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Electronics and Embedded Engineers design and implement hardware and software solutions in embedded systems, which integrate computing into devices. Alternate titles might include Embedded Systems Engineer, Hardware Engineer, or IoT Engineer.

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Technical Concepts:

Embedded Systems Fundamentals

(FreeRTOS)

  1. Basics of Microcontrollers and Microprocessors
  2. System-on-Chip (SoC) concepts
  3. Memory Hierarchy: Flash, SRAM, EEPROM, DRAM
  4. Interrupts and Interrupt Handling
  5. Embedded System Design Life Cycle

Programming for Embedded Systems

(EdX)

C/C++:

  1. Pointers, Memory Management
  2. Structures, Unions, and Bit Manipulations
  3. Inline Functions and Macros
  4. Assembly Language Basics (specific to the microcontroller used, e.g., ARM Cortex)
  5. Scripting for automation (Python, Shell scripting)
  6. Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS):
  7. Debugging tools and techniques (GDB, JTAG)

Hardware Concepts