WPG World Group introduced an industrial gateway reference design based on NXP i.MX6UL

January 11, 2018, United Technologies Corporation, a leading distributor of semiconductor components dedicated to the Asia Pacific region, announced that its maker of the world-class reference design for industrial gateways based on NXP's NXM i.MX6UL Program.WLAN Great World peaceful using NXP i.MX6UL platform reference design can achieve i.MX6UL minimum system can be used to expand the industrial gateway functions.

WPG's NXP's i.MX6UL is a high performance, low power processor family based on the ARM Cortex-A7 core running at 528MHz. The processor incorporates a power management module that eliminates the need for external PMU reduces the complexity of external power supplies and simplifies power-up sequencing with the QSPI SPI interface for connection to a wide range of peripherals such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, display and camera for the IoT era Unleash the potential of innovation, safety and energy saving end products.

Industrial Internet of Things is being developed to an enterprise-led market, with industrial gateways taking the role of a bridge between stable data collection and serialization of information and automation. ARC's Global Market Research Report on Industrial Network Gateways states: 'The large installed base of distributed assets Long integration and hardware replacement cycles drive legacy devices to acquire real-time data for use in other applications such as monitoring, optimization, analytics, etc. Gateways are the primary means of putting legacy assets in an automated or enterprise infrastructure.Although the growth of traditional industrial gateways ARC is predicting that the gateway market for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) or Cloud segment will grow significantly over the forecast period.

Diagram 1 - Outline of the industrial gateway reference design system based on NXP i.MX6UL

Functional Description  Support for Wi-Fi  Support for Ethernet interface  Support for NB-IoT (M5310)  Support for ZigBee  Support for BLE  Support for NFC Key features  Wi-Fi support network protocol: TCP / UDP / HTTP / DNS / DHCP / ICMP; Data rate: b-11Mbps, g-54Mbps, n-150Mbps; Output power: b-16dBm, g-13dBm, n-12.5dBm; Receiving sensitivity: b - 96dBm, g - 90dBm , n - 89dBm;  Ethernet protocol: TCP / UDP / HTTP / DNS / DHCP / ICMP, built-in Web Service settings parameters, 10 / 100Mbps adaptive;  ZigBee wireless standard: IEEE802.15.4 (ZB Pro / ZB3. 0) Operating frequency: 2.412-2.484GHZ Data rate: 250Kbps Output power: 10dBm BLE wireless standard: IEEE802.15.4 (support BLE4.2) Operating frequency: 2.412-2.484GHZ Data rate: 250Kbps Output Power: 4dBm; Receiver sensitivity: -93dBm; Communication distance: 100m; Contact capacity: 8x; NXP i.MX6UL Cortex-A7 processor, Linux operating system; Flash: Emmc8G; DDR: DDR3 512M; : PWM / SPI / I2C / UART / GPIO;  antenna selection: PCB, IPX optional.