We hear a lot of these “wares” terms all the time, some are hard, some are soft, some are firm and some are in the middle. But why some many types of wares? How do they all fit in? Let’s learn more about them in this article. Let’s start with the familiar term hardware. Hardware … Read more
I am working as an Embedded Engineer in Europe. In this article, I am writing the results of the research I did about embedded engineering jobs and salaries in various countries in Europe. Instead of giving you a misleading gross salary number, I have calculated the taxes and living expenses and I have given you … Read more
In this article, let us look at the Quad-SPI interface, and learn how it works! If you have just mastered this SPI interface, then looking at Dual and Quad SPI can be overwhelming. I had to read several pdfs to wrap my mind around this concept. In this article, I am presenting all the useful … Read more
I remember the time when I first heard the term Profiling, I could barely write source code without googling every 10 minutes at that time and when I heard about profiling, I couldn’t help but tell myself that I will never be able to master programming! Then after a few years I became very comfortable … Read more
When I started out with a goal to become an embedded developer, I had no clue where to even begin as embedded systems cover a wide variety of fields including electronics, software engineering, microcontroller programming, PCB design, networking, chip design, etc., Due to a big knowledge base needed, entering this particular engineering field can seem … Read more
If you are a beginner, the first time you download the datasheet of the microcontroller you are using, you will be given a 1000 to 2000 page document, which will make you feel uncomfortable, to say the least. I have been through the same experience and in this post, I am going to help you … Read more
In this article, let us learn what FreeRTOS is, what are its parts, and how to effectively use it in our projects. When I started out learning about FreeRTOS, I was not able to find good short resources to read, and hence I had to spend weeks reading a 400-page eBook, see a bunch of … Read more
Today I ran into my very first stack overflow bug. It was a frustrating experience to find the actual bug as I had to go through all of my code and double-check the logic, buffers, pretty much my entire code before I was finally able to detect that the bug I got was due to … Read more
When I heard the term IMU for the first time, I thought it was some cool technology that is beyond my understanding. But once I got some experience playing with it, and got to understand what it physically measures that fear vanished quickly. In this post, I have tried to explain what IMU sensors are, … Read more
Timers play an important role in embedded systems, their duty, of course, is to maintain timing for operations, be it controlling the blinking rate of the LEDs or controlling the sampling rate of the ADCs, or a simple delay on the source code. Beginners to this field tend to have some trouble understanding the basics … Read more