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

Functional Safety is one of the key technical trends of automotive application. The developer may encounter great challenges without IC suppliers’ strong support on functional safety ready products and relevant enablement and knowledge. Freescale SafeAssure program will greatly relief designers’ difficulties on ECU development targeting compliance with ISO26262. Details on using functional safety manual and dynamic FMEDA to design safety ECU are discussed in this session.

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Many existing safety applications, e.g., in railway signaling, are based on aging, proprietary computing systems. These range from hard lock-step, hardware voting architectures, to software-based voting. Each approach brings costs in performance, scalability, life cycle and software development/portability. Some have not achieved Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 4 certification (per the EN 5012x rail standards), which is now a worldwide requirement. This presentation gives an overview of an architecture for a COTS fail-safe computer (ControlSafe™) that combines “loose” lock-step with hardware voting, to provide software transparency, scalability and SIL4 certification. The platform employs distributed Freescale QorIQ processors. Leveraging such a platform, safety application providers can plan technology refresh while maintaining the investment in/focus on their application software.

S12ZVM family provides ideal combination of high integration and high-performance for space constrained motor control applications. S12ZVM family is expanding to cover many more applications with capability to directly interface with LIN or CAN networks. It is an ideal controller to have a platform strategy for multitude of motor control applications. This session will provide a basic understanding on 3 phase motor control, value of using S12ZVM in various applications and overview of the mature S12ZVM enablement solutions that can help spin the motor in no time and can help to extract the highest performance from the device.

This session will discuss a functional, cost and design cycle analysis of product development using SOMs, WaRP Board, custom board and SCM6D based products. This analysis will focus on several design scenarios facing customers and how each of the 4 solutions discussed compare. Further to the analysis will be discussion on time to market studies as well as software development impacts to product lead time. Following this class, you should be better prepared to utilize Freescale SCM portfolio to get your products to market faster.

IR will show power solutions for Layerscape and T series processors. IR will demonstrate easy design techniques for quick-to-market, practical designs for system power for these processors’ critical power supply rails. Details: IR will show several power system designs for the Layerscape and T series processors. Will provide schematics, layout, and design tool examples for quick to market designs as well as options for customers to tailor for application use cases to achieve a practical, lean and optimum solution. Advanced techniques will also be shown real-time on the use of modern PMBus command sets for power sequencing, fault management and telemetry to reduce design time and cost.

This session will provide an update on Freescale's analog portfolio and value proposition. It will cover industrial, automotive and consumer product families: MCU and system power management, analog power switches, battery and energy management, physical layer interfaces such as Chokeless CAN and isolated network transceivers, radar 77GHz and motor control and power drive. It will highlight safety features of the products as well as new enablement tools such as Tower board or Processor Expert analog software component. Presented by Emmanuel Carcenac Presented at DwF Tel Aviv - January 27, 2015 Session ID: EUF-IND-T0662

This session explains the many interfaces in the Freescale i.MX 6 series of application processors which make it ideal for automotive applications. 

This session will explain how Freescale can enable customers to develop 76-81 GHz short and long range radar applications using the MPC577xK MCU, it will explain the concepts of the radar algorithms, including practical aspects such as SDADC or MIPI CSI sampling, Chirp Generation, Data Compression, R,V FFT, Detection and Tracking algorithms, and the benefits of the new Freescale IP that can allow them to improve their system resolution and accuracy. In this session customers will take away a detailed understanding of how to develop fast modulation radar systems using the MPC577xK MCU including the BOM cost advantages it also brings.

With both the i.MX range of application processors, and the QorIQ Layerscape communications processors, Freescale is at the forefront of producing leading edge ARM-based solutions for Wearable, Automotive, Industrial, and Enterprise segments. These devices provide highly integrated, energy efficient, solutions, typically with significant software requirements. With DS-5, ARM provides a common toolchain supporting all of these platforms, delivering best in class compilation, full multi-core debug support, and advanced profiling functionality.

This session will explain how to migrate between the QorIQ T2081 and T1040 communications processor families by achieving hardware and software compatibility. The session will also discuss hardware, software and board-level considerations that exist while migrating between these processors and designing a common board for these processors. 

This session provides an introduction to a new unified bootloader solution for Kinetis MCUs. An overview of the bootloader and accompanying  utilities will be provided along with a live demo of some common bootloader use cases. Presented by Anthony Huereca Presented at DwF Silicon Valley - March 26, 2015 Session ID: AMF-DES-T1057

This session will cover Human Machine Interface (HMI) design principles, best practices for developing a user experience, and optimizing art assets for embedded devices. This session is for people in the trenches - designers, programmers, marketers, even your boss. Put the "H" in the HMI and learn how to make interfaces for real humans. Learn how to optimize your assets. Take that million polygon count with 4k textures and run it in your device. Save the day, make it work.

From head to sole, wearable technology has made the leap from early adoption to becoming a growing market that is on a trajectory to exceed the mobile phone. This session will focus on the broad requirements of wearable devices spanning from bare metal implementations to highly customized versions of Android. This session will give you an overview of the software developer's environment and the different choices that are currently available.

Based on the FRDM-K22F board and a versatile new Arduino-compatible Shield, this course discusses how to implement: Internet of Things applications using Kinetis K2 and pre-certified Wi-Fi (TiWi-C-W) and BLE (SaBLE-x) wireless modules from LS Research. Streaming to the Cloud using TiWiConnect LIFT software protocol (dramatically simplified software development). Sensor and I/O expansion using 3rd-party Pmod-compatible (I2C and SPI) boards interfaced to Freescale Freedom boards. Fast time-to-market for your IoT product using accelerated software development and pre-certified wireless modules.

The most difficult step of the development cycle is moving from concept to prototype. The second is moving from prototype to production. Wearables are no exception. This class will first compare and contrast open source reference designs that are available to prototype wearable projects today. In the second half, using Freescale reference designs as a case study, we will cover the challenges and resources available to enable a project to move into manufacturing and production.

A guide to using the Manufacturing tool. Learn how to install and use the Manufacturing tool on Freescale reference boards and modify the tool for use in your own application.