Netrino Announces Fall 2009 Training Calendar

Hands-on Embedded Software Boot Camps in California and Maryland

Elkridge, MD, August 6, 2009 – Netrino, the worldwide leader in embedded software architecture and process consulting, today announced public training course dates and locations for Fall 2009. Netrino’s popular, hands-on “Embedded Software Boot Camp” will be offered October 5-9, 2009 in Palo Alto, California and November 16-20, 2009 in Columbia, Maryland.

Netrino's Embedded Software Boot Camp is a one-week skills strengthening program consisting of a series of lectures and hands-on exercises. This engaging educational program is guaranteed to quickly and dramatically raise the embedded programming skills of individuals and teams. Typical attendees have from 0 to 15 years of embedded software experience and come from EE, CS, and other educational backgrounds.

“Netrino’s Embedded Software Boot Camp is an outstanding explanation of embedded software development best practices with exercises that really help solidify the concepts," said former attendee Steve Fritz of Emerald Sky Technologies. “I recommend it unreservedly.” Detailed course outlines and other details are available on the Netrino website at http://www.netrino.com/Embedded-Systems/Training-Courses/Boot-Camp.

“Netrino is committed to providing high quality technical content and education for engineers,” noted Andrew Girson, Netrino’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “All of our Fall 2009 Boot Camps will be taught by Michael Barr, Netrino’s Founder and President and an internationally recognized expert in embedded systems design.”

The price is set at $3,600 per attendee. A 20% early registration discount reduces the cost for most attendees to $2,880. Each attendee receives the Embedded Software Boot Camp Training Manual (a book with over 300 pages), a USB thumb drive containing the exercises and related source code plus dozens of articles for further reading, the exclusive Embedded Software Boot Camp T-shirt, a certificate of completion, and other freebies. Lunch is provided each day. All exercises are done on an ARM processor board using the IAR Embedded Workbench and J-Link tools and Micrium uC/OS real-time operating system.

About Netrino

Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Maryland, Netrino provides embedded software architecture and process consulting, best practices training, and expert witness services. A full list of Netrino’s training courses, which are presented at private companies, is available on Netrino’s website at http://www.netrino.com/Embedded-Systems/Training-Courses.

About Michael Barr

Michael Barr is an internationally recognized expert on embedded software architecture and development processes. In that role, he has provided expert witness testimony in federal court, appeared on PBS’ American Business Review, and been quoted in various newspapers. He is also the author of three books and more than fifty articles on related subjects. For three and a half years Michael served as editor-in-chief of Embedded Systems Programming magazine. In addition, Michael has been a track chair and member of the advisory board of the Embedded Systems Conferences. Michael holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and has lectured in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland.