Whether you are working in the technical or business field, knowing the right technical terms and business jargons relevant to the market and industry you are interested and targeted, as part of your career path, is important and can help improve result in searching, identifying and using relevant information-resources, which can impact your progress in the chosen career path.
Embedded is one of these jargons in the computing technology market that has been around for decades. Terminologies such as embedded-computing, embedded-hardware, embedded-software and embedded-xxx have been used by business professionals to promote their products and services. The term embedded or "embedded-xxx", when used by itself without additional identifier, has vague meaning, does not directly address a targeted industry and/or market segment, which covers broad range of industries and market segments.
The embedded technology field is broad, involves different key technologies and impacts just about every industry and market segment that utilizes computing technology. It will take a full length book just to cover a portion of the embedded technology market, which is not within this book's and this chapter's objective.
This chapter is intended to provide a brief overview to help developer new to the embedded technology marketplace, to gain general understanding about this market and minimize confusion caused by the self-serving business jargons floating around different industry publications and the Internet.
In this chapter, we will cover the following:
· Embedded technology in the business community
· Embedded technology in the academic community
· What is embedded development?
· Embedded device
· Intelligent device
Note: This chapter is not talking about the right or wrong relates to the proper use of terminology and is written to provide relevant information to help the reader better inform about the embedded technology marketplace.
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