Overview

In this course, you have been learning about emerging hardware and software solutions and their potential impact on society, as well as following best practices for embedded software engineering when writing code. For this assignment, we will focus on embedded and desktop systems.

Prompt

In this first journal assignment, you will explain how non$-$volatile memory is different in an embedded system and a desktop system. Specifically, you will explain the differences between embedded systems and desktop systems, and the advantages of various embedded system architectures. Address the following questions:

How is non$-$volatile memory different in an embedded system and a desktop system?

What are the differences between embedded systems and desktop systems?

What are the advantages of various embedded system architectures?