By adding NFC to a door lock, the same smartcard technology that protects some of the world’s most valuable objects can now be brought to everyday places like homes, apartment buildings, and hotels. An NFC-enabled smartphone can be used to configure the lock, so homeowners can grant temporary access to a specific person or group. This hands-on session demonstrates how the latest NFC controller solution with customizable firmware, the PN7462, can be used for access applications. For the demonstration the PN7462 development kit will be used together with the software example to develop a door access application.

Virtual network functions offer a great deal of flexibility, allowing for dynamic provisioning of network services. Handling network services within a VM and meeting performance requirements can be challenging. It's essential to utilize specialized hardware accelerators to meet the desired performance targets. ODP/DPDK are becoming defacto standard for NFV abstracting the hardware accelerator interfaces from VNF applications. In order to leverage the data plane capability of underlying platform the hardware acceleration can be exposed to the VMs via proprietary interfaces through direct-assignment or standardized interfaces. In this session we discuss how we can leverage the hardware acceleration on QorIQ platforms for developing optimized virtual network functions with DPDK/ODP.

This session provides an overview of the new opportunities and challenges opened by applying Automotive Ethernet in in-vehicle Networks. We will describe how the NXP portfolio of PHYs and Switches addresses these challenges and outline the new opportunities arising from the combined portfolios after the merger. The presentation will also address ways of using the Automotive Ethernet portfolio in the industrial and automation markets. Watch Video Presentation

Roadside Units (RSUs) will play a critical role in helping connected and automated vehicles meet their potential for increased safety, decreased commute times, and energy savings. Learn how smart RSUs could become, how secure they must be, and their relationship to the vehicles, broadband connectivity, and the cloud. 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.

Many embedded projects are in safety-critical applications, particularly within automotive applications. This session will take a look at the advantages of a functional safety-certified toolchain. Additionally, we will examine how some of the inherent dangers of C/C++ can be neutralized by adopting a coding standard and accompanying coding guidelines with static code analysis. We will draw inspiration from the MISRA rule set and from the requirements and recommendations of the ISO 26262 safety standard, and show numerous examples of what can go wrong.

NXP is one of the pioneers in bringing helping bring multicore solutions to the aviation industry and helping customers navigate the certification requirements. This session will cover the roadmap and status of current certification activities, challenges for 2016 we are addressing for both PPC and ARM devices.

The session will consider the use of discrete power MOSFETs in automotive applications such as powertrain, safety, chassis and body control, guiding attendees to the best choice of NXP’s latest silicon and packaging technology. Solutions for motor control for fuel, oil, and water pumps will be highlighted. Watch Video Presentation

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.

The course will detail RFC 7668 (6LoBLE), Bluetooth® low energy 4.2 and the Internet protocol support profile that are used to transport IPv6 frames in an IoT environment. The demo will be based on the Kinetis KW41 MCU.

As the Smart Home starts to gather momentum, a number of competing Wireless Communication standards are fighting for dominance. With ZigBee® now becoming dominant in the low-power networking market, there is no surprise that two new low power technology Thread and Bluetooth® Low Energy with the new Mesh capability are both trying to enter this market to get a piece of the cake. Moreover competing IoT platforms from the Thread Group (Google/Nest), Allseen Alliance (Qualcomm), Apple's Homekit, the Open Interconnect Consortium (Intel) and many others are creating even more confusion. So in this confusing array of Wireless Communication standards and Iot platforms, what are the main features of each and what does it means for NXP? This session will provide an overview of these Wireless connectivity standards and IoT platforms, their capabilities, and their implication for NXP IoT. Watch Video Presentation

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.

Lecture on NFC commissioning and various use-cases NFC enables in Smart Home/IoT to save cost and enable convenience. NFC gives best of user experience for installing devices in Smart Home & Buildings and in-addition also useful for Diagnostic, de-commissioning, OTA upgrade and various other useful features.

Explore real world IoT use cases for home, healthcare and industrial applications. Includes a demo of interoperating QorIQ LS1043A gateway, Kinetis device running Thread, WiFi and NXP and 3rd party software for a secure connected solution.

QorIQ DPAA has a hardware accelerate decompression and compression engine (DCE) that can be used for storage market and bandwidth optimization applications. This session will discuss the DCE engine, the program model for kernel space and user space application. We will also discuss the performance issue with various open source compression libraries so customer can pick the correct approach for their use case. Watch Video Presentation

You can eliminate much of the hardware design complexity by using NXP's Single Chip System Modules (SCM). Learn what you still need to know when designing hardware based on SCM.

With exponential growth in today's cloud data centers, the demand for data storage and security is exploding. Data deduplication combined with encryption is a requirement. This session will provide an overview of how NXP has developed an innovative solution using intelligent storage accelerators without having to throw expensive cores at it. The performance-per-watt and the total cost savings of this solution are formidable. This same approach has been taken in the next-generation Software Defined Storage (SDS) platform from NXP which not only solves the data dedupe and encryption problem but also the compression, RAID and traffic offload requirement of a complete scalable SDS solution.

This presentation describes how to modify an Aarch64 (64-bit) uboot to make it loading an Aarch32 (32-bit) Linux, and how to modify an Aarch64 based Linux to run at Aarch32 mode. The target processor is the QorIQ LS1043A SoC. Watch Video Presentation

Learn how NXP's Motor Control reference design and control libraries, built on the Kinetis V portfolio, can help you beat deadlines, improve your time to market, and achieve better motor performance. In this hands-on class you will learn how to use NXP's complimentary reference designs and control libraries to get to market quicker with better designs.

There are many new technological developments in the medical field that require the use of controlled RF power for several advanced therapeutic treatments. Various levels of RF power at various frequencies are used in procedures such as microwave ablation (tumor destruction), electrosurgery (cut, coagulate, desiccate and fulgurate tissue), diathermy (treatment for rheumatoid arthritis) and thermage (skin rejuvenation). This session will cover innovative RF solutions that NXP has developed for these applications.