The various classes and day-long tutorials at the
Embedded Systems Conference are
for me like a course in graduate studies I can come back to several
times a year to get a review of the basic tools and techniques as well
as some indication of what is coming next.
In that context, the many Sponsored
Sessions at the ESC are to me like a course of
"post-graduate studies" in the field, looking and hearing how specific
companies and developers are deploying products based on these
techniques.
Once you register for the ESC Fall 2009 in Boston,
there will be numerous opportunities for post-graduate studies in any
particular area of embedded systems design you desire. Fourteen
companies have signed up so far for the Sponsored Sessions, including
Texas Instruments, Microchip, Microsoft, NXP, IBM, Cypress, Renesas, Klockwork, Grammatech, Numonyx,
and CMD.
Microchip, Texas Instruments, Microsoft and NXP will dominate the
Sponsored Sessions with more than 25 out of almost 50 presentations.
Topics of the presentations include 8-16 bit vs 32-bit MCUs, Non-volatile Memory
Design, Ethernet solutions for MCUs, USB design, Digital Filtering on an MCU, building an embedded
Web Server, Zigbee versus proprietary wireless design,
and embedded streaming media.
Of particular interest to me will be several of the sessions by NXP
on its Cortex-M0-based LPC1100; several
presentations by Microsoft on its various embedded OS offerings,
including Windows Embedded CE and Windows Embedded Standard as
well as IBM's presentations on "Modeling in an Agile World," and
"Multicore development using a model-based
approach." Maybe I will see you there.
(Embedded.com Editor Bernard Cole,
bccole@acm.org)
