The practical engineer. Making embedded systems year 2000 compliant

Author

Lefkon, Dick ; Payne, Bill

Author_Institution

Millennium Associates, New York City, NY, USA

Volume

35

Issue

6

fYear

1998

fDate

6/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

74

Lastpage

79

Abstract

Most embedded systems are designed to work on their own, performing only one or two tasks independently of other systems. This paper details how fixing the Millennium bug in such systems will require not only a hardware change but also changes to the embedded software. In many cases, the companies that designed the devices no longer exist. In those whose doors are still open, management´s concern with quarterly profit takes precedence over spending to fix a problem that has yet to occur. All the same, a few enlightened managers have realized that, while the costs of making these changes will be enormous, the price of not making them will be staggering

Keywords

data integrity; program debugging; real-time systems; software development management; software maintenance; Millennium bug; Year 2000 compliance; embedded software maintenance; embedded systems; hardware maintenance; management; Embedded system; Microprocessors; Monitoring; Pins; Random access memory; Read only memory; Read-write memory; Security; Switches; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Spectrum, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9235

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/6.681976

Filename

681976