This document provides an overview of embedded systems, including their definition, characteristics, advantages, disadvantages, and applications. It defines embedded systems as hardware designed to perform specific tasks, notes they are not always standalone, and that most program instructions are stored as firmware. The document also discusses embedded systems' user interfaces, low cost, small size, reliability, and speed as advantages, and issues with maintenance, technology evolution, file transfer, and backup as disadvantages. It concludes by inviting questions.

1. Instructed on: 2-Dec-2011 | Session: #03
By: Mohanad Yehia
Topic Code: TCW-02-2012
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2.  Introduction to embedded systems.
 Advantages of embedded systems.
 Disadvantages of embedded systems.
 Applications of embedded systems.

3.  What’s embedded systems.
 Characteristics of embedded systems.
 User interface with embedded systems.

4. Any hardware system used to do a
specific task can be called an embedded
system.

5. 1. Embedded systems are designed to do some
specific task.
2. Embedded systems are not always standalone
devices.
3. Most of the program instructions written for
embedded systems are referred to as firmware.

6. Embedded systems range from no user interface
at all to complex graphical user interfaces that
resemble modern computer desktop operating
systems.

7.  Low cost.
 Small size.
 High reliability.
 Fast operations.
 Easy to manufacture.
 Fewer interconnections.

8.  Hard to maintain.
 Doesn’t evolve with technology improvement.
 Hard to carry files from one machine to
another.
 Hard to backup embedded files.

11. QUESTIONS!!

12. THANK YOU