The Embedded Development Tools You Did Not Have When Growing Up

In this paper we give a broad overview of the embedded tools that engineering technology students at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) have been discovering and using for courses, laboratories, senior design and in their personal projects. By no means is this an extensive but a comprehensive list of embedded debugging tools used by students and faculty in our department. The important aspect is that in most of the cases, students have discovered these tools and integrated them into their toolboxes. Faculty and universities should also be on the lookout to integrate these tools into the curriculum by listening to students and their needs.