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

Whether your requirements are size and power, or range and bandwidth, there is a right-sized Wi-Fi solution available now for your i.MX-based processor design! Through partnerships with industry leaders in Wi-Fi technology and module design, NXP can now offer proven Wi-Fi solutions across a range of size, power and performance levels suitable for consumer, automotive, industrial and battery-powered mobile or remote i.MX-based applications. In this session we will cover the latest Wi-Fi protocols, certifications, and interoperability issues for Wi-Fi, as well as the range of wireless LAN solutions now available for use with i.MX applications processors and evaluation boards. Watch Video Presentation

This presentation will describe the updates to Crypto Services Engine (CSE) made by NXP, where are they used and how to protect your application. NXP was the first semiconductor vendor to offer a Secure Hardware Extension (SHE) compliant security module on its automotive microcontrollers, the CSE. Since the introduction of the CSE, there have been many enhancements, and extensions of its capability, we will cover additional use cases and device configurations. Watch Video Presentation

Learn how to improve your design cycle time and system efficiency with the new Kinetis Motor Suite (KMS) software solution. Built on the high performance Kinetis V Series MCUs, KMS makes motor control simple for any experience level. In this hands-on class we will take you from initially turning you own motor to building your first custom application using KMS. Bring your own PMSM motor and learn how to get it spinning and tuned in minutes.

Join this session to learn how the latest Kinetis V MCUs, software libraries, and hardware platforms can help you make the leap from analog to digital control to enable long-term efficiency and performance improvements.

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.

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

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

In this session, a panel of multi-disciplinary experts will describe and discuss the challenges of securing the connected world around us. The session will cover three major facets of creating secure solutions, addressing the challenges and emerging trends for: *Device Security - Securing edge nodes, smart cards, certifications *Network Security - Secure data transmission, security protocols *Internet of Things Security -Trust, crypto, tamper Subject matter experts will present an overview of each of these topics, followed by an interactive dialogue with the audience. It is hoped that the audience will gain a high-level understanding of the multi-faceted challenges of securing end to end solutions, and how semiconductor companies will work with ecosystem partners, innovators, and policy makers to address those challenges.  

Introducing a new Brushed DC motor driver product family designed for automotive engine control applications. It will be the first motor driver fully certified to ISO26262 to support ASIL level D system qualification and features a patented thermal management scheme to ensure high, efficient operation. The key aspects of thermal power dissipation during heavy load conditions will be reviewed. The session will also include a demonstration with the new brushed dc motor driver and SPI GEN software, showing its integrated protection features. The participants will be able to see how current averaging will maintain higher torque during over-load and all the safety features that can be reported over the SPI.

This session will cover the different vision processing capabilities of the S32V234 automotive vision processor with a focus on the Image Sensor Processor (ISP). The presentation will demonstrate how the cost of a vision system can be cut down by using the ISP to accept raw camera input data and to process it using algorithms like debayering, white balancing, format conversion, HDR and de-noising. The aim of the session is to give an introduction to camera processing, to present the architecture of the ISP and to demonstrate how it can be programmed using a visual tool developed by NXP.

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

Understanding the ARM®v8 exception level processing (EL0 through EL3) and the Generic Interrupt Controller v3 (GICv3) logic on the latest QorIQ LS series processors can be challenging outside of the pre-packaged Linux SDK environment. This presentation will look at configuring the Distributor (GICD), the Re-Distributor (GICR), the CPU interface (ICC_*_EL*), and ARM core to handle Private Peripheral (PPI) and Software Generated Interrupts (SGI). It will be useful for embedded developers writing exception handlers and for anyone confused by all the acronyms. CodeWarrior will be used to show example exception handling projects. Watch Video Presentation

One particular wave of innovation in the world of ARM is an increase in heterogeneous CPU designs, where different classes of ARM processor are implemented on the same device. NXP are at the forefront of this wave. For example the i.MX 7 family of devices implement both a Cortex-A7 application processor and a Cortex-M4 embedded processor. In this session we will discuss the challenges that such a design brings to a developer, as well as how with DS-5, ARM gives you a powerful tool to address them.

This session will provide tips that will help speed up silicon bring up of the QorIQ LS1043A processor.

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.

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.

This class will show the benefits of NXP devices for 3D printing technology. The lecture will look at using microcontrollers, analog products, MOSFETs and other standard products as well as software algorithms like BLDC motor control to create a 3D printer.

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.