The report indicates that while the current Embedded |
and pervasive and touching virtually all aspects of daily life. |
Software market size is relatively small, there is a huge |
From mobile telephones to automobiles, and Industrial |
opportunity that remains untapped in this segment. It also |
equipment to high end medical devices, embedded |
highlights some of the challenges that the industry needs |
systems now form part of a wide range of devices. |
to overcome in order to effectively address this opportunity. |
Embedded software now sits at the intersection of |
As the industry continues to look at new areas of interest |
technology and the automotive, telecommunication, |
where there is high propensity to innovate, embedded |
aerospace, energy, high technology, and the broader |
systems has emerged as a significant growth opportunity. |
Industrial manufacturing sectors. |
Embedded Systems are now becoming more ubiquitous | |
The digital revolution now has reached to a stage where we |
already owns at least one piece of equipment, which |
cannot conduct our normal modern daily lives without this |
contains a processor; whether it is a phone, a television, an |
technology. Indeed, it is reasonable to say that everyone |
automatic washing machine, an MP3 player, microwave |
already owns at least one piece of equipment, which |
oven or anything such. |
contains a processor or microcontroller in it. If embedded |
The colossal growth of processing and controlling power in |
systems are to become a serious discipline to contribute in |
small packages has fuelled this digital revolution by boon |
progression of the Indian economy and global demand in |
of embedded systems. |
general, it is imperative that our proven expertise in IT software should play a crucial role in developing talent with the required skills. |
Embedded systems are basically computer based control systems designed to perform specifically dedicated functions within a set of larger system. These are fixed or |
The digital revolution now has reached to a stage where we |
embedded as a part of the complete bigger system, hence |
cannot conduct our normal modern daily lives without this |
the name – Embedded Systems. |
technology. Indeed, it is reasonable to say that everyone | |
Development of embedded systems began in early 1960s |
Today these systems span across many aspects of our daily |
and since then it has grown exponentially in terms of |
life, ranging from consumer electronics devices to medical |
power as well as functionality. Due to large scale |
equipments, telecom instruments, automobiles and many |
proliferation of integrated chips and other related parts, |
others. Embedded systems have been touching and |
costs of such systems have also come down drastically. |
changing modern lives like never before. |
Embedded system development in India started around |
provide high level software designs and board level designs |
early 2000. The market reached approximately $ 5 billion by |
in a few cases. Not much work is carried out in terms of |
2009 and now has reached triple in size by. According to |
application design engineering, hardware design and |
recently released NASSCOM report, the total addressable |
innovation towards customized product development. This |
embedded system R & D global opportunity is expected to |
lack of domain expertise in industry is basic impediment for |
reach approx. $ 89 billion by 2015 where India alone could |
future growth. Leveraging and growing in these areas can |
contribute approx. $ 15 billion in size. This means that |
help Indian industry to have significant improvement in |
Indian technology firms and engineering designers will |
embedded systems space and a few companies already |
have to drive actual product innovation and move towards |
have started working towards this goal. |
product ownership. Presently many Indian companies | |
Two core parts of any embedded systems are its hardware |
This means software or firmware is now a key differentiator; |
and firmware or software inside the core processing unit. |
since any new feature or specification can be easily tackled |
However, many hardware platforms have reached their |
or added using software changes. |
configuration potential and are saturated in terms of |
Clearly, now the software has to play critical role of |
adding new things that cannot be added using firmware. |
differentiation, innovation and future enhancements in |
Additionally at the advent of open source hardware |
embedded systems. The ratio of contribution by firmware |
platforms and quick prototyping and building blocks of |
and hardware, which was 30-70( 30 % firmware & 70 % |
hardware systems not much differentiation can be made by |
hardware) earlier has now become almost 50-50 and is |
just the hardware system. |
expected to grow further as hardware reaches its |