An autonomous marine research drone utilizes a dedicated micro-controller subsystem specifically to manage the inflation and deflation of its ballast tanks to maintain a constant depth.
State two hardware or operational characteristics of this buoyancy control subsystem that classify it as an embedded system rather than a general-purpose computer system.
76 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Computer Science Hardware, covering Von Neumann architecture and FDE cycle, Secondary storage devices, and Embedded systems. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.