NXP EdgeVerse Techcast

Designing Secure, Safe, Always-Connected Medical Devices: NXP + Silex on i.MX 95, EdgeLock, and SafeAssure 
Hosts Kyle Dando and Bridgette Stone discuss growing security, functional safety, connectivity, software, and lifecycle demands in connected, intelligent medical devices with guest Babar Hashim of Silex Technology. Hasim explains why these requirements must be designed together from the start and highlights NXP security building blocks such as EdgeLock Secure Enclave, EdgeLock Security Element, and Secure Boot, along with Silex's role integrating connectivity, BSP/software, and system-level security, including investment in FIPS needs. The conversation covers functional safety using NXP's SafeAssure program and i.MX 95's dedicated safety domain, and how early safety planning reduces cost and speeds time to market. Silex positions itself as a long-term embedded partner offering manufacturing, reliable wireless ("When it absolutely must connect"), and lifecycle support like vulnerability monitoring, SBOM management, and security maintenance, and points to its EP200N i.MX 95-based SOM/EVK for evaluating technologies like Ara and UWB. 
Episode Resources:
EP-200N-EVK
EP-200N: Connectivity Solutions Platform and SOM
00:00 Welcome and topic
01:09 Meet the guest 
01:23 Security and safety challenges
02:48 Building security foundations
04:49 Functional safety early
06:32 Where Silex fits
08:27 Platforms to evaluate
11:25 Wrap up and thanks

NXP Tech Days Silicon Valley Recap: Physical AI, the Neural Axis, and the New MCX A5
Kyle Dando and Bridgette Stone recap NXP Tech Days in Silicon Valley, where more than 600 attendees explored over 50 NXP and partner demos and a full day of technical sessions across AI, industrial networking, automotive, embedded software, security, and robotics. Bridgette highlights Charles Dachs' keynote on "Physical AI" and the Neural Axis Architecture, distributing intelligence across reasoning, coordination, and reflexive layers to meet edge requirements for power, latency, and trust. The episode also covers the launch of the MCX A5 family, including a demo of four MCX A577 boards using integrated 10BASE-T1S over a single twisted pair with PLCA for deterministic access, plus topology discovery for industrial networks. They emphasize the value of hands-on demos and direct interaction with NXP engineers and share links to NXP Tech Days and MCX A5 resources.
Episode Resources: 
NXP Technology Days
Neural Axis Architecture 
Humanoid Robotics and Physical AI
NXP MCX-A5 Page
00:00 Welcome and FOMO Setup
01:27 First Impressions at Tech Days
02:57 Keynote on Physical AI
04:27 Industry Direction and Strategy
05:22 MCX A5 Big Announcement
06:20 One Wire Ethernet Demo
08:14 Physical AI Theme Across Labs
09:36 Murphy's Law in Edge AI
10:56 Personal Takeaway and Community
11:55 Next Steps and Closing

The Future Power Grid: From Centralized Control to AI-Powered Microgrids (with Marcelo Marques)
Kyle Dando and Bridgette welcome repeat guest Marcelo Marques from NXP's power and energy team to discuss why the power grid is often taken for granted and how it must evolve. Marcelo explains the grid's real-time balancing act—where generation must instantly match demand—using examples like England's halftime tea surge and the 2012 India blackout. As renewables, bidirectional EV charging, home batteries, solar, and massive data centers proliferate, the grid shifts from one-way centralized control to a distributed "matrix" of microgrids, increasing complexity and unpredictability. He outlines four key challenges: real-time edge intelligence and its cost, security, interoperability, and functional safety. Marcelo describes how NXP's portfolio addresses these needs and highlights a CES microgrid demo where coordinated AI agents optimize charging and energy use across buildings, vehicles, and devices.
Episode Resources:
From EV Charger to Grid Asset
Power and Energy Management
Charging Application Examples (App Code Hub)
00:00 Welcome Back Hosts
00:56 Why We Ignore Grid
03:17 Real Time Balancing
04:07 Tea Kettle Surge
06:58 When Predictions Fail
08:39 Renewables Add Complexity
10:07 Microgrids And AI
13:31 Four Engineering Challenges
15:34 Where NXP Fits
17:12 Microgrid Demo Story
19:17 Smart Kettle Future
19:41 Wrap Up And Subscribe

Edge Verse Techcast: Perspective, MCUXpresso SDK LTS Update, Tool Time, and MCUXpresso for VS Code Benefits
Kyle hosts the EdgeVerse Techcast solo while Bridgette is sick, sharing a personal lesson from college based on Og Mandino's The Greatest Salesman in the World (scroll five): when feeling overwhelmed, walk through a graveyard to gain perspective and gratitude. He then shifts to NXP updates, noting active work on MCUXpresso SDK long-term support patch updates, with the LTS release scheduled for October following the 26.09.00 release. Kyle also highlights "Tool Time," a monthly 15-minute LinkedIn series on the NXP Developer Zone page featuring 10-minute tool demos such as the SEC Tool and GUI Guider. Finally, he outlines five benefits of MCUXpresso for VS Code: one-click installer, strong GitHub/SDK integration, Application Code Hub access, VS Code's fast editing and IntelliSense/Copilot support, and right-click integration with security and configuration tools.
Episode Resources:
The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino 
NXP Developer Zone LinkedIn Live Events
MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code
00:00 Welcome Back Solo 
01:15 Bad Days Check In
01:59 Graveyard Perspective
04:24 Lessons From Coach
05:23 MCUXpresso SDK LTS
06:36 Tool Time Demos
07:58 MCUXpresso VS Code
08:27 Five Key Benefits
13:10 Wrap Up And Next

Remote I/O Is Becoming an Intelligent Edge Platform: Networking, Security, Diagnostics & NXP's RIOP
Hosts Bridgette Stone and Kyle Dando discuss how remote I/O in industrial automation is evolving from a simple sensor/actuator interface into an intelligent edge platform as factories become more connected and intelligent. Guest David Piskula from NXP explains that modern remote I/O must support deterministic industrial Ethernet (EtherCAT, PROFINET, Ethernet/IP), high-accuracy measurements, diagnostics, cybersecurity, predictive maintenance data, and future software updates, while meeting shorter development cycles. He highlights integration as a key challenge and describes NXP's Remote I/O platform (RIOP), combining the i.MX RT1180 Crossover MCU, industrial networking via the NXP Port Industrial Networking Suite, precision analog front ends, and software/reference applications to reduce engineering effort. Listeners are directed to nxp.com/riop, the PLC IO kit quick start guide, and Application Code Hub examples, including an out-of-box evaluation and a multi-protocol repository.
Episode Resources:
Remote I/O Platform
RIOP Examples in ACH 
NAFE13388: Highly configurable 8/4-channel 24/16 bits ±25 V universal input AFE
00:00 Remote I/O Reimagined
01:30 Why Remote I/O Is Evolving
02:48 Integration Challenges Today
03:56 Deterministic Industrial Networking
05:09 NXP's Remote I/O Platform
06:22 Getting Started Resources
06:49 Application Code Hub Demos
07:54 Wrap Up And Subscribe