Last night I was woken up at midnight by the bleeping noise from downstairs. I blearily wandered down in search of it…
Month: March 2010
How many languages does an engineer need?
Much of an electronic engineer’s life is spent in front of a screen. And much of that time is creating and debugging designs using some textual format or other. Arguably, even humble [Excel](http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/excel/default.aspx) falls into that category of “tools”. At some point many electronic designers will end up performing schematic capture and maybe PCB layout – but much of the **design** is already done by then.
So, what languages are used?