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323: Snail Appnote

Embedded.fm · 5 Mar 2020 · 1h 02m · Episode 323

What this episode covers

Carmen Parisi, a senior electrical engineer at Wasatch Photonics, discusses her recent career shift from Texas Instruments to a generalist role building Raman spectrometers. She details the challenges of moving from semiconductor power design to multidisciplinary work involving optics, firmware, and software, highlighting the difficulty of setting up the Zephyr toolchain and STM32CubeIDE. Parisi also shares practical advice for engineers, such as using app notes for learning and debugging firmware by checking map files and ensuring code is actually loaded.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Texas Instruments, Wasatch Photonics
Chips
STM32
Tools
STM32CubeIDE, CubeMX, Rigol, J-Tag, Tag Connect
Also
Zephyr

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