Embedded Live - Embedded Systems Design

Embedded Live in Earls Court, London will be running three days of conference sessions on October 19-21st covering optimisation of embedded hardware such as multicore processors and FPGAs.

Register today and save £200 on on-site pricing.

Freescale Semiconductor, NXP and STMicroelectronics are battling one another in the low power microcontroller market with their ARM Cortex-M series chips.

Two of the three, Freescale and NXP will be presenting technical papers on their Cortex M4 family products at the Embedded Live technical conference which takes place at Earls Court, London 19-21 October.

The design of embedded software for multicore systems is radically different from design for uni-processor systems.

In the truly parallel environment of multicore processing, many traditional design assumptions of sequential or pseudo-parallel execution are no longer valid.

Embedded Live at Earls Court, London is running a half-day tutorial on Tuesday October 19th in which David Kalinsky, a technical training specialist, will describe an approach embedded system design that takes advantage of software parallelism offered by symmetric and asymmetric multicore chips.

"For example, it can no longer be assumed that tasks of the same priority do not run concurrently. Nor can disabling of interrupts necessarily guarantee mutual exclusion," said Kalinsky.

When ARM executives got their hands on some of the first ARM processor-based netbooks available they were understandably excited.

As many as 15 netbooks (engineeering samples) were distributed amongst ARM executives last year. 

Bob Morris, director of mobile computing at ARM, descriobed his first impressions in his blog. http://tinyurl.com/matrdx

Bob's was a 10.1-inch netbook with an 800MHz Cortex-A8 processor.

He got 4.5 hours life on a two cell battery with"screen at full brightness and Wi-Fi on".  

Fair to say he was impressed.

See ARM at Embedded Live 2010 which takes place at Earls Court, London 20-21 October 2010.

A three-hour workshop by Andrew Eliasz, technical director at First Technology Transfer, will take the lid off embedded Linux design at Embedded Live 19-21 October at Earls Court, Lonodn.    

"This workshop is aimed at those who are planning or contemplating embarking on a Linux based project," says Eliasz.

While Cortex-Mx coding examples are usually in ARM assembler, most Cortex designers will be programming in C.

Niall Cooling from Feabhas, the real-time embedded training specialist, will be at Embedded Live 19-21 October at Earls Court, London, giving a different perspective on how the ARM Cortex-M series processor architecture will affect their embedded C code. 

Interesting workshop on programming robots at Embedded Live in Earls Court, London on October 19-21st

The workshop called Embedded Programming For Robotics Applications will be presented by Andrew Eliasz.

Distributors continue to provide design support in the embedded market and big names like RS, Avnet and Arrow will be exhibiting at Embedded Live in Earls Court, London on October 19-21st.

Silica has extended its support for developers of RFID (radio frequency identification) and near-field communication (NFC) embedded applications by introducing the SERIZ design tool.

The design tool will be one of the technologies Silica will be demonstrating at Embedded Live which is being held at Earls Court, London in October 20-21.

Embedded Live 2010 is now taking delegate registrations for the UK exhibition which takes place at Earls Court, London 20-21 October 2010.

Confirmed exhibitors include: NXP Semiconductor, RS, ARM, Tektronix, Nokia - Qt Software, XJTAG, Pebble Bay Consulting and Pico Technology.

To register please visit the Embedded Live website registrations page.

Boundary scan test and embedded design? Yes, it does make sense.

Tektronix will be leading the way for test firms at Embedded Live Exhibition, which is due to take place at Earl's Court, London in 19-21 October.

More big name test firms are expected to present their oscilloscopes, analysers and generators, which are used so extensively in embedded system design.

"In step with increasing functionality and performance, engineers often have to work with both analogue and digital signals in their designs," says Trevor Smith from Tektronix.

The Connected M2M Devices pavilion, on the Embedded Live show floor, will be the opportuntiy to see what is possible with embedded wireless.

NXP Semiconductors will be presenting its ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller at Embedded Live in October.

Measuring just 5mm sq. it is claimed to be the world's smallest MCU.