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So, you wanna be an embedded engineer : the guide to embedded engineering, from consultancy to the corporate ladder /

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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 tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edwards, Lewin A. R. W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Newnes, [2006]
Series:Embedded technology series.
Subjects:
Embedded computer systems > Programming > Vocational guidance.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.