Trends and Implications in Embedded Systems

This White Paper provides a brief introduction to embedded systems, including their main components and application areas. It also provides an overview of the emerging trends and the related implications in the design and development of these systems. The intended audience of this paper includes engineering directors, product engineering leads, hardware or firmware architects, and project managers working on embedded solutions and products. Sukriti Jalali has 15 years of industry experience, in the design and development of real-time and embedded systems as applied to a variety of domains including industrial automation, automotive elec tronics, transportation and process control.