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

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.

ARM® mbed™ OS is an open source embedded operating system designed specifically for the "things" in the Internet of Things (IoT). It includes all of the features you need to develop a connected product based on an ARM Cortex-M microcontroller, and is ideal for applications in smart cities, smart homes and wearables. Fast track your IoT application development with mbed OS and it's implementation on Kinetis MCUs.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The new i.MX 6DualPlus and i.MX 6QuadPlus processors integrate multiple ARM® Cortex®-A9 cores and build upon the solid foundation of first-generation i.MX 6Dual and i.MX 6Quad processors by more than doubling the graphics performance and improving memory utilization by more than 50 percent. Learn about enhanced versions of 3D, 2D and composition GPUs, a newly optimized 64-bit DDR3/LVDDR3/LPDDR2-1066 memory interface to increase bus bandwidth, and more embedded SRAM, as well as added pre-fetch and resolve engines These new processors are ideal for automotive instrument clusters and infotainment systems, as well as medical equipment, industrial HMI, digital signage and media streaming applications. Watch Video Presentation

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

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

In this section, NXP (SIP) will introduce the key products surround the USB Type-C connectors. The section will covers Power Delivery Controller, Power Delivery PHY, CC logic controller, high speed switch and high speed redriver. We will go over NXP Type-C hardware architecture, differentiation and product advantage.

What is USB Type-C and USB-Power Delivery? Why consumer electronics and mobile computing products is adopting this new Type-C connector? What are the advantages and disadvantages using this connector? What is the future for USB Type-C and PowerDelivery. In this section, NXP (SIP) will give a high level introduction on this new technology and the ecosystem. This section is market and ecosystem driven discussion, not technically intense discussion.

The i.MX processors have features for advanced key management techniques. This session examines these feature in depth.

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.

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

The QorIQ Communications portfolio has traditionally used Power Architecture® based cores. The latest QorIQ LS series of processors has expanded to use ARM® core technology. There are a lot of software-visible architectural differences between these two types of cores, and system software is dependent on the core architecture. If a system software developer who has experience with Power Architecture based devices transitions to ARM-based processors, the developer must understand the differences between the cores so that the software can be easily migrated from a Power Architecture core to an ARM core. This session compares these two core architectures and sheds light on how software can handle the differences. Watch Video Presentation

Recent trends are moving toward a Linux user space as an environment for packet processing. Hardware vendors have provided their own API in the user space for accessing data plane functions like sending and receiving packets, classification, scheduling, and acceleration. As the market matures, a shift toward a common API is allowing a degree of portability across hardware platforms. For DPDK or ODP, efforts are in place to create a platform independent and vendor-neutral standard API for optimized packet processing and traditional networking services. This session will provide a comparative analysis and evolution of both of these standards. We'll discuss how NXP is working to provide support for these common API without sacrificing performance or leveraging specific acceleration advantages of the NXP data plane architectures.

This session will discuss various initiatives underway at the multicore association such as multicore programming practices, API design, open source multicore technology development, etc. Watch Video Presentation