On Nov. 17 1998 the Worcester County Section of the IEEE will be hosting a meeting at Compaq Corp. in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. The guest speaker will be John Day of Microchip Technology, Inc. and he will be talking about embedded microprocessors

John is a Principal Applications Engineer with over 10 years of embedded microprocessor applications experience. The meeting is scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m. in the amphitheater. The following is the planned agenda for the meeting. After the lecture and demonstrations, John will be available to answer questions from the attendees.

1. The vast world of embedded control
   • Size of the embedded control market
   • Direction of embedded control market
   • Embedded processor manufactures market share
2. Overview of typical microcontroller applications
   • Examples of typical applications
   • Low cost embedded processor product examples
3. Overview PICmicro product solutions
   • PICmicro instruction set overview
   • PICmicro product family and Peripherals
4. Embedded control development tools
   • Overview of (free) MPLAB Integrated Development Environment
   • Demo of Embedded system simulation
   • Debug a typical embedded system using the free MPLAB simulator

This meeting is on Tuesday, November 17, 1998 at 6:30 PM, Compaq Corporation, 334 South Street, Shrewsbury, MA

This use to be a Digital site, and the Digital sign is still out front. In case of emergency, people can call the Compaq facility at either (508) 841-6806 for the Lobby or (508) 841-2000 for the Security Desk. The Lobby telephone should be forwarded to the Security desk for after hours support.

Directions to Compaq from the East: Take Rt 9 West from Rt. 495, go several miles on Rt 9 (through Westboro, Northboro, to Shrewsbury). After passing the Rt. 20 interchange, make a left at the next traffic light onto South Street. The Ragsdale Superstore is on the south east corner, what used to be Fretter's that used to be Grossmans. Compaq is located up the hill on the right (it has a Digital sign out front).

Directions to Compaq from the West: Take Rt 9 East (Worcester, to Shrewsbury). After passing the Rt. 140 interchange, make a right at the next traffic light onto South Street. The Ragsdale Superstore is on the south east corner, what used to be Fretter's that used to be Grossmans. Compaq is located up the hill on the right (it has a Digital sign out front).

Hope to see you there ... Larry G. Nelson Sr., L.Nelson@ieee.org, http://www.ultranet.com/~nr