Hi guys, I'm studying for an exam on Thursday and I've found something I'm unsure on:

An embedded system is a smaller scale system with a dedicated function or task within a larger scale system, right?.

So.. Within a PC, is the PC an embedded system or are the video cards, sound card etc that make the PC the embedded systems?.

Thanks.

 

There are many opinions on this, but there is only one true answer:

It is precisely what your professor said.

 

Ok, thanks for the reply!

 

It is a somewhat nebulous idea, but I've always thought of an embedded system to be a system with a processor that operates autonomously. So, a processor based alarm system would be an embedded system, but a computer would not. However, a video card might be thought of as an embedded system.