Embedded systems Embedded systems The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was the first recognizably modern embedded system, used in real-time by astronaut pilots to collect and provide flight information, and to automatically control all of the navigational functions of the Apollo spacecraft. It was developed for the Apollo program by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory under Charles Stark Draper, with hardware design led by Eldon C. Hall (see References). Based upon MIT documents, early architectural work seems to come from J.H. Laning Jr., Albert Hopkins, Ramon Alonso ** , and Hugh Blair-Smith ** . The actual flight hardware was fabricated by Raytheon, whose Herb Thaler ** was also on the architectural team. ...more on Wikipedia about "Apollo Guidance Computer"
A pacemaker (or "artificial pacemaker", so as not to be confused with the heart's natural pacemaker) is a medical device designed to regulate the beating of the heart. The purpose of an artificial pacemaker is to stimulate the heart when either the heart's native pacemaker is not fast enough or if there are blocks in the heart's electrical conduction system preventing the propagation of electrical impulses from the native pacemaker to the lower chambers of the heart, known as the ventricles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Artificial pacemaker"
An automatic teller machine, automated teller machine (ATM) or cash machine is an electronic device that allows a bank's customers to make cash withdrawals and check their account balances without the need for a human teller. Many ATMs also allow people to deposit cash or cheques, transfer money between their bank accounts, top up their mobile phones' pre-paid accounts or even buy postage stamps. ...more on Wikipedia about "Automatic teller machine"
Automotive software is a software driving a Microcontroller within automobiles. These Microcontrollers are usually specific to Automotive application usually containing integrated Bus Transceivers interfaces for Bus Systems like LIN, CAN, MOST, LAN among others. Currently the automobile manufacturers use a software architecture consisting of different Electronic control units (ECUs), a Gateway and Sensors. The gateway is reponsible for deciding which information at a certain ECU or a Sensor should be routed to which other ECU. There are typically 6 different kinds of ECUs: ...more on Wikipedia about "Automotive software"
The onboard electronics used for piloting an aircraft are called avionics (AVI-ation electr-ONICS). Avionics include communications and navigation systems, autopilots, and electronic flight management systems (FMS). Onboard electronics that are unrelated to piloting tasks, such as video systems for passengers, are sometimes considered avionics as well. Many of these devices include embedded computers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Avionics"
Avionics software is embedded software with legally-mandated safety and reliability concerns used in avionics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Avionics software"
The AVR Butterfly is a self-contained kit featuring the ATmega169 Central Processing Unit from Atmel. It allows circuit designers to experiment and evaluate the AVR family of microcontroller processors for use in their projects. ...more on Wikipedia about "AVR Butterfly" The view on shortopedia.
A barcode reader (or barcode scanner) is a computer peripheral for reading barcodes printed on various surfaces. Like a flatbed scanner, it generally consists of a light source, a lens and a photo conductor translating optical impulses into electrical ones. Additionally, nearly all barcode readers currently produced contain decoder circuitry analyzing the barcode's image data provided by the photo conductor and sending the barcode's content to the scanner's output port. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barcode reader"
Brain pacemaker is a medical device which sends electric impulses into brain. Brain pacemakers are implanted into human body for treating epilepsy, Parkinson disease and other diseases. Depending on where the impulses are sent, the treatment is called deep brain stimulation, vagus nerve stimulation etc. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brain pacemaker"
Calculator gaming is the phenomenon of programming and playing games on programmable calculators, especially graphing calculators. ...more on Wikipedia about "Calculator gaming"
The abbreviation CNC stands for Computer(ized) Numerical(ly) Control(led), and refers specifically to the computer control of machine tools for the purpose of (repeatedly) manufacturing complex parts in metal as well as other materials, using a program written in a notation conforming to the EIA-274-D standard and commonly called G-code. ...more on Wikipedia about "CNC"
A component-based paradigm is a form of distributed control production system which utilizes a CAN or LAN to link autonomous mechatronic modules. Through collaboration, the mechatronic modules perform the production goals and inherit flexible and agile manufacturing properties in the production scheme. ...more on Wikipedia about "Component-based paradigm"
In embedded systems, a Computer Operating Properly counter is a counter that causes a system reset if it is allowed to overflow. COP counters help a system recover from malfunctioning code by reseting the device if the counter is not cleared by software at a regular interval. ...more on Wikipedia about "Computer Operating Properly"
A digital video recorder (DVR) is a device that records video to a digital storage medium. The term DVR may be used to describe a piece of equipment such as a Personal Video Recorder (PVR) or a CCTV DVR. It may also be used to reference a function in a piece of equipment such as a digital video camera that has a DVR function built into it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Digital video recorder" Whatever You're Into, Get Into www.shortopedia.com.
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In automotive electronics, an electronic control unit (ECU) is an embedded system that controls one or more of the electrical subsystems in a vehicle. Some modern cars have up to 70 ECUs, including: ...more on Wikipedia about "Electronic control unit"
An embedded operating system is an operating system for embedded systems. These operating systems are designed to be very compact and efficient, forsaking many functionalities that non-embedded computer operating systems provide and which may not be used by the specialized applications they run. They are frequently also real-time operating systems. ...more on Wikipedia about "Embedded operating system"
An embedded system is a special-purpose computer system, which is completely encapsulated by the device it controls. ...more on Wikipedia about "Embedded system"
An Engine Control Unit (ECU) (also known as an engine management system) is an electronic device, basically a computer, that is part of an internal combustion engine, which reads several sensors in the engine and uses the information to control the fuel injection and ignition systems of the engine. This approach allows an engine's operation to be controlled in great detail, allowing greater fuel efficiency, better power and responsiveness, and much lower pollution levels than earlier generations of engines. Because the ECU is dealing with actual measured engine performance from millisecond to millisecond, it can compensate for many variables that traditional systems cannot, such as ambient temperature, humidity, altitude (air density), fuel octane rating, as well as the demands made on it by the driver. In addition, it is able to a large degree to compensate for the gradual wearing of the engine as it ages, which in practice allows it to extend engine life to two or three times that of engines of twenty years ago. ...more on Wikipedia about "Engine Control Unit"
In computing, firmware is software that is embedded in a hardware device. It is often provided on flash ROMs or as a binary image file that can be uploaded onto existing hardware by a user. ...more on Wikipedia about "Firmware" Are you ready for http://www.shortopedia.com?
A graphing calculator is a special kind of scientific/engineering programmable calculator that is able to display and/or analyze mathematical function graphs. Also, graphing calculators can show several lines of text and numbers at a time. Some graphing calculators have color displays. ...more on Wikipedia about "Graphing calculator"
HAL/S is a real-time aerospace programming language, best known for its use in the Space Shuttle program. It was designed by Intermetrics in the 1970s for NASA. HAL/S is written in XPL, a dialect of PL/I. ...more on Wikipedia about "HAL/S"
A handheld game console is a lightweight, portable, electronic device for playing video games. Unlike video game consoles, however, the controls, screen and speakers are all part of a single unit. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, several companies – including Coleco and Milton-Bradley – made lightweight table-top or handheld electronic game devices. Today, these machines aren't considered strictly consoles, since they often would only play a single game. The first true handheld game console with interchangeable cartridges was the Milton Bradley Microvision in 1979. Nintendo has dominated the handheld market since the release of the Game Boy in 1989, and is often credited as popularizing the handheld console concept. ...more on Wikipedia about "Handheld game console"
An in-circuit emulator (ICE) also called on-circuit debugger (OCD) or background debug module (BDM) is a hardware device used to debug the software of an embedded system. Embedded systems present special problems for a programmer, because they usually lack keyboards, screens, disk-drives and other helpful user interfaces and storage devices that are present on business computers. ...more on Wikipedia about "In-circuit emulator"
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