Opportunities And Challenges In Embedded Systems

The technological advances in processing, communication, storage, actuating and sensing enables a large amount of applications of embedded systems. The challenges of today to realize these opportunities are discussed, addressing six main issues: market dynamics, interoperability, reliability, power, security, and creativity. The capabilities of the Embedded Systems Institute are discussed briefly. Distribution This article or presentation is written as part of the Gaud project. The Gaud project philosophy is to improve by obtaining frequent feedback. Frequent feedback is pursued by an open creation process. This document is published as intermediate or nearly mature version to get feedback. Further distribution is allowed as long as the document remains complete and unchanged. All Gaud documents are available at: http://www.extra.research.philips.com/natlab/sysarch/ version: 1.0 status: concept 19th May 2004