MCUs offer greater control performance and connectivity for industrial applications

Mouser is now stocking the XMC1400 industrial series microcontrollers from Infineon Technologies. Members of Infineon’s XMC1000 family of microcontrollers, the series offer greater control performance and additional connectivity tailored to applications such as LED lighting, digital power conversion, motor control, industrial automation, and HMI. The microcontrollers are real-time-capable devices based on a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 core with comprehensive peripheral functionality. Offering up to 200kBytes of flash and 16kBytes of RAM, the 48MHz microcontrollers deliver a set of highly flexible peripherals, including timers, PWM modules, and ADCs that can operate at double frequency (96MHz). Specific to industrial control, the devices contain Capture/Compare Units 8 (CCU8) for complex PWM, CCU4 for signal monitoring and PWM, two POSIF for motor positioning, high speed analog comparators, and a BCCU for flicker-free digital dimming and color control of LEDs. The devices offer standard communications interfaces such as UART, I2C, SPI, LIN and I2S. The XMC1403 and XMC1404 microcontrollers also offer two CAN nodes with 32 message objects. The company’s microcontrollers are specified at -40C to 105C ambient temperature for robustness in industrial environments, and ships with a complimentary Infineon DAVE toolchain with low-level drivers and apps.