Microchip Technology reported record attendance at the recent Annual Summer Technical Exchange Review (MASTERs), its 10th annual conference in Arizona, with more than 1000 worldwide embedded designers attending the four-day event. Of the 308 sessions available, attendees were able to select from a record 97 classes—49 of which were new and 35 updated. Classes covered the gamut of electronic engineering topics, including embedded Wi-Fi and Ethernet classes by renowned Circuit Cellar columnist and author Fred Eady, hands-on sessions offering instruction for object-oriented programming of PIC microcontrollers, and how to do battery authentication.

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"The MASTERs Conference is an intense and bi-directional technical conference that arms design engineers with extensive Microchip product and technology information to take full advantage of our product portfolio and design expertise," said Ken Pye, vice president of worldwide applications engineering for Microchip. "We have significantly expanded the breadth and depth of the courses, which are designed specifically for embedded systems engineers."

Other courses covered designing LED and LCD systems, and classes on how to add USB and ZigBee protocol communications to embedded designs. In addition, hands-on workshops showed how to create intelligent power supplies and how to take full advantage of the dsPIC DSC for speech-processing applications.