Anatomy of Next-Generation Self-Power Embedded Systems

Mark E. Buccini is a director at Texas Instruments Worldwide Strategic Marketing Organization responsible for identifying and nurturing emerging solutions in the fields of ultra-low power embedded processing, energy harvesting, alternative energy generation, energy metering and wireless sensor networks. At TI, he has over 22 years of diverse experience in management, new product development, applications, product marketing and business development. His experience spans a range of products in the fields of digital signal processing, mixed-signal, custom ASIC and microcontrollers. In addition to strategic responsibilities for TI, Buccini regularly blogs, presents and authors technical papers that have been published around world including in the Wall Street Journal, Dallas Business Journal, EDN, EDN China, Embedded Systems Europe and Nuts and Volts among many others. The technical seminars he has created have been delivered live to over 20,000 engineers worldwide. He holds a BSEE from Oakland University (Rochester, Michigan), is married and has two children.

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