An embedded OSS (Open Source Software) known as one of OSS has been gaining a lot of attention in the embedded system area, i.e., Android, BusyBox, TRON, etc. However, the poor handling of quality problem and customer support prohibit the progress of embedded OSS. Therefore, many companies have been hesitant to innovate the embedded OSS because of OSS includes several software versions. Also, i...

Today, the number of embedded system was applied in the field of automation and control has far exceeded a variety of general-purpose computer. Embedded system is gradually penetrated into all fields of human society, and ubiquitous embedded applications constitute the "ubiquitous" computing era. Embedded operating system is the core of the embedded system, and it directly affects the performan...

With increasing student numbers and decreasing budgets, undergraduate embedded systems education needs to turn to Computer-aided Assessment (CAA) techniques to keep down the time and effort invested into grading. When setting up the mandatory embedded systems courses for the bachelor study “Computer Engineering” at our university, we thus payed particular attention to employ CAA-compatible exam...

When a computer is an integral part of a larger system, where it intensively interacts with the surrounding environment and frequently deals with real-time constraints, it is considered an embedded system. This communication describes the embedded system world: architecture, classification, characteristics, system limitations, and trends. It also discusses architectural features that cannot exi...

Increasing demand in mobile computing and multimedia market as well as other embedded devices has made it necessary to develop computer vision techniques which are more appropriate for these systems. This paper firstly analyses requirements for embedded vision systems and issues involved in programming optimisation to meet these requirements. Two case studies are then presented together with th...

This article describes my experience in designing and teaching both undergraduate and graduate level embedded systems modules in School of Computing at National University of Singapore. Designing embedded systems modules for an audience with pre-dominantly computer science background poses some unique challenges. However, once the barrier to entry is crossed, the benefits more than outweigh the...

Like existing commodity computer systems, embedded systems are no more small, static, stable nor safe. They have huge amount of source codes, interact with the internet, download and install applications from external, which incur the increase of bugs and security holes. To solve these problems, we propose to leverage virtualization techniques on embedded systems. We ported a machine emulator s...