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I disagree that a Raspberry Pi is "definitely not embedded". What if I had an ARM SoC (like in the RPi) running VxWorks or RTEMS controlling a missile? Few wou
by planteen 10y ago
I disagree that a Raspberry Pi is "definitely not embedded".
What if I had an ARM SoC (like in the RPi) running VxWorks or RTEMS controlling a missile? Few would argue that is not an embedded system.
What if the RPi is running real-time Linux doing computer vision on an assembly line? What if the timing deadlines are pretty loose (>10 ms), a miss a month is acceptable, and it runs a stock Linux kernel? I would argue all of those cases are real-time embedded systems, albeit with different hard real-time versus soft real-time requirements.
- StavrosK 10y agoYou can replace "RPi" with "my Dell desktop" in all of these, and they would be equally true. Does that mean it's embedded? If not, that leaves just the physical size. Does "embedded" only mean "any computer that's very small"?