 So we're here at the Embedded World 2018 and hi, so who are you? Hi Nicholas, I'm John Weber. I'm with Technection in the US So Technection is Having an office in the US now. Yeah, we are. We're expanding in the US. We're adding people We're adding some resources engineering, etc To help us develop better products and service our customers better in the United States and Canada and Mexico So and in South America, so we're very excited about that and one of the reasons is I mean, I don't know if that's that's just one of the reasons but the Huge success with the Android things in the past year, right? Yeah, I mean Technection is kind of like doing the reference board for Android things. Yes, we are I mean, you know One of that was super excited about all the exposure that we've been getting so far with Google But we've been one of the we've been one of Google's launch partners around Android things in cooperation with NXP And We're super excited about what actually what Google is doing with Android things as well. I'm trying to solve a lot of problems Yeah, exactly. So what is that? So this is this is one of our boards So right here, I'll just all unbuckle this here for you. But this is a this is our Pico Pi board We have our Pico SOM module here on it and we also have on a Raspberry Pi style baseboard We have the Raspberry Pi expansion connector here We have a an audio expansion connector here to add additional interfaces for digital microphone inputs and speaker outputs and we have even have our own little voice hat here that has Digital microphones as well as so speaker amplifiers LEDs and some push buttons for customers to go easily prototype products with Google Assistant or with Alexa from Amazon We just plug that right on top of using Android things as you can do both Google Assistant and Alexa and Thousand other things right well You can definitely do Google Assistant with Android things and as well as all of the other great things about Android Connecting into Google Cloud platform is very simple Google Assistant obviously built-in Chromecast built-in So yeah, and there's a there's a lot of great things that you're gonna be able to do with it People can do audio broadcasting like just yes speakers. Yes, yes, and Robots what they could do All sorts of things mean the thing about Android things that makes it makes a better development with Android a whole lot easier because what Google has been doing with it It's making the various hardware peripherals a lot more accessible GPIOs you are it's ice-grid-c spy so you can do things like connect to off-off board Devices or even dry PWMs to servos There's actually really great Android things demo with a robot hand That plays rock-paper-scissors I don't know if you've seen it but you do this and it uses a camera our camera and The camera detects what the hand is doing and then it tries to throw its own little robot hand throws a Throws the opposite on if you've ever played the game. So anyway, it's a it's a cool demo so so Google has been Giving out your boards of different events. Yeah. Yeah, we're this exactly like this Yeah, so what we've what they've been doing is they've been we would take this excuse me Sorry part fill off That won't fall off in production by the way. So this is this is our new little expansion connector. We're adding on it Yeah, so this is this is our clicks board with their own little Wi-Fi Bluetooth module on it called pixie and We on our latest generation of this of this baseboard we can we can plug this right on top of here But that you would screw it like yeah, we didn't we don't have the standoffs in the screws so we can easily Demonstrate it. Yeah, but it just kind of plugs in just like this using a little 40 pin header a little 40 pin connector But yeah, Google has been Buying these from us and they've been packaging in and their Android things development kits So they're custom exactly this boards and we also have a camera and a display That we package in with it as well as a USB type C cable Yeah, it's no, this is a seven-inch display they we package the five-inch display was it this one This is exactly the kit here, this is exactly the kit here So this is the pico pie baseboard With the five-inch display and then we would have a camera as well And that you can see over on the other on the other board So if you come over here, you can see the little five megapixel camera that we have right here's the camera Yeah, so you see your yeah, just being down. Yeah, I can't see what you're looking at What are these? Yeah, these are well these are speakers So I mentioned this is our voice hats right to let customers prototype with voice assistant technology on this We have a couple of demos and we can play some music here through the speakers using the play button And we can advance to other song we have RGB LEDs here because that's very popular with the voices systems for visual feedback And then one of the things you can't really see is two little digital microphones There's one here as a porthole through the PCB and the microphones on the other side is one on the other side as well We're doing things like direction finding and fur fields far-field voice processing so anyway, yeah, so this is our this is a Product well, this is our voice demo that we have here today Wanted to walk you over here and talk a little bit about Something else that we're super excited about Yeah, so this is a this is our This is our pixie 77 I was gonna show you on the back of this so we have So right here If you can see I get this stuff out of the way, but right here is our pixie module It is a 12 by 16 millimeter module That has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi built on to it. We have all the oscillators Everything else that you need and we can completely certify this module. We'll sell it completely certified We'll antenna connector right there Small it's hard to focus on oh, I was yeah, I was wondering how well you're gonna be able to do that so yeah So you're saying so anyway. Yeah, so this is our pixie module. It's our Wi-Fi Bluetooth combo solution That we will be able to we're gonna package on all of our songs as an option in Multiple different radio types, so we'll have a one by one radio As well as a two by two MIMO radio and we have other for example three by three four by four radios as well It will be able to package on to that and again like I said, it'll be completely certified FCC CE red telec and Other other regulatory certifications as well Actually, this is any board on this board So So the one you're talking about is just a small. Yeah, the one I'm talking about is our module which is here And we hide it. Well, this is this is a board that we have called clicks connecting. Yeah, it's our new form factor for connecting sensors and wireless And other peripherals into our baseboards very very easily So on the backside of a clicks board, you'll see a little 40-pin connector And then on our baseboards We have another 40-pin connector and you just very in a four-hole pattern here we can use to mechanically attach the board to the baseboard and you just plug that on there and We have it so that Software will auto detect and plug-and-play that module So we'll be able to very easily add sensors and other expansion keep other Capabilities to our baseboards But yeah, the pixie is the is the little RF module on top here And what we're not showing right now is that there will be a shield over the top of all of these components that you see right? There we've just taken the shield off here so that you can see what's inside right the shield is a kind of like a Yeah, it's just an RF shield that you put over the top. It's something like that, but it's obviously not that not that specific part So that's a big deal because people like to have Well, what's really good about this is one we can offer long life support on it and then also we can offer Full RF certification on it. So that actually reduces cost and complexity to customers really really significantly As you know, I don't know if you know but as you may know Our of certification is actually very expensive And very time-consuming and it's just not something our customers want to deal with so they want something that just comes right off the shelf And they can just plug into the system and they don't have to worry about, you know, paying the additional cost of certification So what are you what else are you showing here? You were showing that it's constantly We have our Wi-Fi solution. This is really so we're seeing a little bit of bandwidth coming forward We're doing a little bit of a RF test. It's extremely busy in this hall So the network is very very crowded, but we're showing that we have a radio here I mean we've seen bandwidths on this radio up to, you know, 60 70 megabits per second in here When it's not so crowded, but right now we're we're it's it's It's not good the network right now So so anyway, yeah, this is our module. We're showing it operational On one of our on our next generation of of our IMX7 Pico module and so you have a bunch of Display solutions to yes. Yeah, so let's you know moving along here. We have a full line of HMIs Right. So everything from five inches. Yeah all the way up through 15 inches And you can have a new one like this. What is this one there? Yeah, so this is our hermetically sealed Stainless steel waterproof 10-inch HMI So you can see here so a stainless steel case we've tested this fully submerged and You see the connectors here for connecting DC inputs video and and other and other peripherals LAN USB Etc. So we have This is great and interesting for customers in high-end industrial medical applications Yeah Hey, let me jump in here. So It says waterproof IP 69 K. Yes Yes, so we can take this and we can actually submerge it in water And like I said, it's hermetically sealed We've actually tested this In a tub in a big tub In our office in Taiwan It's bright It's pretty bright display. It's a 15-inch monitor So yeah, we just have a little bit of a demonstration Yeah, you know so we have we can this is just a demonstration here showing you can reserve meeting rooms And things like that, but you know, obviously for this kind of panel a little bit of a higher-end panel We have something you know, this is a fully stainless steel display. So medical applications very clean You can wipe it off very sterile Yeah, I mean, you know, so we I think this is a this is sort of consumer Sorry, a commercial temperature grade. So say zero to 60 We're zero to 50 kind of temperatures Sure Yeah, I can show you a little bit about what we have here so a big part of what technician does is We build reference design kits and other boards for our customers to make make use of our psalms very easily So this is a picot psalm and we also have an EDM psalm here two different families of psalm products we have today and We do a lot of base boards for these for different applications One of them that you've seen already is the picot pie So that's the picot pie baseboards without the psalm on it So it can very easily take the psalm and plug that on top of it And we have you know a big part of what technician does is is We pick a form factor we design around this form factor and we give our customers best-in-class Scalability so what that means is they can design a baseboard they can design their system if they want to sell if they want to have a very inexpensive product they could purchase One kind of psalm, which is very inexpensive use a single core processor dual core processor You know, I mean you're talking in the 25 to 30 dollar range for the song This one's an IMX 7 dual song with built-in Wi-Fi Bluetooth built-in emmc and Built-in flash or I say so this is a SD card. We have an option for emmc as well Which I see if I can find one here for you. Oh, is there all micro SD cards? It's okay We are doing IMX 8 so at the show we're demonstrating one pi 8m Yeah, we don't have that here section. It's in the NXP booth. Yeah, so we're demonstrating our single board computer It's in the we can film that just after yeah It's in it's in the it's in the NXP booth. This is want this is a pico pie But one pi 8m isn't exactly the same form factor It has the audio connector and the Raspberry Pi expansion editor It's just that we have the IMX 8m on it instead of a pico module slot right here Yep So we have lots of different baseboards. This is our nymph baseboards This nymph is for industrial applications industrial use cases. It has LVDS outputs a couple of different Microelectronica bus outputs it has Some PCI as many PCI Express and about two slots For connecting, you know, like for example, this one has a SIM card slot on it So you can connect a cellular radio to it and the the SIM card slot Connects up through the the connector to the cellular radio so you can identify In provision the radio on the network and then m.2 is great for adding things like You know external Wi-Fi Bluetooth modules over PCI Express or USB So that's yeah, that's nymph We have a number of other baseboards here as well. So We can show that to you This is a this is an example of an EDM baseboards So that's one of our EDM baseboards. We actually have let me see if I can find another one here for you One of the new ones that we're building. Yeah, so this one is this is called EDM one gnome Right. We have a Raspberry Pi expansion connector. So it looks very similar expansion wise to this one, right? But on the backside of it we can connect an EDM song and our EDM Psalms Have a have a little bit more integration a little bit higher power capability and And you know, so for this this is an apico ITX form factors or our customers can easily plug this in to say You know pico ITX form factor box And make a single board computer out of it we can go everywhere from Low low-cost imx6 ul kind of some all the way up through imx6 quad right now And then imx8m imx8 quad imx8 quad max in the future and all this Everything that we do we provide customers with For example for the Psalms will provide PDF schematics for the baseboards will provide full design files Yeah So so a customer can easily take our baseboards our baseboard designs use that as a reference For their application and easily create something that makes more sense for their use case in their application So yeah, so in addition to The most of the product that we built a technician today is built on arm technology Yeah, right, but we do have customers that ask us for Windows for example, and in those cases you really need to use x86 there are a few Arm arm devices that don't have that do you have windows capability, but mostly it's an x86 so we have Coming right like there might be some some qualcoms that will have windows support. Yes. Yes. Yeah, certainly windows 10 iot Etc. So we have We have these these these products here are based on Intel Braswell So we have a 15 inch projected capacitive touch HMI as well as a 10 inch projected capacitive touch and Again, these are great for For lots of different applications. We're just showing here that we have you also put an Intel in this one We can put it in yeah, we have put an Intel in our box PC So if you don't need a if you don't need a display, right, we have a full line of embedded embedded box kind of products with that that don't require any fans or any external cooling And we have this in either Intel based or we have it in x80s So we have you have the I make six you well. Yep. I make six you well as a single quartet Cortex a7 And then we also have a multi-core Braswell based solution This one obviously is a lot less expensive But part of what we do here with this is we make we have a modular design methodology with these boxes as well as with our panels You see this is our IO here. We can We can design we have two different options We have one for fully isolated galvanically isolated solutions or applications that require full isolation And we have one that's non-isolated a little bit less expensive So if you don't need the isolation, you don't have to pay for it. The other thing is is that we have a Different power module here that has a different has a different land connector So if you need to use power for ethernet we have that if you want 12 volts 24 volts or wide voltage input DC You just pick which one you want and we can put it whatever which whichever one you want This is our this is our yeah, we have 700 which is our panel We put that I'm x7 or I'm x6. I'm x6 you all in this panel Oh, yeah, yeah, so this is another pixie module. This is a wireless module that we were talking about before No, this is actually zigby. It's 802.11. So 802.15.4 and Bluetooth So yeah, so you can run zigby thread six loaf pan, etc on that on that chip So We I'd say that I'd say that that we have a modular design approach to everything that we do We want to make maximum use of designs As we as we can all right So you know so that we design once and then we provide our customers with scalability for the future So if they for example, they design their baseboard for I'm x6 for example And they want to put an I'm x8m on it We'll have so we'll have an option for them with I'm x8m and and other products in the future And so that's really our our approach to to embed a design to try to make the lives of our customers a lot easier I just there was a little bit more than some awesome or So different designs different colors so this is a this is a product we've had around for a long time We call it to can and here we're just showing a can demo Where we have an application running on all of these and they communicate over can bus so I can press this button and All of the green buttons will light up and I can press this button and it can change different colors But it's all communicating over canvas Yeah, so it's very similar to the EDM one gnome We have two different types of EDM modules EDM one EDM two EDM two is great for for adding additional LBDS displays For industrial applications, and this is just a baseboard. We have for that for that purpose It's a more pixie over there also. Was that that same? Yeah, it's the same one Yeah, all right. Yeah, so What's going to you think you're gonna be busy with this this coming year, right? Well, we're super excited about Android things. We're super excited about Alexa in the future We're super excited about what NXP is doing with IMAX 8m and IMAX 8x and IMAX 8 quad max and in the future with potentially with Qualcomm so we're You know, we're really looking forward to to what's going on right now with IMAX 8m. IMAX 8m is just hitting is just hitting mass production We take pre-orders for all our one PI 8m boards that we're selling on one work IMAX 8m. Yeah, it's much much higher performance. It's a quad-core Cortex-A53 which will do 4k video Decode so we're seeing a lot of interest in it for media streaming applications infotainment applications So yeah, that one is really where we're gonna be focusing over the next several months