What is the real future of hardware engineers?

I started from 2 Analysis of the following aspects ：

The first is to start from your own situation , Hardware （ FPGA DSP PCB layout etc. ）、 Algorithm class

What is the basic situation of itself ？ The question is not whether you dislike , It's whether you can stick to it or whether the process of learning is smooth . yes , you 're right , We young people should suffer a little , It's time to do something permanent . But if we can relax in this process , Why not relax yourself ？ Interest is of course important , in my opinion , The foundation is equally important , It's not just a matter of learning process and time , It also involves the amount and quality of your achievements in the future （ Graduate students pay special attention to this ）

 

Second, let's talk about something you're interested in —— Hardware , In fact, your situation ~ Not pure hardware , It means a bit of software, in it , Because after all, we ourselves layout Coming out PCB Maybe you still need to do something by yourself The driver And some board function debugging , Or do it yourself coding~

How fun electronic development is , How interesting electronic design is .（ Follow TM As addictive and expensive as drugs ） See your own board , Make your own circuit , Write your own program , Solved some project problems ~ The kind you can touch , How interesting ！

 

Let me put it this way , Hardware is easy to get started , Difficult to upgrade , It takes time, money and manpower , Special eating experience . It may be more difficult to stand on the top of the pyramid ~ It's a bit like accounting , The older, the more popular .

 

Without a few years of project experience, I can't eat it , Be careful , My project experience here refers to the high-speed signal PCB layout、 Multilayer board 、EMC、 Switching Mode Power Supply 、FPGA wait , Too much to consider ~ Instead of simply writing a few MCU programs （ This kind of engineer is easy to train ）

No major is good , No major is bad , What suits you is the best .（ Interest dominates ）

If you really like to engage in electronics, embedded and hardware development , Then go into the pit （ I'll dig a hole with you and jump together ） Anyway, I have no way back ~hhh

Attach some of what you did before layout：（ Robot control panel , Mass production already ）

The board is not very complicated ,STM32 Do the control system ~ A motor drive is mounted outside 、 Sensors are necessary for some robots IC

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Last ： If it can be done , Or choose to do 2 Well ~ When reading, papers and patents are better than others , It must be good for your graduate career , The domestic environment 2 Than 1 More ~ And in recent years, artificial intelligence 、 Big data has once again driven the wind of computer technology ~ The specialty standing on the air outlet must be unspeakable .

And the hardware , National policies and industry problems lead to the development speed is far less than that of artificial intelligence 、 Deep learning 、 Big data is fast ,（ This is a fact that we don't want to admit but exists ）

Take a portion of bat offer Better than anything ！ And the platform is good , Career development is fast ！ Of course, there are some disadvantages behind making software , It may also need transformation, and it is unrealistic to do R & D all the time ！ It's all a postscript .

That's , Personal opinions are for reference only .

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I want to emphasize here ： As a graduate student , results , patent 、paper What's important ！ We must attach importance to ！ And doing academic research , Image recognition 、 Artificial intelligence is relatively easy to come out paper Of ！（ It's not easy to say , Just relative to the hardware class ）, and paper What is needed , Is to do theory , Is the data , It's an experiment . That is, you have to be more or less innovative ！（ The difference between creating and making ）

And the hardware class ？ It must be based on some applications , Involving actual products . Hardware innovation is very difficult . Only care about you using existing technology , What problems have been solved , Economic value to society , Of course, I personally admire this , Because I like it myself ！（ Touches , Like a son , Born, raised and accomplished ！）

But the fact we need to face is , Compared with theoretical research, practical application , It must be that the latter is easy to paper！

（ Personal view , If there is a mistake , Welcome to correct ）