Doctor Micro

Maury Wright is an electronics engineer turned technology journalist and industry consultant with broad experience in technology areas ranging from microprocessors to digital media to wireless to power management. Wright worked at EDN Magazine for 22 years – serving as Editor-In-Chief and Editorial Director for five years. Wright also served as Editor of the EE Times' Digital Home and Power Management web sites.

It's my great pleasure to introduce you to the  Doctor Micro blog that I'll be writing. I know you may be thinking, "not  another blog." But give me a minute and let me explain how Doctor Micro  will be different and how it will help you do your MCU-based design  work. My plan is to provide a steady flow of information on the Renesas  RX MCU family while spawning a community that's quick to share ideas and  help one another solve tough design problems. Ultimately, this blog  will focus as much on design problems and applications as it does an MCU  family.

I'm Maury Wright – Doctor Micro in this venue. I'm an  engineer that became infatuated with early microprocessors and MCUs. For  the past quarter century or so I've worked as a technology journalist.  That gig has provided me with a front row seat to closely follow  developments in processor architectures, the evolution of software  tools, and the incredible rush along Moore's Law to integration levels I  wouldn't have imagined possible.

I'll be posting to Doctor Micro on a regular basis. The plan is multiple posts each  week. Early on I'll be focused on the Renesas RX architecture because  the MCUs are just coming to market. I hope to quickly add blog posts  based on discussions with engineers that are working hands-on with the  MCU family – with you. I want to bring your experience to Doctor Micro,  and spur an interactive commentary among the readers.

For the sake of full disclosure, I will be compensated by Renesas  for the work I do on Doctor Micro. But Renesas is not guiding the  topics I choose for discussion nor are they editing my work. Moreover  the Renesas Rulz site where Doctor Micro lives is already a vibrant  community for developers to share information and it operates outside of  the Renesas corporate web site.