Industry Tracks

ESC Chicago 2011 Industry Tracks

Each year, hundreds of ideas and topics are submitted during the ESC call for submission process. After careful review by the ESC Advisory Board, the top session proposals that address the most relevant issues facing engineers and the industry are selected. Click on the Track name to view all the sessions in that topic area. Visit our Schedule Builder to customize your educational experience.

Designing for Embedded Linux or Android
Understanding, selecting, and designing with embedded Linux or Android, including differences in embedded Linux implementations, sorting out Android Libraries, and real-life experiences.

Graphics, Displays, and Lighting
Hardware and software for generating graphics, driving information display devices (including both computer displays and electronic signage), and driving and controlling LED lighting. This track excludes discussion of touch-sensing, gesture-sensing, and related input technologies.

Medical Systems
Hardware design, software development, debug, and regulatory approval of medical electronics devices. This track excludes discussion of biosensors or other sensor technology used in medical applications.

Networking and Connectivity
Networking of embedded systems, machine-to-machine interfaces, the Internet of Things, and the Cloud as an embedded computing resource. Proposals on hardware, software, and systems aspects of these growing trends are welcome.

Open Source Software
Issues in adopting open-source software into an embedded design; selection of open-source modules; and best practices for evaluating, integrating, and debugging open-source code.

Project Management
Project management tools and practices, workflow control, data management, control of dispersed teams, and integration into corporate IT systems. Applications of cloud computing in embedded systems design. Proposals dealing with Agile Development and other controversial methodologies are invited.

Real-Time System Development
Hardware and software issues in design, implementation, and debugging of real-time systems; including OS selection, best coding practices, and testing against real-time requirements. Case studies are especially invited.

Robotics and Motion Control
Hardware and software topics in robotics and motion control applications, including both design and debug/test issues. Special attention to novel robotic applications and high-speed/high-precision motion control. This track excludes sensor-related topics.

Safety and Security in a Stuxnet World
Safety has always been a consideration in embedded designs with the potential to fail in damaging ways. But the first widely-publicized attack of a virus aimed at an embedded control system raises new issues in this topic. We invite proposals on both conventional safety and security concerns and on the new issues arising from hostile attacks on network-connected embedded designs.

Software Debugging Techniques
Tools, best practices, and case studies; including conventional debug, common coding errors and techniques for finding them, static analysis of embedded code, debug of software-generated hardware accelerators, and especially case studies of unusual or elusive bugs.