Last week mbed was at ESC Design West in San Jose. The conference hosted a number of distinguished speakers covering a range of interesting topics and 250+ exhibitors showcasing the latest in embedded technology.

The ARM stand was packed with the latest tools demos for Keil MDK and ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5), as well a hardware demo for the latest ARM Cortex-M0+ Processor

We had a lot of interest in mbed for those looking to develop with 32-bit ARM MCU's. Most visitors were impressed by the ease of prototyping IoT applications using HTML5 websockets over Ethernet, Wi-Fi and 3G Mobile Internet.

Once again our partners NXP had a blast demoing the LPC11U24 mbed-based Slingshot. The slingshot is earmarked for another couple engagements, so keep an eye out if you want to have a go!

Also a big congratulations to NXP for winning a UBM Electronics ACE Award for the Cortex-M0 LPC11U00 Microcontroller Family. The award winners were announced during the show and NXP took out the award in the Digital ICs (MCUs, FPGAs, microprocessors) section.

Thanks to all the mbed developers from the Bay Area that came by the stand and discussed the projects that they have been using mbed for. Particularly cool to see Dave Van Wagner prototype eBible- great stuff.