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Embedded System Conference report?

Timothy D. SwieterTimothy D. Swieter Posts: 1,613
edited 2008-04-24 22:31 in General Discussion
Any reports from those of you who attended the Embedded Systems Conference this past week?· I was hoping I may have been in California this past week (a long shot of a hope) so I could make a side trip to the conference.· I haven't been to it before because it is not along my main line of business.· I am curious what new and exciting products were shown.· What was the attendance like?· Any cool, free, handouts?

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Timothy D. Swieter

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  • Tracy AllenTracy Allen Posts: 6,666
    edited 2008-04-21 15:55
    Hi Timothy, It's a long way to come from HK! I did get over to the conference, but not until the afternoon of the last day not long before the 4pm cutoff. The advantage of that was that there were no lines and the aisles were relatively uncrowded.

    I entered at the end with the Tektronix and LeCroy booths and spent a lot of time looking at the latest LeCroy waverunner 'scopes. It is really nice to see them demo'd by someone who really knows how to use them. They are really remarkable instruments, and for a price substantially less than a small car, unless you want the 13 gHz version, you can trigger on all sorts of things, like for example a certain I2C address code and zoom in on any event preceding or following.

    Not long after that, we ran into Dave Andrae and Jeff Martin from Parallax and went over to the booth. I think it was Jeff who told me that this year, in contrast to last year, people were appreciative of the notion of multi-core processing. The idea is no longer such a novelty. I was pleased to meet Hanno, who was there demoing his balancing robot. It uses an accelerometer to keep its balance, and relays video from its camera via wireless back to another Prop that was displaying a screen. The gas engine 'bot was also on display, but not running. There was a video showing it pulling a pickup truck via remote control. smile.gif. Also got to say hi to Paul and David.

    I also spent some time at the Maxstream booth (now Digi, merged with Rabbit). To check out their latest zigbee offerings. And at the FTDI booth, to ask some lingering questions about what is going on inside the Vinculum chip. These shows are a great time to meet the engineers.

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    Tracy Allen
    www.emesystems.com
  • Timothy D. SwieterTimothy D. Swieter Posts: 1,613
    edited 2008-04-21 23:35
    That is great Tracy. Thank you for the report. I saw that pickup video you mentioned on YouTube - amazing!

    I was hoping to be in Cali to meet some clients. Yes travel from Hong Kong is a long ways, but over here when I got to an "electronics" trade show it is usually cheap chinese wares or, like IIC, in Shenzhen it is geared towards more of the manufacturing and all the handouts are in chinese so it doesn't help me. I enjoy seeing the products and networking with others. Maybe next year I will make it to the conference.

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    Timothy D. Swieter

    www.brilldea.com·- check out the uOLED-IOC, an I/O expansion for the uOLED-96-PROP
    www.tdswieter.com
    One little spark of imagination is all it takes for an idea to explode
  • uxoriousuxorious Posts: 126
    edited 2008-04-21 23:48
    A colleague of mine drove the 2 hours to attend and said it wasn't worth the drive. He is much more into embedded design than I am so that says a lot to me. Seemed to be a lot of booths just sticking the word "embedded" on thier product to double the price tag. As such, he is still working on his own solution for an embedded system video player.

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  • epmoyerepmoyer Posts: 314
    edited 2008-04-23 18:28
    I have posted my ESC pictures and ramblings in the Coyote-1 thread here:
    http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=711145

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  • Paul Bouchard (Parallax)Paul Bouchard (Parallax) Posts: 56
    edited 2008-04-24 19:51
    For additional information and pics of the show see our website:

    http://www.parallax.com/TopLevelMenu/Company/2008EmbeddedSystemsConference/tabid/640/Default.aspx
  • Paul BakerPaul Baker Posts: 6,351
    edited 2008-04-24 22:31
    Here's my account of the Show: http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=723122. dRu's friend's account is fairly accurate, there were several vendors who's concept of an embedded system is sticking a blade into a rackmount. But there·were a fair share of true embedded systems (systems 4"x4" or smaller) and vendors who sell components used in embedded systems.·I found the Phase change Memory (PCM) vendor interesting, and microchip is coming out with a new·single wire interface memory thats rather interesting (it's not 1-wire, but a different 1 wire protocol that uses manchester encoding to roll the data and clock onto the same line·that is much more versatile than 1-wire and supports auto-baud synchronizing).·

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    Paul Baker
    Propeller Applications Engineer

    Parallax, Inc.

    Post Edited (Paul Baker (Parallax)) : 4/24/2008 10:45:17 PM GMT
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