Follow the launch of its nRF51 series of SOCs (Systems-on-Chip), ultra-low-power RF specialist Nordic Semiconductor is embarking on a Global Tech Tour where a team of the company's top wireless-application technical experts will travel the world to teach in one day embedded-systems developers how to develop their Bluetooth Smart or ANT+ ULP wireless smartphone application accessory.
Seminars are designed to be intensive, fun, fully hands-on, and include a detailed technical walk through starting from a ULP wireless sensor within an accessory, how it wirelessly connects to a smartphone, and ending with how this all interfaces to a developer's application running on the smartphone's operating system. The agenda includes an overview of ULP wireless, Nordic's latest nRF51 Series SoCs, Bluetooth low energy and Bluetooth Smart qualification, and a full afternoon of software-development application examples taken from Nordic's brand new nRF51 SDK, which participants take home free-of-charge. "Each of these Global Tech Tour seminars is designed to be far more than a set of presentations given in PowerPoint format," explains John Leonard, tactical marketing manager at Nordic Semiconductor. "They will be a genuine and unique opportunity for smartphone app developers to kickstart their next Bluetooth Smart or ANT+ application accessory within a single day with the help of some of the world's most experienced and knowledgeable ULP wireless-application engineers and system-software architects.
The Global Tech Tour will start in the US. on September 17 in Minneapolis and then travel to San Jose, California (Sep 19), Irvine, California (Sep 21), and end in Boston on September 24. This will be followed by an 8-location tour in Asia Pacific starting in Bangalore, India on October 3 and then travelling to Singapore (Oct 5), Taiwan (Oct 8), and then onto ChinaShenzhen (Oct 10), Shanghai (Oct 12), and Beijing (Oct 15)followed by Seoul, South Korea on October 17 and ending in Tokyo, Japan on October 19. A final European leg of the tour will then begin in Amsterdam in the Netherlands on October 22, and move to Paris, France (Oct 24), Munich, Germany (Oct 26), and end in Copenhagen, Denmark (Oct 29). Nordic Semiconductor nRF51 Series project development global tech tour More information from Power Systems Design about the nRF51 Series SoCs