0 a computer system that does a particular task inside a machine or larger electrical system:
Vending machines, turnstiles and meters will come with embedded systems that will communicate with big computers over the web.
In this approach there is a dominant design (the locally embedded system of social and economic ties) until its survival is challenged, thus introducing pressures for change.
For instance, in an embedded system, the amount of memory available is often severely limited.
In others, it is complicated enough to require a separate embedded system to retransmit data over connector and signal of a different standard.
For an overview of embedded software see embedded system and software development models.
It is specifically designed for a real time embedded system environment.
There were also many special-purpose facilities for embedded system development and robotics.
The value of each electrically emulated sensor is controlled by the plant simulation and is read by the embedded system under test (feedback).
This is perfectly acceptable in an embedded system context.