'Device-software optimization': Another meaningless term in a crowded jargon field?

摘要

I'm just back from the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) in San Jose, CA. This show was once a small, educational conference primarily for engineers working with board-level products and realtime operating systems. It has now become one of the key shows for a broad segment of EDN readers. The show featured most of the leading IC vendors, and the hot embedded-system applications these days are consumer products—cell phones to set-top boxes. At a major conference, you always find a hyped technology that may deserve the attention. At this ESC, DSO (device-software optimization) took the hype crown, and I can't figure out why.