Infineon lancerer første 32-bit MCU'er med ARM Cortex M4
Infineons nye XMC4500 industrielle MCU'er nu tilgængelige sammen med en omfattende palette af softwareudviklingsværktøjer (in english).
Infineon Technologies has launched its XMC4500 series, the company’s first 32-bit industrial microcontrollers using the Cortex M4 processor from ARM. The XMC4500 microcontrollers will go into high-volume production in May 2012.
Complementing the product are development tools providing comprehensive support: In addition to Infineon’s free DAVE 3 development environment, a full range of tools is available including compilers, debuggers, software analysis and Flash programming tools, an extensive range of software solutions and consulting services by reputable providers. The XMC4500 series is suited particularly for use in electric drives, solar inverters and the automation of manufacturing and buildings.
- The XMC4000 family is more closely tailored to industrial customers’ requirements than any other competing product: it offers high-performance peripherals and a comprehensive development environment that makes familiarization convenient, time-saving and free of charge, says Dr. Stephan Zizala, Senior Director of Industrial and Multimarket Microcontrollers at Infineon Technologies AG.
- The XMC4500 series reaps the benefits of our more than 30 years of experience in microcontroller development for industrial applications. XMC4500 has timer modules optimized for electric motor control, fast ADCs, integrated delta sigma demodulators, fast and robust Flash memory and an extended temperature range of up to 125 °C.
In common with all members of the XMC4000 family, the XMC4500 series helps to improve the energy efficiency of the systems, supports a large number of communication standards and reduces complexity during software development. To this end, Infineon offers the free DAVE 3 integrated development environment. In addition to code generation based on DAVE apps, the development environment features a GNU compiler, a debugger and data visualization tools. A modular design kit is also available.
Up to three additional application boards – for communication with other systems, for actuators and sensors, and for human-machine interface (HMI) functions – can be connected to the basic design board, depending on the respective application requirements.
The XMC4500 series currently comprises several products differing in terms of temperature range (85 °C or 125 °C), Flash memory size (512 kB to 1 MB) and package (LQFP-100, LQFP-144 and LFBGA-144).
The XMC4500 microcontrollers provide a 120 MHz CPU, 160 Kbytes of RAM and a comprehensive range of peripheral and interface functions. The peripherals include four parallel fast 12-bit A/D converter modules, two 12-bit D/A converters, four delta sigma demodulator modules and six capture/compare units (CCU4 and CCU8).
Added to this are two positioning interface modules, a touch button and an LED matrix control module. Communication functions comprise interfaces for Ethernet, USB, and SD/MMC. In addition, three CAN nodes, six serial communication channels and one external bus interface are provided.
