This roadmap is designed to assist beginners aspiring to build a career as an Embedded Engineer / Developer. To provide comprehensive guidance, I have carefully selected the topics based on current open job requirements and organized them according to my personal experience.

Becoming an embedded engineer requires a broad understanding of both software and hardware. If you are starting on this journey, you must be highly motivated and passionate to pursue this path. The field of embedded systems demands a solid comprehension of hardware functionality and, as the well-known saying goes, "Hardware is hard." Therefore, patience and passion are the essential qualities that will help you overcome the various challenges encountered along this journey.

• Fastbit Embedded Brain Academy
• DigiKey YouTube Channel
• Ben Eater YouTube Channel
• Phil’s Lab YouTube Channel

• Wokwi - Online ESP32, STM32, Arduino Simulator

• Arduino Language Reference

• SparkFun Learn: Learn at SparkFun Electronics
• Random Nerd Tutorials | Learn ESP32, ESP8266, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi

Note: It is not necessary to read or watch all of the following materials, but it is important to study enough to have at least a basic understanding of each topic. Of course, the more you study and practice, the deeper and wider your knowledge will become. This will ultimately improve your skills as an engineer.

Some the resources mentioned here will only be used as references. Refer to them only when you need them.

• Khan Academy - Calculus 1
• Calculus - Robert T Smith, Roland Minton

• #1099 How I learned electronics
• Lessons in Electric Circuits
• Fundamentals of Electric Circuits - Charles K. Alexander, Matthew Sadiku
• Grob’s Basic Electronics - Mitchel E. Schultz
• Make: Electronics: Learning by Discovery - Charles Platt
• Encyclopedia of Electronic Components - Charles Platt
• The Art of Electronics - Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill

• Build an 8-bit computer from scratch
• Computer Organization and Design: ARM Edition - David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy
• Digital Design and Computer Architecture: ARM Edition - Sarah Harris, David Harris
• Digital Design - Morris Mano
• Embedded Systems Architecture - Tammy Noergaard

• Learn How to Use a Multimeter!
• How to Use a Multimeter

• Instrument Basics: Logic Analyzer

• What’s an OSCILLOSCOPE?
• How to Use an Oscilloscope
• How to use an oscilloscope / What is an oscilloscope / Oscilloscope tutorial

• How To Learn PCB Design (My Thoughts, Journey, and Resources) - Phil's Lab #87
• KiCad 6 STM32 PCB Design Full Tutorial - Phil's Lab #65
• Intro to KiCad
• Altium Academy YouTube Channel
• Microcontroller-Based Hardware Design With Altium Designer
• Robert Feranec YouTube Channel
• PCB Design for EMI & SI - Phil's Lab #64
• PCB Design for Advanced Users

• How To Solder - Electronics with Becky Stern | Digi-Key Electronics
• HOW TO SOLDER! (Beginner's Guide)
• Soldering Crash Course: Basic Techniques, Tips and Advice!
• How to Solder Through-Hole Components - Another Teaching Moment | DigiKey Electronics
• How to Solder QFN MLF Package by Hand (Using a Hot Air Rework Station) | Digi-Key Electronics
• From Solderless Breadboard to Soldered Circuit - Electronics with Becky Stern | Digi-Key Electronics

• Everything You Need to Know about Breadboards
• How to Use a Breadboard

• Introduction to FPGA
• FPGA Fundamentals

• Grokking Algorithms - Aditya Y. Bhargava
• Introduction to Algorithms - Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest and Clifford Stein
• Data Structures in C
• Data Structures - Full Course Using C and C++

• Design Patterns for Embedded Systems in C - Bruce Powel Douglass

• Embedded System Design using UML State Machines

• Understanding the C runtime memory model
• Dynamic Memory Allocation | C Programming Tutorial

• Microcontroller Embedded C Programming: Absolute Beginners
• The C Programming Language - Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
• C How to Program - Paul Deitel, Harvey Deitel

• C++ Tutorial for Beginners - Full Course
• C++ Concurrency in Action - Anthony Williams

• Assembly Language Programming with ARM – Full Tutorial for Beginners

• Real Python: Python Tutorials
• Python Crash Course - Eric Matthes
• MicroPython - Python for microcontrollers
• CircuitPython

• The Embedded Rust Book

• GCC and Make - Compiling, Linking and Building C/C++ Applications

• How to CMake Good

• Bash scripting cheatsheet
• Bash Scripting Tutorial for Beginners

• Introduction to Docker for the Embedded Developer

• Git Tutorial for Beginners: Learn Git in 1 Hour
• Git for Professionals Tutorial - Tools & Concepts for Mastering Version Control with Git

• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces - Remzi H Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C Arpaci-Dusseau

• The Linux Programming Interface - Michael Kerrisk

• Embedded C/C++ Unit Testing with Mocks

• Embedded CI/CD with HIL Testing

The idea of creating this roadmap came from vazeri / Embedded-Engineering-RoadMap-2018 which was well designed but had some flaws and not updated for years. I took that idea, changed the structure of the roadmap and tried to improve it. The initial results can be accessed in m3y54m / Embedded-Engineering-Roadmap-Archived which is now archived. Early versions of the roadmap were created using Balsamiq Wireframes which is not suitable for these types of diagrams. So I decided to use Microsoft Visio instead and redrew the whole diagram.

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Special thanks to my friends in the community of Iranian Embedded Engineers in Twitter and r/embedded subreddit for their suggestions that helped in improving this roadmap.

If you think that this map can be improved in anyway, please start an issue or pull request. I’ll be maintaining and updating this repository frequently.

The source file is created using Microsoft Visio in .vsdx format and included in this repository for your contributions. If you do not have Microsoft Visio or you want to use free software, you can use draw.io which can import and export .vsdx files.