The Future of Real Time Embedded Systems

Embedded system developers face many and sometimes conflicting challenges. To increase efficiency and drive down hardware cost, they must aim forever higher levels of system integration. But to keep applications manageable and scalable, they need solutions that are as general and modular as possible. At the same time, embedded system complexity rises, quality standards go up and development time needs to decrease. With such opposing forces, how can the development of embedded systems still remain successful, maintainable and reliable? This white paper gives an overview of how embedded system engineers can cope with these issues, now and in the future. It does so by showing what successful strategies the authors have developed in the past few years.