Design of Embedded Systems with Novel Applications

Abstract

Summary form only for tutorial. The tutorial introduces the need for restructuring the embedded systems designs with focus on new time critical network centric applications, where full duplex control function plays a vital role over typical interfaces such as LANs, DSLs and serial & parallel ports. Time critical applications are extremely sensitive to random variations of processing times, scheduling information exchanges and clock jitters. These variations produce excessive random delays that are highly problematic for time critical applications. Currently implemented interfaces such as bus architectures and local area network interfaces produce excessive random delays both in expected value and its standard deviation. The embedded systems design needs to take into account the problems with respect to enhancing the existing interfaces as well as developing new interfaces.