Colin Walls

Colin Walls has over forty years' experience in the electronics industry, largely involved with embedded software - very much a pioneer in this specialty. He has been a frequent presenter at conferences and seminars including: - Embedded Systems Conference, San Jose and Boston - Embedded World, Nuremberg - Arm Tech Con, California - Mentor events world-wide - Numerous partner events Colin has authored a great many technical articles and one of the first books on embedded software ["Programming...See more

Colin Walls has over forty years' experience in the electronics industry, largely involved with embedded software - very much a pioneer in this specialty. He has been a frequent presenter at conferences and seminars including: - Embedded Systems Conference, San Jose and Boston - Embedded World, Nuremberg - Arm Tech Con, California - Mentor events world-wide - Numerous partner events Colin has authored a great many technical articles and one of the first books on embedded software ["Programming Dedicated Microprocessors"; Macmillan Education, 1986]. His most recent publication is "Embedded Software: The Works" [2nd edition; Newnes, 2012], which addresses a wide range of embedded software topics. He is an embedded software technologist with Mentor, a Siemens business, and maintains a blog at http: //blogs.mentor.com/colinwalls. Colin is based in the UK, where he lives with his family. Away from work, his main interests are photography, reading/writing, and food and drink. See less