MCU family targets motor control and power conversion in industrial and consumer applications

Infineon Technologies AG has introduced a new series of MCUs for next-generation industrial and consumer motor control and power conversion system applications. These include home appliances, power tools, renewable energy products, industrial drives, and lighting and computing/telecom power supplies. The new PSOC Control family, based on Arm Cortex-M33 core, delivers onboard functionality to optimise and accelerate the current measurement, waveform generation, and real-time performance operations that play a critical role in target system applications.

"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," said Steve Tateosian, SVP of IoT and Industrial MCUs, IoT, Wireless and Compute Business, Infineon Technologies. "With extensive onboard analog functionality, high performance timers, hardware math acceleration, and a rich design tool ecosystem, the new device family will enable system designers to deliver innovative, energy-saving devices to both high-volume and specialiseds markets."

Key specifications of the new MCU family include a clock speed of up to 180MHz, high-performance ADCs, high-resolution (<100ps) PWM and an integrated CORDIC Accelerator to off-load real-time control tasks from the CPU. CORDIC's true synchronous 'idle' sampling of up to 16 analog signals from the single-core ADC is up to 25% faster without sampling jitter. This powerful combination of power and performance yields system-level BOM savings, while the <10uA deep sleep and <1uA hibernate modes deliver valuable energy savings for low-power and battery-driven applications.

The PSOC Control family supports innovative power electronics design based on WBG technologies such as SiC and GaN. These technologies can enhance performance and further reduce overall system BOM costs.