the while(1) loop
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I was a few years ago. So where is the fire? P.S.:Just don't tell me that you are using while(1) for searching a char buffer terminator...
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So you too are in the embedded world... What are you doing exactly ? Hardware engineer writing software is quite vague ...
Rage wrote:
What are you doing exactly ?
Brace yourself for a very boring story (you will wish you never asked!) I started as an Electronics Engineer (designing analogue and digital circuits, laying out pcb's, the lot) and as part of that I wrote Firmware for Embedded Systems (by that I mean little micros / microcontroller type jobbies). I moved to a company where I did more firmware than hardware, and I enjoyed it. Then when the small firm I worked for lost its PC Software Programmer I took over that too. Hence I end up being a hardware engineer who writes software. I am very at home with soldering irons and oscilloscopes etc, and I see my PC as more of a tool than anything else. I like writing Firmware because ... well actually I am not sure why, I enjoy the challenge (lots of the stuff I do involves precise timing and measurement, and it can be quite tricky) and I think PC's are a pain. I can make my embedded systems virtually perfect, run like a dream, a work of art ....... with PC software there are always problems! Truth is I do lots of different stuff, I am very lucky! :-D What's your story?
Ali
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Yes, the story is about an evil dishwasher machine leading her hordes of toasters in their way to word domination.
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Rage wrote:
What are you doing exactly ?
Brace yourself for a very boring story (you will wish you never asked!) I started as an Electronics Engineer (designing analogue and digital circuits, laying out pcb's, the lot) and as part of that I wrote Firmware for Embedded Systems (by that I mean little micros / microcontroller type jobbies). I moved to a company where I did more firmware than hardware, and I enjoyed it. Then when the small firm I worked for lost its PC Software Programmer I took over that too. Hence I end up being a hardware engineer who writes software. I am very at home with soldering irons and oscilloscopes etc, and I see my PC as more of a tool than anything else. I like writing Firmware because ... well actually I am not sure why, I enjoy the challenge (lots of the stuff I do involves precise timing and measurement, and it can be quite tricky) and I think PC's are a pain. I can make my embedded systems virtually perfect, run like a dream, a work of art ....... with PC software there are always problems! Truth is I do lots of different stuff, I am very lucky! :-D What's your story?
Ali
Very cool :cool: My story : Started as embedded in the automotive industry, writing firmware for automatic gearboxes, then wrote firmware for signal measurement devices (hence I know what you mean with working with oscilloscopes & co) and the associated PC driver for configuring/interfacing the devices, and finally moved in the process world (I am a CMMI expert), so no software at all anymore except from VB in document templates :| What are you programming your firmware in ? Assembler, C ? ... Labview ?
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Very cool :cool: My story : Started as embedded in the automotive industry, writing firmware for automatic gearboxes, then wrote firmware for signal measurement devices (hence I know what you mean with working with oscilloscopes & co) and the associated PC driver for configuring/interfacing the devices, and finally moved in the process world (I am a CMMI expert), so no software at all anymore except from VB in document templates :| What are you programming your firmware in ? Assembler, C ? ... Labview ?
Rage wrote:
Very cool
Thanks :thumbsup:
Rage wrote:
writing firmware for automatic gearboxes
Sounds pretty cool too! :cool:
Rage wrote:
I am a CMMI expert
Had to Google that! Sounds v tricky!
Rage wrote:
What are you programming your firmware in ?
All my current Firmware is in C on various PIC's, I love Assembler but most projects are too large to justify it so C is my weapon of choice. Keeps me off the streets anyway! :-D
Ali
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Rage wrote:
Very cool
Thanks :thumbsup:
Rage wrote:
writing firmware for automatic gearboxes
Sounds pretty cool too! :cool:
Rage wrote:
I am a CMMI expert
Had to Google that! Sounds v tricky!
Rage wrote:
What are you programming your firmware in ?
All my current Firmware is in C on various PIC's, I love Assembler but most projects are too large to justify it so C is my weapon of choice. Keeps me off the streets anyway! :-D
Ali
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Rage wrote:
What are you doing exactly ?
Brace yourself for a very boring story (you will wish you never asked!) I started as an Electronics Engineer (designing analogue and digital circuits, laying out pcb's, the lot) and as part of that I wrote Firmware for Embedded Systems (by that I mean little micros / microcontroller type jobbies). I moved to a company where I did more firmware than hardware, and I enjoyed it. Then when the small firm I worked for lost its PC Software Programmer I took over that too. Hence I end up being a hardware engineer who writes software. I am very at home with soldering irons and oscilloscopes etc, and I see my PC as more of a tool than anything else. I like writing Firmware because ... well actually I am not sure why, I enjoy the challenge (lots of the stuff I do involves precise timing and measurement, and it can be quite tricky) and I think PC's are a pain. I can make my embedded systems virtually perfect, run like a dream, a work of art ....... with PC software there are always problems! Truth is I do lots of different stuff, I am very lucky! :-D What's your story?
Ali
Alison Pentland wrote:
I am very at home with soldering irons and oscilloscopes etc
Aahh.....my best soldering experience was with a 64-pin TQFP package 8051-core controller chip..me felt like a surgeon:cool:
Alison Pentland wrote:
I can make my embedded systems virtually perfect, run like a dream, a work of art ....... with PC software there are always problems!
Well, I m not quite there yet to always make things absolutely perfect...but, yes, PC sofware have always been a problem....man, you control EVERY aspect in an embedded system..
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Alison Pentland wrote:
I am very at home with soldering irons and oscilloscopes etc
Aahh.....my best soldering experience was with a 64-pin TQFP package 8051-core controller chip..me felt like a surgeon:cool:
Alison Pentland wrote:
I can make my embedded systems virtually perfect, run like a dream, a work of art ....... with PC software there are always problems!
Well, I m not quite there yet to always make things absolutely perfect...but, yes, PC sofware have always been a problem....man, you control EVERY aspect in an embedded system..
Ralph_2 wrote:
man, you control EVERY aspect in an embedded system..
Yes, that is exactly what I mean! I have tried to explain this to the guys here many times and they just don't understand. It is so nice to find someone else who gets it, that is why I had to reply even though it is a day later. When I write for Windows I feel like a cog in a badly built machine, but when I write for my embedded systems I am God! :-D :-D
Ralph_2 wrote:
Well, I m not quite there yet to always make things absolutely perfect
:-O I am exagerating for effect, I cann't make everything always absolutely perfect either! :-O
Ali
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I prefer: #define true 1 while (true){ }