Premier Farnell : element14 showcases new WaRP7 development platform in ‘NXP Smarter World Tour’ takeover

Global electronics distributor partners hosting series of seminars in Munich on 14 July 2016.

July 1, 2016 - MUNICH: element14 , the high-service global electronics distributor and online community of more than 400,000 design engineers, will showcase the new WaRP7, a development platform designed for IoT and wearables applications during its 'NXP Smarter World Tour' takeover in Munich on 14 July 2016. The mobile 'Smarter World Tour' highlights small microcontrollers to powerful complex networking infrastructure through the most secured NFC solutions.

The event will provide the opportunity to look around the NXP truck, interact with 130 Internet of Things demos and attend seminars presented by Farnell element 14 and NXP:

The Next Generation Internet of Things and Wearable Development Platform

Designed for the IoT and wearable market and based on the NXP i.MX 7Solo applications processor combining the ARM® Cortex®-A7 and Cortex®-M4 cores, WaRP7 is a powerful, low-cost platform for evaluation and rapid adoption into original product designs. WaRP7 has been architected and designed from the ground up to address the key challenges in the IoT and wearable market, such as battery life, connectivity, user experience, and miniaturization. It provides an open source platform backed by the development community, design and manufacturing capabilities of element14.

How to Choose the Right NFC Solution for Your Use Case

The NFC market is exploding - ABI Research forecasts more than 2 billion NFC-enabled devices to shipped yearly by 2019. While the first product generations focused on standards and reading distance, the newest products also allow for fast design-in and certification thanks to features such as Dynamic Power Control, microcontroller integration or energy harvesting. Today we see three full NFC product categories to address the growing number of use cases:

• Connected NFC tag solutions with field-detection function and an NFC Forum-compliant RF or an I²C interface
• standalone NFC frontend solutions for the most flexible way to add NFC to a system and
• NFC controller solutions to enable higher integration by combining an NFC frontend with an advanced 32-bit microcontroller, available with integrated firmware.

Individuals around the world have come to depend on element14 as the premiere source for new product information, project support and a place to interact with the industry's leading experts and these seminars are an opportunity to take a first look at this latest technology for the wearables market.

The event will run from 10am to 4pm on 14 July, on board the NXP truck, situated outside NXP's offices in Munich. To register for this free event please click here .

For more information about WaRP7, visit www.element14.com/WaRP7 . To learn more about element14's offerings, visit http://www.element14.com/ .

Farnell are hosting this 'Smarter World Tour Takeover' as part of their sponsorship of the NXP Smarter World Tour.

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Notes to editors

Seminars will be presented in English.

For additional information about the Smarter World Tour, click here

A short film about the NXP World Tour and its partners is available here

The element14 'smarter world tour' takeover will take place onboard the NXP truck, situated outside NXP Semiconductors offices at Schatzbogen 7, 81829 Munich, Germany.

About the Premier Farnell Group

Premier Farnell plc (LSE:pfl) is a global leader in high service distribution of technology products and solutions for electronic system design, production, maintenance and repair. Trading as Farnell element14 in Europe, Newark element14 in North America and element14 across Asia Pacific, it had sales last year of £960m, the Group is supported by a global supply chain of more than 3,000 suppliers and an inventory profile developed to anticipate and meet its customers' needs.

Premier Farnell works to bring to market development kits in a variety of applications, enabling it to support the customer from design concept through to production.

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