So You Wanna Be an Embedded Engineer

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 no need for advice and direction in the workplace. This book provides a great deal of experience for migrating the popular embedded arena.
This book helps you to get started with the new embedded engineers. Detailed instructions on how to achieve successful designs. The author of the shares in the studio, covering everything from small 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 knowledge and answers to your questions.

* An approachable, friendly introduction to the world of embedded design
* Full of design and other embedded engineers
* Answers important basic questions on what to find, trainings to get

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 is 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