Texas State University – San Marcos began offering its Computer Engineering curriculum in the Fall 2010 semester. A key element of this curriculum is an emphasis on Embedded Systems design as a mechanism for addressing the key educational objectives of the IEEE/ACM Model Curriculum. One of the key differences between Embedded Systems design and general system design is the need to address a res...

Computers have become commonplace in our daily lives; they are embedded within so many products that they have largely become invisible. Furthermore, computers are used to aid in the design of those products and it is possible for the entire design process to be performed digitally. But humans are physical beings; evolved to have an innate understanding of the physical world. In contrast, this ...

Embedded real-time systems typically perform information processing that is tightly-coupled with physical processes. They are also becoming more and more distributed in order gain typical advantages of distributed processing, such as load-balancing, fault-tolerance, reduced wiring, increased responsiveness, etc. We propose an integrated approach for modeling and analysis of distributed embedded...

Embedded computer systems are ubiquitous, and contemporary embedded applications exhibit demanding computation and efficiency requirements. Meeting these demands presently requires the use of applicationspecific integrated circuits and collections of complex system-on-chip components. The design and implementation of application-specific integrated circuits is both expensive and time consuming....

virtual water adds a new dimension to crop trades and provides a new way of thinking about water scarcity. a systematic analysis of virtual water flows requires integration of all critical drivers of virtual water flows under a single consistent framework. the aim of this study was to assess virtual water flows related to trades of grain crops (wheat, corn, rice, and coarse cereals) and their i...

In this paper, we discuss the potential for the use of engineering methods that were originally developed for the design of embedded computer systems, to analyse biological cell systems. For embedded systems as well as for biological cell systems, design is a feature that defines their identity. The assembly of different components in designs of both systems can vary widely. In contrast to the ...

1College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China 2Key Laboratory for Embedded andNetwork Computing of Hunan Province, Changsha, China 3Department of Computer Science, State University of NewYork, Albany, NY, USA Correspondence Guoqi Xie, College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, China. Email: xgqma...

This paper de nes a new paradigm for high performance embedded systems. We present a model of distributed embedded control system software to capture the real-time computing requirements of complex computer-based systems. The hierarchical software architecture de nes the notion of a software path { the construct identi ed by studying embedded real-time applications. We present a technique for d...

The effect of density of embedded post-questions on learning from computer-based instruction (CBI) was studied among 90 sixth-graders randomly assigned to three versions of a CBI programme — high density, low density, and no embedded questions. Children made significant achievement gains across each increase in question density, consistent across the continuum of reading ability represented in ...