What is embedded Linux?
For many students majoring in electrical, telecommunications, and communications, the main employment directions for their corresponding majors are software and hardware. Whether it is for students or employment, software and hardware development and learning, the embedded Internet of Things has undoubtedly been a hot topic in recent years.
In recent years, the national society has paid more and more attention to embedded development, and has implemented various provincial and national competitions. The options and gold content that can be participated are mostly higher than others. (Including college student electronic design competition, etc.). In the future development, due to the continuous iteration of embedded chips, chips need to continue to evolve towards the times. With the enhancement of chip performance and the needs of social change, embedded systems are increasingly undertaking more and more complex functions, so embedded development is also firmly at the top of employment with high salaries and stable status. (Compared to other industries, the salary of embedded engineers is indeed considerable under the same graduation conditions! This is just a minimum statistic.)
Currently, there is a huge demand for embedded development talents, and the rise of artificial intelligence is bound to further promote the development of embedded technology. Whether in the short or long term, the future of embedded development engineers is limitless.
Having said so much, what exactly is embedded Linux?
Embedded Linux is an operating system that tailors and modifies the increasingly popular Linux operating system so that it can run on embedded computer systems. Simply put, it is a device that can run programs in addition to a computer. The CPU is embedded in a device to give it the ability and function to run programs. It plays a leading role in the development of many smart home appliances and the research of smart products. (Friends who are interested in individual or team development products must take a look at embedded!)
Linux embedded system development covers many fields from hardware to software design, and is open source. There are countless software and tools that can be used in development, from the lowest level boot loader that directly interacts with the system hardware to Linux operations From the distribution version of the system to the upper-layer graphical user interface and even applications, developers have so many options to choose from. Are they still worried about employment bottlenecks?