Moving from embedded systems to embedded computing

ABSTRACT

In the middle of the last decade, there was a large gulf between embedded systems and general-purpose computing. Most researchers and advanced developers in general-purpose computing thought naively that real-time considerations added a little twist, but after that it was mostly a matter of size. Their impression was that embedded systems were just like general-purpose systems, but smaller. At the same time, those working in embedded systems were usually insufficiently aware of progress in computing that could be applied to what they were doing, and felt that theirs was a discipline apart.