Infineon Technologies AG has introduced a new series of microcontrollers (MCUs). Specifically, targeting next-generation industrial and consumer motor control as well as power conversion system applications.

This includes home appliances, power tools, renewable energy products, industrial drives, and lighting and computing/telecom power supplies. The new Infineon PSOC™ Control family, based on Arm ^® Cortex ^®-M33 core, delivers on-board functionality. Thus, optimizing and accelerating the current measurement, waveform generation, and real-time performance operations. These play critical roles in target system applications.

Delivers Performance, Efficiency

Steve Tateosian, SVP of IoT and Industrial MCUs, IoT, Wireless and Compute Business, Infineon Technologies said, “The new Infineon PSOC Control MCUs extend the company’s commitment to delivering performance and efficiency in next-generation motor control and power conversion applications.” Moreover, Tateosian said the product comes with extensive on-board analog functionality, high performance timers, hardware math acceleration, and a rich design tool ecosystem. Thus, the new device family will enable system designers to deliver innovative, energy-saving devices to both high-volume and specialized markets.” 

Key specifications of the new MCU family include clock speed of up to 180 MHz, high-performance analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), high-resolution (<100 ps) pulse-width-modulation (PWM) and an integrated CORDIC Accelerator to off-load real-time control tasks from the CPU.

Furthermore, CORDIC’s true synchronous “idle” sampling of up to 16 analog signals from the single core ADC is up to 25 percent faster without sampling jitter. This powerful combination of power and performance yields system level bill-of-material (BOM) savings, while the <10 uA deep sleep and <1 uA hibernate modes deliver valuable energy savings for low-power and battery-driven applications.

The Infineon PSOC Control family supports innovative design of power electronics based on wide-band gap (WBG) technologies such as Silicon Carbide (SiC) and Gallium Nitride (GaN), which can both enhance performance and further reduce BOM costs for the overall system.

About ModusToolbox™ platform

As with all Infineon MCUs, the Infineon PSOC Control family has the support of the ModusToolbox™ Software. Accordingly, this modular, extensible development ecosystem includes building blocks for both product evaluation and production.

These include blocks for Field-Oriented Control (FOC) of brushless and permanent magnet motors, power conversion algorithms (PFC, LLC, Buck, etc.) and device drivers. In addition, evaluation boards, system reference designs, debuggers and a comprehensive family of PC-based development tools round-out the ModusToolbox Software. Hence, providing a flexible and comprehensive development experience.

ModusToolbox Motor Suite

To enable designers to get to market faster, the ModusToolbox Motor Suite also comes with the support for all devices in the PSOC Control family. This suite includes a compilation of software, tools, and resources that extends the capabilities of the ModusToolbox ecosystem to support motor control applications. The ModusToolbox Motor Suite reduces the complexity of these use cases through a systematic development flow to support advanced motor control development kits, selection of control algorithms, and to enable the testing, tuning, and monitoring of motor parameters.

07 August 2024