An eight-session “Linux Design Seminar” at this year's Embedded Systems Conference will feature classes on building Linux-powered multimedia devices on PowerPC, designing Linux device drivers, running Linux on single-core DSPs, using cryptographic chip hardware features with Linux, DSP Linux, tracking wildlife with embedded Linux, and lots more.

Sessions include:

• Home media center built with Linux on PowerPC, taught by Sergei Larin, a senior application engineer at Freescale
• Linux device driver design tradeoffs, taught by David Hawkins, a senior scientist at CalTech
• Linux on the Blackfin architecture, taught by Michael Hennerick, a systems engineer at ADI
• Linux, IPsec, and crypto hardware acceleration, taught by Kim Phillips, a heavy open source contributor to Freescale PowerQUICC technology
• PawPilot, tracking wildlife with embedded systems, taught by John Marland, a Systems Architect at Weasel Systems
• Porting an existing embedded system to Linux, by David Knuth, director of engineering, and Daniel Daly, senior software engineer at Intellibot Robotics, LLC
• The combined array for research in millimeter-wave astronomy, taught by David Hawkins, senior scientist at CalTech
• Using MicroMonitor to boot embedded applications, by Ed Sutter, a firmware developer for Lucent

In addition to Linux, other Design Seminar topics at ESC this year include:

• DSP performance
• Wireless
• Analog
• Consumer Video
• Power Management

More details, including full event listings, can be found here.

Contemporaneously, the LinuxWorld Boston show will also feature an embedded Linux conference track this year. Even more embedded Linux sessions can be found at the CE Linux conference the week after ESC in San Jose. For the less itinerant hacker, videos of sessions related to embedded Linux at last fall's FOSDEM show can be downloaded for free from LinuxElectrons.

 
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