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ESC India 2008 moves ahead

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BANGALORE, INDIA: CMP India and TechInsights, divisions of United Business Media, LLC, unveiled the Big Tent Event of the series of Embedded Systems Conference in Bangalore today. Bangalore’s inclusion as a final stop in the 2008 ESC India 2008 Road Shows in Hyderabad, Pune and Noida demonstrates ESC’s global mandate of being the event of choice for highlighting the innovations and technologies of the embedded design community across the Indian sub-continent.

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ESC India in Bangalore will be held over a period of four days featuring a number of industry experts who will address the challenges and discuss the technology trends in the embedded systems arena. The technical conference is also complemented by sponsored tutorials by market experts and an exhibition floor.

“With major global and local IT industries setting up base and reputed IT universities offering specialized courses in embedded system in Bangalore, the city is increasingly becoming a serious contender for the role of India’s next ‘Silicon Valley’,” added Desai. “We hope that our content-rich and tutorial-based conference will add more value to both, vendors and embedded engineers.”

The ESC India 2008 will be held in Bangalore between the 14th and 17th of October 2008. ESC India 2008 which will be held at the NIMHANS Convention Center in Bangalore and will host interactive full day presentations by domain experts such as Dr. David Kalinsky, Director of Education, D. Kalinsky Associates.

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D. Kalinsky Associates is a leading provider of intensive short courses on embedded systems and software development for engineering professionals on embedded systems. Developers often feel that writing device driver software consists of a lot of “bit-bashing and register-twiddling.”

Jack Ganssle, Chief Engineer, The Ganssle Group writes for Embedded Systems Design and has written four books on embedded systems and one on his sailing fiascos. For all of the talk about technology, there is much too little said about managing the technology and managing the process of bringing an embedded system from concept to production. This tutorial covers managing schedules, dealing with difficult developers, creating and managing project specifications and expectations, creating an environment where developers will thrive, managing bugs to dramatically reduce development time, fixing the feature/schedule/quality conflict, and learning from mistakes and successes.

Michael Barr, President, Netrino is an internationally recognized expert on the design of embedded computer systems. The full-day course covers a large number of key concepts associated specifically with real-time and embedded systems programming. Topics include C's startup code; writing, installing, and debugging ISRs; making code reentrant; and the correct use of C's volatile keyword.

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