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Embedded systems mostly means that the OEM delivers a complete device (hardware and software) where the endcustomer doesn't install anything else. These systems
by Matthias247 10y ago
Embedded systems mostly means that the OEM delivers a complete device (hardware and software) where the endcustomer doesn't install anything else. These systems can contain anything from 8bit microcontrollers to i7 processors.
But of course, when many people talk about embedded systems (especially in the context of development) they mean the more constrained devices (microcontrollers without OS or with realtime OS, ...). That's because the others are more PC-like and therefore don't have these special requirements during (software) development.
- vonmoltke 10y ago> That's because the others are more PC-like and therefore don't have these special requirements during (software) development. Requirements are based on the task, not the hardware. I have written firm real-time software for multi-processor, multi-node Xeon and POWER7 systems.
- JoachimSchipper 10y agoJust out of interest - what were you doing?
- vonmoltke 10y agoAn airborne radar signal processor. We were using telecom-ruggedized IBM blades to run a large-scale (for an airplane) clustered signal processing application. The processing was divided spatially, but needed to be implemented as a grid because the workers had to move in lockstep through the stages of the pipeline.