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>Apparently having firmware engineers with even minor EE background and will think about analogue design is a little uncommon.

They often don't have to know how the nitty-gritty of the HW works. HALs are used everywhere, and some of them abstract a lot away. I've interviewed embedded SWEs that couldn't explain how the tri-state buffers work within GPIO.



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