Embedded Institute Free AI prompt pack

Letter for your boss

Most companies cover technical books and training under a learning & development (L&D) or training-reimbursement policy, so you usually don’t have to pay for this yourself. This letter makes the case to your manager.

How to claim it

  1. Find your company’s L&D or training-reimbursement policy (usually on the HR portal) and note its name and any approval limit.
  2. Copy the letter below, fill in the parts in [brackets], and send it to whoever approves training spend.
  3. Once approved, buy the plan and attach the GST/VAT invoice from your purchase email to your expense claim.
Open in email

Subject: Training budget request: Embedded Institute curriculum (₹29,999$599, one-time)

Hi [manager’s name],

I’d like to claim the Embedded Institute field manuals under our [learning & development / training reimbursement] policy. They’re a written curriculum on the hardware and timing problems behind the embedded bugs that cost us the most time: 10 tracks, released between Q4 2026 and Q4 2027:

  • Track 1: Compiler Internals, Memory Anatomy & Optimization Forensics (tentative Q4 2026)
  • Track 2: Hardware-Software Interconnects & Silicon Fault Physics (tentative Q4 2026)
  • Track 3: Real-Time Systems, Determinism & Execution Architectures (tentative Q1 2027)
  • Track 4: Automated Testing & Register-Level Mocking on Bare Metal (tentative Q1 2027)
  • Track 5: Headless CI/CD, Containerized Toolchains & Virtual Bench (HIL) (tentative Q2 2027)
  • Track 6: Power-Rail Physics, Battery Operation & Low-Power Design (tentative Q2 2027)
  • Track 7: Post-Mortem Diagnostics, Crash Forensics & Field Telemetry (tentative Q3 2027)
  • Track 8: Embedded Systems Architecture & Hardware-Firmware Co-Design (tentative Q3 2027)
  • Track 9: Managing Embedded Engineering, Hardware Delays & Silicon Slips (tentative Q4 2027)
  • Track 10: Systems Wisdom, Technical Debt & Defensive Engineering (tentative Q4 2027)

The all-tracks plan is a one-time purchase of ₹29,999$599 for all 10 tracks. Bought one at a time they would cost ₹49,990$990 (₹4,999$99 each), so the plan saves ₹19,991$391. Tracks still being written are delivered the day they’re released.

Why I think it’s worth it:

  • One fault like a bus error, a linker misplacement or a brownout can take days of engineering time to track down. Each track costs less than a few hours of that time.
  • They’re references I’ll keep open at the bench and use on real issues, not video courses.
  • No subscription. Payment goes through Dodo Payments, which issues a GST/VAT invoice I can attach to the expense claim.

If others on the team would use them, a licence for 5 engineers is ₹19,999$399 per track (₹13,999$279 on pre-order), up to ₹1,99,990$3,990 for all 10 tracks.

Details: https://embedded.institute/#curriculum

Thanks,
[your name]