As geometries continue to shrink and switching speeds increase, designing electromagnetic systems and printed circuit boards to meet the required signal integrity and EMC specifications has become even more challenging. A new design methodology is required, specifically, the utilization of an electromagnetic physics-based design methodology to control the field energy in your design. This session will walk through the development process and provide guidelines for building successful printed circuited boards.

In this hands-on workshop, we will walk you through examples and use cases of how to use the FlexIO feature on Kinetis MCUs to implement custom logic and enable additional serial interfaces.

Lauterbach company profile and Lauterbach product overview. 

This session will discuss the challenges of supporting multiple execution environments on embedded systems and advocate heterogeneous multiprocessing (HMP) as an effective solution to those challenges. The i.MX architecture will evolve to support HMP based on the integration of ARM Cortex-A and Cortex-M processors into a single SoC. This session will introduce the HMP architectural features available on next-gen i.MX designs, including resource sharing/isolation, interprocessor communication and interprocessor synchronization. Presented by Rob Cosaro Presented at DwF Silicon Valley - March 26, 2015 Session ID: AMF-SHB-T1036

Kinetis M series microcontrollers integrate high-accuracy measurement units (24-bit SD ADC, PGA, VREF) to measure wide dynamic range analog signals with a very low temperature drift.

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.

Learn about Freescale’s pressure sensors and how they specifically support patient monitoring data collection. These sensors can maximize content collected from patient analytics to transfer to the cloud (Big Data) to enable doctors and health providers to determine patient health, analytics, compliance to medical protocols and adherence of the patient to doctor’s instructions.

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 intermediate hands-on session will walk you through the steps to boot, debug, and inspect U-boot, the Linux kernel and drivers, and Linux applications.  Learn about the debug and trace tools that are available to solve complex problems in Linux.  This session will use the CodeWarrior Development Studio for ARMv8 ISA and open-source tools to boot the QorIQ LS2085A RDB and demonstrate how to debug Linux modules and use tracing and performance tools in Linux.

Accelerometers, Magnetometers, Gyroscopes, Pressure Sensors. Gathering sensor data at 400 samples per second, on 9 axes, results in 700 MB of data per day. This hands-on class will show what information is contained in sensor data and how to reduce the amount of recorded data dramatically without any major loss of targeted information. They will then compare data between dumb and intelligent data loggers, and understand the techniques used to compress the information.

This session provides an introduction to the new QorIQ LS1 family, the first family of devices in the QorIQ LS series based on dual ARM® Cortex®-A7 cores. You will receive an overview of the LS1 processors--advantages, differentiators and capabilities for networking and industrial applications. Presented by Hao Sun Presented at DwF Digital Networking Shenzhen - January 28, 2015 Session ID: APF-NET-T0162

Freescale is making automotive development easy with Kinetis MCUs. Kinetis EA series MCUs for automotive allow fast time to market with simple tools, an extensive development environment and automotive grade qualification across -40 to 125 °C temperature ranges. Freescale Automotive portfolio overview (S32, S12, MagniV, Kinetis EA) and ecosystem.

Linux has rapidly become the OS of choice for embedded product development. The Yocto project is an open source initiative to standardize Embedded Linux development across many different platforms, providing a framework to create your own custom Linux Distribution. The i.MX 6SoloX is Freescale’s latest addition to the i.MX 6 series product line-up, with dual-core ARM® Cortex®-A9 and Cortex-M4. This two part hands-on class will take you through the foundational elements of Embedded Linux as well as a lab session that will run you through the entire Yocto flow (setup, configure, build and installation) for a Yocto Project™ based on real development hardware. You will also be shown the Yocto Project recipe structure which can be customized in your own layer for your hardware. You will walk away from this session equipped with the primary skills to get started with your own Embedded Linux development.

This session will provide an introduction to the Freescale MQX™ RTOS.

With the increasing number of things connecting to the internet, protecting your devices and data from external threats will be a priority design consideration.  Avnet and Wind River will present a comprehensive solution IoT Security for the Freescale LS1021A, running on the LS1021A-IOT Gateway, including secure boot, access control, device authentication, and application-level security.

This session will provide customers the opportunity to meet with a variety of Kinetis engineers and business owners to discuss critical topics for today’s embedded engineers such as security, connectivity, power consumption, and time-to-market.  Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss the latest Kinetis roadmap, ask technical questions, provide feedback back to the Kinetis team. #KinetisConnects

Attendees will be taught the pros, cons, and differences between Accelerometers, Magnetometers, Gyroscopes, and Pressure Sensors. This will be followed by hand-on labs using time, frequency, and sensor fusion dataloggers. A Java based GUI will be used to implement and explore different sensor algorithms before testing them on real embedded hardware. By the end of this hands-on class, the attendees will have gathered experience in using specific enablement tools to recognize a variety of motion/events and recognize most complex sensor patterns.

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.

Performance requirements increase in order to process the massive amount of data coming from image and radar sensors, because when we ask electronic systems to take the place of the driver in a potential crash situation, the car BETTER BE safe, secure, reliable and dependable. Freescale ADAS solutions are designed from the outset to be ROBUST, EFFICIENT, and FLEXIBLE. The S32V234, is the first automotive vision SoC with the requisite reliability, safety and security measures to automate and co-pilot a self-aware car. Leveraging a host of automotive-grade technologies, the S32V takes the industry toward an era where cars can capture data, process it and actually share control with drivers in critical situations. This capability establishes the essential bridge from the current “assist” era toward the fully autonomous vehicles of tomorrow.

This session will cover a variety of topics currently being faced with change management, including why Product Change Notifications (PCNs) are important to Freescale customers (notably in cost reduction achievement) and quality improvements to product and manufacturing processes. This session will also discuss several aspects of the shift from gold to copper bond wire including the technical details of this shift, what Freescale has done to qualify it, the rollout timing review by product family and the importance of customer approval. FTF-ACC-F1247