Ask HN: 40 Year Old HW(EE) Trying to Pivot into Sw

Re:Ask HN: 40 Year Old HW(EE) Trying to Pivot into Sw by matt_the_bass on Saturday October 13, 2018 @07:45PM (#18210600)

What do YOU want to do? Any reason you are set on a FAANG?

Have you considered embedded firmware development?

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Re:Ask HN: 40 Year Old HW(EE) Trying to Pivot into Sw by ultrasounder on Saturday October 13, 2018 @07:56PM (#18210632)

That's definitely crossed my mind. But my direct experience working on embedded projects have been related to writing low level I2C/SPI/Other serial parallel protocol driver for peripherals. Don't think I want to get stuck in that either.

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Re:Ask HN: 40 Year Old HW(EE) Trying to Pivot into Sw by sick_of_web_dev on Sunday October 14, 2018 @01:48PM (#18214093)

damn I would love to do just that and get paid for it. You know what, let's just switch jobs because I hate the SW industry and wish I could go into HW :-)

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Re:Ask HN: 40 Year Old HW(EE) Trying to Pivot into Sw by ultrasounder on Sunday October 14, 2018 @02:21PM (#18214260)

Embedded firmware though has gotten a lot easier (availability of cheap ARM boards with gone of flash and RAM), FOSS tool chains, there is still a mountain to climb wrt understanding the underlying hardware. Timing, keeping things synchronized while being within the power budget and stuff like that. Take a few actual EE courses or better yet if u can afford get a degree and specialize in EE. For starters can't recommend the EDX EE1,EE2 and then thr Embedded course from UTAustin also available on EDx enough. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions. My email is in my profile.

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