Hi
I am new to the world of embedded systems and RTOS.
I want to learn abt it . I am an electronics engg. doing my masters and have
currently taken a course on Real time computer sys. Do you think installing
the student version of QNX and playing around with it is a good idea. Does
anyone have ideas for a small project that a newbie like me can do. I have
worked as a software engg and coded 20k lines of C code in large projects.
Please suggest a line of action. Which invloves h/w s/w. Ure advice shall be
appreciated.
Thanks a lot 
hsuri wrote:
Hi
I am new to the world of embedded systems and RTOS.
I want to learn abt it . I am an electronics engg. doing my masters and have
currently taken a course on Real time computer sys. Do you think installing
the student version of QNX and playing around with it is a good idea. Does
anyone have ideas for a small project that a newbie like me can do. I have
worked as a software engg and coded 20k lines of C code in large projects.
Please suggest a line of action. Which invloves h/w s/w. Ure advice shall be
appreciated.
Thanks a lot >
Do you have an on-board diagnostic chip on your motherboard ? Writing a
resource manager for the fan speed/temperature monitoring chip on your
mobo is a great “built-in” project that covers pretty much all of the
basics.
Yes, downloading NC is a great way to learn about real-time operating
systems and embedding (NC has a good example of embedding by using the
eQip BSP, if you have - or can obtain - an iPaq).
Rennie