Doug Abbott

Doug Abbott is the principal of Intellimetrix, a consulting firm in Silver City, NM, specializing in hardware and software for industrial and scientific data acquisition and embedded product applications.   Among his past and present clients are Agilent Technologies, Tektronix, Sandia National Laboratory and numerous smaller high-tech companies in Silicon Valley.

Mr. Abbott has over thirty years experience in various aspects of computer hardware and software design and has been an independent consultant for over fifteen years.  Prior to founding Intellimetrix, he managed software development for DSP Technology, Inc, a leading supplier of high-speed instrumentation.

Doug is also a popular instructor and seminar leader, teaching classes on the Linux operating system and real-time programming in general.  He has taught the techniques of real-time programming and multi-tasking operating systems to hundreds of professional engineers.

He is the author of three books:

• Embedded Linux Development using Eclipse
• Linux for Embedded and Real-time Applications, 2nd ed.
• The PCI Bus Demystified, 2nd ed.