Weird Talk about Single Chip Microcomputers -- Some Phenomena about Software and Hardware

As we all know, in China (mainland), there are not many people who work as hardware engineers, and not many companies (especially small companies) specifically recruit a hardware engineer. But there are electronic engineers everywhere, and those who have something to do with electronics are also called "engineers", and most of them are software engineers, who actually work on both hardware and software, but they are more inclined to software.

This is related to the current "national conditions". Because in China, hardware is really not important, "development" is actually "copying", but hardware can be copied, while copying software is troublesome, so a large number of "software engineers" are needed to write software based on existing hardware.

But in 21icbbs, it is classified by hardware, such as "AVR microcontroller", "PIC microcontroller", etc., and there is no software programming forum specifically for microcontrollers. But in reality, many people discuss software issues in "xx microcontroller".

Based on my work experience, I feel that in many cases hardware is more important than software (except for some simple microcontroller applications), and in the development projects, the time spent on hardware is sometimes more than software ("copying" boards are not included). As for examples of how hardware is more important than software, I can use an article to discuss it, and it is difficult for people who have no experience in this area to convince him.