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

LEDs are being used increasingly in automotive lighting applications to enable creative design elements, improve system efficiency and support advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). NXP is developing a Matrix LED controller (MLC) IC so customers can address these advanced lighting applications. The MLC IC provides all the necessary functionality to ensure a compact, low-cost and robust design for advanced LED headlights. This new technology enables a three dimensional high-resolution control of the output of a headlight. In this session learn about the key trends and requirements for advanced LED headlighting and understand how the functionality of our MLC addresses these requirements. See the demo for your self!

This presentation introduces the IoT Sensing SDK (ISSDK) and the Sensor Toolbox evaluation platforms. The presentation will show how engineers can use ISSDK and Sensor Toolbox to collect and visualize sensor data out of the box.

This session will discuss which analysis tool to use and when. Through customer success stories of using the CodeWarrior Analysis Tools, you will learn how to overcome business critical software issues, improve application performance and meet criteria for quality requirements. Watch Video Presentation

Near Field Communications (NFC) is appearing on many new smartphones, and offers secure money transactions (Apple Pay and Google Wallet) and convenient access to public transport or even your hotel room. NXP's NFC receiver is a key component that enables mobile NFC hardware. Today we'll talk about how to get more from your NFC experience by boosting the Smartphone battery voltage, or reducing the NFC antenna size - for more stylish slim phones - while not upsetting other circuits in the phone with unwanted RF noise.

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.

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.

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.

As IoT technologies and markets explode, selecting the right set of tools to get an idea off the ground as quickly as possible becomes a necessity for modern developers, PixiePro has the right set of performance and connectivity options to empower your next big project.

We will walk you through the key features of the LPC800 and LPC1100 product series and how these low-power, low-cost MCUs bring numerous advantages over your 8-bit architecture. In this session, we will discuss bridge from 8-bit to 32-bit applications using the LPC800 and LPC1100. Customers can expect 8-bit simplicity, real-time performance, and better code density with easy-to-use tools while maintaining lower power at a much lower cost. NXP delivers all the key ingredients that embedded engineers need for successful USB application development. 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.

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

This session offers deep understanding of buck regulator performance and its reliability aspect. Buck regulator is the most widely used topology. Once the system power need is calculated, identifying the right power management chip is critical to a project's success. Session attendees should be able to identify and review critical DC-DC converter specifications and choose the best power solution based on their need. Calculating/selecting the passives and discrete around the buck regulator to create a robust design is discussed. Finally, measurement of key parameters to ensure the thermal, and loop stability is shared.

Many customers struggle getting their first GUI design running, and often this results in schedule and budget problems. This class covers the issues and SOLUTIONS required to get a Graphical User interface up and running. We provide solutions to standard embedded communication requirements like Ethernet, USB, Wi-Fi, and Serial. We present a Case Study of a new product using a touch screen GUI, LEDs and audio to communicate the fluid level and temperature of a beverage container back to the user. We cover the pros and cons of developing your own software or of using proven off-the-shelf solutions based on standard building blocks. We also address the buy vs. make hardware decision and look at time to market and risk factors. The class ends with a demonstration of the solution implemented with an off-the-shelf NXP LPC microcontroller based hardware module and simple custom expansion board.

This sessions explores the information often hidden in sensor data. By using advanced statistical processing and machine learning algorithms, engineers can mine sensor data for contextual information, failure prognostics, and/or create smarter appliances.

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.

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.

Participants will use the Sensor Dataloggers from the previous class to gather data representing specific Sensor events and/or signatures. The participants will then use the Sensor Mining and Algorithm Development tool to create some simple algorithms for Accelerometers, Magnetometers, and Gyroscopes. By the end of this hands-on class, the attendees will have gathered Sensor experience using tools to quickly create and test algorithms.

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.