The largest annual embedded industry tradeshow in the US will feature a technical design seminar on Linux, along with seminars on analog and power, DSP performance, consumer video, and wireless networking. The eighteenth Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) is set for Apr. 2-7, in San Jose, Calif.

ESC 2006's Linux seminar is… chaired by well-known embedded Linux trainer and consultant Bill Gatliff (pictured above). It will explore “fundamental concepts required for any successful embedded project based on Linux and other free and open source software,” event organizers say. Topics include licensing, graphical user interface selection, and porting and adapting the Linux kernel to custom hardware.

Presentations in the Linux seminar will include:

• Home media center built with Linux on PowerPC architecture, by Sergei Larin, senior applications engineer for Freescale's Network and Computing Systems Group
• Linux device driver design tradeoffs, by David Hawkins, senior scientist at CalTech
• Linux on the Blackfin DSP Architecture, by Michael Hennerich, DSP applications and systems engineer at Analog Devices Inc. (ADI)
• Linux, IPsec, and crypto hardware acceleration, by Todd Lumpkin, principal staff software engineer at Freescale
• PawPilot, tracking wildlife with embedded systems, by John Marland, systems architect at Weasel Systems
• Porting an existing embedded system to Linux, by Intellibot Robotics's director of engineering, David Knuth, and senior software engineer Daniel Daly
• The combined array for research in millimeter-wave astronomy, by David Hawkins
• Using MicroMonitor to boot embedded applications, by Ed Sutter, a firmware developer, Lucent Technologies

Concurrent with ESC 2006 will be a Microprocessor Forum event and a “design to manufacturing” (D2M) event. Other attractions include the EE Times ACE awards, a panel discussions on “NOR vs. NAND flash,” a CEO roundtable, a panel on the US deficit in technology education, and several social networking events.

Keynote speakers and vendor-sponsored training events have not yet been announced.

Additional details can be found at the ESC website, here.

 
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