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CS269: HW/SW
Engineering of Embedded Systems, Winter02
Common embedded system characteristics
•Single-functioned
–Executes
a single program, repeatedly
•Reactive
and real-time
–Continually
reacts to changes in the system’s environment
–Must
compute certain results in real-time without delay
•Tightly-constrained
–Low
cost, low power, small, fast, etc.
