Experience the power of market leading real time operating system, FreeRTOS and Kinetis MCUs. Learn with experts about the FreeRTOS and how to enable FreeRTOS on Kinetis MCU's: Creating a Kinetis SDK project with FreeRTOS and Kinetis Design Studio, configure it for best code size and performance, debug it with Kernel Awareness in Eclipse and how to get detailed application and systems performance data using FreeRTOS+Trace performance analysis tools.

White box switches are network switches that are sold independent of the software that will run on them. Open Network Linux (ONL) is used as the basis for the "network operating systems" that run on the switches. Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) is used to create the software used to install the networking operation system onto the switch. This presentation highlights NXP's involvement in ONL/ONIE on the QorIQ P2041 and QorIQ T2080 platforms as well as the roadmap for LS2085. This session will expand on NXP's approach to ONL/ONIE and the white box market. Watch Video Presentation

This technical session provides an overview of the i.MX 6UltraLite MMDC (DDR Controller), the DDR tools used for DDR testing and board bring-up, and hardware considerations for DDR board designs. Attendees should be familiar with the MMDC from previous i.MX 6 series processors, specifically the i.MX 6SoloX. The session covers the differences in the MMDC between the i.MX 6UltraLite and its predecessor, the i.MX 6SoloX applications processor. The first half covers the tool offerings used to assist the user with bringing-up and testing a new DDR interface: i.MX 6UltraLite DRAM Register Programming Aid tool and the DDR Stress Test. The second half of the session covers hardware considerations board designers should follow for DDR board designs.

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 beginning hands-on session will walk you through the steps to configure the target and tools to debug applications running on Linux. Learn about agent based debug and tools to view the Linux OS state. This session will use the CodeWarrior Development Studio for ARM®v8 ISA with a QorIQ LS series Reference Design Board (RDB).

Start developing with Kinetis MCUs using the industry's most extensive tools and enablement offerings. Learn about the Kinetis Software Development Kit (SDK), Kinetis Design Studio, Kinetis Bootloader, FreeRTOS and other real-time operating systems.

Though cryptographic algorithms like AES are crypto-analytically secure, real implementations must at least be tested against logical attacks such as API misuse. Smart cards and similar devices also face fault and side channel attacks. Such attacks exploit physical effects to manipulate the device or learn about secret information. As these attacks are very critical, customers in the smart card industry ask for third party evaluation (e.g. Common Criteria or EMVCo) to confirm high assurance levels. If passed, a certificate is issued by a trusted party. With the rise of the IoT, physical attacks and respective third-party witnessing of resistance might soon be relevant there as well. Watch Video Presentation

This presentation will present a simple EM physics and geometry based approach to designing power distribution networks on PCBs. From input power connection to the IC die, the simple rules discussed can be used to reduce power supply noise and improve EMC.

This will be a hands-on session covering the Kinetis Software Development Kit (SDK) and Kinetis Expert using the Kinetis Design Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE).  

Get a deep dive into the brand new Vulkan API from Khronos. Learn how the programming paradigms have changed from OpenGL ES, how to use Vulkan API and its enormous performance advantages, and how to unlock the full potential of i.MX 8 series GPUs. Watch Video Presentation

Wayland and Weston are gaining popularity as Window Manager and Compositor on Linux, and they are part of our reference board support package (BSP). This lesson dives deep into the setup of Wayland/Weston on custom BSPs, enabling xWayland, and successful configuration of advanced multi-display and multi-input setups on i.MX applications processors.

In this session, Linear Technology will provide detailed design guidelines for robust and scalable power solutions for the latest QorIQ processors. Using proven NXP reference design examples for the T1023, LS1043, LS1046 and LS1088 this session will explore the key considerations of each design and show you how to leverage and scale the reference designs for your applications.

As connected edge devices gain momentum with consumers, the security approaches and assumptions of the past will fail and create new threats and vulnerabilities to consumer safety and privacy. Additionally, the cost for security in mobile phones, tablets, and PCs will present a challenge for applications such as occupant sensors and heart rate monitoring patches. Lastly, the teams of security experts in connected industries do not yet exist at suppliers who are connecting products to the network. Join this session to learn how industries are providing cost effective, highly secure, certified hardware that can hasten the learning cycle for emerging edge node applications, bring solutions for security, drive down costs, and limit the supplier specific required expertise.

This beginning hands-on session will walk you through the steps to configure the device and boot U-Boot. Learn how to configure the device reset control word (RCW), flash the device, and debug U-Boot. This session will use the CodeWarrior Development Studio for ARM®v8 ISA to boot the QorIQ LS1021A Reference Design Board (RDB).

The CodeWarrior Development Suite for the QorIQ LS series includes a variety of tools targeted at analyzing the operation and performance of a multicore Linux system. Tools utilitize hardware trace and system logs to monitor operation and performance. CodeWarrior Development Suite includes tools for performance analysis with the Hierarchical Profiler, Flat Profiler and CodeCoverage; path analysis with Timeline and CallTree; real-time monitoring with DebugPrint and TraceCommander in addition to interval profiling.

The I2C bus has expanded from its humble beginnings in 1980s home electronics to both small and large scale systems in the modern world. Applications range from Smartphones to Server farms, and while they're true to the original simple signaling protocol other I2C bus components are needed to expand, adapt or buffer those signals. We take an in depth technical look at the simple Bus Buffer. Often needed, and seldom understood. Watch Video Presentation

Deep dive into the vision processing architecture of the i.MX 8 family. Learn how to access the advanced processing features, the vision SDK, and the vision-based applications enabled by the i.MX 8 processor. This class provides an introduction to understanding the unique way in which machine vision is handled by i.MX 8. It forms a basic introduction class that is a precursor to the more advanced "Call Your Shot!" pool table demo class. Watch Video Presentation

While many look for hypervisor based solutions when separating multiple operating systems running on multiple cores in the new embedded devices from NXP, an easier solution is often overlooked. This session will describe ARM TrustZone as a technology currently found in the ARM Cortex A family of the devices, but being introduced by ARM in other variants. A few use cases will be presented - these include secure gateway on a Layerscape LS1021 device, and an automotive instrument cluster on an i.MX6 dual core device.

The SR-IOV provides a cost-effective way to allow different software images achieve independent data movement targeting virtual functions while sharing IO resources on a single PCIe EP device. This session introduces the SR-IOV related features and programming model of the QorIQ LS2088 processor PCI Express Gen3 EP.

Topics covered during this session will include a number of topics, including how to leverage LPC’s state controller timer (SCT) to creatively solve challenges faced in your embedded application, such as interfacing to digital LED control, hardware detection of a pulse when listening to sensors, and more. The experts will demonstrate why the LPC state controller timer (SCT) is the simplest timer in the market, providing hand-on training, walking you through a number of demonstrations where the SCT was able to solve fairly complex challenges.