NXP EdgeVerse Techcast

Rethinking MCU Performance with the MCX N947 Hosts Kyle Dando and Bridgette Stone welcome Adrian Cano from Systems Engineering to challenge the assumption that a faster MCU always makes a better product. Adrian explains the MCX N947 as a balanced, high-efficiency MCU whose architecture—dual Cortex-M33 cores, DSP and acceleration resources, and integrated subsystems—delivers predictable, determinis...

Edge AI Voice Tech in Smart Glasses: Latency, Barge-In, Beamforming & NXP's Wearable Platform This episode of the EdgeVerse Techcast explores how voice technology is adopting edge AI in smart glasses and why glasses are emerging as a natural, always-available interface for conversational assistants without relying on screens. Guest Laurent Pilati of NXP (AI software lead in the ACE organization) e...

How DigiKey & NXP FRDM Boards Accelerate Embedded Prototyping (with Matt Mielke) Co-hosts Kyle Dando and Bridgette Stone welcome Matt Mielke, an Applications Engineer at DigiKey to discuss how DigiKey supports embedded developers using NXP's FRDM evaluation board ecosystem from initial MCU evaluation through working prototypes. Matt explains DigiKey's role beyond distribution, including technical...

Reliable Drone Communications: Beyond Wi‑Fi with NXP's LA9310 Software-Defined Modem | EdgeVerse Techcast EdgeVerse Techcast hosts Bridgette Stone and Kyle Dando discuss why professional drones need more reliable communication than typical Wi‑Fi or Bluetooth can provide, especially for fast-moving, long-range, interference-prone, and beyond-visual-line-of-sight operation. Wireless expert Wim Rouwe...

EV Charging Goes Beyond Power: Plug-and-Charge, V2G, Security & NXP EasyEVSE Platforms | EdgeVerse Techcast In this EdgeVerse Techcast episode, host Kyle Dando and co-host Bridgette Stone welcome Susanne "Susie" Zach, NXP's EV charging segment lead, to discuss how EV charging stations are becoming more intelligent, connected, and integrated with the energy ecosystem. Susie highlights key market tr...

Piggy Bank vs. Fort Knox: Scalable Embedded Security with NXP's Wendy Warne  In this EdgeVerse Techcast episode, the hosts explore why security is now foundational to connected edge devices and product life cycles, and how developers should right-size protection instead of defaulting to the most advanced architecture. NXP Field Application Engineer Wendy Warne explains how customer conversations s...

AI Acceleration Week Finale: Gateworks + NXP Bring 40 TOPS Edge AI to Mission-Critical Systems (Featuring "Ari") In the 3rd and final episode of AI Acceleration Week on the EdgeVerse Techcast, co-hosts Kyle Dando and Bridgette Stone are joined by Hailey T errones from Gateworks to discuss how industrial AI is moving beyond cloud demos into real-world, mission-critical edge systems. They explain th...

AI Acceleration Week (Ep. 2): Functional Safety + Edge AI with Ara 240 and F&S Elektroniksystem In the second episode of EdgeVerse Techcast's AI Acceleration Week, co-hosts Bridgette Stone and Kyle speak with Andreas "Andy" Kopitz of F&S Elektroniksystem about how developers can start building edge AI products using NXP's Ara 240 alongside the i. MX 95, especially for robotics and autonomous syste...

AI Acceleration Week Kickoff: Edge AI Trends, Multimodal & Generative AI, and NXP DNPUs with Ravi Annavajjala Edge Verse Techcast kicks off AI Acceleration Week with the first of three episodes exploring technologies shaping the future of edge AI. Hosts Bridgette and Kyle welcome Ravi Annavajjala, former CEO of Kinara and now leader of NXP's NPU product line. Ravi explains key edge AI trends, incl...

Why NXP Distribution FAEs Matter: Faster Designs, Better Support Kyle Dando and Bridgette Stone explain the role of NXP's distribution field application engineers (DFAEs) and why NXP invests in annual distributor FAE training, recently held in Austin. They describe how distributors like Avnet, Arrow, Digi-Key, Future, and Mouser provide sales, inventory and pricing management, customer credit, and...

NXP eIQ Explained: From Edge AI Deployment to Agentic AI Autonomy Bridgette Stone and Kyle Dando host Ted Kao to break down NXP's eIQ (Edge Intelligence) AI/ML development environment for NXP MCUs and application processors, aimed at simplifying the path from models to efficient on-device deployment. Ted outlines key components like the eIQ AI Toolkit, support for inference runtimes including Tens...

Kickstart Your Next Design Faster with NXP's Block Diagram Designer | EdgeVerse Techcast In this EdgeVerse Techcast episode, co-hosts Kyle Dando and Bridgette Stone welcome Rebecca Phillips from NXP's digital online experience team to introduce NXP's new Block Diagram Designer, a web-based tool that helps engineers move from concept to design faster by turning the "blank page" into a structured, c...

Industrial Ethernet Protocols, Tools & Hardware for Faster Factory Automation In this EdgeVerse Techcast episode, NXP welcomes port to the company and explains how the acquisition brings 30+ years of industrial communications expertise to deliver certifiable hardware and software for factory automation. Denis Noël discusses port's real-time protocol stacks—including PROFINET, EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP...

Celebrating 10 Years of the Zephyr Project: How Open Source is Powering Embedded Innovation | Edge Verse TechCast Edge Verse TechCast hosts Bridgette Stone and Kyle Dando celebrate Zephyr RTOS's 10-year anniversary with guest Kathleen Jachimiak, an NXP Marketing Manager and Zephyr Marketing Committee member. They discuss why Zephyr stood out at launch—open source, vendor neutral, scalable, and bui...

NXP Dating Game: Guess the SoC Behind the Blinky (with PhyTec i. MX 8MP) On the EdgeVerse Tech Cast, co-hosts Kyle Dando and Bridgette Stone run a throwback "Dating Game" with PhyTec, where three mystery computing platforms demo "Hello World" via blinking LEDs and Kyle must guess the NXP SoC behind each door. Door #1 uses VS Code, a SEGGER J-Link probe, and GDB to blink an LED with simple firmware...

MCUXpresso SDK Updates & Roadmap | EdgeVerse Techcast In this EdgeVerse Techcast episode recorded during an MCUXpresso SDK leadership workshop in San Jose, Kyle and Bridgette speak with Petr Lukas (Middleware/NPI) and Jerry Zeng (Drivers/NPI) about recent SDK progress and what's next. They explain NPI as day-one software enablement—from register layers and debug files to board/peripheral readiness...

Agentic AI at the Edge: Bringing Model Context Protocol (MCP) to Microcontrollers with Zephyr In this episode, NXP Systems Enablement Engineer David Piskula talks about Agentic AI at the edge and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and how NXP is bringing MCP down to the microcontroller level using Zephyr. The discussion covers why edge computing matters (security, confidentiality, low latency), how...

Go Long Range with Sub-GHz UBX100 Projects on NXP Application Code Hub In this NXP EdgeVerse TechCast episode, NXP Systems Engineer Tony Trujillo covers sub-GHz wireless connectivity and new Application Code Hub projects for evaluating and integrating the NXP UBX100 transceiver. Tony explains where sub-GHz appears in everyday life and why it's chosen for long range, better signal penetration, lowe...

Physical AI & Humanoid Robotics: NXP + NVIDIA Holoscan Sensor Bridge Reference Designs In this EdgeVerse TechCast episode, hosts Kyle Dando and Bridgette Stone speak with NXP's Altaf Hussain about Physical AI and a new NXP–NVIDIA collaboration delivering integrated, real-time robot body solutions built around NVIDIA's Holoscan Sensor Bridge (HSB). They explain how Physical AI differs from cloud AI...

 EdgeVerse TechCast — Embedded World 2026 Preview! | NXP Demos, FRDM Lab, Zephyr Anniversary & More Welcome back to the EdgeVerse TechCast ! In this episode, Bridgette and Kyle take you on a fun, fast‑paced tour of everything NXP is bringing to Embedded World 2026 in Nuremberg — one of the biggest global gatherings for embedded engineers. Whether you're attending the show or tuning in from your la...

MCUXpresso Installer: End Embedded Setup Nightmares (MCUXpresso, Zephyr & Matter) In this EdgeVerse Techcast episode, co-hosts Bridgette Stone and Kyle Dando interview Alexandra Maracine, a software engineer on the MCUXpresso Installer team, about how the MCUXpresso Installer simplifies embedded development environment setup. Alexandra explains the common pain points—scattered tool downloads, depe...

CRA Week Ep. 4: Maintaining CRA Conformity Across the Product Lifecycle In the fourth and final episode of CRA Week, hosts Kyle and Bridgette wrap the series up with 3 CRA experts Asim Zaidi, Julien Delplancke, and Louis Rodriguez. Asim explains why CRA compliance continues long after a product ships and highlights key underestimated challenges. (Architecture drift, maintaining secure configuratio...

CRA Week Day 3: Proving Compliance—Your "Recipe" for EU Cyber Resilience Act Conformance On Day 3 of CRA Week on the EdgeVerse Techcast, hosts Kyle Dando and Bridgette Stone are joined by NXP expert Carlos Serratos to explain how manufacturers can prove compliance with the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Carlos connects Risk Assessment and Security by Design to the need to demonstrate cybersecurity...

CRA Week: Step 2 Security by Design Day 2 of CRA Week covers the 2nd major step in CRA Compliance, Security by Design. NXP security expert Marc Vauclair explains that CRA security is about managing risk, and that Security by Design reduces risk compared to adding security later. The episode outlines the following CRA expectations: Shipping products in a secure state Enabling security features by d...

CRA Week: Step 1 Risk Assessment, Threat Analysis, and Product Classification In this kickoff episode of CRA Week on the EdgeVerse TechCast, hosts Kyle Dando and Bridgette Stone welcome NXP security evaluation and certification expert Eve Atallah to break down the 1st of 4 major steps in Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) compliance: Risk Assessment and product categorization. Eve explains that manufactur...