NXP Industrial automation solution offerings
Enabling smart factories
Enhanced automation technologies are essential to achieve increased flexibility, resilience, and improved ROI within intelligent factories. NXP provides the foundational components for intricate industrial automation systems that harmonize and coordinate motions across the entire factory environment.
NXP supports key industrial automation needs from cloud to edge
Key differentiators - applications
- Motor drives
- Broad portfolio with LPC, MCX
- Ecosystem enabelment -> Freemaster, RTSCEL libraries, MCUXpresso
- FlexPWM IP for motor control – very flexible to use with the Analog peripherals (ADCs, SD)
- Industrial controls & I/O link
- Broad portfolio with i.MX 6 Series, i.MX 8 Series and Layerscape® and with i.MX Crossover MCUs for cost-effective solutions and MCX.
- Innovative Analog solutions like state-of-the-art AFE
- Hypervisor enablement with Harpoon
- HMI / Vision
- Broad portfolio starting from entry level products going to high end
- Excellent customer enablement from NXP complimented by a very strong Software partner ecosystem
| MCU | i.MX RT | MPU | Analog | General Purpose Analog | Security | Industrial Networking | ||
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| Motor Drives | LPC553x MCX N | i.MX RT1180 i.MX RT1060 |
i.MX 8M family | PF09 | RTC, Bus management parts, GPIO expanders, Level shifters, temperature sensors | EdgeLock SE051 | Ethernet Switch SoC: i.MX RT1180 Transceiver: TJA1103 CAN: TJA146x TJA115x |
Functional Safety Libraries |
| Motion Control & PLC | MCX N (Low end PLCs) | i.MX RT1180 | i.MX91 i.MX93 |
NAFE11388 PF09 |
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| I/O | LPC552x (I/O slice) MCX N | i.MX93 family (Remote I/Os) i.MX RT1180 |
NAFE11388 PF09 High side switches - (Digital out) |
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| HMI and Vision | i.MX RT1170 | i.MX93 family (Low end) i.MX 8M Plus SoCs (Mid Range) i.MX 8M Mini SoCs (Mid Range) i.MX 91 |
PCA9450 A/B/C PCA9460 PCA9451 PF09 |
- Motor drives
- Motion control & PLC
- Industrial HMI & Vision
Motor drive block diagrams
Servo drive
*Not needed with i.MX94x design
AC & VF drive
LPC5500 MCU series
Single and dual-core Arm® Cortex®-M33 MCU series
- Ultra-efficient 40nm flash technology:
- Over 1150 CoreMarks and as low as 32uA/MHz
- 10x improvement for signal processing & cryptography
- Numerous mixed-signal interfaces to sense, connect, control
- Enhanced safety and security with Arm® TrustZone® technology
- MCUXpresso developer ecosystem
MCX N series overview
Performance
- 150 MHz Arm® Cortex®-M33
- HW Accelerators for DSP and CORDIC Functions (PowerQuad)
- HW Accelerator for Neural Network (NPU)
Advanced security
- Secure boot
- High-performance Crypto engine
- On-The-Fly Memory encryption & Decryption
- Tamper detection
Rich features (not in all subfamilies)
- Up to 2MB Flash (256kB can be used as Data Flash)
- Up to 512kB SRAM (480K configurable ECC, 32K fixed ECC)
- Ethernet, USB FS / HS, CAN FD , I3C
- High Speed 16bit ADC and 12 &14b DAC
- Operation Amplifiers, Comparators and Vrefs
- Audio interface – SAI
- HMI –Touch sensing, Digital microphone (DMIC)
Low power
- 40nm Process
- Optimized for both active power and leakage power
NXP programming and debugging tools across NXP MCUs and Crossover processors platforms
NXP Embedded software library
- Libraries of s/w algorithms for Math, Motor Control, Power Conversion, Filters and Advanced functions
- Supports DSC, CM0+, CM4, CM7 and key compilers (IAR, MCUXpresso, Keil)
- Fix point and float point arithmetic available
- Algorithms tested extensively through MATLAB Simulink reference models
Free of charge
- Binary code released through NXP website
Industrial platform optimized for smart factories and buildings
- Secure, compact and low-power MCUs enable unified standard based IIoT communication solutions between sensors/actuators, controllers and cloud.
- NXP Analog Front End (N-AFE) enables the software-defined industrial controls with outstanding integration, precision and reliability
- N-AFE enhanced diagnostics, precision and stability over time and temperature enable predictive maintenance
- Diagnostics, redundancy and reliable communication support industrial functional safety
- NXP N-AFE and processors with AI/ML acceleration to support future advanced and intelligent drives
- Power management, security and connectivity solutions to provide complete systems
Block diagram – Robotic arm with PLC
Key requirements:
- High performance real-time processing
- High precision
- Real-time communication
- Robustness
- Security
- Safety
*DOF: Degrees of Freedom
AI ML TSN fruit picker Robotic arm
- This solution uses GenAVB software stack to control a robotic arm on a TSN network
- The tablet simulates a conveyor belt by displaying passing oranges and apples where a camera scans the products on the belt, and a robotic arm selects the correct product.
- i.MX93 continuously records the display of the tablet using a Basler camera and processes the captured frames to determine if the passing fruits are oranges or apples.
- The fruit recognition is done using a TensorFlow Lite neural network running on the Neural Processing Unit of i.MX 93.
- Once the coordinates of an apple are determined, the commands are sent from the i.MX 93 into the TSN network composed of RT1180 TSN switch and i.MX RT 1170 TSN endpoint.
- Upon reception of the commands by the i.MX RT 1170, it controls the robot arm through the UART interface to touch the apple. All three boards in the TSN network are configured to use Qbv settings for Quality of Service (QOS).
Block diagram - Programmable logic controller
Demo: Integrated PLC AND HMI solution
Solution
- Linux based EtherCAT IGH master high performance capability
- Real-time Edge real time OS + HMI + Open source control system
Main components
- I.MX8M Mini, IMX8Mplus. LS1028A EVK
- Commercial Servos, from 8 Axis to 64 Axis
Target applications
- Factory automation
- Digital manufacturing
- Smart energy
i.MX 93 Applications processors - Built-in MCU: Leveraging MPU and MCU in one device
- Arm® Cortex®-A
- High Processing Performance
- Rich O/S support
- NEON Acceleration
- High Bandwidth
- MMU
Performance peripherals
- Arm Cortex-M
- Real time performance
- Right sized processing
- Extreme low power modes
Low power peripherals
HETEROGENEOUS DOMAIN COMPUTING (HDC)
Shared topology …. Split power domains… Split buses...Secure IPC
NAFE: Flexible high precision analog measurements
Components TO enable reconfigurability and predictive maintenance
Most flexible AFE architecture
NAFE Series: What’s inside
AI Module – NXP offerings (AFE + MCU)
Diagnostic functions
Easy-to-use system evaluation kit
NAFE11388-EVB
- NAFE11388 / NAFE71388 + LPC54
- AFE SW drivers
- Available now
NAFE11388-EVB
(NAFE Board + USB cable + wall power adaptor + LPC54 board)
HMI elements - Today
NXP MCUs and MPUs optimized for graphical interfaces
Graphics software integration with MCUXpresso SDK
NXP has partnered with several third parties to deliver embedded graphics software as part of the MCUXpresso SDK
Enabling software technologies for Embedded graphics:
*These software components are for evaluation and demonstration use only
PoC – I.MX93 HMI
Use cases
Phase1 – completed
- PLC, factory animation, statistics monitor
- Flaw recognition, factory control
Phase2 – completed
- position control, speed control, position follow
Diagram
Key technologies
- Industrial networking
- Real time Ethernet, TSN, Fieldbus, SPE
- Real time Ethernet, TSN, Fieldbus, SPE
- Functional safety
- Tools, safety libraries, certificates
- Tools, safety libraries, certificates
- Security
- Secure element, Crypto engine
- Secure element, Crypto engine
- Connectivity
- UWB, Bluetooth, 5G, WiFi
- UWB, Bluetooth, 5G, WiFi
- AI/ML
- Machine Vision, NPU, eIQ®
- Industrial networking
- Security
NXP TSN capable devices overview
i.MX RT1180 Crossover MCUs
REAL-TIME industrial edge solution
i.MX RT1180 Crossover MCU
- Dual core with Arm® Cortex®-M7 at up to 800MHz and Arm Cortex-M33 at up to 240MHz
- Enabling IEC 62443 system-level compliance, and IEC 60802 industrial profile support
- Enhanced drive capability
- Secure, compact and low power
Industrial communication engine
- Complete support of industry’s latest TSN standards
- Designed for simplicity, flexibility and performance
i.MX RT1180 evaluation kit (RT1180-EVK)
CAN FD - push products for industrial market
Parts highlighted in green are already being used across the industrial market successfully.
EdgeLock SE050 for Industrial PLCs, robots, sensors
Industrial IoT devices are increasingly connected devices and potential targets for those seeking unauthorized access to the network, malicious control of the device or theft of IoT collected data.
Availability Integrity, Authenticity and Confidentiality has to be ensured in any industrial system.
Industrial security requirements are being standardized in ISO/IEC62443.
Machine to machine authentication of industrial devices.
Connection of devices to clouds, servers and backends. Credential storage in secure hardware. Encryption of data.
Authentication and protection of industrial sensor data.
Secure authorized access to machines and data (HMI).
Late-stage configuration for a particular setup, installing specific network parameters, entering log data and customizing devices for geographic regions.
WiFi network onboarding and credential protection.
For more information on use cases visit IoT Security.
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