I am working as an embedded software engineer and I have often been asked this question of what does embedded software engineers do. I am writing this article to explain what we do, how we do it, varieties of embedded software, skills needed to do develop each kind, types of companies you get to work …
During the early days in my career as an embedded software engineer, I was hearing the term ‘bootloader’ very often. Even though I had a basic understanding of the term, I felt that my knowledge about it is incomplete. For example, when they say the system is ‘booting up’ I knew it meant the system …
In this article, let’s learn about the 9 most essential parts in a Microcontroller and their applications. What is a Microcontroller made up of? A microcontroller is made up of 2 major parts, the microprocessor, and its peripherals. What are peripherals? Peripherals are devices that aid the microprocessor to accomplish a given job. In other …
IoT is a famous buzz-word these days and it is predicted that IoT will bring on the next big revolution. In this post let’s try and understand what IoT really is, how IoT works and how is it, simply put, “the future”. I have written this post in a practical manner without going too much …
As I began my journey as an embedded engineer, I started coming across several types of memories. As my journey continued I learned about each of them and this post explains the 8 essential ones that every embedded engineer should know about. The 8 essential memories can be divided into 2 categories namely primary and …
Embedded systems come in a wide variety of sizes and complexities and are hence a bit hard to define. Let’s try and get a basic understanding of what an embedded system really is and how to classify them. What is an embedded system? A simple definition would be, an embedded system is a “special purpose …
When I began my career in Computer Science, one of the technologies that amazed me most was how the memory of computers work and how they store data. As my career progressed I was constantly being introduced to several types of memory. I had several questions in my mind such as How does memory work …
