Getting Started with Secure Embedded Systems: Developing IoT Systems for micro:bit and Raspberry Pi Pico Using Rust and Tock

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A. Radovici, I. CulicGetting Started with Secure Embedded Systemshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7789-8_1

1. Embedded Systems and Architectures

Alexandru Radovici¹   and Ioana Culic¹

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Wyliodrin, Bucharest, Romania

 

Computers have been around us for many years. Even though most of us think of computers as boxes attached to a keyboard, a mouse, and a display, most of the computers used today are nothing like that. They are machines that crunch numbers, and they are everywhere. All the home appliances or even our cars have a computer inside; some have even more than one (e.g., in the case of a car, there is a computer that is driving the engine and another ...