Network functions virtualization is promising to be a disruptive influence in the networking marketplace, leveraging software defined networking capabilities to virtualize network services that are currently carried out by dedicated special-purpose hardware. If successful, NFV will reduce operator dependencies on proprietary hardware and software, providing operators greater control over time-to-market, reduced cost structures and significantly lower operational costs. The market forces behind NFV will be examined and the NFV architecture will be introduced with particular attention paid to mapping of QorIQ LS series technology to anticipated NFV needs for greater levels of acceleration and offloads.

During this session you will learn about the principal requirements of key classes of sensor applications, Freescale’s sensor portfolio and learn to help solve problems with Freescale sensors.

In addition to fail safe system architectures, fault tolerance is gaining more and more importance in the context of highly-automated vehicles. This session addresses the theoretical foundations about fault tolerant system architectures and shows how those can be built with Freescale microcontrollers especially in the area of Advanced Driver Assistant Systems (ADAS). Leveraging key functional safety concepts built into Freescale's Automotive product portfolio enables efficient and scalable solutions spanning the range from fail safe systems to fault tolerant and fail operational architectures.

Presented by Istone Presented at DwF Digital Networking Shenzhen - January 28, 2015

Presented by Stanley Huang Presented at MCU and Automotive Solutions, Tianan - 19 March 2015

The Freescale RF Power Tool system is a customer enablement testing methodology that allows the lesser equipped RF design companies to easily and cost-effectively evaluate the latest Freescale RF power devices. The tool is an integral set of both an RF generator and a test fixture monitored by a wide variety of DC and RF sensors. In this class, we will cover the capabilities and limitations of the RF Power Tool system, dive into some of the options of available measurements, and list why those specific operating parameters which are most important to customers.

This session will focus on the details of the programming model for the Advanced IO Processor (AIOP), including the scheduler, accelerators and memory scheme. We will also explain the architecture of AIOP software and ways to integrate it into applications.

Presented by Jerry Zeng Presented at DwF Kinetis MCUs Based on ARM® Technology Shenzhen - January 27, 2015

There are many stakeholders in the development of cyber security for the automotive market ranging from car makers, Tier 1/Tier 2 suppliers, service providers, governments, and consumers. This leads to wide variety of requirements, market drivers, and use cases for automotive cyber security. This session will give an overview of these with a focus on the relationship between safety and security, the emerging SAE J3061 recommended practice, and the tradeoffs involved in implementing security features in the automobile. Sample cyber security both from Freescale and 3rd-party software providers will also be described.

To help address the need for cost-effective vehicle electronic systems, the S12 MagniV mixed-signal microcontroller (MCU) portfolio offers highly integrated, single-chip solutions that are extremely reliable and easy to develop with, while helping reduce the bill of materials and overall manufacturing costs. The purpose of this session is to describe hardware design considerations when developing hardware for the MagniV family. It will cover topics such as clock generation, decoupling, voltage regulator and power considerations. Detailed reference design schematics and descriptions of the main components will be reviewed. Some general hardware recommendations will be provided as well.

Use Kinetis software development kit (KSDK) to enable 802.15.4 connectivity for multiple MCU platforms. This training will describe key features of MCR20A stand-alone transceiver, and hands-on training KSDK and 802.15.4 software stack to migrate connectivity applications across Kinetis MCUs. After joining this session, the attendee will be able to add 2.4GHz connectivity to their design using multiple Kinetis platforms like FRDM-K64F, FRDM-KL43 and FRDM-KL46.

Modern embedded project lifecycles are getting shorter while paradoxically the list of software requirements continues to grow. More often than not, software quality suffers because of shortened test phases. It is imperative that developers find bugs quickly and efficiently through as many automated means as possible. Fortunately, static and dynamic analysis tools exist that can help you find, diagnose, and fix these defects as quickly as possible. In this session, we will do a brief overview of the types of errors that can be eradicated using such tools and we will demonstrate how such tools can be integrated seamlessly in your workflow which leaves you time to focus on writing code for your application. We will also show how such tools improve code quality to not only reduce defects but also promote reuse in future applications and ease the path to safety certification.

Developers of safety-critical applications need to be very selective about what tools they choose to craft their products since their selected compiler and linker will touch every piece of code in their product. Functional Safety standards such as ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 help to ensure that your tools conform to the C/C++ language standards and that any tool defects are corrected according to a documented process so that you can have complete confidence that your tools are of the utmost quality. Since developers have the ultimate liability to prove that their products are safe and reliable, using a Functional Safety version of your tools makes sense, particularly when you are seeking a safety certification for your design. This session will help you understand how a Functional Safety toolchain can benefit your organization as well as help you speed your path to certification.

The Kinetis bootloader is a configurable flash programming utility that operates over a serial connection on Kinetis MCUs. In this session, you will learn about the bootloader's major features and most recent updates, followed by a hands-on class where we'll discuss all of the configurations complete with lab examples covering how to talk, configure and use the Kinetis bootloader. We will cover all of the protocols and have lab examples for communication to the Kinetis bootloader using UART, USB HID. Attendees will learn to implement a UART-only bootloader with small code footprint. Attendees will leave the class with all the information to re-create the labs.

Learn about the latest MCUs recently added to the Kinetis V series, including the Kinetis KV5x MCU - Freescale's first MCU featuring the ARM Cortex-M7 core.

As new Automotive and Industrial systems increase their features and complexity, nowadays most of the features are being controlled by MCU upon human or mechanical interaction such as buttons, switches, sensors, etc. Along with tighter and more robust requirements, markets are pushing for the best price-per-feature solutions for switch monitoring and feature control systems. To address such needs, Freescale created the MSDI family of devices, to provide integrated solutions, with multiple switch detection channels and flexible programmability through SPI communication, addressing many different needs in the Automotive and Industrial market without the need of sacrificing space, robustness, resources and design effort related to the implementation of discrete solutions that may provide limited capabilities for today’s demanding markets.

As the IoT gains momentum, the growth in the number of nodes connected to the internet poses a number of security challenges. The sheer number of devices establishing new connections to the cloud places a severe computational load on web servers. At the other end of the network, existing internet authentication algorithms are too heavy for small, battery powered sensor nodes to process. Further, more personal data will be captured and must be protected from cyber-attacks. This session will propose solutions to mitigate these challenges, both in the cloud and in the edge nodes.

The large scale deployment of the IoT will not be possible without resolving current major security issues and challenges. This can be resolved using few key security software components. From its experience securing smartcard systems, P&R is the first in the industry to get certification agencies to work on certifying its formally proven software to the highest security level. The speaker will describe the key software components already developed by P&R and the ones soon to be available as COTS to Freescale’s customers and partners. He will illustrate them using representative examples showing how such key security components can be used to answer all the critical security challenges of the IoT. The speaker will also present how ProvenCore, a fully secure microkernel and a major component of P&R range of security bricks, has been designed to reach the highest level of security.

This session covers the  QorIQ T4240/T2080  and next-generation QorIQ LS series processors as iNIC solutions supporting the emerging high performance requirements of virtualized servers. The sessions with cover such topics as implementing virtualized functions with SR-IOV thru the DPDK interface. Also covered will be L2 offload using Open vSwitch controlled by standard SDN controllers.