The world is abuzz with the promise of embedded systems, and hopes are riding high on the immensely popular Linux operating system. Its open-source model, easy customization, and popularity with developers make it an ideal choice for embedded systems. MP3 player Access to the source means that devices can be built with highly specific characteristics taken into consideration without a great deal of generic overhead. You can build what you need and only what you need. Another plus - virtually anyone can enter the embedded Linux development world.
Customized processors exist in a vast array of devices in and around the average home.
Tech toys, you say, but we can get quite a bit more mundane than that. After only a few years we've all but forgotten what an amazing feat of technology a cell phone is. Even our cars come with embedded computers. While many companies could refer to the source code for their financial applications, manufacturing systems, and so on, it became a bit more foggy when it came to embedded systems. In the end the most optimistic industry watchers were declaring that the real Y2K threat lay in embedded systems.