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[Answer] Which direction has better prospects for an undergraduate in Automation: microcontrollers, PLCs, or embedded systems?
March 22, 20261 min read
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[Answer] Which direction has better prospects for an undergraduate in Automation: microcontrollers, PLCs, or embedded systems?
[Answer] Which direction has better prospects for an undergraduate in Automation: microcontrollers, PLCs, or embedded systems?
Essentially, these three are the same underlying issue. A microcontroller is basically an embedded system, while a PLC is a microcontroller packaged by a manufacturer. If you know how to work with microcontrollers, then PLCs are relatively easy to learn. Therefore, I would recommend studying embedded systems (or microcontrollers), rather than starting with PLCs.
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