Germany: Infineon offers new microcontroller for automotive body applications
Monday, March 12, 2007, AutomotiveWorld.com
Infineon Technologies has announced the development of a new microcontroller family, XC2200, for automotive body and gateway applications.
The new XC2200 family includes more than 60 products. According to Infineon, it enables design engineers to select the MCU with the optimal combination of memory, peripheral set, temperature and packaging to match an application's requirements, both during and after their design cycle without any changes to the printed circuit board design.
The company claims that the new XC2200 can be easily used in various body and gateway applications within different model platforms and increases cost savings in development, qualification, validation and testing by up to 30%.
The new product features a high-performing central processing unit (CPU) which is expected to provide 80 million instructions per second. Infineon points out that it also includes an industry-first feature of light bulb supervision without engaging the CPU load. The new product is AUTOSAR compliant and has memory headroom of up to 1.28MB.
Automotive applications of the new product family include body central module (BCM) application such as internal and external lighting systems, car access and door modules with lighting, window lift, mirror positioning, refuelling indicator for windscreen wipers and clock. In addition, it is geared for central gateway applications, which manage all internal interfaces including motor management, in-car entertainment and dashboard control. It is also geared at air-conditioning applications.
Samples of the XC2200 family are available now and Infineon expects to start volume production of all family members in April 2008.
Published on Monday, March 12, 2007
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