Examples of application areas of embedded systems

Embedded systems have now been popularized in the national defense, national economy and social life in all areas of application, used in enterprises, the military, offices, laboratories and personal family and other various places, see Figure ?

● Military. A variety of weapons control (artillery control, missile control, smart bomb guidance and detonation device), tanks, ships, bombers and other land, sea and air all kinds of military electronic equipment, radar, electronic countermeasures, military communications equipment, field command and combat with a variety of specialized equipment.

●Consumer electronics. China's various information appliances, such as digital TV sets, set-top boxes, digital cameras, VCDs, DVDs, audio equipment, video phones, home networking equipment, washing machines, refrigerators, smart toys, etc., widely used microprocessors / microcontrollers and embedded software. With the demand of the market and the development of technology, the traditional cell phone gradually develops into a smart phone that integrates the characteristics of PDA, e-commerce and entertainment, etc. China's mobile communication market has great potential and promising development prospects.

● Industrial control. A variety of intelligent measuring instruments, numerical control devices, programmable controllers, control machines, distributed control systems, fieldbus instrumentation and control systems, industrial robots, mechatronics machinery and equipment, automotive electronics, etc., the widespread use of microprocessors/controllers chip level, standard bus template level and system embedded computers.?

● network applications. the development of the Internet, generated a large number of network infrastructure, access equipment, terminal equipment market demand, these devices in a large number of embedded systems.

Other. Various types of cash registers, POS systems, electronic scales, bar code readers, commercial terminals, bank bill counting machines, IC card input devices, ATMs, ATMs, automatic service terminals, anti-theft systems, a variety of professional banking peripherals and a variety of medical electronic instruments, none of which do not need to use to embedded systems. Embedded systems can be said to be ubiquitous, ubiquitous, with broad prospects for development, but also full of opportunities and challenges.