Information technology (IT) is on the verge of another revolution. Driven by the increasing capabilities and ever declining costs of computing and communications devices, IT is being embedded into a ...

The next generation of networked embedded systems necessitates rapid prototyping and high performance while maintaining key qualities like trustworthiness and safety. However, deployment of ...

Imagine a world without a global notion of time. Now try to find out the flight direction of an airplane with the following information: There's an e-mail from Alice that she saw the plane about two ...

We are now going to examine how to access your computer's serial ports. In order to do this, we need some sort of serial device to talk to. A serial port loopback plug is probably the simplest. These ...

Throughout this book, we will be using Java 1 as the language of choice for controlling our network-enabled devices. In this chapter, we will discuss getting the Java Development Kit (JDK version 1.3) ...

When I first started writing embedded software, the environments that I found to be the most efficient and easiest to use were only available on Microsoft Windows. In fact, it wasn’t uncommon for ...

Globally, the segment for standalone embedded systems, being self-contained, makes up 39% of the market as they are widely used in consumer electronics, automotive, medical, and industrial ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...