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Embedded System Laboratory
(Y. S. Moon)
A physical system that employs computer control for a specific purpose is referred to as an embedded system. Typical examples are digital cameras, video box, rice cooker, etc. The more control is given to a device, the more intelligent the device is. Modern hardware technologies have created very small embedded processors to carry out sophisticated control functions. These processors are fast and consume relatively electric power. Because of such properties, they become the hearts of our intelligent devices such as 3G mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), etc.
The work embedded system laboratory focuses two functions. First, we build 'drivers' for the embedded systems so that the embedded processors can link up to different types of hardware, like fingerprint sensors, smart card readers, digital cameras, etc. In this regard, the laboratory has implemented many such drivers based on the Embedded Linux system because of its open source support. On the other hand, we also build computationally efficient applications, especially multimedia applications.
The laboratory has more than 50 Embedded Linux systems devoted for teaching and research purposes. In the past year, we have held joint development with several global electronics enterprises.
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