Intelligent connected devices and consumer products are getting smaller and more feature rich thanks to awesome high-value microcontrollers like the i.MX 6 applications processors or K60 families. But with these powerful compact microcontrollers comes the challenge of interconnecting many peripherals, GPIOs and power onto ever shrinking printed circuit boards. In this session, embedded hardware developers will learn how to optimize the GPIO and peripheral pin assignments and save time and space in the PCB design - especially in getting the IO assignments into the schematics and PCB with a streamlined, controlled approach.