II.
SkillArea JSON
Structured · liveskill-area:firmware-development
Firmware Development json
Inspect the normalized record payload exactly as the atlas UI reads it.
{
"id": "skill-area:firmware-development",
"_kind": "SkillArea",
"_file": "domain/skill-areas/skill-areas-embedded-fpga.yaml",
"_cluster": "domain",
"attributes": {
"displayName": "Firmware Development",
"description": "Bare-metal and RTOS-based firmware — startup code, linker scripts,\ndrivers, ISRs, and on-target debugging.\n",
"domains": [
"specialization:embedded-systems"
],
"requiresLanguages": [
"language:c",
"language:cpp"
],
"expertiseLevels": [
"intermediate",
"expert"
]
},
"outgoingEdges": [
{
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"to": "specialization:embedded-systems",
"kind": "applies_to",
"attributes": {
"confidence": "primary"
}
},
{
"from": "skill-area:firmware-development",
"to": "specialization:rpikit",
"kind": "applies_to",
"attributes": {
"confidence": "secondary"
}
},
{
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"to": "specialization:electrical-engineering",
"kind": "applies_to",
"attributes": {
"confidence": "secondary"
}
},
{
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"to": "language:c",
"kind": "uses_language"
},
{
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"kind": "uses_language"
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"attributes": {}
},
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"kind": "uses_language",
"attributes": {}
},
{
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"to": "skill-area:rtos-programming",
"kind": "prerequisite_for_learning",
"attributes": {
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}
},
{
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"to": "skill-area:communication-protocols",
"kind": "prerequisite_for_learning",
"attributes": {
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}
},
{
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"kind": "prerequisite_for_learning",
"attributes": {
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}
},
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"kind": "prerequisite_for_learning",
"attributes": {
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}
},
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"attributes": {
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}
},
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}
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}
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}
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"attributes": {}
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"attributes": {}
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