I was recently interviewed by EEWeb about my career and interests and ideas about the world of electronics and embedded software. If you are curious, you can have a read here.
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About Colin Walls
I have over twenty-five years experience in the electronics industry, largely dedicated to embedded software. A frequent presenter at conferences and seminars and author of numerous technical articles and two books on embedded software, I am a member of the marketing team of the Mentor Graphics Embedded Systems Division, and am based in the UK. Away from work, I have a wide range of interests including photography and trying to point my two daughters in the right direction in life.
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- Smart Energy Profile (SEP) 2.0 specification released – What this means to you?
- When an Innovative Plan Works!
- Embedded education
- Do you want Embedded Android or Linux in your car?
- Hardware and software development in synch
- New Supported Boards for ARM & Power Architectures
- IoT in the Hospital: Webinar by Mentor Embedded, Silex America and Freescale
- Delivering GENIVI IVI Systems
- Pre-Silicon Software Development with Sourcery CodeBench Virtual Edition
- After Design West
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- May, 2013
- Smart Energy Profile (SEP) 2.0 specification released – What this means to you?
- When an Innovative Plan Works!
- Embedded education
- Do you want Embedded Android or Linux in your car?
- Hardware and software development in synch
- New Supported Boards for ARM & Power Architectures
- IoT in the Hospital: Webinar by Mentor Embedded, Silex America and Freescale
- Delivering GENIVI IVI Systems
- April, 2013
- Pre-Silicon Software Development with Sourcery CodeBench Virtual Edition
- After Design West
- Enabling M2M devices with zero configuration networking
- Exercising HW designs using actual software pre-silicon on emulators
- Using native software development pre-silicon with virtual prototypes to debug software and analyze SoC attributes inlcuding latencies and power consumption
- Design WEST
- Add real world data to Linux trace without LTTng hacking
- Address your design’s deterministic control and real-time requirements with a RTOS
- GENIVI Infotainment Solutions - 100 progress meetings
- What is an FPGA?
- Debugging with printf() or not ...
- "Butter-Smooth" Embedded UIs
- View the discussion on Linux in automotive and vehicle to vehicle communication - and ask your own questions
- Power management webinar
- March, 2013
- Android application development within Microsoft Visual Studio
- Join Alison Chaiken and Ravi Puvvala on a Google Hangout discussing how Embedded Linux can take on the hard problems of Automotive
- Reading the meter
- Accelerate your 32-bit MCU design with a pre-configured RTOS solution
- Endianness
- Leveraging a RTOS to enable current generation MCUs
- Making use of Android in Automotive Systems Including Infotainment (IVI)
- Getting sorted
- Integrating the MontaVista Automotive Technology Platform - A Progress Report
- Judging distance
- Building a custom embedded Linux distribution with the Yocto Project
- An Autonomous Vehicle and Voice Recognition in 1982
- Innovate!
- Driving you to distraction
- February, 2013
- Linux, Android, Automotive Infotainment and Smart Energy - A lot to cover on the Final Day of Embedded World
- Designing Smart Energy Profile (SEP) compliant embedded applications
- Embedded World 2013
- Learn about Virtual Prototyping, Emulation and Software Debug and USB 3.0 at Embedded World on Wednesday Feb 27th
- Learn how to Measure RTOS Performance and Design for Lower Power Embedded World 2013 on Tuesday Feb 26th
- Mentor Graphics Acquires Assets from MontaVista, LLC
- Free Nucleus RTOS for NXP MCU devices!
- Why C is faster than assembly
- New supported development boards for ARM architectures
- Reentrant write-only ports
- A discussion on Battery Life Vs. Delay captured on video
- Custom toolchains for your custom embedded hardware.
- Latency: A discussion by Industry experts on the HW and SW considerations for embedded devices
- More on low power CPU design
- January, 2013
- Write-only ports in C++
- Designing a low power CPU
- Some examples of connected devices for the home at CES 2013
- Write-only ports
- OS configuration
- All the things related to Automotive around CES
- Linux will not be Adopted in Automotive
- This car runs on ice cream
- Think you can’t afford a commercial RTOS – Think Again!
- December, 2012
- November, 2012
- An example of multi-core debugging with trace
- USB 3.0
- BeagleBone and 6502 - The Ultimate Geek Toys
- Do try and keep up - GENIVI 3.0 Release
- Power and compilers at the NMI
- Making trace data accessible and useful for embedded developers
- Driving innovation and creating cool devices through crowdfunding and entrepreneurship
- As you shy?
- Webinars
- Blinking is good
- Renesas DevCon and the Smart Society
- October, 2012
- September, 2012
- $4.99… Seriously? Here comes the ARM Cortex M4F-based TI LaunchPad
- Embedded software tools - then and now
- Learning about all things Yocto and Open Embedded for Linux
- Automotive Connectivity in China and India with Freescale silicon
- ESC Boston
- The floating point argument
- LTTng 2.0 and making use of trace tools and techniques to develop complex multicore embedded systems
- iPad apps
- The Power Pyramid
- August, 2012
- Tracing Summit: hearing from the users
- The smallest room
- Floating point
- What is Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling and why should you care?
- What the Sourcerers do to help people make good use of OSS tools for embedded systems
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- Curiously embedded
- To FLOSS, or not to FLOSS - that is the question.
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