Embedded system

In electronics an embedded system are often defined as "A build-in computer or micro-controller dedicated at performing tasks for the unit they are built in to". For example "the embedded system" controlling the fuel injection on a car engine.

Systems

• http://www.gumstix.org

ASMP/SMP/RTOS

• Multicore
• Embedded OpenMP
• Who's afraid of ASMP

Embedded disasters

• Patriot Missile Software Problem (Floating point precision)
  • floating point failure explained
• Therac-25 radiation therapy machine failure (Race condition)
• Ariane 5 failure (Typecast failure 64 bit float to 16 bit signed integer)
  • Ariane 5 failure explained