DDR3, DDR3L, DDR4 have large, wide busses that require management on the PCB routing to optimize their speed of operation. Data busses will have characteristics related to on-die termination and driver strengths for both reads and writes (bidirectional). Address-Command-Control busses will be use the fly-by or serial routing and work unidirectionally. Both require careful selection of driver and receiver characteristics, as well as optimization of the PCB routing and design of the traces on the PCB. This talk will review the driver, receiver, and common PCB characteristics and show how simulation with IBIS models are used to weigh the trade-offs for the DDR bus design. Watch Video Presentation

Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) are standards based hardware roots of trust with protected key storage. This session covers how QorIQ Trust Architecture primitives can be used as Soft TPM, thereby reducing BOM cost by eliminating a discrete TPM chip.

To use the processor in an integrated design is one way. To use an embedded module is another way and will speed up the design, reduce the design risk and lower the design cost. What support will be offered by the different module suppliers? What limitations and restrictions are there, if you use an embedded module? A market overview and guideline to select your embedded module supplier.

This presentation shows case studies of e.g. devices support space savings, low power / low voltage applications and the usage of configurable logics. Associated demo boards will be shown. We would pick some typical examples and show how savings could be squeezed out of them. Watch Video Presentation

Detailed, hands-on training session for developing your application using the LPCXpresso ecosystem, including USB and Ethernet stacks, and free emWin libraries that embedded engineers need for successful USB application development.

ARM® architecture provides virtualization extensions opening the path for efficient and performance-virtualized solutions. KVM, the de facto hypervisor technology in the Linux kernel, was recently extended to support this new architecture. In this presentation we will deep dive in various scenarios and benchmarks to address the best virtualization performance on ARM-based QorIQ SoCs and analyze the behavior of the system running KVM and Containers under different configurations.

When adapting Android to a custom product, system updates are a very important matter. Fortunately Android provides a reliable update mechanism which can also be customized to your needs. Learn how to use it and/or implement some customizations from the recovery image to the OTA client application. A demonstration will be featured showing different use cases on i.MX6-based hardware.

Multi-Core Embedded Frameworks are increasingly being used on NXP hardware to host RTOS, Linux and other proprietary operating systems. When it comes to debug, new tools are needed to allow step-by-step time-synchronized debug of individual cores, and their role in the overall system performance. This paper looks at Mentor Embedded Codebench, and the Sourcery Analyzer design debug options.

We will show you how to use and leverage the work done by NXP's board solutions team to increase quality, reduce design iterations, decrease costs, and reduce time to market. NXP has extensive manufacturing expertise and can provide guidelines and advice on symbols and footprints as well as product development challenges. NXP maintains a qualified library of parts to reduce costs and promote common components. Using a proven design process will help to reduce board spins and development time. Schematic standards will improve overall quality and taking advantage of design reuse will reduce cycle time. Watch Video Presentation

Gain a deep dive into the GPU and display controller architecture of the i.MX 8 applications processor family. Discover the advanced features, design choices, and the HMI solutions enabled by the i.MX 8 series. This class provides a basic introduction to i.MX 8 graphics and is a precursor to the more advanced i.MX 8 classes around augmented reality, eCockpit, graphics SDK and Vulkan classes. Watch Video Presentation

This session will provide an overview of the QorIQ's hardware root of trust, key protection, and strong partitioning capabilities. Watch Video Presentation

Networking devices use high-speed differential signaling that can exceed 10 Gbps. Circuit design for the transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) elements in the high speed channel have capabilities of offset signal losses in the PCB and system. This session will review the high-speed signal channel and its characteristics and illustrate how the TX and RX circuits in general are used to offset signal losses. It will also show key characteristics of the channels that are needed to allow these TX and RX circuits to work effectively. This session will also address maximum length of the PCB channel, PCB-specific structures that need to be optimized and the usage of the IBIS-AMI models for 5-10 Gbps operation. Examples of channels from PCB designs at NXP will also be included. Watch Video Presentation

In this session, we will review the next generation Kinetis Expert Configuration tools that will replace Processor Expert functionality. You can use these tools to generate pin muxing, clocking configuration and power consumption estimates of your low power solutions. Although the Kinetis SDK provides many good examples of how to use the SDK, the configuration tools come in handy when you begin to design your own hardware solution and need software to support your custom design using Kinetis MCUs. This class will get you excited about trying our tools, which you can experiment with online or in the Technology Lab. Watch Video Presentation

The Light Emitting Diode (LED) has revolutionized signaling on control panels and appliances from coffee makers to car dashboards to factory and data center equipment. LEDs give LCD Displays an efficient and more natural backlight, and have upped the ante in dazzling casino and gaming entertainment parlors. Driving and controlling individual LEDs starts with a simple technical question "Constant Voltage or Constant Current?", and is quickly followed by "How many channels do you need?" NXP's LED Controllers are tailored for simple to increasingly complex LED requirements, and take the burden of blinking and fading off your system's microprocessor. Watch Video Presentation

This session will cover overview of porting Ethernet driver and debug procedure in U-Boot and also show the introduction on auto-update command. Watch Video Presentation

By accurately modelling the i.MX 6, so that compiled code can be brought up on a Virtual Platform, great time savings can be made in a typical project design workflow, and a greater understanding of the available design space achieved. This paper looks at a multi-core Linux design, with a hosted application used to track the seabed depth, implemented on an X86 host. The design is simulated in near real-time, and detailed debug data is available both on the i.MX 6 and hosted software native-code application.

This session will present the structure of NXP Yocto layers and mechanism of software delivery. Various architectures (ARM®v7, ARM®v8 and PPC) can be supported, the common software components can be shared by different products (i.MX and QorIQ processors) via the unified NXP Yocto layer which manages the free software and maintained by Yocto community. The commercial software can be delivered via separated layers, QorIQ LS2 SDK is using the mechanism for commercial software delivery, e.g. nsp, openflow, ssp and tcpoffload. The session also introduces how to create Yocto layer for customization changes and commercial products. Watch Video Presentation

Ensuring secure deployment of the billions of end nodes is a key enabler for the Internet of Tomorrow. The Kinetis K8x and Kinetis KL8x families are designed to deliver unsurpassed security for multi-application MCUs with hardware features such as Trust, Cryptographic acceleration, and Anti-Tamper to deliver a scalable, secure platform for embedded developers. This hands-on session will cover the needs of secure embedded applications, performing encrypted firmware updates, utilizing hardware cryptographic accelerators and extending trusted execution to external memories using an on-the-fly AES decryption module. Join this session to learn how your customers can get started creating their next secure node design.

An overview of the i.MX 6 series of applications processors. Learn about the features, target applications and enablement of these performance scalable multicore platforms that include single-, dual- and quad-core families based on the ARM® Cortex® architecture, based on Cortex-A7, Cortex-A9 and combined Cortex-A9 + Cortex-M4 solutions up to 1.2 GHz. Watch Video Presentation

Low-power is a system level challenge. Unfortunately, there is not just one feature that resolves the challenge. With LPC, we will focus on delivering low-power capabilities across a broad range of products: Low-power boot, intelligent clocking, ultra-efficient processing, flexible low-power modes and autonomous, low-power peripherals. In this session, we focus on each one of these capabilities, how they address the challenges of designing low-power applications and highlight differentiators LPC MCUs offer the low-power market. What's the most efficient way to communicate with peripherals, how to optimize data transfers, the effects different power modes and clock gating functions have on energy. This session discusses these topics plus explains how one can leverage the unique modes and features available on LPC MCUs to improve energy efficiency of IoT applications and other embedded systems.