In this session, attendees will learn what types of applications can be built on a wearable reference platform for the healthcare and fitness markets. Design challenges and requirements for creating your own designs using WaRP, a wearable reference platform (WaRP), with Kinetis MCUs, i.MX applications processors and Freescale sensors will be discussed.

This session will outline the design challenges that healthcare and medical device designers face when designing a product and selecting components. Special attention will be paid to IC selection, wireless connectivity, system security and regulatory concerns. Following this class, you should be better prepared to utilize Freescale products to get your products to market faster.

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.

In this session, we will define what the IoT is and how it can be used in a healthcare environment to lower cost, improve patient outcomes and prevent future illness.

Linux is the state of the art software used to enable Freescale LS102x platforms. Freescale provides a custom SDK and a set of networking software build on top of Linux kernel. In order to improve customer performance, it needs a way to analyze the existing performance of the software and find ways to improve it. CodeWarrior IDE is a development environment targeted to debug and analyze Freescale platforms. Software analysis component from CodeWarrior help Freescale developers to analyze the performance of their code running on Linux on LS102x targets. Using CodeWarrior analysis tools, you are able to trace your system execution at multiple levels: system level, kernel level, and user level. Using CodeWarrior analysis tools, developers are able to easy configure, collect and analyze the trace. Performance profilers are available to show the performance of the analyzed system.

This session will cover some simple definitions of ESD and EOS while explaining the important differences in the energy involved and the resulting damage. The session will also review PCB design techniques for improving system robustness.

The material presented will focus on the basic principles and physics of electromagnetic energy.  It will be presented in easy to understand language with plenty of diagrams. Attendees will discover how understanding the behavior of EM fields can help to design PCBs that will be more robust and have better electromagnetic compatibality performance. This is not rocket science, but an easy to understand application of PCB geometry.

Dr. Todd Hubing of Clemson University shares his vast expertise regarding the impact of transmission line design on EMC performance of electronic control systems. In automotive systems, the wiring harnesses play a key role in coupling electronic noise to and from the components. Shielding and filtering the wiring harness and connector generally are not viable options, so it is important to address cable coupling issues with proper board-level design practices. This session will cover various cable-coupling mechanisms and grounding strategies. It also will include the options available at the board level for ensuring automotive components don't put excessive noise on the harness and that noise on the harness doesn't affect the proper operation of the component circuitry.

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 how to setup, configure, build and install images for a Yocto Project™ based i.MX BSPs and QorIQ SDK boards. Learn about the Yocto Project environment and how Freescale releases i.MX and QorIQ Linux distributions. Details will be shared about bitbake, build environment, customization and board bringup. For QorIQ, additional topics will cover the emulation, ADT and pre-bootloader code. Learn about new layer meta-Freescale that supports combined i.MX and QorIQ product lines with common build environment.

In this workshop, we will dive deep into the advanced usage of the Kinetis Design Studio IDE, including how to use it with a version control system, automating builds and debug sessions. Also, learn how to generate coverage and profile your application.

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 introduce the standard AUTOSAR concepts and the Freescale AUTOSAR production grade software. The hands-on will focus on using the AUTOSAR MCU Abstraction Layer drivers (MCAL), AUTOSAR real-time operating system (OS) and getting started with an automotive application. The session will include a step-by-step approach, guiding the audience through the software configuration, code generation and up to running the application on a Freescale automotive microcontroller.

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.

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.

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.

The QorIQ T1040 and T1042 communication processors support four integrated 64-bit e5500 Power Architecture® processor cores with high-performance data path acceleration architecture (DPAA) and network peripheral interfaces required for networking and telecommunications. This session will provide an in-depth look at the new features being introduced in the T1040 family such as the Single Source Clock, L2 Switch, sSDXC, QSGMII and DDR4. The session will also cover power-saving schemes of T1040. Presented by Du Chen​ Presented at DwF Digital Networking - Nanjing - 21 May 2015 Session ID: APF-SNT-T1359

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Kinetis Driver Libraries are foundations for all higher level software for Kinetis MCUs, making it even easier to develop MCU applications. This lecture and demo session will dive into the internals of the libraries exploring board configurations, clock management, the hardware abstraction layer, peripheral driver usage, the USB stack, RTOS integration and more. Presented by Li Sen and Chen Xinyu Presented at DwF Kinetis MCUs Based on ARM® Technology - Tianjin - 19 March 2015 Session ID: APF-DES-T1016

Introducing a temperature dependent current limit for motor drivers. This thermal management scheme ensures high efficient operation by reducing switching losses when motor is experiencing heavy loads or binding. In the presentation we will discuss factors determining power dissipation in a motor driver integrated circuit examining dynamic and steady state operation and their effect on junction temperature. We will review how to calculate an estimate of power dissipation using the information provided in a typical motor driver data sheet. With an understanding how power is dissipated in a motor driver, we will introduce a new system using temperature dependent current limit that will protect both the driver and the motor. Presented by Thomas Zemites Presented at DwF Silicon Valley - March 26, 2015 Session ID: AMF-IND-T0987