Lyla B. Das is Associate Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut (NITC), Kerala. Lyla B. Das graduated in 1981 specializing in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum, Kerala after which she joined Keltron Controls as Deputy Engineer. She started her teaching career as lecturer in 1985 when she joined NITC (then Regional Engineering College, Calicut), and proceeded to complete her master's degree in digital communications from the same institute.
Over the period of the 37 years of her teaching career, she has taught a wide range of courses for undergraduate and postgraduate students, guided numerous projects and presented research papers in conferences and seminars at both national and international levels. Her areas of interest are AI and ML, Embedded Systems, Microprocessors and Microcontrollers, Digital Systems Design and Computer Architecture.
She started her writing career in 2010 when her book Thex86 Microprocessors was published by Pearson Education. This was followed by 'The Embedded Systems –an Integrated Approach' in 2013 and the second edition of the x86 Microprocessors in 2017.Her next book 'Architecture, Programming and Interfacing of Low Power processors –ARM 7, Cortex-M was published by Cengage Publishers in 2018. This is her fourth book.