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Real-Time Embedded Systems

 

(Based on information supplied by Frank Blitzer, Honeywell)

Real-Time embedded systems applications are:

The market size will be around $300M per year by the year 2000 for military applications at least. Deployed systems need highly mobile processing equipment for both ground-based and airborne applications. This implies very high reliability of the hardware.

Some typical applications include systems for:

The current proposed software development model for real-time software systems has the following characteristsics:

Current barriers to successful development include:

The potential result of these barriers is that:

The embedded systems tools market includes the real time embedded military systems market which is expected to be at least $300M per year by 2000, as well as the sizeable non-embedded medical imaging and diagnostics market. Some sought after characteristics are:

The key challenges are to drive the market with hardware and software to make a self-sustaining industry and also to use government funding to prime the market development.



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Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu