About a decade ago, NXP introduced its first generation Near Field Magnetic Induction (NFMI) radio, to help connecting hearing impaired persons with the digital world. Today, besides medical applications, NFMI is also being used in consumer devices to reduce power consumption and not be affected by body tissue absorption. NXP NFMI allows for hearable and wearable devices that can fit inside an ear canal or be worn on the body. Power levels are low enough to run for a week on a single ZnAir battery. Applications include truly wireless earbuds, implantable electronics, body area networks, under water communication devices, and many other low power.

DDR3, DDR3L, DDR4 have large, wide busses that require management on the PCB routing to optimize their speed of operation. Data busses will have characteristics related to on-die termination and driver strengths for both reads and writes (bidirectional). Address-Command-Control busses will be use the fly-by or serial routing and work unidirectionally. Both require careful selection of driver and receiver characteristics, as well as optimization of the PCB routing and design of the traces on the PCB. This talk will review the driver, receiver, and common PCB characteristics and show how simulation with IBIS models are used to weigh the trade-offs for the DDR bus design. Watch Video Presentation

Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) are standards based hardware roots of trust with protected key storage. This session covers how QorIQ Trust Architecture primitives can be used as Soft TPM, thereby reducing BOM cost by eliminating a discrete TPM chip.

With 5G solutions still being in the design phase, NXP delivers RF solutions based to meet the growing data demand. These solutions are called 4.5G and are based on smart combinations of existing 4G and Wi-Fi technology and will enable a high throughput internet connections everywhere on this planet. This lecture will show you the existing 4G and Wi-Fi RF solutions and how they can be utilized for 4.5 G networks and which steps need to be taken to bring these solutions towards the 5G network. Watch Video Presentation

Building on top of 11 years of usage within data centers, Xen Hypervisor is uniquely placed to support a new range of use cases for embedded solutions. In particular, its isolation and security features, flexible virtualization modes and architecture, driver disaggregation, and strong ARM support make it a perfect fit for embedded applications. Artem Mygaiev, GlobalLogic’s Embedded Practice Head, will explore the virtualization nuances and challenges of using Xen Hypervisor for embedded applications through the demonstration of his own company’s journey in developing a platform that leverages Xen for virtual network equipment, IoT, automotive, and other embedded use cases.

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

This session will provide an introduction to developing Made For iPod (MFi) accessories including audio, non-audio, CarPlay, AirPlay and HomeKit applications based on NXP microcontrollers (MCUs), microprocessors (MPUs), HomeKit Software Development Kit (SDK), MFi SDK, and software from NXP Professional Services.

Networking devices use high-speed differential signaling that can exceed 10 Gbps. Circuit design for the transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) elements in the high speed channel have capabilities of offset signal losses in the PCB and system. This session will review the high-speed signal channel and its characteristics and illustrate how the TX and RX circuits in general are used to offset signal losses. It will also show key characteristics of the channels that are needed to allow these TX and RX circuits to work effectively. This session will also address maximum length of the PCB channel, PCB-specific structures that need to be optimized and the usage of the IBIS-AMI models for 5-10 Gbps operation. Examples of channels from PCB designs at NXP will also be included. Watch Video Presentation

Companies and consumers alike are excited about the opportunities offered by the IoT and the Smart Home. Concerns on user-friendliness and security are however holding potential customers back: how can I install it? , what if my neighbor hacks into my network? NFC technology addresses these cost, ease of use and security concerns by offering short distance out-of-band pairing capabilities that reduce the complex commissioning system to a simple 'tap'. And with NXP's connected NFC tag technology, IoT nodes of all sizes do not even need to be powered. Watch Video Presentation

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

Detailed training session on developing with the LPCXpresso Ecosystem, showing the main features of the tools, from project import/creation, multi-core debug and power optimization. The LPCXpresso boards and IDE toolchain will be used with the latest version of LPCOpen peripheral driver examples. We will cover some cool new features including trace and power analysis.

The NXP supply chain team will present an overview of the new NXP global manufacturing footprint, as well as integrated strategies for supply assurance and crisis management. An overview of current supply chain systems integration activities will be discussed as well as customer order management strategies moving forward. A special focus will be placed on highlighting changes that will affect NXP customers. Watch Video Presentation

NXP’s latest generation of passive UHF RFID, called UCODE® DNA, can be used in Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI) systems that make it easier to identify – and collect from – drivers of vehicles that aren’t properly registered. In an AVI system for vehicle registration, readers can be installed above, below, or to the side of the road. They can also be embedded in a handheld device, for use by government personnel. The tag, attached to the vehicle, uses the energy produced by the reader’s RF field, so there’s no need for a battery and the tag has a very long lifespan. Cryptography-based security minimizes errors and practically eliminates fraud. Vehicle owners (and fee collectors) can be confident that the right person is being billed, since readings are both highly accurate and highly secure.

Transport ticketing requirements have evolved significantly over the last years - from transaction security to multi-application needs and the possibility to integrate mobile ticketing to an existing environment. NXP's MIFARE® products have consistently been able to meet these requirements and strongly establish an excellent reputation as the leading contactless solution delivering convenience, flexibility and scalability. Over 1,000 business partners including application developers, service and solution providers, system integrators and card manufacturers make up the open MIFARE community and ecosystem. MIFARE DESFire EV2 is the next-generation of MIFARE ICs with highest security level (EAL5+ Common Criteria certification) for hardware and software. Its enhanced key management makes it the ideal multi-application platform for unlimited applications.

This hands-on workshop will help you get started with our latest MAC57D5xx processor for instrument cluster and human machine interfaces together with the recent release of MQX. Practical use cases will be demonstrated and exercised during this hands-on workshop session.

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) provides a standard, modern environment for booting an operating system and running pre-boot applications. UEFI is already extensively used across the server, mobile and embedded market and supports multiple architectures (x86, ARM®) and has support for booting multiple OS (like Windows®, Linux, Mac). This session describes the UEFI bootloader on QorIQ LS series processors (LS1043A board) and how we can migrate from U-Boot bootloader to the UEFI bootloader on the LS processors. This session also showcases how it can be used to boot an CentOS Distribution using GRUB2 bootloader. For loading the CentOS kernel and RFS images we demonstrate PXE boot (Boot over Network) method. So essentially this session showcases a standard chained bootloading architecture which is extensively used to support embedded distributions like CentOS, Ubuntu, ONIE etc. Watch Video Presentation

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

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

Today’s Infotainment systems are an important part of the driving experience. Complexity of these systems is increasing yet OEM development schedules are being compressed to bring consumers the latest in connectivity, entertainment, and security, at the lowest possible cost. A group of industry experts will discuss: How to approach platform development (customer specific vs market segment). The winning architecture at the system and IC level (distributed vs integrated solutions)? Managing quickly changing technologies such as displays, connectivity, security? How to continue development of increasingly complex software systems. Will the Infotainment system become a cockpit electronics module? How to manage mixing infotainment and safety-related functions like cluster indicators and “convenience” ADAS features?

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