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 <da...@rysdam.org> wrote: > roger.levass...@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. -- Tyson D Sawyer A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. - Daniel Webster _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/