Embedded Software

• C Programming Skills (Function, Pointers, Arrays, and Structures, Bit-wise operations should be your best friends). Master C programming skill. This is the most essential skill for the ECE students today. Without this skill you will find it difficult to enter into electronics core companies.
• Embedded C Programming (Microcontroller Programming)
• Operating Systems Concepts (Process Management, File Management, Memory Management, Inter Process Communication)
• Linux Basics/Commands
• Work on Community development boards.

Resources

• C in Depth by Srivastava and The C Programming Language by K & R
• Operating System Concepts (book) by Galvin

Embedded Hardware

• Computer Organization (Microprocessor,  Microcontroller)
  • I/O Organization (Polling, Interrupt, DMA)
  • Memory Organization (Memory Hierarchy, cache Memory, MMU, Virtual Memory)
• Understand the Digital Circuit thoroughly from AND, OR, NOT gates to Microprocessors.

Resources:

• Computer organization by Morris Mano
• Digital Systems by Morris Mano
• 8086 microprocessor interfacing

Project Work:

Buy a Community development board and apply the C programming skill to do good electronic projects by yourself without copying a single line of code from net/book/friends.