New families of microcontrollers for the cars and industrial application market

Infineon addresses with its latest microcontroller the worldwide trend towards optimization of the energy efficiency in electronic controls which account for a substantial part of the worldwide energy consumption. Possibly one third of the worldwide energy consumption is electric energy, of it possibly half by electric motors.

Generate less CO2?

80 % of all motors found in lifts, conveyors, fridges, ventilating fans, water pumps and wash-ing machines are electrome- chanically controlled. Moreover, they are switched on or off and not electronically regulated, so that more than 50 % of the energy is lost! It is estimated that by the wide use of electrically controlled power units the worldwide consumption of electric energy could be lowered around up to 20 percent.

We find examples of the effective application of microcontrollers in the car industry. The efficiency of cars is continually increasing, with better performance from lower cubic ca-pacities accompanied by sav-ings in raw material resources (oil).

Infineon has extended its range of efficient, high-performance microcontrollers with two new families: XC2000 for automotive applications and the XE16xx family for industry sector applications.