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.

Enterprise storage solutions from Freescale with high availability in all aspects of the design will be discussed in this session. Dual socket design with redundant chip-to-chip interconnect, over 80G of network connectivity, redundant power, redundant SAS connectivity to HDD's and multiple NVMe SSD's for high IOPs are some of the core features of this storage solution. Ability to offload storage traffic (iSCSI and FCoE), RAID5/6 offload using AltiVec, RDMA across SRIO along with SEC, DCE and PME engines with optional C29x cards makes this an ideal enterprise-class, secure data center storage solution.

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

Curtiss-Wright will discuss the vital role that Freescale’s Power Architecture® and ARM® processors play today in rugged COTS-based embedded aerospace and defense applications where SWaP-C constraints demand low-power computing without compromise in harsh, deployed environments.  Such applications benefit greatly from Freescale’s ability to meet the STRESS requirements (S-Security, T-Trusted Computing, R-Reliability/Rugged, E-Embedded, S-Safety Certifiable, Support-Long Lifecycle Supply) typical of these markets. Through application examples we show how open architecture modules based on these devices provide processing solutions for airborne and ground combat vehicles, commercial embedded, as well as addressing requirements for ancillary markets which include National Infrastructure applications such as Power Plants, Power Grid, Security and Homeland Protection.

Learn the major components of an Automotive Traction Inverter by walking through a prototype hardware and software design. I will be highlighting our IGBTs, GDICs, micros, and voltage / frequency (V/F) software to control an induction motor. This class provides a solid foundation on motor control and inverter design and an excellent class for engineers that are involved with EV systems but not yet motor control experts.

Learn about Freescale's first low-power, quad-core 64-bit ARM® processor.  This device is targeted for several growth segments including:  Industrial networking and control, small to medium services routers and gigabit rate residential gateway's.

Macronix Inc. launched its newest MX25R family of Flash memories, targeted specifically for the IoT and other energy conscious applications, such as wearable and mobile devices. The new MX25R product family focuses on lower power consumption to enabling extended battery life. This new product family will offer densities from 512Kbit up to 512Mbit. It support an industry standard memory interface, ultra-small product packages plus Known Good Die (KGD) option for System in Package solution.

As automotive applications become more complex, an increasing number of solutions require the use of external memories for cost-efficient program and data storage. This presentation reviews the characteristics of memory used in Freescale automotive processors and controllers and summarizes the application benefits of each. Memories interfaces and technologies included are: SDRAM, QuadSPI, I2C, SD and SDIO, NAND Flash and USB.

This session will introduce the latest Freescale 32-bit MCU designed for instrument cluster applications. We will spend time looking at the features and review the typical application configuration, software strategy and Freescale enablement built for this instrument cluster solution.

PROFIBUS, CAN and RS232 are extensively used in communications networks in factories, buildings, transport infrastructures and monitoring/control equipment in our cities. Ethernet offers higher bandwidth and, in many cases, lowers cost--especially when deployed in daisy-chain topology. Technologies such as EtherCAT, PROFINET and EtherNet/IP are testament to this. In this session, we will explore how QorIQ processor families can help equipment manufacturers span this landscape using a QUICC Engine (QE) controller for UART/Ethernet-based protocol implementation, a Enhanced Triple Speed Ethernet Controller (eTSEC) for intelligent Ethernet classification and 2-port switching, and an eight-port gigabit Ethernet switch for wire-rate switching. Reference design software and hardware files will be available to help you start your own PROFIBUS and PROFINET designs. Presented by Hao Sun Presented at DwF Digital Networking Shenzhen - January 28, 2015 Session ID: APF-IND-T0049

Kits include FRDM-34931S-EVB, FRDM-KL25Z, power supply, brushed DC motor and GUI on mbed™ site. We will show how to load and use a GUI from the mbed site to drive the motor, cover PEx software, and discuss the strengths of the MC34931S for industrial applications.

Beginning 2016, the European New Car Assessment program (NCAP) will allocate increased scoring measures for pedestrian detection capabilities. This means that any car fitted with technologies that enable detection of a pedestrian in a hazardous situation and as a result perform collision avoidance measures shall be rewarded with an increased NCAP score. These systems must be designed and manufactured based on a solid automotive development flow. This session will address the vision processing requirements for pedestrian detection and provide training on how vision algorithms may be implemented to respond to NCAP requirements in a safe, secure and reliable way.

S32 Design Studio for ARM is a hands-on training with the new Eclipse-based tool chain with C development tools in the integrated development environment including editor, compiler, and debugger support of Freescale's latest automotive ARM-based MCUs. Participants will learn about the project creation, editing, compiling, Processor Expert configuration tool, and debugging of a small example project under the direction of one of Freescale's tools experts. The class will focus on the Freescale KEA MCUs with the highly-integrated, easy-to-use tool chain. The student will start with a project from scratch, work through new project creation, configuration of the compiler, compilation, flashing executable onto the target MCU and complete the class with debugging the project on the target MCU evaluation board.

This session will feature Freescale's low voltage Li-Ion battery charger solutions. Switching and linear solutions will be discussed along with design tips for implementing several different charging solutions. A demo of our newest switching charger, BC3770 will be provided.