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Developments within the semiconductor industry constitute one of the most interesting subplots of the rapid innovation in the high-tech industry. As pressure continues to achieve higher levels of device integration while reducing cost, size and complexity, the issue of process innovation has become very significant. Plus, economic and market forces are fueling the market. All of which makes it pertinent to comment on current trends (market and technology), as well as to assess potential breakthroughs in the near- and long-term future. So where this embedded system market is heading to? what lies in future for it?
The embedded systems market, its fundamental basis, key technology drivers, primary use, critical applications and component segments. All of these have to be know in detail to arrive at some conclusion, to predict the future trends...
Now if we look at the future trends in hardware of embedded system then we have
Microprocessors / Microcontrollers: In what concerns microprocessors and microcontrollers, computing performance, which has always been an important issue, will see its relative importance reduced as a requirement due to the current availability of low cost devices with enough processing power for most practical embedded applications. Also, the embedding of network controllers in processors fostered the development of distributed embedded systems. This has contributed to the sustained utilization of a considerable number of processors with 8/16 bits, instead of their announced death.
Dedicated and programable hardware: Dedicated hardware may also play an important role by removing some sources of non-determinism of real-time applications. To support this kind of flexibility in the presence of realtime constraints, the coprocessor implements additionally a timeline-based schedulability analysis that is used to control the admission of all changes in the communication requirements.
Integrated communications: As is was previously referred, the integration of processing and communication capabilities in low-cost hardware components, e.g, in microcontrollers, produced a strong impact in embedded systems. This fact has been fostering the large-scale use of distributed architectures in embedded systems, with positive impact on systems scalability, composability and dependability. Particularly, the trend is towards highly distributed architectures with high number of nodes, most of which will be relatively simple, dedicated to specific functions, e.g. intelligent sensors. On its turn, this trend also influences the hardware design itself, simplifying it at the node level, and transferring a substantial part of the overall complexity to the network.
Now if we look at the Technological Trends then we have, Chip technology has undergone a very rapid improvement over several decades.
Considering embedded systems design, it is difficult to determine if the preponderance within the next few years will be in centralized or distributed solutions.Who can say what the FUTURE will bring? Project into the future and dream a little... then start a company to capitalize on your idea! May be we can folllow this...
The embedded systems market, its fundamental basis, key technology drivers, primary use, critical applications and component segments. All of these have to be know in detail to arrive at some conclusion, to predict the future trends...
Now if we look at the future trends in hardware of embedded system then we have
Microprocessors / Microcontrollers: In what concerns microprocessors and microcontrollers, computing performance, which has always been an important issue, will see its relative importance reduced as a requirement due to the current availability of low cost devices with enough processing power for most practical embedded applications. Also, the embedding of network controllers in processors fostered the development of distributed embedded systems. This has contributed to the sustained utilization of a considerable number of processors with 8/16 bits, instead of their announced death.
Dedicated and programable hardware: Dedicated hardware may also play an important role by removing some sources of non-determinism of real-time applications. To support this kind of flexibility in the presence of realtime constraints, the coprocessor implements additionally a timeline-based schedulability analysis that is used to control the admission of all changes in the communication requirements.
Integrated communications: As is was previously referred, the integration of processing and communication capabilities in low-cost hardware components, e.g, in microcontrollers, produced a strong impact in embedded systems. This fact has been fostering the large-scale use of distributed architectures in embedded systems, with positive impact on systems scalability, composability and dependability. Particularly, the trend is towards highly distributed architectures with high number of nodes, most of which will be relatively simple, dedicated to specific functions, e.g. intelligent sensors. On its turn, this trend also influences the hardware design itself, simplifying it at the node level, and transferring a substantial part of the overall complexity to the network.
Now if we look at the Technological Trends then we have, Chip technology has undergone a very rapid improvement over several decades.
Considering embedded systems design, it is difficult to determine if the preponderance within the next few years will be in centralized or distributed solutions.Who can say what the FUTURE will bring? Project into the future and dream a little... then start a company to capitalize on your idea! May be we can folllow this...
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