firmware

hectorhg wrote:
>> Dear friends,
>>
>> Can anyone give a clear explanation about the role of 
 >> firmware engineer in embedded field.
>> 
>   I would compare it with human body, imaging HW are its bones and muscle,
> and firmware is its brain. Firmware engineer it what makes its brain work
> properly and efficiently  ^^.

Following your idea, I would say that neurones and synapses
are the hardware and that thoughts are the software.

Thoughts could be compared to programs or to logical equations,
neurones to logic gates.

General purpose software would be conscious thoughts born
in the neo-cortex, embedded software would be primitive
emotions or instinctive behaviour stemming from the
inner brain.

But who would be the engineer?

Lanarcam wrote:
> hectorhg wrote:
> 
>>> Dear friends,
>>>
>>> Can anyone give a clear explanation about the role of 
>>> firmware engineer in embedded field.
> 
> 
> Thoughts could be compared to programs or to logical equations,
> neurones to logic gates.
> 
> General purpose software would be conscious thoughts born
> in the neo-cortex, embedded software would be primitive
> emotions or instinctive behaviour stemming from the
> inner brain.
> 
> But who would be the engineer?

An arse, perhaps?

VLV