With new CAN FD protocol, CAN applications need to support both classical CAN and CAN FD frames. Especially in transition period, customers are looking for a solution in which classical CAN frames are mixed with CAN FD frames. NXP developed a brand new CAN transceiver feature "CAN FD Shield", which enables the use of CAN controllers in mixed CAN / CAN FD architectures. Watch Video Presentation

The RF content of connected devices has been increasing dramatically the last couple of years. The increasing bandwidth demand has driven the requirements of the RF chain to higher levels. The RF MMICs from NXP Smart Antenna Solutions give designers of connected devices freedom of antenna placement while achieving higher performance. This class will show the increasing requirements and complexity and NXPs answer to this challenge. Watch Video Presentation

This technical lecture presents how Toradex built a balancing robot demo application using the new i.MX 7's heterogeneous asymmetric architecture. i.MX 7 features a secondary Cortex-M4, which can be used for real-time or low-power applications. We will discuss how to make use of the secondary core with a FreeRTOS based firmware implementing the closed loop controller to keep the robot balanced upright. On the powerful main CPU complex, a dual Cortex-A7, Linux is running a Qt based user interface. We will go into details about the rpmsg/OpenAMP based messaging offerings provided by NXP. The robot demo application makes use of rpmsg to communicate between the two independently running processor cores and operating systems.

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

Resonant AC/DC supplies have superior efficiency at high power output. The TEA1916 is a digital controller simplifying the complexity of resonant LLC designs and providing easy tuning. It succeeds the very popular TEA1716 used in many resonant Switch Mode Power Supplies for e.g. PC's & TV's, but the TEA1916 is actually very suitable for any power supply > 75W, e.g. medical, industrial and server power supplies. The TEA1916 uses a new digital cycle-by-cycle architecture (Vcap control) to enable a new type of operation at low power loads. This increases the efficiency at low output power, using an accurately controlled burst mode operation. The TEA1916 also achieves very low power consumption in standby or off state; a key performance parameter to differentiate from competition. To obtain the highest efficiency the TEA1916 works excellent together with NXP's TEA1995 Synchronous Rectifier.

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.

The new USB TYPE-C and PD specification has brought the new possibilities on power implementation through USB port, that will give the end customer a very different experience. At the same time, the new specification has raised the requirements on the power components with higher voltage and higher current. Also the ability to swap current source and change output voltage makes the power structure design even more complex. In order to distribute power in a reliable way on TYPE-C port, NXP has developed a set of Power switches for it. Watch Video Presentation

Customers active in hospitality, home readers or any application connecting to a smartphone or tablet are faced with the challenge of guarantying system interoperability with all smartphones on the market today. The answer is given as an NFC and BLE turnkey solution - NXP’s NFC/BLE reference design (OM27462NBR) based on the PN7462 and the QN902x Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy family.

Learn how QorIQ processors and VortiQa software are enabling solutions for iNICs Smart NICs, UTM appliances and virtualized security applications.

This session is a high level introduction to the problems to tackle for automated driving and sensor fusion applications. It describes NXP’s BlueBox solution, the first motion-planning system to address the stringent safety, power and processing performance requirements of the world’s top automakers. This session will also review BlueBox performance capabilities required to analyze driving environments, assess risk factors and then direct the car’s behavior. Watch Video Presentation

Vehicles need to accurately grasp the world around them - just like the human driver - in order to drive autonomously. Automotive technology aims to fit vehicles with capabilities even beyond the senses of the human driver, allowing to make the most intelligent decisions in real time. The information that vehicle sensors collect must not only be real time and accurate but also be secure against hacking attacks so that we can trust them with our lives. Reliable ADAS and appropriate security measures are a key ingredient in self-driving cars. Vehicle-to-X technology, extends the visibility beyond the sight of drivers to "see" around corners and through obstacles. External sensor information and internal data from the car networks are vital to help to eliminate the 1.3 million road accidents happening on global roads each year.

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

For drug delivery to be effective, two very important conditions need to be met. First, drug quality needs to be ensured until the time of administration to the patient. Second, the patient needs to adhere to the prescribed therapy. Two easy-to-use solutions will be presented. They comprise a battery, an antenna and a single chip that integrates a sensor, storage and NFC connectivity. Both solutions support wireless communication with a smart phone. A temperature monitoring solution permits logging of transport conditions of each individual drug package at any point in time. Patients and healthcare professionals can confirm the drug quality at the moment of administration. A therapy adherence monitoring solution for drug blisters and bottles records medication intake events. In case the intake deviates from prescription, patients can be reminded and motivated to do better.

The LS1012A is the newest member of the QorIQ LS family, combining high-performance CPUs with line-rate packet processing. Learn more about this new class of product, including the many innovations made possible by its small form-factor and low power dissipation. Watch Video Presentation

Get up and running in minutes with the NXP S32K platform using the S32 SDK and S32 Design Studio. This hands-on session will introduce the full flexibility and capability of the S32 SDK package, outlining the excellent out-of-the-box experience, ease of use and shorter time to market. Attendants will learn how to use it in correlation with S32 Design Studio IDE to quickly create suitable applications for general-purpose use-cases, running through all the development steps (installation, software configuration & RTOS integration, inserting application code and target debug).

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.

This session reviews the updates to the existing Linux Software Development Kit (SDK) which allows for the enablement of the Blue Box software feature set. Custom layers, simplified deployment, support for multiple SoCs in one set-up, a graphical desktop, package management, self-hosting support and other additions will be described in technical detail. Options to further enhance the configuration will also be discussed. Software engineers interested in Yocto customizations should not miss this session.

The need to ensure electrical power availability is increasing. Batteries are spreading into automotive, electrical storage systems and uninterruptible power supplies. This session will present the benefits of NXP Battery Management Solutions for multiple battery architectures. Watch Video Presentation