The EE Live! Conference in San Jose

The EE Live! Conference will take place in San Jose's McEnery Convention Center Monday, March 31, through Thursday, April 3, 2014, for four days of sessions, tutorials, boot camps, summits, and post-mortem discussions on a comprehensive selection of engineering design topics taught by leading industry experts. The EE Live! Expo floor will open at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (Thursday until 1:30 p.m.). One part of EE Live! is the Embedded Systems Conference.

One of many featured events will be a two-day FPGA Engineering Boot Camp, which will help you understand available manufacturer, technology, language, device-level design block, and design tool options for FPGAs. The Black Hat Engineering Summit on Wednesday and Thursday will discuss essential information and tools about the latest solutions for securing embedded systems from threats in today's global Ethernet environment.

There will be a keynote speech Tuesday, April 1, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. titled, “Killer Apps: Embedded Software's Greatest Hit Jobs,” given by Michael Barr of the Barr Group. On Wednesday, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., a second keynote titled Open Source Hardware and the Future of Embedded Systems will be given by Andrew “Bunnie” Huang (Ph.D. EE and Hardware Hacker).

The 250+ exhibitors available practically guarantee you'll discover a few interesting new products. There is also free technical training on the Expo floor, at the Expo theater, in vendor sessions, in a hands-on training lab, and tech fundamentals classes. Find out more at www.eeliveshow.com.