So welcome to the second edition of the RCA Training Tips show where I'm going to be your host, a road-cycling coach with the RCA, Kamnikov. Now if you're new to the channel, every Wednesday moving forward I'm going to be sharing a road-cycling training tip and sometimes as well on a Wednesday I'll also be doing some gear reviews. So next Wednesday I'm finally comparing the giant TCR to the BMC team machine so if all that sounds up your alley don't forget to subscribe below and also you can check out my email newsletter list where once a week over email I share similar training topics. Now last week I got a question from a member of the Road Cycling Academy's up-level road-cycling course. Now for those of you who are not aware, the up-level road-cycling course is an online course designed for intermediate road-cyclists who have plateaued in their training but are keen to learn how to take their performance to the next level. The course includes a one-on-one phone call with me followed by 14 step-by-step video tutorials, a podcast, downloadable worksheets and a private Facebook group. I open the course to 10 members every single month and I actually have four spots still available for March. For anyone out there interested, in fact those who register in March get a free bottle of the MODX Performance Enhancing Supplement. Links below but essentially every day there are members in the private Facebook group sharing their journey and also asking questions. Once a month I answer all questions in a Facebook live in this private group but with this particular question I thought I would try answering a question I get from the RCA members here on YouTube so we can all learn. So the question came from an RCA member, his name's Tim Berry or we like to call him Timbo and the question goes like this. The question came for your next live video, no doubt many would also benefit from this question. How do you measure your success from your training? Is it the FTP test or the local bunch ride or even your last race? Because every scenario is different. What we're trying to do when we're measuring the success or improvements in our training is remove that variability that Tim talked about. We want a consistent number or a consistent measurement. While ultimately winning a race and or beating a target time in an event is the ultimate success for many amateur cyclists out there and should really be the pinnacle of measurements. There is a lot of variability under race and event conditions and let's face it most amateur cyclists out there aren't doing them consistently enough to have a consistent benchmark or measurement for improvements in training. So what I'm going to do with you in this video is provide five examples that you can use in your own training week to week or month to month to measure how you've improved your fitness gains without having to go into a lab and get poked and prodded. As I share these five examples with you I will also give you some insights on how you could implement these into your training regime. So number one, the benchmark hill climb in your local area. Find a climb in your local area that you can get to consistently without any logistical challenges. Ideally the climb at a minimum is longer than three minutes in length so we've got something reasonable to play with although I'd say somewhere between five to twenty minutes in length is ideal. Warm up before you get to the benchmark climb for at least thirty minutes. Once you get to the climb I'd actually ride it at a lower intensity with a few small ramping efforts so we're tapping into the upper end zones preparing them for an all out effort. Roll down the hill and then unleash to the top. What time did you get? Now use Strava or some type of software as your diary marker so you can actually see how you're progressing over time with the benchmark climb. I recommend doing the benchmark climb in an easier week so you're feeling fresh and perhaps every six to eight weeks depending on your training block and just ensure you're doing it on a day that is consistent environmental conditions to the day that you first did it. You don't want to do it one day with a headwind and then another day with a tailwind because clearly that's going to have a huge impact on your result. Number two, improvements in your power numbers. So we'll get back to some heart rate examples shortly. But this example here is perhaps one of the most compelling reasons why training with power in my opinion, Trump's training with heart rate any day of the week although training with both is ultimate. You see heart rate while still a very important measurement is only a response to the physical output or duress it's currently under. After several weeks of good structured training you can be outputting more power on the bike with the same heart rate you had only weeks prior. But there is no way for you to know because without power there is no tangible output measurement on your computer screen. With power we can start to look and measure improvements across different segments. If I go into a training software which I've just started to use called today's plan which is also used by members of the Road Cycling Academy's up level road cycling course. You can see we have today's ride versus all time peak power analysis. We can go from 1 second to 5 second to 30 second all the way out to 3 hours. We can thus start to understand how we're improving output wise, power wise across different segments. 5 minutes, 3 minutes, 10 minutes, etc. In fact the training software that I use today's plan will send you an email alert when you're PB at time so you don't even need to go in there looking for it. So these power numbers are a very tangible way for you to understand how you're improving over the course of a training block. It's just like going to the gym. Being able to lift heavier weights is a prime example that you're improving in your training and you're getting stronger. Now if you've got a power meter and you use a training software these types of measurements just happen week to week. As you ride your bikes you'll be alerted to when you're PBing specific power numbers. Number 3 is the FTP power test. So FTP stands for Functional Threshold Power and is essentially the power number that you should be able to hold on a bike for roughly 1 hour. Now there are multiple variations of the FTP test which include, there's the all out 20 minute effort, there's the 2x 8 minute effort test, the Sufferfest and that that I personally use and all members of the up level road cycling course get free access to. It has something very thorough in it called the 4DP full frontal test and I'm sure there are many others out there. What I personally like to do though because it's a consistent environment and it's easily accessible that's the ramp test. Now for the ramp test you need an indoor smart trainer. If you don't have one perhaps you can borrow one off a friend.  Essentially what this test does is after a very easy warm up at 100 watts the trainer ramps up 20 watts every single minute until you can pedal no more. My wife Alice and I completed this test together a number of months back now so if you're up for a laugh I'll link to that video at the end of this one. While the ramp test is designed to give you your functional threshold power number which is a good measurement in itself. It's also a good measure of fitness and strength to see how far you can actually get in this test. I would complete this test similar to the benchmark climb every six to eight weeks. Now what you could do depending on your block is every three or every four weeks you could alternate for variation between the ramp test and also the benchmark climb. So you're getting some variability across your measurements. Number four is monitoring heart rate on a benchmark climb. So this is another option out there for people who don't have a power meter but even if you do have a power meter I would recommend using this tool. For this section I spoke with Luke Mikleroy from Mets Performance Consulting in Melbourne who is an expert in sports physiology and sports science. You see when it comes to measuring heart rate in isolation it does become quite challenging and technical. For example with your max heart rate your max heart rate doesn't really change. If anything it will drop maybe one or two beats as you become fitter because your heart muscle is becoming larger and more efficient. Even with lactate threshold heart rate which is essentially the heart rate you should be able to maintain for an hour isn't a good measurement for fitness gains. In fact your lactate threshold heart rate may increase as you lose fitness because your heart muscle becomes smaller and less efficient needing to work harder for the same or even less output. So there are too many variables at play when it comes to measuring heart rate in isolation for fitness gains. However speaking with Luke from Mets Performance Consulting a good scenario for you to look at with heart rate would be your benchmark climb. Let's always measure and monitor your average heart rate for the benchmark climb you do. Let's say you do the benchmark climb for a second time six weeks after the first attempt.  Let's assess what your average heart rate was for this benchmark climb and compare it to the first attempt. If your heart rate average is also two to three beats lower with a slightly better time then that is a great sign of fitness gains assuming the weather conditions haven't been a factor or you haven't dropped a significant amount of body weight. So if your heart rate average is lower for the same or slightly better output that is a good signal of fitness gains. Number five the ability to recover quickly and go again. So this is the least tangible of them all in terms of numbers but perhaps one of the most compelling in terms of fitness gains and what is actually happening internally in your own physiology. How this one goes is head to your local bunt right or smash fest with friends. Today you're going to rip it but in a controlled manner. No silly turns that put you in the red you just want to see how many turns you can do. What you want to note in this ride is how you feel after each turn.  If you have this incredible feeling where the bunch ride and the turns feel a lot easier and you can keep pulling turns. Guess what that is a great measure of fitness gains. Perhaps you could do this bunch ride once every couple of weeks and measure and monitor how many turns that you do across each of these bunt rides. Sure the bunt ride conditions will change with the environment and riders etc. But you will know in yourself your ability to recover and go again. Is it improving is it stagnant or is it getting worse. So they are my top five examples of how you can measure your improvements in fitness performance through training. I'm not saying they're the only five would be keen to get any of your thoughts below and I'll catch you all in the next video.


Hi, I'm Damian Wells from NXP. Welcome to Embedded World. We'd love to show you some of the really cool demos that we've got going here on the booth today. Hey, Kyle. Can you tell us, gentlemen, what we have here on this particular demo area? Sure, absolutely. Welcome. So at NXP, we're showcasing our microcontrollers in this display. To start, we have our 1170, the crossover microcontrollers. This is a voice recognition example where I can say, hey, Oven. And hey, Oven, shut the door, and it will close the Oven door.  All right. So it's always listening. It's for voice applications. Yes. This does some vision where it can recognize gestures, start some audio, or you can close the audio, or you can use the touch, both showing the human machine interface and the vision and the audio detection. What is a chip that can do this? Yeah, that is the IMX RT-1170. It's a dual-core, high-performance crossover MCU from NXP. It has an M7 and an M4. In this case, we're actually using both cores. The M4 is using more for the human machine interface and some of the general activity, isolating all the complex voice and vision on the M7. And you're launching new chips here at the show? Yeah. So NXP is showing a lot of applications and use cases for the MCX. It's our newest microcontroller. It's a dual-core Cortex M33 device. We have a demonstration here, which is showing the human machine interface with our free-to-use GUI Guider software tool to create rich user interfaces to drive interaction with the customer. And so dual-core M33. Yes. It's good performance for this kind of applications. Absolutely. It's up to 150 MHz per core, but it also has a graphics accelerator. It has a DSP and it has a neural network application for machine learning. How do you do the neural networking on a MCU? So what it has is it has that, it's an NXP neural network core called the Neutron. And we use our EIQ software to train and learn the different machine learning algorithms. We download it to that microcontroller, but it offloads all the machine learning to that assist neural network. And it's part of the core? It's part of the chip? It's part of the same chip, along with the two dual-core Cortex M3s and the hardware accelerator for graphics. And what are you showing here in the laptop? So I'm excited to present the Visual Studio code extension. It's called MCU Expresso for VS Code. We've gotten lots of requests from customers to provide another option for development to complement our IAR, microvision and eclipse-based tools. So now customers can use the Visual Studio code environment to get started developing with NXP libraries as well as a Zephyr development. All right. So it's busy at your booth. A lot of people asking about these new chips. A lot of people are excited about both the vision applications on the RT-1170 and also the MCX and the new microcontroller that NXP has provided customers. Cool. Thanks a lot. It was nice meeting you. Hi, let me take you now over to our matter demo that we have running over here as part of our smart home demonstration area. So Michael, could you explain what we have here in terms of our matter demo? Yes. So this is our matter demo. So this is for the smart home and IoT. The idea of this demo is really to demonstrate the interoperability of this new standard. So we are talking here about a new standard, a new common language on the IoT markets and NXP is a great contributor of this new protocol and we are offering a new platform, complete solution, hardware and software so that you can develop matter devices. So our broad portfolio helps us to provide solutions for gateway and matter controller and thread border router. But we are also providing solutions for matter and device over thread and also matter and device over Wi-Fi. And then there is a controller which is just Android. So yeah, on this demo what we are trying to show is we have several controls. So we have this Android matter controller but we have also a number of matter controller which is available on this demo. What is running here? So here is running the matter controller and the thread border router but you can also control some of the end device if I just walk through here and then you can see that we can control this smart rack and fan directly. But also which is a key point here we have also on this demo, third party controller with iPod from Apple and Nest from Google and this controller are also matter compatible. And what you can just say is, hey Google, turn on the light. And then if I say, hey Siri, turn off the light. So as you can see then you can show that whatever the ecosystem as it is matter compatible, you can drive all your device in your smart home. It's very popular to work on a matter right now? Yes, that's really, this is a very beginning of matter but we see a lot of adoption. It becomes very popular, a lot of buzz around that. But that's for real now and it will expand and we for sure see a lot of promise in matter. Yeah, that's a promise of matter. Cool, thanks a lot. Thank you. Alright, let me take you now over to our UWB Ultra Wideband demo and show you some of that cool technology in action. Hey Lois, do you want to explain what's going on here with UWB in the demo? Yeah, of course. So UWB is a radio frequency technology which allows us to range very, very accurately. We can range 10, plus minus 10 centimeters and at an angle resolution of plus minus 3 degrees. That's also what we're showing here. I have a smart phone from Samsung, just an enormous smart phone with an app for auto wideband and an auto wideband chip in there. And I have another auto wideband device based on the SL-160 from NXP in there. And it's on top of the bezel, it's two antennas and if we step back I can move the smart phone around. And on top there you can see the angle change in relation to where I'm holding the phone in front of the laptop. So the distance changes, if I move back the distance changes and if I move further in again it's again close distance. And what we're showing here with this demo is seamless logical access. So I'll just turn it on and imagine you're working on your laptop and you just move away and you forgot to lock it. And because I am connected via my smartphone with auto wideband to my laptop, now if I go back in to my laptop and want to continue my work it's unlocked again. So this is showing the seamless logical access with auto wideband. What happens if you forget your smartphone?  But because what we're showing with this demo, the SL160, try to mention, is that we can do auto wideband radar and distance information at the same time. So now I step back from my laptop and as soon as the laptop does not detect my presence anymore with auto wideband it will lock it. Because there's no one there. It's locked for security reasons. And now if I go back it does detect my presence again but it doesn't of course know that I am the person that is allowed to use this laptop. So I need to put in a pin again and yeah this is just the amazing... As long as somebody is near the laptop it's unlocked. You have to prove yourself that the person is allowed to use the laptop. So it senses people? With auto wideband radar we can sense presence, yes. Presence, yes. And all these support act? Yeah, exactly. We have the try mention SL150 with the module partners Amotech, Murata, SGI, Sunway. And we also have using the SL150 development kits which can all do auto wideband distance measurements. And we also have the SL160 which is a more radar optimized chip. Alright, cool. Thanks a lot. No problem. Have a nice day. Enjoy the show. Cool. So we're going to go now and take a look at our high voltage battery management system demo here with Andreas who will explain how that is and how it's working. Hi, it's my pleasure to explain your high voltage BMS reference design, the cloud connected BMS reference design. So this is what we call the high voltage 400 volt reference design with the main board with the microcontroller and the intelligence, let's say, the software stacks. This on that side is the cell controller, cell monitoring. So each of these small little guys here control and monitor 14 battery cells. And then on that side we have the high power rail. There's a shunt and then there's high current measurement. For redundancy reasons, for safety, functional safety reasons, it's a dual of them. So all of that is we provide to our customers for prototype building together with software stacks and functional safety analysis. And then this demo is actually more, is one part of it. The other part is that we partner with the company Electra Vehicles in. It's actually a demo of two companies. And I have here my friend Fabrizio, the CEO of Electra Vehicles in. And he is doing the cloud and will explain to you the cloud business. Exactly, yes. What we have done in partnership with NXP, we have demonstrated the ability to connect to the cloud and leverage some, not only the edge computing power of NXP chipset, in particular that's 32K3 chipset here, but we also able to connect to the cloud and leverage an advanced digital twin of the batteries. So what is a digital twin? It's basically a copy, an exact copy of the battery, but in the cloud. And what we do at Electra, we basically create a digital twin with the physical base, so actual data coming out from the battery itself and machine learning. So we leverage a lot the latest techniques of machine learning AI in order to have a very accurate digital twin of your batteries. And what we do is basically when there is an error that starts to give some problems to the state of charge or state of health on board, we basically ping in the cloud and say is there a new update, is there a firmware update, in order to download it and reduce the error, make this error disappear. The opportunity is that we are going to have with electric vehicles very accurate state of charge, so we know how many miles, how many kilometers we have left in our vehicles, but also to have a very good state of health, so we know if the battery is healthy or not. And finally, if we can predict potential failures up to three months in advance, if our batteries will go well or not. So we are showcasing here the partnership with NXP and Electra for a very advanced, very novel BMS solution. Because the batteries can be very advanced, they keep coming new batteries all the time and it's very important to manage how fast you charge, how fast you use it on the road and it's a complicated system, right? Absolutely, yeah, batteries are alive systems are very complicated and what we are seeing is that there are new batteries coming out, you know, NMC811 or the novel... What is that one? Which one? What is this you just said? So yeah, there are different chemistries, you know, the popular one by Tesla is NCA, there are many from the Chinese market LFP and so on, but there are new trends like NMC811, they are very advanced chemistries as well as lithium metal, solid state, potential in the future we will see lithium air and it's very important to do a digital twin of the battery in order to have the ability to know the battery itself and be able to deploy advanced algorithm to make any chemistry working well. It's like simulation, emulation, something? Yes, exactly, you basically create a digital twin, so a copy, a digital copy of your battery but in order to do that you need to do a lot of tests, a lot of machine learning but once you have that model you can do a lot of things and you can leverage the network effect. The battery is the most expensive part in an electric vehicle so you want to maintain that over a long lifetime and of course you also want to get the maximum distance out of your vehicle so that's why you need to have very precise algorithms and the digital twin helps you to get these really precise. One thing I want to see, but I don't know if the car makers want to do it is battery swap and that they should be a standard and everybody should swap the batteries but that will mean there will be a million different batteries out there and each of them different health, different range, different... but that's a different question of it.  What do you think? It's a differentiation point. Yeah, I agree with Andreas that we're going to see where our batteries swap in the past we're going to continue to see more and more it's definitely, we need more normalization we need more rules around the batteries but for now it's a very early in the industry and we're going to see a lot of differentiation in the adversities but we might get there, it just takes 20, 30, 40 years of time or so. I don't want to wait so long. I know. I want to wait two or three months. Oh, I see, you want to swap the batteries real quick. Two or three years, okay. I see, okay. I don't know, I think the European car makers need to move fast and do something, I don't know. I don't know what's happening exactly. Sure, but it's a very complex matter and that's why there are companies like NXP, Electra, many other players in the industry try to push electrification forward make sure the battery is safe and they give you the miles and the mileage that everybody wants the batteries swap potential will come, it will take some time not two, three months. Okay, cool. Thank you. Thanks a lot. Thank you very much. Thank you. Cool. Let's get another one of our demos that we have here on the booth which is our concept e-scooter. Nice. So here we have basically a representation of an e-scooter obviously made out of Plexi and we've actually positioned within it many of the different building blocks that NXP could provide to someone who was wanting to design an e-scooter for themselves. This is just a whole bunch of NXP chips that goes in a scooter. Exactly. It's actually combined together with a story that is actually running on a screen that's just off to our right-hand side here and this actually talks about the e-scooter itself in terms of future mobility. We can drive into more technical details around the display connectivity controller, the onboard charger, traction inverter, the battery management system and indeed we can even drill down to the individual parts that NXP provide that actually could be used within each of these applications. So very visual, tends to draw lots of people in who are potentially looking at designing products within that area. Nice. I see a chip down here for the tire pressure, the radar in the back, onboard charger, just a whole bunch. Cool. All right. You have your BMS here for the battery management system, electronics for a handlebar control. We have a display up here which is being driven by a display controller that sits in the front of the bike and of course forward-facing radar as well. Is there a trend of trying to put more and more stuff and less fewer chips somehow that can do more? For sure there is. Obviously everyone is trying to reduce down essentially the amount of electronics that you would put into something like this but they all have pretty dedicated functions as well. So, you know, the BMS is very much its own separate entity and you've already heard about that a little bit on the high voltage one for the cars over there. Can I take you also over to the partner wall that we have here on the booth? Cool. All right. Because NXP has a lot of partners in the embedded world. NXP has somewhere in the region of about 250 to 300 partners in total. And they might all exhibit here at the show. Yes, many, many of them are. We have, actually, within the show we have over 100 demonstrations that are not on our booth they are elsewhere. We have a sample here on this wall of 24 of our demos. This particular side of the wall we have a brand new device called the Ida MX-93 that launches next month and this entire side of the wall is actually all of our embedded board suppliers who make these little modules and they are basically, all of them are based on the Ida MX-93 ready for the part to be launched. So, here we see advanced tech doing client tech. So, even though it's a new chip they've been working with you for a while to make it ready for the market. We engage them in the Alpha program so very early on when we were also engaging with our very big OEMs and by engaging them at that point they're actually able to develop a module in time for when the product reaches full market launch. And they, your partners covered all requirements of the market what people want, like all the different segments, the demand is covered, there's a solution for everything and they're more and more coming. So, what's the performance of the Ida MX-93? That's a high performance core, right? It is a high performance core, yes. There's on board an ML engine as well to obviously help with offloading. It says one or two Cortex A55 plus the M33. Yep, for real time. And then actually on... When we look at this side of the wall this is another selection of our partners. The four that are here are actually all HMI, so this is more graphics and the ability to develop a GUI, you know. And then further along the wall we have some of our Wi-Fi partners and indeed some of our automotive partners as well. So when there's a new Ida MX coming it's a big deal for the industry? It is very much a big deal. We don't just have Ida MX on this side of the wall we also have some of our microcontrollers some of our network processes as well and indeed some of our automotive products. So this is one of our automotive products, the green box. And indeed the new part, another new part that was launched at the show was the S32G3 and this particular partner has already got a board out based upon the S32G3. And the S32G3 is computer vision stuff? It is for the automotive domain. Here's a big SOM. Yep, that's an Ida MX 8M plus as a SOM module. So it's been a busy, busy show? It's been a very busy show, particularly the first two days. Today obviously it's a little bit quieter there's a few more students here which is great to see some young talent coming through learning about the technology that we have on offer. Yeah, so you also talk here about automotive? Maybe you can introduce... Certainly, let me introduce Brian Carlson my colleague here who knows all about our automotive products and what we have. Hi, so Ida and I just walked up and saw you here, great to see you again. Have you seen anything yet? Yeah, we did the booth tour. So you've seen the automotive booth? Yeah, let's go over there. Automotive table. Oh, definitely. You saw the automotive partner? Let's try. Let's go over there because there's a lot of excited things going on in automotive definitely, right? We know about electrification, connected vehicles, autonomous vehicles and everything's moving towards software-defined vehicles. So that's what we're really focused on here. So let me just give you the rundown. So we'll start here. Electrification, of course, is a big trend. OEMs are spending $20-30 billion a piece to create electrification platforms. And so we're right in the mix with battery management, onboard charging. This is for the actual drive of the EV. So we introduced this product initially in Munich back in electronic in November. This is the actual chip right here. That's the S32K39. The nice thing about that is it's an ASL-D rated chip that includes a lockstep pair of Cortex-M7s, two additional M7s, but it has a lot of integration. It has sigma deltas, it has really high resolution, peak resolution of pulse width modulation to control gate drivers. But what's really good about it with the has two dedicated motor control co-processors. This allows us to control very high-speed inverters, which we take the 800-volt, typically 400-800-volt battery voltage. We have gate drivers that we introduced also recently called the GD3162s. And we're able to switch those to be able to do a whole control loop up to 200 kHz for two motors. So this chip, why it's so impressive is being able to drive two electric motors at the same time totally independently. And then we can extend that with the S32Z and E, which have one gigahertz Cortex-R52 cores, which we don't show the part here, just visually we actually won best at show at this show in a better world back in June of last year with the S32E. And it has eight, as I mentioned, R52 cores running at gigahertz. It's kind of the brain of the EV. This is the brain of the electric motor, and it's just optimized for efficiency. We can support SIC, SICK, or Future Gallium Nitride. So it's about high performance electric motor control, the ability to scale from all the way up to four motors for a four-wheel-drive EV. And we have the ability to show visualization of what's going on in the chip. So this is a really exciting device for us. This has been probably one of our most attended demos here. What we announced this week, though, is the production launch of the S32G3. Now, this is a really exciting processor. It actually has 30 processors inside, 21 ARM cores, and it allows us to combine M cores with A53 cores, lock-step support for these, which allows us to do ASLD safety applications. So the two key applications we see for this are the vehicle computer in the new software-defined vehicles. This is actually being used in production vehicles today. We just opened it up so anyone through distribution has access to this technology now through distributors. This is the RDB, or Reference Design Board, Schematics, Layout, Bomb. Everything's included and provided on nxp.com. You can get these boards. And the Gold Box, which is the enclosed version of this, is really popular. So this board actually has 18 CANFD interfaces, 12 Ethernet interfaces up to 2.5 gigabits. It has two M.2 modules here. So we support Halo 8, which is like 27 tops of ML. We can support a terabyte SSD or a Wi-Fi 6. So these are really popular. There's a PCI Express slot here. So it's an extensible SD card. This is a very, very popular product. And you see a lot of Gold Boxes on the floor at partners. They leveraged this for a lot of their demonstrations. And Tier 1's used it in cars to actually drive and do testing of their software with this platform. So this is a production. The big thing here that we're showcasing is the integration of Kubernetes. We have a product called Goviap. It's available on nxp.com. It allows you to put this whole stack with dual Linux running. It has Zen, a hypervisor, and support for Kubernetes K3S. And so what we're really showing here is multiple workloads. Containers running on this board. This is Grafana. We also have Prometheus for event monitoring. But all of that is running on this board. And you can log in through a web browser and actually monitor all these tasks and manage containers in an automotive, software-defined vehicle environment with this product. And this is just the tip. There's a lot of exciting applications that will be coming to vehicles. There's a lot of isolation that allows people to put new applications on it very easily. So software-defined vehicles are a really key turning point in automotive to progress into more smart phones and data centers and be able to deploy workloads very easily onto the job. So it works. The whole idea of software-defined vehicles in the future, you buy an EV, it just keeps getting better. That's the point I always say, right? The worst your car is ever going to be is when you buy it. And it actually gets better over time. So we do this in all these areas. The motor control. We talk about a software-defined motor. We're showing over here the intelligent battery management. We'll see that in a second. Where we're continually updating the machine learning models and improving the rate, getting very, very accurate range and also extending the life of battery 12% to 15%. So just through software and algorithms and machine learning in the cloud, digital twins in the cloud, we're able to combine vehicle data in the cloud and to deploy. And there's the whole development side of this STV. And we're supporting virtualization of the processors in the cloud. So you can actually develop your software in the cloud, do all the testing integration, and then deploy it back to the vehicle through over-the-air updates. And even the Gold VIP has the ability to support over-the-air updates of virtual machines, the complete real-time system, or the complete image. You have a lot of flexibility and really advanced over-the-air updates with intense security. This comes with an integrated, basically integrated secure element. It allows you to do all the public key infrastructure. So it has leading-edge security, leveraging the technology from NXP because we're in secure, you know, bank cards, passports, and leveraging enterprise networking capabilities. It really brings NXP's expertise all into one chip. So this is being deployed by many OEMs. The initial vehicles actually came out in China, Liado. They're already in production of vehicles, and there's a lot of global OEMs that'll be putting vehicles out through this year and next year. So it's the start of the SDV. There's a whole bunch of things going on around it, like zonal architecture and how you address each of the zones. And getting rid of a bunch of boxes and integrating those is virtually easy to use in a box. So we're doing that too. That's what we showed last year with the S32Z and S32U, which are more zonal architecture chips. When you define on software, it's great, but you also sell hardware. So do you want the cars to be able to swap out the board when there's a new chip in the future? Well, that's the key thing about this. I'm glad you asked about that, because we talked about SDV, we talked about the board of reference, the other key message we're talking about here, is scalability, because this part extends our S32G family. We have the S32G, too, which has been in production since May of 2021. What this does, those are four devices. Now we've taken that family forward with the G3. It doesn't supersede it, it actually augments and extends that family. So now we have four new devices. So what we're seeing is we actually have the low-end device of the G2, which is a microcontroller only, with three lockstep M7 cores, and it goes all the way up to this that has the full complement of eight A53 cores and eight, which are four lockstep pairs of M7 cores. So what happens is we have customers that start at the low-end, even the microcontroller version, and they're able to, over the life of the vehicle, to swap out or to increase performance. So if they're doing a certain capability, they can make that smarter, more intelligent over time. So year to year, they may decide they keep the same architecture, they keep the same box. This is pin-for-pin compatible. So all those G2 devices, G3 devices, you can start to add those up over time and within a fleet, you may have low-end and high-end. You could have different versions of the same chip, foot print compatible, or you could extend it into the future to add more capability. Maybe three, four years in the future, I drive in somewhere, somebody swaps all my boards, and then I have the next version of the hardware, but the software continues. Exactly, and that's where Software Define Vehicle allows you to do that because today you may have to replace 16 boxes in the car, which is never going to happen, where you could put one chip or one module and replace that out and double the performance like that. So that's the big advantage, and that's what's new. It's the modularity because a lot of these, like this capability would be part of a module inside of a central computer with infotainment and IVI, or IVI and ADAS in like one central box, and this is the main vehicle computer that works with that, and it's modular typically, so you could upgrade those over time. When people want to optimize the range and the efficiency of the motors, and the regeneration and everything, and you're involved in helping them make that better all the time? Exactly, we have, and we work with a lot of partners, one of our examples. Yeah, we interviewed them just before. So you've already done that one. That's a great example of how you can leverage the vehicle data and the game changer here is the edge processing. To be able to do this real-time, continually, every time the car is running, they'll monitor everything that's going on in the car. That data is really important. We've partnered with cloud partners like AWS, for example, so we support AWS IoT fleet-wise, so we can actually also trigger on certain events. So if there's certain events going on in the car, like a heart-breaking event or some kind of failure, we can actually capture that intelligently at the edge, bring that to the cloud and they can process it across a fleet. So that's where all this data is converged at the cloud. They are able to process it, understand how to improve it, and then they update the models. Just like the lecturer probably told you, they update the models on the vehicle and now it gets better over time. Whether it's the efficiency of the motor, the drive, or the efficiency of the battery, or the charging algorithm may be improved, especially you want to improve the algorithm, so you're not stressing the battery during charging, so that can be improved. There's a lot of opportunity and electrification to make these things longer, better, and last longer. In EVs, there's pretty much like supercomputers. That's what it is. This is a supercomputer. Big performance, and there's also a whole bunch of other processors that are wrong, right? Little processors. You target different clock. We optimize the solution like this is M7 based. This is Cortex A53. Those are Cortex R cores in electrification. What we do is we target the appropriate R cores for the application. I used to always call it the right core for the chore. You want the best, if it's very deterministic and all that, if you need high performance you select the right core. The last thing I'd say here is the orange box which we introduced last year at Detroit Tech Days. This actually is really interesting because it's like a connectivity domain controller in a way where all the connectivity in the vehicle so if you look this, GNSS for positioning, gyro, digital radio, V2X, even the audio, the radio we have a secure element built into this accelerometer, Wi-Fi 6 and 5G. Anything that's wireless, Bluetooth, low energy, ultra-wideband all of that converged into one box. Now you can do coexistence. There's a lot of opportunities for doing some innovative things with the wireless technologies. This has an i.MX8 XL processor in there. We'll upgrade that over the time with new processors. We're showing here some of the things with Bluetooth, low energy, connection, Wi-Fi. This is a digital radio coming in and we're actually driving the radio from the centralized connectivity domain controller so now you don't have to run all of that to the radio here. It's all done digitally through an ethernet connection. And then we're showing here a Qi wireless power and communication through Bluetooth, low energy also and Wi-Fi with the phone. When I have this box, this is a reference design just to be clear about that because when I first saw it, I said, that's a pretty big box but what this is is a modular, this is more of a development platform where this is an actual reference design. So there's a difference between what's intended to go in cars versus what's more of showing what you can do and this has a lot of modules. So what's really important with this box is that, you know, wireless technology keeps changing over time. So for development purposes, this allows the customers to rapidly move and prototype with different types of modules over time. So it's more in a larger form factor to support modularity and such. That's why it's big. Typically this would be much smaller but these are modules a lot inside right now today. This is a great demo because it shows how everything comes from the wireless through this unit driving the display with information through the Bluetooth and a central point for the wireless connectivity and the Wi-Fi and everything. It's all right there which brings a lot of value. I think you saw the battery management AI and the last thing here, did you see the scooter yet? So the key thing on the message from my perspective on the scooter is that all this great technology that we're developing for the automobile, whether it's the radar, the electrification, the control, the communication, the display board, all that can be resized and repurposed into other types of electric vehicles, right? It's a work with motorcycle vendors, scooter vendors, even like robotic, electric, robotic delivery type vehicles. This technology can really span across a lot of applications. Cool. Thanks a lot. Great to see you again. All right. So there you go. That's a bit of a tour around the NXP booth showing you some of the great technology that we actually have to show to our customers here at the show and thank you very much for watching. Thanks.


Live from San Francisco, celebrating 10 years of high-tech coverage, it's theCUBE. Covering VMworld 2019, brought to you by VMware and its ecosystem partners. Okay, welcome back everyone, theCUBE coverage here at VMworld 2019, I'm John Furrier, Dave Vellante. Dave, 10 years covering theCUBE, lots changed. The game is still the same when it comes to storage, backup and recovery, got some new stuff too, some great news, got two great guests, CUBE alumni, Shea Baldwin, who's the Senior Vice President of Product Strategy at Rupert, Chris Wall, Chief Technologist at Rupert. Guys, welcome back to theCUBE. Good to be here. So the game always is getting better in terms of modernization, that's a big trend, digital transformation, everyone talks about that, but the cloud impact has been something that you guys have been riding the wave on, you guys had great success. I don't think you guys have been calcified as a startup anymore, you get more in high growth mode. So let's cover the news, what's happening with the announcements here at VMworld, what's the big news? So we announced our new release of Andy's 5.1 and really breaking new ground and expanding our position into new markets around data governance, disaster recovery, and we're also bringing in continuous data protection as a core capability of our product, really excited about it. These are areas that have generally been addressed through sort of separate siloed approaches and we see a lot of synergy with backup recovery and brought it all together as part of this offering. And how's the news going over? Oh it's been great, I mean if you look at data governance, everyone is struggling today with privacy, how do you discover personally identifiable information in your backup archives, very hard problem to solve, generally people do spot audits and checks, we've just made that really easy, streamlined with the backup process, it sort of naturally fits there in some ways, because I'm backing it up, why not process that data discover, send it information and classify it and our customers are really, really excited about that. Chris, talk about the architectural shift, because one of the things that we were observing in our opening day analysis is storage is still a hot startup sector, I mean storage is not storage anymore, it's evolved, we were even joking this morning with Nvidia and Dell EMC guy around VDI, and that's not VDI anymore, it's user experience, so storage specifically with cloud has certainly changed, on-premises, everyone now recognizes hybrid finally as standard, it's not going away, but the operating model is requiring a new architecture, you can't just take the old and recycle it into the new, talk about what that is specifically and why it's important. Yeah, and I'll kind of tie that back to what we're talking here with cloud data management, it's kind of this acknowledgement that the way we did IT back in the day where the storage food group was completely isolated, things went into it, things came out of it, but it wasn't part of that kind of overall architecture, especially when you start talking public cloud and whatnot, that was just a kind of acknowledgement that this model of IT just isn't going to carry us forward, and that's similar to the process of, let's take all this backup data with rubric, let's index it, inventory it, really start to understand what's going on, and use that as the jet fuel that actually powers our Polaris platform and all of our data management applications, and I think that all starts with storage, we have to have that data out of primary into some secondary location, keep it very efficient, figure out how it's going to get from one place to the next, and that used to just be data centers, now it's clouds and back and forth, so. It's fun, these sacred cow categories, you know, backup, recovery, DR, it's data, I mean, this is a data problem, it's data, it's values and data, you're seeing platform kind of thinking coming in, we've talked about this in Palo Alto in our studio when you came in, it's a platform thing, it's not just, you know, this tool or silo approach, this is- Absolutely, and that was, you know, when we spoke last, I had recently joined rubric back then, our vision had always been, you know, this is high value data, yes, we're going to build back up in a way that is quite revolutionary, but how do we create more leverage out of that data, and we're starting to see actual execution to that, both with our radar product, ransomware recovery, sonar for data governance, orchestra, DR, exposing more and more value out of that data, and it's really connecting. So I'd love to come back to the announcement, the Andy's announcement. Yes. He's talking about governance, DR, and CDP, you're right, these oftentimes would be point products, but explain to people sort of the before and the after, that you're trying to, when you walk into an account, you might see, like I say, different point products, how are they transitioning? Maybe you could add some color there. Yeah, absolutely, so with data governance, everybody's, everyone's got to deal with it today at some level, I use privacy as an example, but truly, we all are impacted, if you're in healthcare, you've got HIP, if you're dealing with financial data, you've got PCI. Generally, the backup data has been somewhat of a black box. The only way to really check it is to do a sort of spot audit check, it's labor-intensive and hard. We're streamlining that process for our customers and incorporating it as a value add on top of what they're doing with backup, and I think that's solving a major pain point. On DR, same thing, separate silo today, generally different product lines, but backing up core objects, VMs, databases, and application stacks, which is what you're really trying to do with the DR solution. Yeah, there's a lot of synergy there, and so we're helping to just bring that synergy together into this integrated platform approach. You guys are doing some machine learning, I saw in the news around classification, you mentioned it indexing, it sounds like a search engine, but again, to my point about these categories kind of being broken down, this platform. You guys are using machine learning to do some classification around protecting against breaches, is that right? Could you just drill down on that a little bit, what's that all about? Yeah, so we use machine learning in a variety of ways. In our radar product, our ransomware recovery product, we use it for anomaly detection of change patterns in the data, ransomware attacks generally involve people coming in, updating, deleting, encrypting your data. We look at the changing profile of the data and alert on anomalous behavior, and then recover back to the less stable state. And with our data governance product, we're also using machine learning to discover that PII information and trying to really help find a very, very rich, accurate way of detecting that data. So two killer apps, one, ransomware, which big problem. I mean, you just, you can't look a day without seeing major ransomware, the Texas thing to me jumps out, coordinated attacks. I even speculate that cybersecurity related, someone say there's some, you know, state actors on that or sanctioned groups doing that, but again, I'm a conspiracy theory on this one. But that's ransomware killer app. Compliance, kind of a boring category, but super important because of the penalties. I mean, compliance is an issue. Huge. Absolutely. I mean, you look at GDPR in Europe, compliance policies here in this country across various verticals. Everyone's dealing with it in some form or another. And, you know, there's no reason why that should be a separate sort of process. Why not leverage a data management like what is being provided by Rubrik to deliver on that. Another question on DR. So one of the complaints that you hear, maybe complaints, but observations when you talk to practitioners is they can't test their DR. They can test the failover, but they can't test failback as it's too risky. Yes. How do you address that problem?  Describe how you solve that problem. That's a very, very powerful question, Dave. And it's so true. Traditionally, customers that are using on-prem DR systems need to set up the infrastructure, the people, the processes. It's very labor intensive and expensive. So you can only do it a few times a year max. And that's how you know that your DR system is operational. You don't want to discover that there's a problem when there's an actual DR happening. Our approach basically takes the full application stack that you want to protect. We convert it for you into a cloud native format and we can instantiate any one of those snapshots that we're taking to that full application at any point in time in the cloud for you to verify and test. And we streamline that process fully orchestrated. If you choose to keep it in the cloud, we have a cloud native approach to protect it and then you can failback to your on-prem system. And so we've just streamlined this process in a way that really helps our customers do DR tests on a much more frequent basis without that operational burden and challenge that they're dealing with today. Talk about, Chris, this rubric build open source initiative because I want, and it's interesting, first explain, take a minute to explain what is rubric build? What's it all about? What's the philosophy behind it? I'll take you back a few years when I was interested in joining rubric. The one major defining characteristic of the product that really tugged my heart strings was a restful set of API endpoints for everything. Doesn't matter what the product does, anything you click, it's always calling a restful API. And that goes to a pain point that I had as a customer was automating, we'll say any kind of backup product, but a lot of things in the infrastructure space was like smashing my face against a hot iron. You know, it's just not pleasant. Bad visual, too. Exactly, so I'm thinking, over. I've never tried that. Do you not do that at home? The analogies, that's my one gift to the world, but... You need restful APIs. Yes. And so finding a product that not only had them but wanted you to consume them, made them available across every feature, click, whatever that existed was very, very powerful for me and a lot of other people that I work with. Fast forward a few years, we developed quite the library of different open source projects for integrating with things like ServiceNow and VRealize and anything that does things from configuration management all the way to infrastructure as code and we would go talk to customers about these things and you had two camps of people, either I need the 100 level stuff, I've never dealt with CI CD pipelines, automation, unit tests, poll requests, what is GitHub, all the way through, I know all that stuff, give me the use cases. What can I do with your API? And so we wanted to develop Rubrik Build as kind of a teach you how to make the champagne and teach you how to drink the champagne. So the idea is all of our software development kits, our ecosystem integrations and our use cases are bundled into this very friendly ecosystem where it's all open source, we have quick start guides, educational materials and a number of folks that are on the engineering and marketing teams that are engaging with people that either don't care much about cloud data management and just want to learn kind of the automation DevOps world of things or are very keen to learn more about CDP. So Rubrik employees donating the code for open source, did you guys create the project? Was it community driven or has it structured? Kind of three slices. It could be from Rubrik, we built this thing like an SDK, we obviously own and support that. It could be someone found our SDK and wanted to write a third party integration at even Microsoft Road, system center ops manager plugin and hosted on their GitHub site or kind of something in the middle we're working with like a red hat on their Ansible integrations as an example. So what are the kind of innovations have come out of that? You mentioned Microsoft doing the give up. Are there sort of things that have come out of it or things that you're hoping to come out of it? It's hard to predict, I know. We've had the predecessor of the DR product that we released or announced is was actually born in open source. Many years ago I had a customer saying I'd really like to be able to automatically do DR tests like every night for these five critical apps and we had the APIs, we have the ability to live mount workloads, we tie into the cloud, it's like there's no reason we can't do this. And so we had that kind of bit more manual process but it does the job years ago that we developed as a use case doing a couple of languages. Fast forward now it's a product. So you can kind of get to see that evolution from idea to sort of hacking on things to get them to work to now it's a full product and you can just push the button and everyone's going to love that. That's one example. Talk about the VMware relationship. What's the status? How long you guys working with VMware and the ecosystem and what are some of the new things that are developing in the relationship? Yeah, I mean we, this is a deep relationship. It's been a critical one from the beginning of the company and we integrate and support and are certified across a variety of solutions. Obviously V center and in this latest release with our continuous data protection we've done that in a way that is a certified approved approach and I think that helps us really build the confidence and deliver this sort of excellent overall experience that our customers are looking for. Absolutely. And they got the open source aspect too. It's pretty hot right now with the cloud native stuff going on. Absolutely. It's pretty relevant. Absolutely. All right, we got to ask, we got to ask the multi cloud everything here. What's your guys point of view on multi cloud? Real, BS, somewhere in the middle. Time will tell, what's your thoughts? Definitely real. I'll add color. I mean, I think- Yeah, thank you. Absolutely. You know, we used to talk about hybrid cloud just a few years ago and that's still real too, but we see a lot of customers looking at leveraging best in class for different workloads and different services across multiple clouds and our vision is to be the data management platform of choice across all of that. Enabling that choice and giving the excellent sort of cloud native experience that they're looking for as they deploy different workloads in these different environments. Just share with you. We've been talking theCUBE, but there's a lot of us believe that certain parts of multi cloud are on the BS side. In other words, that vision that any app can run on anywhere without recompiling, without retest. That's aspirational and you're going to need a lot of homogeneous infrastructure to do that. The one area that I do think that you can standardize on is what you guys call data management or backup, that you can actually say, okay, we're going to mandate that this is the platform that we're going to use across all clouds and that actually will work technically. Some of this other stuff, I'm not so sure, but if you have a control plane, if you will, with data management entities that live on-prem, as well as localities that are available across public cloud, then it's really just a choice of why do you want to put the data there? And we're driving that through our service level agreement domains or SLA domains where you can say, this data needs to live in Germany. It needs to be in this particular data center forever or this one needs to replicate to, between France and London, something like that. You can make those choices based on what you're trying to achieve more around non-technical decision-making than actual technical decision-making. But I think it's really been kind of the, you call the BS versus no BS. It's like, are we trying to do this because we can or because there's actual need to do something? And that's to me the decision between- Well, it's customer-driven too. The use cases will drive it. For instance, a security requirement might be build our own stack. I want to be on this cloud, have a backup cloud or the workload might have certain requirements. But again, I think the data question's a good one. That's going to be independent of- I want to test it with the technologist because if you have, let's say you have Outposts and you got Azure Stack, cloud of customer or whatever. And if you think you're going to run apps anywhere and those, it's not going to happen anytime soon anyway. However, if I want a data management solution across all of those, actually that can work. There's no reason it can't because you'll write to their APIs. You'll take care of that. And today with like Kubernetes deployments, they're not all the same but everybody's got an offering in there and everyone has a full suite of APIs that you can plug into. So I do agree that things like data management not only can, but should be ubiquitous across localities. It shouldn't matter where you're at. The experience should be roughly the same. Yeah, it's not that disruptive to say, okay, rogue division, we're going to swap out and we're going to standardize them. That's usually where the multi-cloud comes in. It's kind of involuntary. You got two teams just chose different things. Well, we got the brain trust on the key bear. I want to pose another question for you that we're going to look at the video to take five years from now. We're going to see how it all turns out. So one of the things we've been kind of talking about here on theCUBE and also leading up to VMworld this year is cloud 2.0. Mainly around the following premise. Cloud 1.0 being defined as AWS, DevOps, Agile, Lean startup, all that stuff that was we all love in DevOps. Compute, storage, scale, all the goodness that came from that. Cloud 2.0 is more of an enterprise cloud kind of configuration. So with that kind of we're networking and security and data are now kind of in the architecture. So I want to ask you guys, if that's the premise of cloud 1.0 was DevOps, pure cloud native born in the cloud, what's your definition of cloud 2.0? Because a lot of people are looking at it from like that simple lens, just trying to simplify that the requirements are changing. The architectures are different. The backup can work multi-cloud, but this can't. So there's a lot of moving parts now in this enterprise hybrid world. So what's your definition guys on cloud 2.0? Well I think increasingly you're seeing the landscape of the infrastructures you pointed out evolving the use of different services across clouds evolving. What's really important is that solutions like data protection don't limit your ability to capitalize on that in our minds. And so we want to build this ubiquitous sort of policy engine and governance around how to protect my assets and enable whether it's containerized application stacks that are being delivered or new private cloud deployments that we are not getting in the way of that in any way at all and along our customers to sort of broaden and leverage best in class services. Chris what's your definition of cloud 2.0? I'll take us back. I mean we saw this with virtualization. We saw everybody go oh my gosh I can get all this capacity used and all these new services and just going bonkers and that's where we had like zombie virtual machines and all these other terms that we don't really throw about anymore but it was the Wild West. Everyone was just land and expand and we kind of did that with cloud in a lot of cases. You're like oh look at these new shinies that I can play with. And now you're absolutely right. It's what about role-based assets control and user security and my S3 bucket got hijacked and ransomware is tearing through like you can now ransomware video cameras and things like that. It's a pretty terrifying world. And I think this is that moment where we take a look back and say well is it highly available? Is it secure? How do I know that? Am I able to recover from availability or even external threat issues? And to me that's where most of the conversation. Yeah it's the transformative opportunities is all intoxicating. Oh this is great but the reality is it's not as clean as going to the cloud. Give me something to do with work. I got to build the system out. It's an operating environment. Totally agree. You guys are doing great. Thanks for the commentary and insight on Cloud 2.0 and multi-clouds. And congratulations on your success at Ruber. Thanks for coming on. Sharing the insights. Cube coverage here at VMworld 2019. More after this short break.


Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 battle series. I hope you're all well having a great day, and it is Friday, so we're ending up the week But it's extra special today because it does mean that we are finished with the moon series And we will be moving into the ultra series next week, which will be very exciting as I mentioned in our previous episodes This week there will be no episode on Monday because the battle spot is down for maintenance While the new rules get geared up and engineered for Tuesday when it's all kicking off So we will have an episode Tuesday but nothing Monday, but on replacement of Daily battle series on Monday. We're gonna have sword and shield content a new little mini series I'm doing on the channel. It's gonna be a lot of fun and I hope you enjoy it But getting on to today's episode getting back to the new series ending and all that and it's very sad But exciting in the same way so Just to lay out the line for you to explain the story for you guys on Monday I I generally spam Twitter with Today's episode is now up just so it's a little reminder for you guys catch new people Tell them about the episodes that are going up. So I put this up on Twitter as you can see on your screen right now So we're back with some more Mewtwo action in today's VGC 19 battle series We enter the last week of the meeting which is appreciated and then there's the link in there But I need to think of a better tweets really don't I I promise I will but Getting back to the story We have this little reply from Mr. Johnny hacks a good friend and patron of the channel who said okay Imagine this Mewtwo and Ditto on the same team. Okay? Ditto transforms into Zernius and Mewtwo sags up Ditto a I know I'm a genius right and yes Johnny. We will all admit you're a genius and Nice, and this is my reply Friday's team sorted. Let's do it So there we go. Um, we'll get rid of that. Mr. Dr. Evil and get rid of this So what I've done is I've hashed something together for today's episode really quickly But I think it will be a lot of fun to try out and work So here is the team Mewtwo is a favorite of the channel because we all know that everyone loves me, too I think I hope at least the majority of us do and I definitely do we had a lot of fun with it So we've got Ditto, which we had a bad time with last week So it's redemption time. Mr. Pink blob We've got the Mewtwo there with the life orb again with the Psycho though this time We've got the Zernius because we obviously want to not just rely on on Ditto If we don't see an opposing Zernius where we can copy and then psych up ourselves Then we've got our own Zernius so we can kind of manipulate that a little bit better How we got a Tapulele in there for the psychic train just to allow and have that kind of Mewtwo core in the team Anyway, Clefairy makes a lot of sense redirections quite important for a lot of things on this team to help them kind of set up Maneuver do a lot of damage. We've put hidden power fire on the Tapulele And then we've tagged on another favorite of mine, which is Weavile because it's got throat chop So we can stop things roaring us away. We've got taunt on there so we can stop things taunting us, stop things Shutting us down in general and stop opposing Zernius setting up if we're in the tightest of situations Although we want opposing Zernius to set up if we can Then Icicle crash fake out as well. It does conflict with the Psycho train But ideally I'm not gonna be leading out with Lele and Weavile at the same time and this team it doesn't make sense So You know, I am the first to admit this. This is just a bunch of Pokemon Thrown together because of Johnny So thank you Johnny. Hope you guys enjoyed today's episode. I think it's gonna be a good one It's always a team is in the description down below if you want to try it out test it out have a bit of meme fun I'm sure you will and let me know how you get on with it But we'll jump straight into this is today's episode if I can speak properly and as always though guys If you enjoy this sort of content make sure to drop a like on the video Make sure you do subscribe to the channel because we'll be starting our ultra series next week guides going up Monday Episodes back Tuesday. So we're gonna look for our first opponent right now If it takes a little bit longer than usual to find what cuts straight to and come back with that first matchup of the episode And we've got a first opponent of the episode. We've got Cena from Japan and will hop straight into team What is this? Okay, we've got Giratina and got Ferrothorn oranguru Veltal insinual tapulele, right, huh? Giratina and Veltal is the restricted combination here. We've got oranguru It's gonna have trick room for sure the trick room element to the team supporting that Ferrothorn To a certain extent insinual tapulele probably gonna be more of the speedier variant here All right, what are we gonna do? Weavile is not bad here To help Zern set up Zern can do a lot of damage to this team if we can Can maneuver things in the right direction. Me too is not bad as well Okay, so we'll go with Zernius. We'll go with Weavile We'll go with me too and we'll go with Ditto as well because we've got to bring the Ditto, haven't we? We have to bring the Ditto That's the whole reason we've got the team Hopefully we can make it work and hopefully in our next match then hopefully we face Zernius, I don't know how many times I said hopefully there But you know, I'm very hopeful that in the next game We'll be able to bump into a Zernius and we'll be able to get this strategy going because that's the whole thing today But if not, I mean we'll have two great episodes Well, two great matches in this one episode to send us off on our way in the movie series So we'll lead off with Zernius and Weavile. We can't obviously utilise The fake-out support here And we do see that the Tapulele is scarfed so We could just dazzle and I mean I kind of want to GM ANSI here though. That's the only thing Um Could GM ANSI and it could throat chop the Giratina Yeah, I'll do that. I'll do that with Weavile. We're Sash with Weavile So if the Lele wants to attack us there, I don't think they do. They want to go for the sidekick Not side-shock Do some nice damage. Hopefully the Giratina isn't able to You know what I'm thinking now Is that we see Shadow Force from the Giratina And then it's gonna escape Dodger attack this next turn and then the following turn it's gonna be able to get rid of Zernius Like the perfect counter. Oh, I see wind. Okay. That's not so bad That's fine because we still have to be the Lele this next time we'll be able to nuke that we'll be able to get the throat chop We should still be able to outspeed the Giratina But we need to get the Lele. We need to moonblast the Lele and we totally need to Yeah, we'll throw a chop again the Giratina We could have Icicle Crash, but there's every chance it misses So we'll get the Lele for sure. I think we should do Hasn't been boosted. So it should be enough to take it down excellent, which it is so Good day Lele throat chop probably won't be enough to get the Giratina unless it's a high roll. No, it's a low roll No, okay Hmm Omnius wind, okay, it's not doing too much damage. That's fine I've never seen that ever before and Giratina does have the added bonus of boosts though, doesn't it? Some boosts, right? Hmm Let's protect Zornius's turn and get good old Mewtwo in Do we get Mewtwo in? Yeah, let's try because we need the Aurora Sphere to deal with that pherothone Then we can dazzle Aurora Sphere. Hopefully we get Mewtwo in safe and sound You see Jarobo here into Mewtwo. Could be a little bit. Okay, pherothone gonna just retreat straight away baiting us in the Veltal gonna hit the field What are we gonna see this? Giratina do though, that's the worrying thing I'll just nominate wind again. That's fine. That's all right. We can just dazzle now and Psych up because we worry about potential sucker punch Although the psychic terrains up so we don't need to worry about it too much But a dazzling game should be enough to take down the Veltal unless it is a solid vest The big part of me that thinks in this team. It's probably not a solid vest But the dazzles enough. Oh, it probably is a solid vest Giratina Veltal so we got the the psych up onto the Zornius, which is nice and The psychic terrain is still up so we can Just go moon blast Aurora Sphere and take game one with psych of Mewtwo Which is excellent and it means because this one's pretty quick And let's just be a little bit safer because we don't know what the roles like on this dazzle. Let's go moon blast Let's go Aurora Sphere. Just seal this one up and we're like we're like hardly any time in so we're gonna have maybe Three games this episode would you be amazing if we can do that? So Pherothone gone moon blast doing the trick and Very good game to our first opponent today and good way for us to kick off. I guess so we'll get back into it. Oh And they disconnect Right at the death of the game. I mean Where there's no need for that? Taking our glory away, but I mean we got to the end of the game. We knew the result we knew So we'll hop into our next one again if it takes a little bit longer to find an opponent I will cut straight to where we bump into someone And we've got our next opponent of the episode just like that. So here we go into it If I can even find there we go. So we've got zonius. We've got a zonius. We've got a zonius The everything is right in the world. So here we go. We've got zonius. We were growed on we got Bishop Tornadus tapu fini and Serena so we can do the ditto thing 100% here Right, what are we gonna do? So I think me twos me to Lele is pretty good here We kind of deny the Tornadus taunt. We deny the sucker punch from the Bishop we can dazzle Aurora spirit We can nuke the zonius if you want we bring ditto and I think we'll bring our own zonius as well Just for extra Geomancy support And we will await opponent locking in and see what they bring hmm Bishop seems quite tempting if you're my opponent I feel against all these fairies and psychic types Seems like a great match up honestly But the psychic terrain does conflict with its ability to operate as well as you kind of want it to because especially with me too with the Aurora sphere Does deal with it a lot better than Like not have now obviously but here we go See what my opponent leads off with zonius and Bishop. This is fine This is all fine because we can dazzle and gleam weaken Aurora sphere Turn one get rid of the Bishop turn to We can switch in ditto on the zonius We can get that that that boost take a little bit of damage Kick out the zonius and then go from there. So like I say what we'll do dazzle Aurora sphere Hopefully the Bishop doesn't protect you that would complicate things a little bit Just a just a tad just a tad, but I'm confident see the Bishop go for an iron head Hopefully it does Go on Bishop be tempted don't think about Aurora sphere on me too No, you aren't thinking about it. That's great.  We'll see the geometry here We probably have to sack Lele.  He dealt with the Bishop which was the kind of the main thing that we needed to To deal with okay See what comes a crowd on Now this could be a bit more trickier Because if we see a press of his blades here It does make things a little bit more like all dazzling game again And we will we will ditto in four Four zonius Come on. We need to make this work. Please let this work. Please come on Okay, they're tall here. We go my boy There we go the imposter into zonius get that fairy or a guy The moon blast where you go and don't go into me, too.  This is so bad it feels so bad for my point okay, that's fine They didn't want to target the zonius. I can't believe Lele actually survived that that's insane, right? Lele we're gonna go dazzling gleam And I think we go moon blast into the ground on we don't care about the zonius you you attack it into a zonius all you like Because you will get red carded Red card So we win the speed time We just do that moon blast crowd on get rid of it. Okay. Come on dazzling gleam. Please come on dazzling gleam moon blast Into us perfect perfect We get the special attack drop it's fine though red card. Bye. Bye Okay Serena dazzling gleam single target We can just double dazzling gleam. We're not gonna be able to we don't even need them you to here ditto Ditto is gonna win this one for us Can you believe it? Okay, this is this is all right We get pretty lucky. I mean missing that the precious blades miss It was pretty big. Um, okay. I Mean double dazzle There's not really I mean yeah, this arena can't even faint because of the psychic terrain, so Yeah, we're gonna be able to just close this one up Tapulele ditto I'm gonna wear better time now with ditto in this in this episode than we've got another forfeit. Come on This is what this would this team is reducing people to I mean You did miss two precious blades, I know how I feel you know how I would feel You know how I feel when this happens, so but I never I never turn off. I never turn off. I feel like Never mind never mind It does mean that we get into our next game a bit quicker But again like always if it does take a little bit longer to find the next opponent We'll just cut to it and we'll get into it and we have our next opponent of the episode It's Kedi from Spain and playing a team up. I don't see a zernius, but it's it's all all right We see cello steal a tapaco go tapulele hydra again Kyoga and me too, so we've got a me too versus me to match up in this one What are we gonna do what are we gonna do I do feel like we could Hmm could we use Clefairy here? To zernius up no because of the Kyoga. That's the problem. Well, do we see the Kyoga lead? That's the other thing Now I think what we'll do with Clefairy will zernius will ditto and will me too And we'll go all in all in and actually get to the right screen in the end. Good luck, Kedi. I Don't know if this one's gonna work out in my head as long as the Kyoga doesn't lead We can get the follow me Geomancy up and then we can get the me too and we can maneuver ourselves into a position where we can get the Psyche up Geomancy off the cello stealer complicates things quite a bit Especially if we give it a free beast boost But Still be all right I think Because you can follow me We definitely go down to a heavy slam Let's Geomancy because sacrificing Clefairy to get me to it.  That's fine That is so fine. That is so fine So we'll get the Geomancy Hmm, let's see what the cello stealer heavy slam Might not as well because heavy slams not the best attack against earliest because Durnius is so heavy itself Leech seed that makes a lot more sense But we're kind of free to go follow me Dazzle Dazzle Dazzle Dazzle Oh, but we can't because we taunted course and one thing we could do is bring in me to put Clefairy and We could just Do we get rid of the cocoa now? Dazzling gleam. She said I don't want to get leech seeded on Xernius. That's the one thing So and I feel like you would probably see the Xernius right now Especially with the Clefairy being taunted and no follow me access So, let's do this. Let's protect Xernius. Let's get this psych up going See if we can do this Volt switch into Zern leech seed heavy slam into Zern perfect okay, so Let's psych up Xernius Let's Dazzling gleam. It should be enough to get the cocoa unless the cocoa is sashed That's the only thing that's crossing my mind right now. Coco's sashed Has a good time. It's got taunt. It would make sense So you can taunt taking attack But we should still be alright Yeah, sash Coco. There we are Where's this Volt switch going? It's into me too. You too. Don't don't go down Don't want you to go down. We need you to get the psych up Well, you're gonna get it. It's just Hopefully the celestial oh me too Me too join the party, but the green one Green one the jealous one the envy is seething from this me too. We do get the psych up though Come on. What's Celestial gonna do? Leech seed. Perfect. Don't mind this at all because now we just moonblast Aurora sphere. Oh Could dazzle Aurora sphere Probably better off dazzling Aurora sphere Probably doesn't hmm. There's a plus to Aurora sphere get Celestiala We'll find out right now Because that's what we're gonna go for the dazzle should get them you too Should do I'm hoping okay me too protecting. So we're just gonna get this attack onto the Celestiala now See how much this does come on. This is life or boosted as well. Oh I don't think the dazzling game is gonna be enough, you know, I really don't Is it to me too? No Me too is not heavy enough And a beast boost special defense as well, okay Now we now we bring this right back throwback to 2017 And have our own little Celestiala war It's one we've got the beast boost. We're gonna take that right off you. It's all good Hmm It's got why God which we have to be very careful of I'm gonna leech seed the opposing Celestiala because I feel like why God could be something that comes out I'm gonna moonblast them you too We know it's not got the sash. I Don't want to dazzle here and just be wide guarded denied. That would be the worst But can Celestiala be the one thing that pulls us back into this game? possibly But I think we've got to worry about is it Kyogre that the other oh Celestiala just protecting. Okay, that's fine Me too goes down now But we can't risk dazzling gleaming even against the core core Just because of that But I mean one of the things we could probably do is moonblast this next turn Celestiala's probably out of range from moonblaster, isn't it? Right now Cocoa coming back in yeah We could leech seed Leech seed Celestiala Moonblast Celestiala I Think we take an attack from Cocoa with with says and Cocoa might protect you Moonblast is it enough to get the Celestiala? I don't know if it is should be It's not Electra web zonius avoids. She's ideal Celestiala doesn't but that's fine We do kick the cocoa out. So that's that's helpful. Let me see the tabulate is the last one. So Celestiala can definitely win this We do get the leech seed often to the Celestiala. So if we if I need to go first heavy slam makes a lot of sense To the zonius how much is this gonna do? Wow We lose zonius now Man, that's not great hmm It's all about Clefairy and Celestiala now But we can double protect and get the Celestiala this next turn with leech seed damage surely Whoa, this is gonna be class, but I feel like Celestiala can do this. This is making the episode a lot longer and A lot more interesting Celestiala like I never really it's Honestly thought Matt. It's not that great against zonius because even Jim answered up. It's still gonna take far too much damage and far too much damage from the other restricted Pokemon, but Showing in this sort of game. It's not doing too bad Protect from the opposing Celestiala. Okay Don't know why you protect on when you're leech seeded because you you can potentially go down now In power. Okay in power fire imagine Yeah Probe I don't think there is a problem actually. I think we just heavy slam the Lele. I feel like the Lele's scarfed Hmm no we heavy slam the Celestiala we go for Follow me we get another beast boost Hopefully we win the speed time. Look at this Clefairy. It's like Follow me pulling that in power fire Yep, hopefully come on Posing Celestiala now. I'm gonna lose Clefairy. Oh We should have targeted the Lele We should have targeted the Lele, but it's fine because I think Maybe we can still Maybe we can still win. Maybe it's gonna be so close though. We've got to take a Thunderbolt and a hidden power fire Can we do that? I don't know without without the the if we had leftovers I think we could have done it But we've got to we've got a heavy slam the Coco To shame me we lost the speed time there who really is Like we get the Celestiala before I'm Coco protecting. Okay smart smarts See what this fire does All right, there's too much too much damage too much Yeah, we can't we can't win this now and the Lele would have been the obvious target there But I'm more worried about the the Coco going Thunderbolt We nearly got them you two going there's a taunt. Okay So we should have went for it again Can we take one more of the Beast boost here maybe take With a plus three we maybe take one more in power fire. So it might not be over Do we take it? Do we actually can ditto come through in this game? And allow us to win this Ditto is ever a time to do this It's right now the end of the moon series the very last move in the moon series. Can you do this? Let's do it there for all the viewers My god, that's insane. Can we take the Lele down we do What a way to end what a way to end I couldn't ask for anything better honestly I couldn't have great game to my opponent What a way for us to end ditto coming through Reversing flipping the tables from last week where we left it and thought I can never play ditto But we've done it. We've done it guys.  Thank you so much for all support through the moon series I hope you've enjoyed it I hope you continue to enjoy this daily battle series going into the ultra series Obviously the last couple of weeks here have been a lot more fun But we'll be getting back into the serious stuff going into next week. We'll be kicking off on Tuesday Remember there's no episode on Monday So we'll have that little special sword and shield episode that we'll be doing in that mini series starting then So I hope you enjoy that. Thanks for tuning in. Have a great weekend, and I will see you all very soon So until the next time guys take care and bye. Bye