Embedded Systems Software, AI and AI Research

Embedded System Architecture is one of the first steps in the creation of an embedded system. It is the most important step to ensure success in meeting system goals and objectives.

After the establishment of a well-defined architecture, the next important step is the design process. This phase realizes an architecture into a design to guide implementation. The quality of the design determines the effectiveness, maintainability, scalability, and stability of the system.

Typically, the implementation phase of development involves programming for the software portion of an embedded system. Programming is a logical concept that is “wide open” in terms of techniques and styles.

Field Programmable Gate Arrays are being integrated into embedded system design at an increasing rate. Due to the flexibility to support custom digital logic designs and parallel processing, these devices are utilized to meet the growing demand of increased processing needs.

In embedded systems, a board support package (BSP) is the layer of software containing hardware-specific drivers and other routines that allow a particular operating system (traditionally a real-time operating system, or RTOS) to function in a particular hardware environment (a computer or CPU card), integrated with the RTOS itself.

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Logic abstracted as relationships and their derivates is the next evolution of programming. There is an assumption that, with the rise of artificial intelligence, the art of programming is dead. But something can be done.

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