Audit Alert: Andrei's Expert Take on NXP's Software Suite

Arrow Audits NXP MCUXpresso: eIQ Time Series Studio, GUI Guider & VS Code Transition Tips Bridgette Stone and Kyle Dando host an "audit" of NXP's MCUXpresso ecosystem with Arrow Electronics FAE Andrei Cosara, who shares feedback from working with developers across industries. Andrei highlights eIQ Time Series Studio as a game-changing way to build lightweight edge machine learning models from existing unidimensional sensor data, including new waveform snippet labeling for classification. He then shares praise for GUI Guider's easy drag-and-drop workflow and well-structured generated code. He notes challenges customers face transitioning from MCUXpresso IDE to MCUXpresso for VS Code, recommending built-in VS Code AI agents to diagnose errors and ramp faster. He also describes common AI/ML part-selection difficulties and emphasizes Arrow's value through workshops, free engineering services, and the Digital Test Drive remote board farm for evaluating and benchmarking models on real hardware. Episode Resources: Digital Test Drive – Remote Hardware Testing Arrow Events - Workshops eIQ® Time Series Studio Create Modern Embedded GUIs Fasts MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code 00:00 Welcome to EdgeVerse 00:36 The Audit Setup 01:27 Meet Andrei from Arrow 03:44 Top Pick eIQ Time Series 06:41 Waveform Snippets Feature 07:35 Easy Wins with GUI Guider 09:38 Arrow Workshops Value 10:53 VS Code Transition Pains 12:29 Using AI Agents in VS Code 14:15 AI Part Selection Challenges 17:29 When to Engage Arrow 18:46 Digital Test Drive Demo 20:11 Final Thoughts and Wrap