Build Your Own Embedded System (BYOES) Program Offers Attendees a Beagle Board Development Kit and Related Education Sessions

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 08, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ -- TechInsights
(http://www.techinsights.com/) today announced nine technical sessions
dedicated to the Beagle Board as part of the Build Your Own Embedded System
(BYOES) Program at its Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Boston
(http://www.embedded.com/boston). The BYOES program allows attendees to build
and take home a fully configured embedded system based on the Beagle Board
development kit, which they receive for free as part of their All-Access or
Five-Day Pass. The Beagle Board is a low-cost, fanless embedded development
board that unleashes laptop-like performance without the bulk, expense or
noise of typical desktop machines (http://beagleboard.org). The USB-powered
Beagle Board is smaller than a drink coaster and is based on a Texas
Instruments (TI) OMAP35x applications processor featuring the ARM(R)
Cortex(TM)-A8 core (http://www.ti.com/omap35x).

"We began a tradition at ESC Silicon Valley with our 'Learn Today, Design
Tomorrow' mantra," said Richard Nass, editor in chief of Embedded Systems
Design and editorial director of the Embedded Systems Conferences. "By
providing attendees with a complete development kit that they can keep after
the show, as well as courses dedicated to the Beagle Board, attendees will get
live, first-hand training on a fully configured and mostly debugged
development platform that they can bring back to their own lab after the show.
In short, we're empowering them down the path toward creating their own
embedded design."

    The dedicated Beagle Board courses in the 2008 BYOES program include:

    Sunday, October 26:
    -- "Beagle Board 101" (pre-conference workshop) with Gerald Coley and
       Jason Kridner
       -- 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

    Monday, October 27:
    -- "Understanding Free and Open Source Licenses" with William Gatliff
       -- 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
    -- "Building an Embedded Linux System from Scratch" with William Gatliff
       -- 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
    -- "Understanding Linux Kernel Modules" with William Gatliff
       -- 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
    -- "Constructionist Learning with Sugar and the Beagle Board" with Bernie
       Innocenti
       -- 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

    Tuesday, October 28:
    -- "Beagle Board Platform Bring Up" with Bill Mar
       -- 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
    -- "Embedded Streaming Media with GStreamer" with Todd Fisher
       -- 1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
    -- "Introduction to Creating 3D UI with Beagle Board" with Diego Dompe
       -- 3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

    Wednesday, October 29:
    -- "Hardware Lessons from Building Beagle" with Gerald Coley
        -- 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
    -- "Taking Advantage of Bluetooth for Communications and More" with Hunyue
       Yau
        -- 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

For more information on the Beagle Board development kit and the BYOES
program, please visit: http://www.cmp-egevents.com/web/escb/education/byoes

Registration, Sponsorship and Exhibit Opportunities

For more information or to register for ESC Boston, please visit:
(http://www.embedded.com/boston). Qualified members of the press and industry
analysts can register for free at:
https://www.cmpevents.com/ESCe08/a.asp?option=B&V=2&SC=PRESS.

The ESC Boston exhibit floor will be open Tuesday, October 28 and
Wednesday, October 29. For more information on exhibit and sponsorship
opportunities, please visit: http://www.cmp-egevents.com/web/escb/exposition.

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