Sync with hardware and firmware team; sort blocked tickets from ready.
Read new board schematics; flag a pin-mapping conflict before silicon is cut.
Write C driver code so the MCU and a new sensor can talk over SPI.
Oscilloscope and JTAG out — hunting whether the glitch is code or the board.
Flash new firmware onto the physical device; run it through real-world test cases.
A feature won't fit — cut or optimize until the binary is small enough to ship.
Debate with QA: is that rare timing fault safe to ship, or does it need another round?
Review a teammate's RTOS task code; catch a priority-inversion bug before merge.
Log debug findings, update tickets, leave breadcrumbs for tomorrow's session.
- Write low-level C code that tells hardware exactly what to do.
- Build device drivers so software and hardware can talk to each other.
- Hook up a debugger and oscilloscope to hunt down hardware-software bugs.
- Squeeze code to use less memory and battery on tiny chips.
- Flash new firmware onto a physical device and test it in real life.
- Is this bug in my code, or is the hardware misbehaving?
- Can I squeeze this feature in, or do I need to cut it to fit memory?
- Is this timing issue rare enough to ship, or will it crash in the field?
- Should I write my own driver, or trust the vendor's library?
- Is this system safe enough to release, or does it need one more round of testing?
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