Background documents useful for the study include:

Within Europe

• Livre blanc des premières assises françaises du logiciel embarqué
• ARTEMIS Strategic Research Agenda
• ITEA Technology Roadmap
   

Books by consultants

• Embedded Systems Design Dictionnary – by Jack Ganssle and Michael Barr
• Embedded Systems Architecture – Tammy Noergaard
   

Online resources (USA)

• FOLDOC (Free Online Dictionary of Computing)
• Wikibooks on Embedded Systems
• Netrino
• Byte Craft Limited