计算机专业的三个方向二（国外英文资料）.doc

计算机专业的三个方向二（国外英文资料） The development direction of computer science (2) on Tuesday 22, 2006, in the direction of embedded system Embedded systems are undoubtedly one of the most popular and promising IT applications in the world. Embedded systems used in certain special equipment, these devices usually hardware resources (such as CPU, memory, etc.) is very limited, and the cost is very sensitive, sometimes to the real-time response requirements are higher. Especially with the intelligence of consumer appliance, the embedded is more important. As we usually common to mobile phone, PDA, electronic dictionary, videophone, VCD/DVD/MP3 Player, digital camera (DC), digital video camera (DV), U Disk, STB (Set Top Box), high-definition television (HDTV), game consoles, smart toys, switches, routers, nc equipment or instrumentation, automotive electronics, home appliances, medical equipment, aerospace equipment, control system and so on are all typical embedded systems. Embedded systems are a combination of software and hardware, and there are two types of embedded developers. One kind is partial hardware such as electronic engineering, communication engineering professional background, they mainly do the hardware design, sometimes to be developed at the bottom of some of the most closely relationship with hardware software, such as the BootLoader, Board Support Package (like PC BIOS, driven down hardware, up to Support the operating system), the primary hardware drivers, etc. Their advantage is the hardware principle is very clear, insufficient definition is that they are better at a variety of hardware interface, but fall short of complex software systems (such as embedded operating system theory and complex application software, etc.). The other category is software and computer expertise, mainly engaged in the development of embedded operating systems and applications. We can also write BSP and hardware drivers if we are learning software that has a good grasp of hardware