Announcements

  • Project 2 kickoff on Monday

Thinking Embedded

Figure 3.9.2

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  • hardware platform -> don’t care

  • programming language -> don’t care

What matters for an embedded system, then?

  • How it receives and senses/measures information from outside

  • What it does in response

  • How humans interact with the device

  • How other machines communicate with the system

Time in embedded systems

What is the time? How long until or between?

When seconds matter …​