So You Wanna Be an Embedded Engineer: The Guide to Embedded Engineering, From Consultancy to the Corporate Ladder

Description

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. This book helps new embedded engineers to get ahead quickly by preparing them for the technical and professional challenges they will face. Detailed instructions on how to achieve successful designs using a broad spectrum of different microcontrollers and scripting languages are provided. The author shares insights from a lifetime of experience spent in-the-trenches, covering everything from small vs. large companies, and consultancy work vs. salaried positions, to which types of training will prove to be the most lucrative investments. This book provides an expert's authoritative answers to questions that pop up constantly on Usenet newgroups and in break rooms all over the world.

 

1. Introduction -About This Book 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 3. Teaching Yourself, Bottom-Up (Small Embedded Systems) -Target Audience -8051 -Atmel AVR -Texas Instruments MSP430 -C vs. Assembly Language in Small Embedded Systems 4. Teaching Yourself, Top-Down (Large Embedded Systems) -Target Audience -Embedded x86 Solutions -ARM -PowerPC -Linux -eCos 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 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 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

描述

在這本全新、高度實用的指南中，嵌入式設計師和經理Lewin Edwards回答了一個問題：“我該如何成為一名嵌入式工程師？”嵌入式專業人士一致認為，從學校畢業到成為一名有效的工程師之間存在著一個危險的鴻溝，而對於新手來說，當他們需要建議和指導時，可用的資源很少。這本書為剛從學校畢業的工程師提供了急需的指導，也為成千上萬的經驗豐富的工程師轉向流行的嵌入式領域提供了幫助。本書通過為新的嵌入式工程師準備技術和專業挑戰，幫助他們快速取得成功。提供了使用各種不同的微控制器和腳本語言實現成功設計的詳細指導。作者分享了自己一生中在戰場上的經驗，涵蓋了從小公司和大公司的選擇，咨詢工作和薪水職位的選擇，到哪種培訓將成為最有利可圖的投資。本書提供了專家權威的答案，回答了在全球的Usenet新聞組和休息室中經常出現的問題。

目錄

1. 簡介-關於本書
2. 教育-傳統進入嵌入式工程的教育途徑-在沒有傳統教育的情況下進入該領域-我需要學習多少電子知識？-要避免的教育陷阱、死胡同和騙局-你想要獲得的實用技能
3. 自學，從底層開始（小型嵌入式系統）-目標受眾-8051-Atmel AVR-德州儀器MSP430-小型嵌入式系統中的C語言與組合語言
4. 自學，從頂層開始（大型嵌入式系統）-目標受眾-嵌入式x86解決方案-ARM-PowerPC-Linux-eCos
5. 自己工作-自僱是否適合你？風險和好處-從兼職到全職顧問狀態-簿記、稅收和工作量-尋找客戶的方法-迭代項目：永無止境的恐怖？-適當定價您的服務-建立自己的最佳工作實踐-商業沒有朋友：合同的重要性
6. 在小公司工作-分析您的目標：小公司的好處和壞處-如何找到工作-小公司的責任和壓力-小公司的個人動態-管理有限資源-任務分解：一個典型的一周
7. 在大公司工作-分析您的目標：大公司的好處和壞處-如何找到工作-全球化：外包和臨時工作簽證-程序和您：保持頭腦清醒-任務分解：一個典型的一周