Embedded systems is defined as a way of working, performing or organizing one or many tasks according to a fixed set of rules (or) an arrangement in which all the units assemble and work together according to the program or plan. Embedded systems are considered as a cornerstone of the electronics industry today.
Embedded systems have a tremendous impact on our lives. With the convergence of communications, sensor technology, computing abilities, etc., embedded systems have evolved into complex forms. Embedded systems also have a huge variety of applications that varies from low to high-cost consumer electronics to industrial equipment, medical devices to defense control systems, aerospace systems and entertainment devices to academic equipment, and so on. Embedded systems span all features of our present life. The applications of embedded systems are shown below.
The Internet of Things (IoT) has marked the start of the smart world — smart homes, smart cities, smart enterprises and smart manufacturing where embedded system is one of the key stacks of technologies involved with IoT. Pretty much, you can think of Internet of things as a bunch of embedded systems other than personal computers that are connected through Internet. The ecosystem of Internet of things is a typical example of embedded system. Taking the smart home devices– virtual assistant Amazon Alexa and Ring(Acquired by Amazon in March 2018)–for an example, they all follow the protocol of an embedded system, which includes audio or heat sensor as an input, a micro controller in the device as the brain in the hardware and the software system running on a cloud-based server, and the output instructions that trigger video conferencing in the mobile application or switch the home appliance on and off.
Whether you are a fan of Apple watch–for the sake of getting ride of your smartphone with a more condense solution– or a gym goer who wears Fitbit on a daily basis to keep a track of your base metabolic rate and the calories amount either burned during the workout or digested from your diet, you have quite benefited from a technological gadget that is developed on an embedded system. Both case is a fully-fledged device that captures and processes signals from wearable sensor systems, optimize it for low-power performance getting to the firmware level, build architecture for Machine-to-Machine communication or efficient data exchange between embedded sensors and data storage, and to introduce the most convenient data visualization ways and intuitive controls on the user side.
Consumer electronic devices are becoming more complex by the day and manufactures are constantly striving trying to find ways to increase functionality and improve end-users experience. The inclusion of embedded systems into consumer electronics industry has enabled the evolution of a completely new breed of electronic products. Embedded Systems are ubiquitous. They appear in cell phones, microwave ovens, refrigerators, automobiles and a veritable array of consumer products. The core characteristics of an embedded system is that it can be designed to provide a friendly and intuitive user interface that presents a virtual control model of the embedded system, while the complexity, including all its configuration and control components, remain hidden from the user.
In automotive systems more and more equipments are being changed from the mechanical systems to electronic systems. Embedded system is the heart of a vehicle’s electronic system because of its versatility and flexibility. An advanced embedded system in automobiles has increased rapidly in the past two decades. Every year automobile manufacturers pack embedded systems into their cars for different functionalities like ignition, security and audio systems.Today, a typical automobile on the road has computer controlled electronic systems, and the most commonly used embedded systems in a vehicle include navigational systems, airbags, adaptive cruise control, automatic parking, in-vehicle entertainment systems and more.
Embedded system technology has transformed the way medical conditions are diagnosed and treated. MRI machines, CT scanners, heart monitors, and pacemakers are some more examples that benefit from the use of embedded systems. There are many ways that doctors have been able to adopt embedded systems for biomedical purposes. With the IoT (Internet of Things) becoming ever more connected, doctors are now able to remotely monitor their patients. Embedded devices are also able to help patients treat themselves and can be used for preventative medicine. Recent advances in embedded systems technology are rapidly transforming healthcare solutions. Thanks to the progress in embedded technology and IoT (Internet of Things); we are headed to a future of smaller, smarter, wearable and connected medical devices. You may not realize it, but embedded systems have long been part of the development of medical devices and the reason for the vast improvements in the technology.
Input device collects input from user or environment. It could be done via a sensor or a remote control.
Microcontroller/Microprocessor is the brain, it is the processing unit. It collects information from input device and perform the output as per the logic defined inside it.
Output device collects the instructions from micro controller and perform accordingly.
Circuitsify’s team has vast experience in providing solutions to our customer to support product life cycle with embedded design services, embedded verification and validation services and system solutions. The diagram shows snap shot of the activities under the Electronic Design services. Embedded Design services consists product engineering support from concept to prototyping and manufacturing of new products, feature enhancement and technology up-gradation through electronic hardware design, Firmware design, software application development and mechanical design. Our expertise in Embedded Technology helps our customer with customized product solutions.
Embedded product design is a specialized area that requires trained talent, expensive tools and modern equipment. Circuitsify offers a wide range of Embedded Design Services that are intended towards transforming an idea into a complete product. This includes devising of System Architecture, Hardware Design, Software Design, Firmware Design, Mechanical Design, Prototyping, Validation, Regulatory Certification and Pilot Production.
Circuitsify provides a complete electronic hardware design solution in an embedded system which include schematic design, bill of material finalization, Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design, prototyping, production support and FPGA design services for customer-specific requirements. The key hardware design ranges from small-footprint, power-optimized solutions to high-end, rugged systems built around various embedded processors and Digital Signal Processing (DSP).Our FPGA services include Design/Development, RTL coding, Test suite preparation, simulation and Testing/Verification. We provide turnkey development services in FPGA for High Speed Bus interfaces, Integration of modules, Multi-million gates complex design and concept to specification of the chip to the final board level target hardware.
Circuitsify has in-depth expertise in the areas of firmware development for embedded systems.We offer end-to-end support for firmware development services, which includes general architecture, RTOS, GUI design and implementation, bootloader and upgrade design, porting code to newer platforms, and designing firmware test strategies.We are experienced in producing firmware based on different programming languages. Depending on the size and demands of the project we can provide embedded firmware development solutions based on high-level languages like C/C++ or low-level languages like Assembler. We have performed firmware programming for Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, wearables, consumer devices, appliances, USB drives, mobile phones, biometric technology, industrial machinery, automobiles, surveillance, digital radio, and more.
Experts in software architecture design, software process development, and programming, Circuitsify’s embedded software development team has programmed embedded system for a wide variety of applications in the automotive, medical devices, industrial controls, consumer electronics, IoT, and other edge device industries. Our software development team also helps clients write device drivers and other low-level code in the assembly languages of microcontrollers based on ARM and other instruction sets from chip-makers such as Microchip, Atmel, Texas Instruments, Intel, ST Micro, NXP, Freescale, and Renesas. We provide a full range of embedded software services from simple bare metal solutions to sophisticated distributed systems, where our software expertise includes embedded device, Communication Protocols, high performance, high liability, System integration, Mobile Application and Cloud-based Web development.
Circuitsify is your trusted partner for Embedded System Design.
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