As I’m sure you’re well aware, the ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano (which began erupting in mid-March) pretty much brought much of European airspace to a standstill over last weekend and into this week. Now that UK airspace has been reopened, it appears I can resume plans for my visit to the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose next week.
The sessions I’m directly involved with are:
Examining ARM’s Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface Standard – CMSIS
Date/Time: Tuesday (April 27, 2010) 3:15pm — 4:15pm
In this session I shall be examining ARM’s Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface Standard (CMSIS – typically pronounced C-M-Sis) . CMSIS aims to provide a framework of reusable components for software developers, silicon and compiler vendors to utilize. Aspects such a power-up boot management and interrupt control have been abstracted and defined by ARM for their Cortex-M family of microcontroller cores. I’ll spend time explaining the CMSIS framework, examining the code from a compiler and chip perspective, and finish off by discussing the pros and cons I see in such an approach.
Understanding Mutual Exclusion: The Semaphores vs. the Mutex
Date/Time: Wednesday (April 28, 2010) 12:00pm — 12:50pm
Location (room): ESC Theater 2
This presentation is based around much of the material in some of my previous postings (see RTOS related blog postings ). One of the things I like about ESC events is that some of the sessions are free. So if you happen to be attending just the exhibition, then you can still attend this session.
The State of Embedded
Date/Time: Wednesday (April 28, 2010) 4:00pm — 4:50pm
Location (room): ESC Theater 1
Finally, I have been invited to participate in an informal session along with Jack Ganssle and Dan Saks (moderated by Rich Nass of Embedded.com and EE Times) to discuss some of the latest trends in embedded systems. We did a similar session at ESC UK back October 2009, which was very well received. It shall be interested to see how being the token European with a US audience differs from the UK event. This is also a free session.
If you’re at the event look me up and say hello.
Niall has been designing and programming embedded systems for over 30 years. He has worked in different sectors, including aerospace, telecomms, government and banking.
His current interest lie in IoT Security and Agile for Embedded Systems.
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Niall has been designing and programming embedded systems for over 30 years. He has worked in different sectors, including aerospace, telecomms, government and banking.
His current interest lie in IoT Security and Agile for Embedded Systems.
