Infineon PSOC Control MCU family targets motor control and power conversion
Infineon has introduced a new series of microcontrollers (MCUs) for next-generation industrial and consumer motor control as well as power conversion system applications. This includes home appliances, power tools, renewable energy products, industrial drives, and lighting and computing/telecom power supplies. The new Infineon PSOC Control family, based on Arm Cortex-M33 core, delivers on-board functionality to optimise and accelerate the current measurement, waveform generation and real-time performance operations that play a critical role in target system applications.
Key specifications of the new MCU family include clock speed of up to 180 MHz, high-performance analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), high-resolution (<100 ps) pulse-width-modulation (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 percent faster without sampling jitter. This powerful combination of power and performance yields system level bill-of-material (BOM) savings, while the <10 uA deep sleep and <1 uA hibernate modes deliver energy savings for low-power and battery-driven applications.
The Infineon PSOC Control family supports innovative design of power electronics based on wide-band gap (WBG) technologies such as Silicon Carbide (SiC) and Gallium Nitride (GaN), which can both enhance performance and further reduce BOM costs for the overall system.
As with all Infineon MCUs, the Infineon PSOC Control family is supported in ModusToolbox Software—a modular, extensible development ecosystem that includes building blocks for both product evaluation and production. These include blocks for Field-Oriented Control (FOC) of brushless and permanent magnet motors, power conversion algorithms (PFC, LLC, Buck, etc.) and device drivers. Evaluation boards, system reference designs, debuggers and a comprehensive family of PC-based development tools round-out the ModusToolbox Software to provide a flexible and comprehensive development experience.
To enable designers to get to market faster, the ModusToolbox Motor Suite is also supported for all devices in the PSOC Control family. This suite includes a compilation of software, tools, and resources that extends the capabilities of the ModusToolbox ecosystem to support motor control applications. The ModusToolbox Motor Suite reduces the complexity of these use cases through a systematic development flow to support advanced motor control development kits, selection of control algorithms, and to enable the testing, tuning, and monitoring of motor parameters.
