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August 22 - Day 1: Building an RP2040/WizFi360 Wi-Fi IoT Node
The first lecture of this series is all about the hardware.  Although there are a multitude of RP2040 development boards available from a number of commercial vendors, a pre-packaged RP2040 solution may not be suitable for your particular project...
July 29 - Day 5: Microcontroller Selection Best Practices
The criteria, processes, and examples that we have covered in this course will provide many modern ideas on how to select a microcontroller. In this session, we will explore corner cases and additional considerations that are often overlooked...
July 28 - Day 4: Microcontroller Selection Use Cases
In this session, we will walk through several application examples on how to select the right microcontroller for an application. Attendees will see how to select a microcontroller for a machine-learning system and an IoT sensor node. 
July 27 - Day 3: The Modern MCU Selection Process
Microcontrollers are traditionally chosen by the electrical team, but today’s products require that designers forgo tradition and allow software to drive their microcontroller selection. In this session, we will explore a modern process for...
July 26 - Day 2: MCU Selection Criteria
With so many microcontroller options available today, it can be difficult to find just the right one for an application. In this session, we will examine the various criteria that designers should consider when selecting their microcontroller...
July 25 - Day 1: The Microcontroller Industry Today
The number of microcontrollers available today is growing, and the technologies available are vast. Microcontrollers are finding their way into cutting-edge applications using machine learning and into the most basic applications. In this session...
June 24 - Day 5: Software Configuration Management Techniques
The bane of many projects is how to successfully manage software configurations. Many code bases are used across multiple product lines and SKUs. Managing which features are included and which are excluded can result in complex spaghetti code. In...
June 23 - Day 4: Designing Quality into Embedded Systems
Quality cannot be added to a system at the end of the development cycle—it must be maintained at every stage. In this session, we will explore what it takes to build a quality embedded system. We will discuss how to analyze embedded systems for...
June 22 - Day 3: Architecture Verification Techniques
It’s amazing how quickly a well-architected system can descend into chaos! In this session, we will explore how to analyze our embedded software as we develop it to ensure that we maintain high coherence and minimize coupling. Attendees will walk...
June 21 - Day 2: Designing RTOS-Based Applications
Many real-time systems rely on an RTOS to manage timing and low-level features in the microcontroller system. In this session, we will explore how to architect an embedded application using an RTOS. Attendees will learn how to develop and verify...
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