25 Oct
2011
25 Oct
'11
10:26 p.m.
On 10/26/2011 12:45 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
The problem is that I'm not sure what "embedded" means any more. Is
a smartphone with a Cortex A15 4-core processor "embedded"? How
about an Android Pad?
The distinction is blurring pretty fast.
Putting full-blown UNIX computers in telephones doesn't change what
"embedded" has always meant, or at least implied. The system I'm
working on now is built around an ARM7 at 70MHz with 512KB of flash and
32KB of RAM, and that's about as big as I go in the embedded space. It
doesn't have file-structured mass storage, nor does it have a user
interface in any traditional sense. THAT'S embedded.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA
I have no idea what embedded systems are like these
days , they used
to be processor, storage, and RAM starved so they did need optimized
but you also knew exactly what the resources were.
They still generally are processor, storage and RAM starved these
days, but the spectrum is a lot larger on the top end.