Increased Autonomous Behaviour in Embedded Devices with Micro-controller Integration

Microcontrollers in dedicated systems were mainly limited to server solutions that provided a semiautomated control of a system. As the 20th century rolled to an end, systems became increasingly complex; integrating different technologies. At the same time, microprocessors became more and more a commodity tool instead of a component in an expensive machine. In this paper, we describe the impact of microprocessor integration at several levels of a novel heterogeneous commercial display system, not only lowering the cost of production, but also exponentially increasing the functionality and fault tolerance of these systems