Neubiberg, Germany - January 23, 2012 - Today Infineon
Technologies introduced its new XMC4000 32-bit
microcontroller family, which uses the Cortex™-M4 processor
from ARM®. Infineon applied more than 30 years of
experience in the development of microcontrollers with
application-optimized peripherals and outstanding real-time
capability in its design of the XMC4000 family, and
combines this with the advantages of a widely distributed
core architecture. The XMC4000 family supports three main
trends in industrial applications: It helps to improve
energy efficiency, supports a large number of communication
standards and reduces software complexity during
development. The target applications of the XMC4000 family
include electric drives, solar inverters and the automation
of manufacturing and buildings.
"Savings play an important role to satisfy the increasing
energy demands of a growing world population," said Peter
Bauer, CEO of Infineon Technologies AG. "With our
market-leading power semiconductors and now the new ARM
based microcontroller family XMC4000, Infineon enables
energy efficient control of a wide range of industrial
applications."
XMC4000 Family: One microcontroller platform with countless
solutions
XMC stands for "Cross-Market Microcontroller" and means
that, due to its configurability, the XMC4000 family is
suitable for a wide range of industrial applications.
Infineon is using this product to close the performance gap
between the 16-bit XE166 family and the 32-bit TriCore™
family. The XMC4000 family is designed to enable scalable,
compatible solutions with a high degree of software
reusability. The XMC4000 portfolio consists of five series:
XMC4100, XMC4200, XMC4400, XMC4500 and XMC4700. These
series mainly differ in terms of core frequency, memory
capacity and peripheral functions and number of I/O's.
The XMC4000 family has a powerful CPU subsystem, DSP
functionality, a floating point unit, a fast Flash memory
with only 22ns read time and error correction code (ECC),
large SRAM and extended peripheral functions. The extensive
range of peripherals includes new timer modules, up to four
parallel 12-bit A/D converters with a sampling rate of 70ns
and a conversion time of 500ns, up to two 12-bit D/A
converters, up to four high-resolution PWM channels (150
ps), integrated delta-sigma demodulator modules and touch
button modules. Powerful communication is provided by an
IEEE 1588-compatible Ethernet MAC (Media Access Control for
Ethernet with time stamp), USB 2.0, CAN and SD/MMC
interfaces and up to six serial communication channels
which can be individually configured as UART, SPI, Quad
SPI, IIC, IIS or LIN using software. In addition, the
XMC4000 family offers a fast external bus interface that
supports synchronous standards such as SDRAM or Burst
Flash, and asynchronous standards such as SRAM, NAND Flash
and NOR Flash.
DAVE™ 3 and Third Party Tools - comprehensive and efficient
development support for XMC4000
The integrated development environment DAVE™ 3 makes
convenient, fast and application-oriented software
development possible. The Eclipse-based environment with
free GNU compiler, debugger and data display utilities can
be extended using third party tools. DAVE 3 also supports
automatic code generation based on predefined software
components, the so-called "DAVE Apps". The DAVE Apps are
configured in a user-friendly way via the graphical user
interface. DAVE 3 therefore ensures that developers of
industrial applications can make full use of the
functionality of XMC4000 microcontrollers with only little
programming effort. The code that is generated can be
directly compiled, debugged and displayed in DAVE 3 - or
imported into third party tools for further processing.
Infineon cooperates with more than 20 partners, who provide
other specific development tools, software solutions,
training and consulting services for the XMC4000
family.
"Our XMC4000 family combines optimized peripherals with the
advantages of the widespread ARM architecture for
industrial applications", said Dr. Stephan Zizala, Senior
Director, Industrial and Multimarket Microcontrollers at
Infineon Technologies AG. "Our customers in industrial
electronics benefit from our many years of application
experience that result in convincing novelties: flexible
timers, fast ADC's, fast and robust Flash memory and
extended temperature ranges of up to 125 °C. Using the
development environment DAVE makes familiarization with the
XMC4000 family convenient, time-saving and free of
charge."
XMC4500 for industrial applications in the medium
performance range
The first device in the 32-bit XMC4000 family that Infineon
is bringing to market is the XMC4500 series. These
microcontrollers offer a 120-MHz-CPU, up to 1 MByte of
embedded Flash memory, 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, six capture/compare units (CCU4
and CCU8), two positioning interface modules, and a module
for eight touch buttons. Communication functions comprise
interfaces for Ethernet, USB, and SD/MMC. In addition, the
XMC4000 family offers three CAN modules, six serial
communication channels and one external bus interface for
communication. The package options are LQFP-144, LQFP-100
and LFBGA-100.
Availability of XMC4500 and other family members
Samples of the XMC4500 series and DAVE 3 will be available
from March 2012. High-volume production of the XMC4500
products starts in May 2012. For development support
Infineon offers a modular design kit with which up to three
additional application boards can be connected to the basic
design board, depending on the respective application
requirements. Samples of the XMC4400, XMC4200 and XMC4100
series will be available from the fourth quarter of 2012.
Depending on the XMC4000 series and package selected, the
unit price for a XMC4000 microcontroller ranges between
Euro 1 and Euro 7.
Other information
More information about the XMC family can be found at .
Infineon will present the XMC4500 series and the
development environment DAVE 3 at its booth #142 in hall 4
at the "Embedded World 2012" trade show (Nuremberg,
Germany, February 28, to March 1, 2012).
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