Technology, Innovation & Telecomm

he Embedded Systems Conference started yesterday at 9:00 am. This year (and perhaps in other years, but I think this may be the first), there were a series of about 8 different all-day tutorials. We selected the “Embedded Linux Jump Start” one. The thinking was that we’d end up with a good foundation for starting to bring Linux into our products. It wasn’t so much…

Mind you, I don’t think the presenter did a bad job. But I guess I was looking for more of a series of steps that one needs to take generically in order to get started with the process. Instead, this seemed to be targeted at a specific SBC and glossed over a large number of items that I would like to have known about.

I suppose that in a 6+ hour class, it’s fairly hard to get that kind of data into folks hands so the presenter has their hands tied in a manner of speaking.

Today was again another all-day tutorial. We chose the embedded TCP/IP class. Our mistake on that account was selecting a class that was introductory. I’ve done a fair number of TCP/IP-based products that support everything from Telnet, to FTP, DNS, HTTP, etc. The presenter was good and he got into a good amount of detail. That said, I didn’t get a whole lot out of the class…my fault.

So, tomorrow begins the primary short-form sessions and the exhibits. I’ll be moving around a lot and with any luck it’ll be a productive day. I’ll let y’all know.

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