What is 'mission-critical' and do we need to rethink the concept in an era of long-lifecycle embedded systems?

Embedded systems power everything from smart agriculture sensors to life-saving medical implants. As their numbers swell into the tens of billions, the engineering community faces a pivotal challenge: ...

Any electronic system that uses a computer chip but is not a general-purpose desktop or laptop computer, tablet or smartphone. Embedded systems use microcontrollers (MCUs), microprocessors (MPUs) or ...

Most of us will casually encounter dozens of embedded systems by mid-morning each day throughout our residences, roadways, workplaces and retail stores. These intelligent machines are a permanent part ...

Embedded systems are increasingly prevalent in nearly every aspect of human life. Innovations made possible by embedded systems are making our lives healthier, safer, cleaner, and more stimulating.

The Embedded Systems Engineering (ESE) subplan in our Professional Master's Program provides comprehensive coverage of essential embedded technologies, current tools and trends. It is structured to ...

At the intersection of hardware and software architecture, embedded systems are integral in applications including smart devices, wearables, autonomous systems, security and defense technologies, ...

Embedded systems design and development can sometimes seem worlds apart from traditional application development on general computing devices and maybe even more so from Web development on the server ...

If there is one thing in software engineering that is a given, it’s that engineers need continuous education. While graduating college might have made us think that we were “done,” the truth is that ...