Developing an embedded system can be a challenging adventure. ... The blurring of the line between hardware and software requires engineers to live and understand two completely different worlds. ...

Application software in an embedded system is directly and indirectly dependent on many other low-level software components. Figure 1 shows a block diagram of different software and hardware ...

Figure 1: A simple block diagram of a system with several inputs and outputs. (Source: Beningo Embedded Group) The first step in designing an embedded software architecture would dictate that we start ...