The practical engineer. Making embedded systems year 2000 compliant

摘要

Most embedded systems are designed to work on their own,nperforming only one or two tasks independently of other systems. Thisnpaper details how fixing the Millennium bug in such systems will requirennot only a hardware change but also changes to the embedded software. Innmany cases, the companies that designed the devices no longer exist. Innthose whose doors are still open, management's concern with quarterlynprofit takes precedence over spending to fix a problem that has yet tonoccur. All the same, a few enlightened managers have realized that,nwhile the costs of making these changes will be enormous, the price ofnnot making them will be staggering