About the Author

Robert Oshana is an Engineering Manager for the Software Development Organization of Texas Instruments’s DSP Systems group. He has over 23 years of real-time embedded software development experience in several industries including military and commercial. He is also an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University where he teaches graduate software engineering as well as embedded and real-time systems courses. He speaks regularly at the Embedded Systems conference and has numerous publications in the areas of software engineering and real-time systems. Robert is a licensed professional engineer and a Senior Member of IEEE.