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From the registers of a microcontroller to a board they designed and soldered themselves. Here is what each stage of the 42chips track covers, so you know what to expect from a candidate.
Nathan Sauret · CC BY 4.0
Skills, stage by stage
The track has three stages. Not every student does all of them: ask a candidate which ones they finished.
| Skill | Piscine | Bootcamp | Module |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registers & GPIO | Covered | Not covered | Covered |
| Timers & PWM | Covered | Not covered | Covered |
| Interrupts | Covered | Not covered | Covered |
| Serial (UART) | Covered | Not covered | Covered |
| I2C | Covered | Not covered | Covered |
| SPI | Covered | Not covered | Covered |
| Analog inputs | Covered | Not covered | Covered |
| EEPROM | Covered | Not covered | Covered |
| Reading and drawing schematics | Not covered | Covered | Covered |
| Choosing components | Not covered | Covered | Covered |
| Designing a printed circuit board | Not covered | Covered | Covered |
| Soldering and testing a board | Not covered | Covered | Covered |
| Bringing up firmware on their own hardware | Not covered | Not covered | Covered |
| Writing a specification | Not covered | Not covered | Covered |
| Taking a product from specification to working board | Not covered | Not covered | Covered |
| Six months of teamwork on one project | Not covered | Not covered | Covered |
What they work with
- Microcontroller
- ATmega328P (AVR) on a board designed by 42chips
- Firmware
- Bare-metal C: no OS, no libraries, the datasheet and the registers
- Hardware
- Schematics, component choice, PCB layout, soldering and bring-up
- Bench
- Measuring instruments, bench power supplies, soldering and hot-air stations
What you can offer them
- Internships. 42 students do internships during the cursus; an embedded one is the natural next step after the track.
- Apprenticeships and first jobs. Embedded software, firmware, test or hardware.
- A clear brief. Tell us the stack (chip family, RTOS or bare metal, hardware or software side) and we forward it to the students who fit.
Module showcase
The boards module teams designed, from the specification to the finished product.
The first module boards are on the bench
The electronics module runs for six months. Its projects will appear here as teams finish them.
Get in touch
Tell us who you are and what you have in mind. We answer by email, usually within a week. You can also write to contact@42chips.fr.