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Informationen zum Autor Lewin Edwards is an embedded engineer with over 15 years experience designing embedded systems hardware, firmware, and control software. Klappentext In this new! highly practical guide! expert embedded designer and manager Lewin Edwards answers the question! "How do I become an embedded engineer?" Embedded professionals agree that there is a treacherous gap between graduating from school and becoming an effective engineer in the workplace! and that there are few resources available for newbies to turn to when in need of advice and direction. This book provides that much-needed guidance for engineers fresh out of school! and for the thousands of experienced engineers now migrating into the popular embedded arena. Zusammenfassung A practical guide that provides instructions on how to achieve successful designs using a broad spectrum of different microcontrollers and scripting languages. It offers an introduction to working in the world of embedded design. It answers questions on which are the best products to learn! trainings to get! and kinds of companies to work for. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Introduction About This Book Chapter 2: Education Traditional Education Paths into Embedded Engineering Getting into the Field Without Traditional Education How Much Electronics Must I Learn? Educational Traps! Dead-Ends and Scams to Avoid Practical Skills You'll Want To Acquire Chapter 3: Teaching Yourself! Bottom-Up (Small Embedded Systems) Target Audience 8051 Atmel AVR Texas Instruments MSP430 C vs. Assembly Language in Small Embedded Systems Chapter 4: Teaching Yourself! Top-Down (Large Embedded Systems) Target Audience Embedded x86 Solutions ARM PowerPC Linux eCos Chapter 5: Working For Yourself Is Self-Employment for You? Risks and Benefits From Moonlighting to Fulltime Consultant Status Bookkeeping! Taxes and Workload Ways to Find Customers Iterative Projects: Never-Ending Horror? Pricing Your Services Appropriately Establishing Your Own Working Best Practices Business Has No Friends: The Importance of Contracts Chapter 6: Working in a Small Company Analyze your Goals: Benefits and Downsides of the Small Company How to Get the Job Responsibilities and Stresses in a Small Company Personal Dynamics in Small Companies Managing Tightly-Limited Resources Task Breakdown: A Typical Week Chapter 7: Working in a Larger Company Analyze your Goals: Benefits and Downsides of the Large Company How to Get the Job Globalization: Outsourcing and Temporary Worker Visas Procedures and You: Keeping Your Head Above Water Task Breakdown: A Typical Week ...
