRS    := $(INCLUDE_DIRS) \
 INCLUDE_DIRS    := $(INCLUDE_DIRS) \
                    $(TARGET_DIR)
 
+RUSTEMU_DIR         := $(ROOT)/src/rustemu
+RUSTEMU_INCLUDE_DIR := $(RUSTEMU_DIR)/include/
+RUSTEMU_TARGET_DIR  := $(RUSTEMU_DIR)/target/thumbv7em-none-eabihf/release
+RUSTEMU_HEADER      := $(RUSTEMU_INCLUDE_DIR)/rustemu.h
+RUSTEMU_LIBRARY     := $(RUSTEMU_TARGET_DIR)/librustemu.a
+RUSTEMU_SOURCES     := $(shell find $(RUSTEMU_DIR)/src -name '*.rs')
+
+INCLUDE_DIRS    := $(INCLUDE_DIRS) \
+                   $(RUSTEMU_INCLUDE_DIR)
+
+EXTRA_LD_FLAGS   := $(EXTRA_LD_FLAGS) -L$(RUSTEMU_TARGET_DIR) -lrustemu
+
 VPATH           := $(VPATH):$(TARGET_DIR)
 
 include $(ROOT)/make/source.mk
@@ -250,7 +262,7 @@ CC_DEBUG_OPTIMISATION   := $(OPTIMISE_DEFAULT)
 CC_DEFAULT_OPTIMISATION := $(OPTIMISATION_BASE) $(OPTIMISE_DEFAULT)
 CC_SPEED_OPTIMISATION   := $(OPTIMISATION_BASE) $(OPTIMISE_SPEED)
 CC_SIZE_OPTIMISATION    := $(OPTIMISATION_BASE) $(OPTIMISE_SIZE)
-CC_NO_OPTIMISATION      := 
+CC_NO_OPTIMISATION      :=
 
 #
 # Added after GCC version update, remove once the warnings have been fixed
@@ -347,6 +359,12 @@ CLEAN_ARTIFACTS += $(TARGET_DFU)
 # Make sure build date and revision is updated on every incremental build
 $(OBJECT_DIR)/$(TARGET)/build/version.o : $(SRC)
 
+$(RUSTEMU_LIBRARY): $(RUSTEMU_SOURCES)
+	cd $(RUSTEMU_DIR) && cargo build --release --target thumbv7em-none-eabihf
+
+$(RUSTEMU_HEADER): $(RUSTEMU_LIBRARY)
+	cd $(RUSTEMU_DIR) && cbindgen --lang c -o $(PWD)/$(RUSTEMU_HEADER)
+
 # List of buildable ELF files and their object dependencies.
 # It would be nice to compute these lists, but that seems to be just beyond make.
 
@@ -357,7 +375,7 @@ ifeq ($(EXST),no)
 $(TARGET_BIN): $(TARGET_ELF)
 	@echo "Creating BIN $(TARGET_BIN)" "$(STDOUT)"
 	$(V1) $(OBJCOPY) -O binary $< $@
-	
+
 $(TARGET_HEX): $(TARGET_ELF)
 	@echo "Creating HEX $(TARGET_HEX)" "$(STDOUT)"
 	$(V1) $(OBJCOPY) -O ihex --set-start 0x8000000 $< $@
@@ -381,8 +399,8 @@ $(TARGET_BIN): $(TARGET_UNPATCHED_BIN)
 	$(V1) dd if=$(TARGET_UNPATCHED_BIN) of=$(TARGET_BIN) conv=notrunc
 
 	@echo "Generating MD5 hash of binary" "$(STDOUT)"
-	$(V1) openssl dgst -md5 $(TARGET_BIN) > $(TARGET_UNPATCHED_BIN).md5 
-	
+	$(V1) openssl dgst -md5 $(TARGET_BIN) > $(TARGET_UNPATCHED_BIN).md5
+
 	@echo "Patching MD5 hash into binary" "$(STDOUT)"
 	$(V1) cat $(TARGET_UNPATCHED_BIN).md5 | awk '{printf("%08x: %s",(1024*$(FIRMWARE_SIZE))-16,$$2);}' | xxd -r - $(TARGET_BIN)
 	$(V1) echo $(FIRMWARE_SIZE) | awk '{printf("-s 0x%08x -l 16 -c 16 %s",(1024*$$1)-16,"$(TARGET_BIN)");}' | xargs xxd
@@ -395,12 +413,12 @@ $(TARGET_BIN): $(TARGET_UNPATCHED_BIN)
 	@echo "Extracting HASH section from unpatched EXST elf $(TARGET_ELF)" "$(STDOUT)"
 	$(OBJCOPY) $(TARGET_ELF) $(TARGET_EXST_ELF).tmp --dump-section .exst_hash=$(TARGET_EXST_HASH_SECTION_FILE) -j .exst_hash
 	rm $(TARGET_EXST_ELF).tmp
-	
+
 	@echo "Patching MD5 hash into HASH section" "$(STDOUT)"
 	$(V1) cat $(TARGET_UNPATCHED_BIN).md5 | awk '{printf("%08x: %s",64-16,$$2);}' | xxd -r - $(TARGET_EXST_HASH_SECTION_FILE)
-	
+
 # For some currently unknown reason, OBJCOPY, with only input/output files, will generate a file around 2GB for the H730 unless we remove an unused-section
-# As a workaround drop the ._user_heap_stack section, which is only used during build to show errors if there's not enough space for the heap/stack. 
+# As a workaround drop the ._user_heap_stack section, which is only used during build to show errors if there's not enough space for the heap/stack.
 # The issue can be seen with `readelf -S $(TARGET_EXST_ELF)' vs `readelf -S $(TARGET_ELF)`
 	$(V1) @echo "Patching updated HASH section into $(TARGET_EXST_ELF)" "$(STDOUT)"
 	$(OBJCOPY) $(TARGET_ELF) $(TARGET_EXST_ELF) --remove-section ._user_heap_stack --update-section .exst_hash=$(TARGET_EXST_HASH_SECTION_FILE)
@@ -416,7 +434,7 @@ $(TARGET_HEX): $(TARGET_BIN)
 
 endif
 
-$(TARGET_ELF): $(TARGET_OBJS) $(LD_SCRIPT) $(LD_SCRIPTS)
+$(TARGET_ELF): $(RUSTEMU_HEADER) $(RUSTEMU_LIBRARY) $(TARGET_OBJS) $(LD_SCRIPT) $(LD_SCRIPTS)
 	@echo "Linking $(TARGET)" "$(STDOUT)"
 	$(V1) $(CROSS_CC) -o $@ $(filter-out %.ld,$^) $(LD_FLAGS)
 	$(V1) $(SIZE) $(TARGET_ELF)
@@ -708,7 +726,6 @@ test_versions:
 test_%:
 	$(V0) cd src/test && $(MAKE) $@
 
-
 # rebuild everything when makefile changes
 $(TARGET_OBJS): Makefile $(TARGET_DIR)/target.mk $(wildcard make/*)
 
diff --git a/src/main/blackbox/blackbox.c b/src/main/blackbox/blackbox.c
index 552760f141..9c5f77556d 100644
--- a/src/main/blackbox/blackbox.c
+++ b/src/main/blackbox/blackbox.c
@@ -36,8 +36,9 @@
 #include "build/debug.h"
 #include "build/version.h"
 
+#include <rustemu.h>
+
 #include "common/axis.h"
-#include "common/encoding.h"
 #include "common/maths.h"
 #include "common/time.h"
 #include "common/utils.h"
diff --git a/src/main/blackbox/blackbox_encoding.c b/src/main/blackbox/blackbox_encoding.c
index 200c00b5d7..1d9ba4fd8d 100644
--- a/src/main/blackbox/blackbox_encoding.c
+++ b/src/main/blackbox/blackbox_encoding.c
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@
 #include "blackbox_encoding.h"
 #include "blackbox_io.h"
 
-#include "common/encoding.h"
 #include "common/printf.h"
 
+#include <rustemu.h>
 
 static void _putc(void *p, char c)
 {
diff --git a/src/main/common/encoding.c b/src/main/common/encoding.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 3bb2f709ae..0000000000
--- a/src/main/common/encoding.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * This file is part of Cleanflight and Betaflight.
- *
- * Cleanflight and Betaflight are free software. You can redistribute
- * this software and/or modify this software under the terms of the
- * GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
- * Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
- * any later version.
- *
- * Cleanflight and Betaflight are distributed in the hope that they
- * will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
- * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
- * See the GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this software.
- *
- * If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
- */
-
-#include "platform.h"
-
-#include "encoding.h"
-
-/**
- * Cast the in-memory representation of the given float directly to an int.
- *
- * This is useful for printing the hex representation of a float number (which is considerably cheaper
- * than a full decimal float formatter, in both code size and output length).
- */
-uint32_t castFloatBytesToInt(float f)
-{
-    union floatConvert_t {
-        float f;
-        uint32_t u;
-    } floatConvert;
-
-    floatConvert.f = f;
-
-    return floatConvert.u;
-}
-
-/**
- * ZigZag encoding maps all values of a signed integer into those of an unsigned integer in such
- * a way that numbers of small absolute value correspond to small integers in the result.
- *
- * (Compared to just casting a signed to an unsigned which creates huge resulting numbers for
- * small negative integers).
- */
-uint32_t zigzagEncode(int32_t value)
-{
-    return (uint32_t)((value << 1) ^ (value >> 31));
-}
diff --git a/src/main/common/encoding.h b/src/main/common/encoding.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 8eb845c226..0000000000
--- a/src/main/common/encoding.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * This file is part of Cleanflight and Betaflight.
- *
- * Cleanflight and Betaflight are free software. You can redistribute
- * this software and/or modify this software under the terms of the
- * GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
- * Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
- * any later version.
- *
- * Cleanflight and Betaflight are distributed in the hope that they
- * will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
- * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
- * See the GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with this software.
- *
- * If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
- */
-
-#pragma once
-
-#include <stdint.h>
-
-uint32_t castFloatBytesToInt(float f);
-uint32_t zigzagEncode(int32_t value);
diff --git a/src/rustemu/Cargo.lock b/src/rustemu/Cargo.lock
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..45855cb55c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/rustemu/Cargo.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,337 @@
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+[[package]]
+name = "winapi-i686-pc-windows-gnu"
+version = "0.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ac3b87c63620426dd9b991e5ce0329eff545bccbbb34f3be09ff6fb6ab51b7b6"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "winapi-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu"
+version = "0.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "712e227841d057c1ee1cd2fb22fa7e5a5461ae8e48fa2ca79ec42cfc1931183f"
diff --git a/src/rustemu/Cargo.toml b/src/rustemu/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ed8afed3fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/rustemu/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+[package]
+name = "rustemu"
+version = "0.1.0"
+edition = "2021"
+publish = false
+
+[profile.dev]
+panic = "abort"
+
+[profile.release]
+opt-level = 'z' # turn on maximum optimizations. We only have 64kB
+lto = true      # Link-time-optimizations for further size reduction
+panic = "abort"
+
+[lib]
+crate-type = ["staticlib"]
+
+[build-dependencies]
+cbindgen = "0.20.0"
+
+[dependencies]
+panic-abort = "0.3.2"
+panic-halt = "0.2.0"
diff --git a/src/rustemu/src/lib.rs b/src/rustemu/src/lib.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..229deed32f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/rustemu/src/lib.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#![no_std]
+
+// dev profile: easier to debug panics; can put a breakpoint on `rust_begin_unwind`
+#[cfg(all(debug_assertions, not(test)))]
+use panic_halt as _;
+
+// release profile: minimize the binary size of the application
+#[cfg(all(not(debug_assertions), not(test)))]
+use panic_abort as _;
+
+
+#[no_mangle] pub extern fn zigzagEncode(value: i32) -> u32 {
+    ((value << 1) ^ (value >> 31)) as u32
+}
+
+#[no_mangle] pub extern fn castFloatBytesToInt(value: f32) -> u32 {
+    u32::from_ne_bytes(value.to_ne_bytes())
+}
+
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn zigzagEncode_test() {
+        assert_eq!(zigzagEncode(0), 0);
+        assert_eq!(zigzagEncode(-1), 1);
+        assert_eq!(zigzagEncode(1), 2);
+        assert_eq!(zigzagEncode(2147483646), 4294967292);
+        assert_eq!(zigzagEncode(-2147483647), 4294967293);
+        assert_eq!(zigzagEncode(2147483647), 4294967294);
+        assert_eq!(zigzagEncode(-2147483648), 4294967295);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn castFloatBytesToInt_test() {
+        assert_eq!(castFloatBytesToInt(0.0), 0);
+        assert_eq!(castFloatBytesToInt(2.0), 0x40000000);
+        assert_eq!(castFloatBytesToInt(4.5), 0x40900000);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/Makefile b/src/test/Makefile
index e7a8a242f1..056611e30f 100644
--- a/src/test/Makefile
+++ b/src/test/Makefile
@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ ROOT = ../..
 OBJECT_DIR = ../../obj/test
 TARGET_DIR = $(USER_DIR)/target
 
+RUSTEMU_DIR         := $(ROOT)/src/rustemu
+RUSTEMU_INCLUDE_DIR := $(RUSTEMU_DIR)/include/
+RUSTEMU_TARGET_DIR  := $(RUSTEMU_DIR)/target/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release
+RUSTEMU_HEADER      := $(RUSTEMU_INCLUDE_DIR)/rustemu.h
+RUSTEMU_LIBRARY     := $(RUSTEMU_TARGET_DIR)/librustemu.a
+RUSTEMU_SOURCES         := $(shell find $(RUSTEMU_DIR)/src -name '*.rs')
+
 include $(ROOT)/make/system-id.mk
 include $(ROOT)/make/targets_list.mk
 
@@ -130,10 +137,6 @@ common_filter_unittest_SRC := \
 		$(USER_DIR)/common/maths.c
 
 
-encoding_unittest_SRC := \
-		$(USER_DIR)/common/encoding.c
-
-
 flight_failsafe_unittest_SRC := \
 		$(USER_DIR)/common/bitarray.c \
 		$(USER_DIR)/fc/rc_modes.c \
@@ -511,7 +514,7 @@ ifeq ($(shell $(CC) -v 2>&1 | grep -q "clang version" && echo "clang"),clang)
 # Travis reports CC_VERSION of 4.2.1
 CC_VERSION_MAJOR := $(firstword $(subst ., ,$(CC_VERSION)))
 CC_VERSION_CHECK_MIN := 7
-CC_VERSION_CHECK_MAX := 13
+CC_VERSION_CHECK_MAX := 15
 
 # Added flags for clang 11 - 13 are not backwards compatible
 ifeq ($(shell expr $(CC_VERSION_MAJOR) \> 10 \& $(CC_VERSION_MAJOR) \< 14), 1)
@@ -566,6 +569,7 @@ C_FLAGS   += $(COVERAGE_FLAGS)
 CXX_FLAGS += $(COVERAGE_FLAGS)
 
 C_FLAGS   += -D_GNU_SOURCE
+LD_FLAGS  += -L$(RUSTEMU_TARGET_DIR) -lrustemu
 
 # Set up the parameter group linker flags according to OS
 ifeq ($(OSFAMILY), macosx)
@@ -674,10 +678,15 @@ $(OBJECT_DIR)/gtest_main.a : $(OBJECT_DIR)/gtest-all.o $(OBJECT_DIR)/gtest_main.
 -include $(OBJECT_DIR)/gtest-all.d \
          $(OBJECT_DIR)/gtest_main.d
 
+$(RUSTEMU_LIBRARY): $(RUSTEMU_SOURCES)
+	cd $(ROOT)/src/rustemu && cargo +nightly build --release
+
+$(RUSTEMU_HEADER): $(RUSTEMU_LIBRARY)
+	cd $(ROOT)/src/rustemu && cbindgen --lang c++ -o $(PWD)/$(RUSTEMU_HEADER)
 
 # includes in test dir must override includes in user dir, unless the user
 # specifies a list of endorsed directories in ${target}_INCLUDE_DIRS.
-test_include_dirs  = $1 $(TEST_DIR) $(USER_DIR)
+test_include_dirs  = $1 $(TEST_DIR) $(USER_DIR) $(RUSTEMU_INCLUDE_DIR)
 test_cflags	   = $(addprefix -I,$(call test_include_dirs,$1))
 
 
@@ -748,7 +757,7 @@ $(OBJECT_DIR)/$1/%.c.o: $(TARGET_DIR)/$(call get_base_target,$(call target,$1))/
                 -c $$< -o $$@
 endif
 
-$(OBJECT_DIR)/$1/$(basename $1).o: $(TEST_DIR)/$(basename $1).cc
+$(OBJECT_DIR)/$1/$(basename $1).o: $(RUSTEMU_HEADER) $(TEST_DIR)/$(basename $1).cc
 	@echo "compiling $$<" "$(STDOUT)"
 	$(V1) mkdir -p $$(dir $$@)
 	$(V1) $(CXX) $(CXX_FLAGS) $$(call test_cflags,$$($1_INCLUDE_DIRS)) \
diff --git a/src/test/unit/encoding_unittest.cc b/src/test/unit/encoding_unittest.cc
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e7cb29d5a..0000000000
--- a/src/test/unit/encoding_unittest.cc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * This file is part of Cleanflight.
- *
- * Cleanflight is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
- * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
- * (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * Cleanflight is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- * GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- * along with Cleanflight.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
- */
-#include <stdint.h>
-
-extern "C" {
-    #include "common/encoding.h"
-}
-
-#include "unittest_macros.h"
-#include "gtest/gtest.h"
-
-typedef struct zigzagEncodingExpectation_s {
-    int32_t input;
-    uint32_t expected;
-} zigzagEncodingExpectation_t;
-
-typedef struct floatToIntEncodingExpectation_s {
-    float input;
-    uint32_t expected;
-} floatToIntEncodingExpectation_t;
-
-TEST(EncodingTest, ZigzagEncodingTest)
-{
-    // given
-    zigzagEncodingExpectation_t expectations[] = {
-        { 0, 0},
-        {-1, 1},
-        { 1, 2},
-        {-2, 3},
-        { 2, 4},
-
-        { 2147483646, 4294967292},
-        {-2147483647, 4294967293},
-        { 2147483647, 4294967294},
-        {-2147483648, 4294967295},
-    };
-    int expectationCount = sizeof(expectations) / sizeof(expectations[0]);
-
-    // expect
-
-    for (int i = 0; i < expectationCount; i++) {
-        zigzagEncodingExpectation_t *expectation = &expectations[i];
-
-        EXPECT_EQ(expectation->expected, zigzagEncode(expectation->input));
-    }
-}
-
-TEST(EncodingTest, FloatToIntEncodingTest)
-{
-    // given
-    floatToIntEncodingExpectation_t expectations[] = {
-        {0.0, 0x00000000},
-        {2.0, 0x40000000}, // Exponent should be in the top bits
-        {4.5, 0x40900000}
-    };
-    int expectationCount = sizeof(expectations) / sizeof(expectations[0]);
-
-    // expect
-
-    for (int i = 0; i < expectationCount; i++) {
-        floatToIntEncodingExpectation_t *expectation = &expectations[i];
-
-        EXPECT_EQ(expectation->expected, castFloatBytesToInt(expectation->input));
-    }
-}
-
-// STUBS
-
-extern "C" {
-}