poking around for opportunities

[Tyson Sawyer]

You likely are more qualified than many of the people we've talked
with "senior embedded software engineer" on their resume.


On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:53 PM, David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> wrote:
> roger.levasseur at comcast.net writes:
>> The embedded stuff that I've been working on over the last 10 years
>> have CPUs (ARMs) that in terms of compute power, RAM, and storage that
>> outclass PCs and Workstations that I worked on during the 1990s. It
>> was a big deal when that first 1GB SCSI disk drive became available to
>> put into a workstation. Now we're swimming in storage with ever larger
>> SDHC storage cards.
>
> I've been assuming that "embedded" meant some significant subset of the
> following properties:
>
>     1) realtime
>     2) re-entrant/parallel/interrupt-driven
>     3) specialty hardware
>     4) specialty OS (if there's an OS there at all)
>
> Despite my earlier joke and my Arduino/Pi experience, I don't actually
> feel comfortable putting "embedded" on my resume. However, now if
> someone asks me I can at least be intelligent enough to ask what they
> mean by that term. If it's just a regular PC running in a kiosk, that's
> completely different than what I was picturing.



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Tyson D Sawyer

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent
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