Online Embedded Systems Course with Placements

1. 1. Program and develop an application component for non-OS based Embedded devices (Example – Automotive, Wearable…)
   2. Design and develop a component OS based Embedded device (Example – Routers)
   3. Customizing and configuring Linux for a given Embedded target device
   4. Testing of Embedded system (Functional / Non-functional / Integration testing)

To get more detailed perspective please refer to our Embedded Career Guide document.

Typically placements for our Online Embedded Systems Course Students at Emertxe start in 3rd or 4th month onward once students complete programming languages modules (Programming in C / C++ modules). However placements will continue in the remaining part of the course and even after end of the course, up to one year time period.

Every student goes through rigorous training in all the Embedded systems course modules with continuous assessment. As long as student regularly follow the classes, assignments and mini-projects, they will not face any issue in getting a job. Our placement department will do rest of the job. As per our statistics, every student who has completed their course assignments and their assigned projects in Embedded Systems gets placed by their 3rd to 4th interview.

Even though every eligible student is entitled to get unlimited placement opportunities up to one year after course completion in core embedded companies. To get a view about what our past students has to say, visit our Emertxe – YouTube channel.

1. Core Embedded programming skills: In one or two programming languages (C / C++ / Shell Scripting) on any standard hardware platforms like PIC for bare metal programming and on ARM for OS based programming on Linux. Along with that they need core non-OS (Microcontroller) and OS (Linux Internals, Systems programming and Embedded Linux knowledge) so that you will be able to build a complete Embedded Application on your own.
2. Strong foundations: In basic electronics (ex: Digital electronics)
3. Excellent problem solving skills: Given the problem you should be able to convert them into working solutions. Along with that, companies expect excellent attitude to learn new things. Since technology and project nature goes through frequent changes, learning attitude plays important role. Check out the skills that you will be learning as a part of Emertxe Embedded Systems Course. It will put you way ahead in the Embedded jobs for Engineering Freshers market.

As a mentoring team, we strongly advise our students not to decide on a company purely by looking into salary levels rather look into the nature of work, exposure you will be getting and type of projects that they are working on. This will ensure you always stay on a continuous learning path and become a critical contributing team member of the organization. With skill sets your salary levels grow in a very healthy phase, sometimes get more paid than even market standards.

In Emertxe, we have placement collaboration with 366+ placement companies. All of them work on core Embedded Systems development across various verticals starting from Automotive to IoT. These companies can be categorised into three buckets.

• MNCs & Big Indian companies – Companies having few thousands of workforce in India (ex: Qualcomm, NXP, Bosch, L&T etc..)
• Mid-size companies – Companies having few hundreds of workforce (ex: Avin Systems, Lekha Wireless, AK-Aerotek etc..)
• Start-ups – Entrepreneurial ventures working in innovative Embedded products (ex: Sirena, CognetThings, Univision etc..)

Check our placement section to get latest information about placement company schedule.

On the technical delivery side Emertxe training programs are rigorous and practical in nature. Students go through immersive hands-on learning experience. This means every session, every day is a learning day. Students are continuously working and up-skilling their practical skills in Embedded Systems design and programming. As a proof of output, students will be producing average of 40 assignments / module and 7 to 8 Embedded projects in their resume by the end of the course.

In India more than 15 Lakhs engineering graduates coming out of colleges every year. However employability ratio is getting lower year-on-year. For example, few years back it was lingering around 15%, which has now come down to single digit. Check out some of the research results from industry bodies: NASSCOM – Employability reports. Emertxe’s up-skilling process resolves this industry-academia gap by making freshers employable in embedded systems jobs for freshers in Bangalore or any other major city of India.

Our skilled students face placement companies and clear the selection process with ease. This has created a win-win proposition for students and companies. In summary Emertxe has helped thousands of freshers by increasing their skill levels and making them employable. We do this day in and day out, the next success story could be yours. Please contact our Emertxe – Admission Team if you need any more information.

It doesn’t make any logical sense if anyone will not get a core embedded systems job after executing the assignments and projects. Our course-ware provides in-depth coverage of various topics in order to achieve skill transition. These skills are exactly what any leading companies in core Embedded Systems domain is looking for. Check out our skill matrix (in aligned with NSDC / ESSCI Qualification Packs) that students will be obtaining.

In case a student faces such a scenario (of not getting placed) after completing the course, they are provided with Additional projects. This will help them to continue working and enhancing their skills. As a fresh engineer, this will build real-time project experience and increases chances of getting jobs in the future.

Placements for online embedded systems course students will be started once you complete the course modules which includes Linux & C programming modules.

It is recommended. Since most of the placement companies are located in Bangalore you need to travel to attend placements. However, given the current pandemic situation most of the companies are opting for virtual selection process which you can attend from your home. Student safety and security is very critical at this point of time, hence there is no mandatory need to travel.

After you start taking our online embedded systems course, placement eligibility test will be conducted upon completion of core modules like C Programming, Data Structures, Micro-controllers, Linux Internals etc. Students need to obtain minimum cutoff marks in order to make themselves eligible for placements. In case a student is not clearing the cutoff he or she will be provided with additional attempts to clear the placement eligibility test.

The idea of placement eligibility test is to ensure you have obtained necessary skill sets and practical knowledge of our online embedded systems course. This will definitely help you to meet or exceed the expectations of placement companies during the selection process thereby increasing your probability of selection.

When you join the online embedded courses, In order to give maximum benefit to our students with respect to placements, you will be able to apply to any number of companies up to one year after your course completion. There are no restrictions on how many companies you are applying and how many interviews you are attending.

Please note shortlisting of your candidature will purely depend on the placement company.While our placement department puts our best effort to get maximum shortlisting for each and every student.

From Emertxe’s perspective you will get 100% placement support from our placement department. This means we will ensure that you get a good number of placement opportunities. However, converting the placement opportunities into a job offer purely depends on how well you perform during the selection process.

Based on our experience in the past 16+ years we have observed students regularly attending our classes and completing assignments and projects on time, are able to clear the selection process with ease and get job offers. We have never faced challenges with respect to having more companies to participate in our placements where the challenge is always from the student side to clear the selection process.

In terms of getting you placement opportunities and coaching you for the opportunities, our team is there for you. Final result will purely depend on your hard-work and commitment.

Here is the placement process for online embedded course students:

1. Attend all the virtual classes and complete all the assignments and projects are instructed by our mentors
2. Clear the placement eligibility test conducted by our mentors
3. Travel to Bangalore and take accommodation (recommended). Our admin team will help you find out suitable accommodation by providing you with choices of accommodation. You can choose the accommodation of your wish depending on the location & cost and other parameters.
4. Start applying for placement companies via our Google Groups
5. Internal filtering done by Emertxe placement team
6. Shortlisting done by the placement company
7. Selection process with placement company. This will include written test, F2F technical interviews followed by F2F HR / management interviews
8. Status of the selection process at every phase is shared transparently with the student write from application to selection
9. Upon selection, joining and onboarding need to be done. Our placement team will ensure you are smoothly on boarded to the company and you report to the company on the first day by assisting you in all possible ways

Companies primarily working on embedded systems and IoT domains will be hiring you. These companies may belong to any of the verticals like Automotive, IoT, Transportation,Medical, Consumer electronics, Telecommunication etc. Further these companies can be further categorized into start-ups, mid-size companies and MNCs depending on their size. 

Majority of these companies are located in Bangalore. Some of them are from other cities like Chennai, Hyderabad and Thiruvananthapuram.

Embedded System Engineers are in heavy demand due to many reasons. Some statistics* are as follows, which reiterates the importance of Embedded Systems jobs.

• Indian electronics market to sized at 400 Billion USD by 2020*
• It is growing at 25% Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR)
• 47.9% of the market spend is going to be on Design & Manufacturing of Embedded Devices
• More than 60% of the devices would require “smart” Embedded Software running in them
• More than 7 Lakhs Embedded Systems jobs available in the market
• Global market size exceeds more than 1 Trillion USD by 2020

* Reference from popular market research reports like NASSCOM / E & Y / Economic Times / IDC research

There are many factors (Business, Technology, Customer) factors that driver job trends. As far as Embedded Systems are concerned we see following trends driving the job market.

• Ubiquitous Computing:ANY time, ANY device and ANY location computing, powered by low-cost and low-power computing across a range of devices
• Internet-Of-Things:30+ billion devices need by 2019 to connect 4 billion people across the world, the vision of “connecting everything”
• Demography needs:Growing economy like BRIC countries have embedded systems requirements in upcoming areas like healthcare, education and digital payments
• Industry 4.0:Automation (ex: Robotics) and data exchange in manufacturing segments. Constant push to optimize manufacturing and supply chain
• Government: Huge investments in core segments like Defence segment and constant aspiration for indigenous design and manufacturing

By taking up ECEP course, you will be building both generic (example – Algorithms) and specific (example – Microcontroller programming) skills thereby building a skills portfolio falling under ‘T’ model mentioned below. You will have necessary skill sets and project experience, showcased in form of resume so that you can transition yourself into an embedded system engineer.

Emertxe certified embedded courses (ECEP) will open up a bunch of for different roles and responsibilities. Some of them are mentioned below:

• Program and develop a component of non-OS based Embedded device (Example – Wearable)
• Design and develop a component OS based Embedded device (Example – Routers)
• Development / Enhancement of networking protocols in Embedded Systems (Example – Voice Over IP)
• Customizing and configuring Linux for a given Embedded target device
• Testing of Embedded system (Functional / Non-functional / Integration testing)

Embedded systems are typically resource constrained systems, in terms of processing power, memory, peripherals and similar system resources. In your Embedded Systems Application, you need to design it to perform the particular functionality, in spite of having lesser amount of resources. As a designer /programmer you are supposed to keep this mind. It required Embedded Systems Developer to know specific techniques like Optimisation, Algorithm design, Data structures etc.

Along with that one need to consider other non- functional characteristics like security,compliance,scalability, customizability also plays very important role as embedded systems are widely deployed in very different kind of environment (example – A factory monitoring device deployed in a dusty / noisy environment). Hence keeping non-functional aspects is key for an Embedded Systems developer.

Of course yes. When you are starting your career, we recommend you build horizontal or generic skills so that you will be able to fit yourself anywhere in the Embedded domain. Once you get some good amount of experience with one particular area (example – Microcontroller protocols) for about two years, you can then choose a particular the vertical (example – Automotive) and build deep expertise by becoming a specialist / expert in that particular vertical specific skills.

Emetxe advanced embedded systems course is an intense hands-on practical driven immersive learning course. It primary focus on making entry level engineers employable by making them land fresher placements in Embedded Systems. Having said, some of our students take-up this course as a bridge-course before they start their Masters Degree, especially with foreign universities. Such students are identified separately and both our mentors and placement cell work with them in the following areas:

• Ex-student connect who are already studying in foreign universities for admission related help
• Customising course module duration to meet the timeline of University admission window (Fall / Spring in USA)
• Providing with Letter-Of-Recommendation(LOR) and reviewing Statement-Of-Purpose (SOP)
• Providing internships for a specified duration of time by exposing them with real time projects

All the required recommendation letters and internship letters are provided as per the international university standards so that our students maximize the chance of admission and TA / RA. With this approach, good number of our students get admissions into top notch universities based out of USA / Europe / Singapore.

As the saying goes ‘technologies go through rapid changes whereas foundation won’t’ which is the primary reason why you should master foundations. For example many new programming languages are techniques will come into the foray of IoT as it matures, foundational aspects of all programming languages (example – Algorithms) won’t change. Hence in our IoT course we give lot of importance on foundations such as

• Algorithms
• Optimisation
• Linux platform
• Hardware interfacing
• Protocols
• OS and multitasking

Once you learn these foundations, you will be able to apply these skills in any new technology that you come across and learn them at ease. In our Embedded Systems course we maintain a very good balance between building foundations and learning advanced skills to that participants are positioned as lifelong learners in the careers.

Along with core programming languages (C and C++), it is important for an Embedded Systems Developer to learn one scripting language preferably Shell scripting or Python. Following are some of the reasons:

• Scripting language will help you to set up a development environment in an automated fashion (example – Build settings, Compiler settings, Download commands etc..)
• As a developer you are expected to test your code well by running unit / developer test cases. Nowadays automating the same is given high importance. Popularly known as Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery, such practices will increase development quality of code
• Shell scripting also helps to develop Applications with lesser number of code. It can be used in multiple use-cases (example – stub code) to test the Embedded Systems better

In ECEP course you will be doing in-depth, hands-on immersive learning by leverage advanced C programming constructs like Pointers, Dynamic memory allocation, Data structure, User Defined Data structures, File operations etc. You will build strong capability and confidence in yourself in order to convert a given problem statement into a working program. U will also learn how to program in embedded c for non-OS based (PIC Microcontrollers) and OS based (BeagleBone) hardware by completely leverage the peripherals provided and create excellent optimised C code.

Embedded Linux Courses – ECEP lays very high stress on various aspects of Linux. Considering vast nature of Linux, you will be learning Linux in three levels.

Level-1 -> Linux systems:

This is the first level of Linux learning in Emertxe. You will be getting hands-on exposure to using Linux as a normal user. You will be executing commands followed by writing BASH Shell scripts. Along with that, you will be learning how to set-up Linux as the Embedded Systems development platform.

You will also be understanding multiple tools – Editors, Debuggers and compilers. By the end of this module you will get hands-on with Linux as a developer.

Level-2 -> Linux Internals and Systems programming:

This is second level of Linux learning in our Embedded Systems course. You will be practically get exposed to deeper aspects of Linux Kernel and Internals. It involves System calls, Inter Process Communication (IPC) mechanisms, TCP/IP socket programming, Developing multi-threading Applications using pThread library , Creating optimised multi-processing application in Linux.

You will also get hands-on exposure to various subsystems of Linux – Process management, Memory management and scheduling. By the end of this module you will able to create optimised Linux Applications which can be run on a PC or Embedded System.

Level-3 -> Embedded Linux on ARM:

In third level, you will be doing deep dive into Linux Kernel. It will start with building your understanding about Kernel code organization. You will get hands-on exposure to building your custom Linux Kernel for an ARM based Embedded target Beaglebone Black. You will also be learning how to port an existing PC based Linux Application (developed during Level-2) into an ARM based Embedded target.

By the end of this module, you will be having a complete knowledge of tuning, customising, downloading and debugging an application that is running on the ARM target. This module will also give you exposure into tool-chain required to create your custom Linux distribution.

Why Linux used for Embedded Systems ?

Linux occupies number one position when it comes to developing Embedded Systems. You may be wondering why is it so? There are multiple reasons for that, read on this FAQ item to understand few reasons:

Its FREE:

As you might have heard, Linux has adapted OpenSource development model. Anyone can use it with the help of General Public License (GPL). This means you don’t need to pay in order to customise/modify, redistribute and use Linux. Embedded Systems are manufactured in large scale, saving license cost means a lot for companies. This benefit helps organizations to adopt Linux and pass on its benefits to customers. This primarily will give you a view of why Linux used for Embedded Systems.

Its SECURE:

Linux is a very secure operating system due to multiple reasons. Since security is inherent to any Embedded Systems (example – Your own mobile phone), Linux becomes natural choice for developing Embedded Systems. Linux also provides latest protocols standards, debugging tools and many customisable aspects. As you can see, such features are very important when it comes to Embedded Systems. As a developer or business owner such features will make you adapt Linux for Embedded Systems.

Community Support:

Linux has got excellent community support. Passionate, committed developers keep enhancing Linux on a continuous basis. Any latest technology that is made available as a part of the kernel.org releases. Companies can directly integrate to their Embedded Systems product lines very quickly as it reduces development time. In business terms you might have heard about the term reducing Time-To-Market (TTM). You will be able to achieve it using Linux in Embedded Systems.

There are many other reasons (High availability, Portability, Developer tools etc..) why Linux used for Embedded Systems in such a wide manner, which you may want to read and understand. Please check-out our Emertxe – Blog site to access more similar articles.

Skills to become Embedded Systems developer | Why obtain Linux skills?

As called out in the previous question, Linux has emerged as the number one operating system for Embedded Systems Development. Linux skills has become critical today to become a successful Embedded Systems developer. Linux occupies centre stage of Embedded OS market due to the following reasons:

1. OpenSource licensing model
2. Customizability
3. Excellent tooling support
4. Best-in-class security
5. Excellent community support

Below mentions diagram describes skills to become Embedded Systems developer. U can clearly see Linux occupies major portion of the skill-sets.

Having said that, learning Linux is not easy because its complex design. One requires a operating system level understanding combined with practical hands on knowledge to become a good developer. Our entire ECEP course is build base on Linux as the common platform. It will expose you Linux at three levels – Linux Systems, Linux Internals and Embedded Linux.

By having Linux under your belt, your skill becomes sought after in the Embedded Systems job market. It will enable you to build devices across the spectrum of Embedded Systems:

1. Small scale IoT device (example – Wearable)
2. Networking and Communication (example – IoT Gateways)
3. Consumer electronic devices (example – Set top boxes)
4. Enterprise-class devices (example – Routers)

Learning Linux will enhance your career possibilities across various jobs roles of Embedded Systems.

At Emertxe, the mentors play the primary role in up-skilling our students. Apart from being a subject matter expert in a particular area of embedded systems, our mentors strongly believe maintaining a very good relationship with students. This ensures our mentors are approachable by our students, thereby building a culture of learning. Students interact by using formal (ex: classroom) in informal (ex: WhatsApp) channels to reach out to our mentors who are ready to support our students all the time.

Mentors in Emertxe are categorized into class-mentors, lab-mentors and student counsellors to help ramping up their performance and placement counsellors. U can reach out to them for specific queries and gain maximum benefit from their interaction. Practically there is not limitations to interact with your lab mentors, where maximum amount of time is spent to do the hands-on assignments and projects by the students. Check out Emertxe – mentor interaction video to get a view of what our past students are saying about our mentors.

Which version of Linux for Embedded Systems course?

In Emertxe Embedded Systems course, we will not be focusing on a particular version of Linux. We will be picking and choosing the Linux versions that are more competitive and makes the learning more effective. In the recent past we have been using Ubuntu and xUbuntu as they have good GUI and package support.

However, courses can become version centric when it comes to specific modules like Embedded Linux. In such modules you may see code level changes are higher between on version to another. For such subjects you will be learning a particular version that our mentoring team is recommending.

In summary there is no hard and fast rule when it comes to Linux versions. You will be exposed to the best possible version in order to have maximum learning outcome.

Difference between Desktop vs Embedded Linux. Major difference is been customization ability and amount of resources available on the target board.

Linux in Desktop

Linux is a versatile operating system. If you look at Linux as an general purpose operating system, it has all the features required to run in a Desktop / PC. Typically you will not consider resource requirements in PC as resource availability is high (ex: Memory). Thanks to popular distributions like Ubuntu, you will get excellent GUI and Applications that matters for a normal user.

Linux in Embedded Systems

Running Linux on an Embedded Systems is not straight forward. Typically Embedded Systems means, you need run on a customized hardware (example – Beaglebone ARM Platform). These custom hardware will typically have lesser amount of resources. Hence customization and optimization aspects play a very important role. Thanks to OpenSource software development model, the whole Linux source code is available to you for modification. Added to that developers like you will have excellent set of tools (ex: Yocto Build framework) which will help to customize Linux easier.

Linux RTOS questions for interviews. How do I answer them?

As you might have noticed, our entire Embedded Systems Course is been built around Linux. Ever since our inception we have adopted OpenSource as a learning platform. As a participant, you will be learning both programming and embedded aspects of Linux during the ECEP course.

Linux in Desktop PCs:

Linux is a very fast OS with 30+ million lines-of-code running in Kernel alone. Such large code is been designed with some principles by developers. Some of the are:

1. Virtual Memory management
2. Interrupt mechanism support
3. User and Kernel space separation
4. Not giving control to the user on OS scheduling policies
5. Multiple peripheral support

These features are highly useful when it comes to General Purpose Systems (GPS) and Embedded Systems (ES). Hence Linux has occupied central stage as a GPOS and EOS. On the other side, they act as a disadvantage when it comes to Real Time Systems (RTS). Hence Linux by default is not suitable for hard real time applications, even though customizations (ex: RT-Linux) are available.

Linux in Real Time Systems (RTS / RTOS):

However as a fresh engineer when you face Linux RTOS questions for interviews, it becomes challenging for you to answer them. So our mentoring team has included following RTOS concepts are a part of Linux Internals and Networking module:

1. Introduction to RTOS
2. Real time scheduling
3. RTOS characteristics
4. RTS software design challenges
5. Differences between RTOS | GPOS | EOS

We will not be doing the practical aspects of Hard RTOS during embedded systems course course. But we will be teaching concepts of RTOS, using which you can easily answer Linux RTOS questions for interviews.

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