Design News Radio: Microcontrollers for Mechatronics

Charles Murray

January 19, 2012

1 Min Read
Design News Radio: Microcontrollers for Mechatronics

If you design mechatronic systems and want to learn more about using microcontrollers (MCUs) in your applications, then listen to our Design News radio program Tuesday, Jan. 24, at 2:00 p.m. EDT.

Microcontrollers for Mechatronics (register here) will be a live, streaming audio show and companion online chat.

The radio chat will take place in the first half hour. Our guest will be Keith Curtis, technical staff engineer for security at Microchip Technology Inc.'s microcontroller and technology development division. Curtis is an electrical engineer with experience in computer numerically controlled machining, as well as the gaming industry. He will discuss the role of MCUs in mechatronic applications, recent innovations in MCU technology, and the technical criteria that engineers need to consider when selecting an MCU for these applications.

During our discussion, you'll be able to type your questions for Curtis via the instant chat window. We'll work some of those questions into our discussion. At the half-hour mark, the radio portion will end, and Curtis will engage with listeners on the instant chat for another 30 minutes.

We invite you to register here, and we hope you enjoy the broadcast.

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About the Author(s)

Charles Murray

Charles Murray is a former Design News editor and author of the book, Long Hard Road: The Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car, published by Purdue University Press. He previously served as a DN editor from 1987 to 2000, then returned to the magazine as a senior editor in 2005. A former editor with Semiconductor International and later with EE Times, he has followed the auto industry’s adoption of electric vehicle technology since 1988 and has written extensively about embedded processing and medical electronics. He was a winner of the Jesse H. Neal Award for his story, “The Making of a Medical Miracle,” about implantable defibrillators. He is also the author of the book, The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer, published by John Wiley & Sons in 1997. Murray’s electronics coverage has frequently appeared in the Chicago Tribune and in Popular Science. He holds a BS in engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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