Decades of advances in computer architecture, software-intensive applications, and system integration have created significant challenges for embedded systems designers test engineers. This article explains trace as an essential technology the testing debugging toolbox. It highlights its capabilities, limitations, opportunities.

This paper describes the design and implementation of a hybrid intelligent surveillance system consisting of an embedded system and a personal computer (PC)-based system. The embedded system performs some of the image processing tasks and sends the processed data to a PC. The PC tracks persons and recognizes two-person interactions by using a grayscale side-view image sequence captured by a sta...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a hybrid intelligent surveillance system that consists of an embedded system and a personal computer (PC)-based system. The embedded system performs some of the image processing tasks and sends the processed data to the PC. The PC tracks persons and recognizes two-person interactions by using a grayscale side view image sequence captured by ...

Editor’s notes: Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have paved paths for highaccuracy computer vision. This article presents a tree-based hierarchy of multiple shallow CNNs to enable their low-power implementations embedded devices. —Muhammad Shafique, New York University Abu Dhabi

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In this talk we will focus our attention to embedded control systems as one possible incarnation of cyber-physical systems. Their design starts with high-level control algorithm design and ends with a concrete hardware/software implementation, involving independent design teams who work at different levels of abstraction – control theorists, compiler designers, programmers, embedded systems des...

As technology advances. curriculum and laboratories are challenged to keep pace. This is especially true in computer engineering, where the range of technologies is constantly broadening and diversifying. as computer-based systems take on many forms andfunctions in everyday life. The question is, how should a contemporary curriculum train computer-engineering students for the vast scope of embe...

As Donald Norman put it in his popular book Invisible Computers [12], “a good technology is a disappearing technology.” A good technology seamlessly permeates into our lives in such a way that we use it without noticing its presence. It is invisible until it is not available. Ever since the invention of microprocessors, many computer researchers have strived to make computer technology a “good”...

Today virtually all engineering disciplines, such as transportation industry, manufacturing, consumer electronics, and energy systems, to name a few, are using embedded systems. From automobiles, elevators, and dishwashers to power converters, CD-ROM drives, and VCRs to pace makers, wrist watches, and even light switches, a wide variety of industrial and consumer products are being equipped wit...