Infineon

Why Infineon with Macnica?

Infineon brings a complete portfolio for system design, from motor control and power to sensing, connectivity, security, and memory. Macnica adds application expertise, reference designs, and hands-on support so you can move quickly from idea to pilot to production.

  • Automotive excellence, safety, quality, and long-term supply
  • Robotics acceleration, motors, batteries, navigation, and security
  • Healthcare readiness, precise sensing, secure connectivity, low power

 

 

Automotive

Infineon is a leader in automotive semiconductors for body, powertrain, ADAS, lighting, and in-cabin systems. Work with Macnica to map parts, accelerate design, and plan a secure supply program that matches your production goals.

 

Key Building Blocks:

  • AURIX and TRAVEO microcontrollers
  • OptiMOS and CoolMOS power, EiceDRIVER gate drivers
  • Automotive transceivers and networking
  • OPTIGA security for device identity and data integrity

 

Automotive

Key Applications:

  • Body and lighting systems
    TRAVEO II and AURIX MCUs for body control, LITIX LED drivers for exterior and interior lighting, CAN FD transceivers and system basis chips for networking and power management. OptiMOS and CoolMOS for efficient switching, EiceDRIVER gate drivers for robust control.
  • Comfort actuators, pumps, fans, seats, and closures
    MOTIX motor control, either XMC or PSoC Control C3 MCUs with external 6EDL7141 three-phase gate driver, or the integrated IMD701A option that combines XMC1404 with a 6EDL7141 driver in one package. Pair with OptiMOS MOSFETs and angle or Hall sensors for position feedback.
  • Battery management and 12-V sub-systems
    TLE9012 or TLE9018 BMS ICs for cell monitoring and balancing, TLI4971 current sensor for accurate current measurement, protection and balancing MOSFETs, plus EiceDRIVER high-side drivers.
  • ECU connectivity and security
    Automotive transceivers for CAN and LIN, OPTIGA security for device identity and firmware integrity, AURIX safety concepts for functional safety paths.

Robotics

From service and logistics robots to cobots and mobile platforms, Infineon covers motor control, batteries, sensing, compute, connectivity, and security. The Infineon Mobile Robot platform gives you a fast path from demo to design, with reference hardware and software that shorten evaluation.

 

Key Building Blocks:

  • Motor control: PSoC Control C3 and XMC MCUs, 6EDL7141 or MOTIX IMD701A drivers, OptiMOS or CoolGaN power, EiceDRIVER gate drivers
  • Battery systems: Battery monitor and balancing, current sensing, protection FETs, CAN transceivers
  • Sensing and navigation: REAL3 hybrid Time-of-Flight, 60 GHz radar, angle and current sensors, MEMS microphones
  • Connectivity and security: AIROC Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, OPTIGA security ICs

 

 

Robotics

Key Applications and Ideal Infineon Solutions:

  • AMR drive and motion control
    Choose IMD701A for a compact, fully programmable wheel drive, or use XMC or PSoC Control C3 with a 6EDL7141 three-phase gate driver. Add OptiMOS MOSFETs, EiceDRIVER gate drivers, TLE5012 angle sensors, and TLE9351 CAN for robust motion subsystems.
  • Battery systems for mobile robots
    TLE9012 or TLE9018 BMS for 12 to 18-cell packs, TLI4971 current sensor for accurate current measurement, protection FETs and high-side drivers, AIROC Bluetooth LE for service interfaces.
  • Navigation, obstacle avoidance, and SLAM
    REAL3 hybrid ToF navigation sensor for high-resolution depth at close range and room-scale mapping, 60 GHz XENSIV radar for presence and motion sensing in all lighting conditions.
  • Connectivity and fleet comms
    AIROC Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combos for reliable links between robots, infrastructure, and cloud services.
  • Edge compute and HMI
    PSoC Edge for ML at the edge and sensor pre-processing, PSoC 6 or PSoC Control C3 for control loops, timing, and fast ADCs.

 

Healthcare

Infineon enables medical wearables, patient monitoring, healthcare robotics, and lab automation. Pair low-power MCUs and precise sensors with secure connectivity and robust power to build reliable devices. Regulatory certifications depend on your end product, Macnica can help you choose components that align with your path.

 

Key Building Blocks:

  • Sensing: CO2 and pressure sensors, 60 GHz radar for contactless vital signs, magnetic and current sensors, MEMS microphones
  • Compute: PSoC 6 and PSoC Edge MCUs for signal processing and ML at the edge
  • Connectivity and security: AIROC Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, OPTIGA security for device identity and data protection

 

Healthcare

Key Applications:

  • Patient monitoring and contactless vital sensing
    60 GHz XENSIV radar modules for heart and respiration monitoring without contact, PSoC Edge for signal processing and ML, AIROC Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for data handoff, OPTIGA Trust for device identity and data integrity.
  • Medical wearables and smart health devices
    PSoC 6 for ultra-low power control and sensing, AIROC Bluetooth for mobile pairing, secure boot and OPTIGA for protected data paths, pressure and magnetic sensors where required.
  • Air quality and facility monitoring
    XENSIV PAS CO2 sensors for indoor air quality, DPS368 pressure sensors for environmental or flow feedback, plus Wi-Fi or BLE for connectivity.
  • Lab automation and healthcare robotics
    Motor and motion subsystems using IMD701A or 6EDL7141 with XMC or PSoC Control C3, OptiMOS MOSFETs and EiceDRIVER gate drivers for compact reliable pump and actuator control.

 

Solutions

 


 

 

Actuate

Motor and motion control for wheels, pumps, fans, joints, and valves

  •  Use cases: AMR wheel drives, cobot joints, conveyors, HVAC fans, lab pumps
  • Ideal Infineon parts: MOTIX IMD701A motor control SoC, 6EDL7141 three phase gate driver, OptiMOS MOSFETs or CoolGaN where density helps, EiceDRIVER gate drivers, IPMs for compact stages
  • Add sensors: TLI4971 current sensing, TLE5012 angle sensing for FOC, Hall where appropriate
  • Tools: ModusToolbox Motor Control, FOC libraries, tuning dashboards
  • Sense: REAL3 hToF, 60 GHz radar, magnetic, current, pressure, MEMS microphones, CO2

 

 


 

 

Compute

Deterministic control and ML at the edge with low power

  • Use cases: Motor control loops and timing, safety islands, HMI, sensor fusion and local inference
  • Ideal Infineon parts: PSoC Control C3, PSoC 6, PSoC Edge for ML and sensor processing, XMC for motor control, AURIX when automotive safety or performance is required
  • Tips: Isolate control and communications tasks, size flash and RAM for models and logs, design for OTA updates
  • Tools: ModusToolbox, RTOS options, ML toolchains and examples

 

 


 

 

Connect

Reliable links within devices and across fleets

  • Use cases: Fleet telemetry, OTA updates, service BLE pairing, vehicle and facility networks, USB device attach
  • Ideal Infineon parts: AIROC Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combos, CAN and LIN transceivers, USB-C PD controllers, EZ-USB bridges, isolation for noisy domains
  • Tips: Reserve antenna keep-outs and ground, validate coexistence early, define PD power profiles and cable behavior
  • Tools: Connectivity stacks, certification test guides, antenna layout notes

 

 


 

 

Secure

Device identity, authentication, and protected firmware

  • Use cases: Secure boot and update, device attestation, cloud onboarding, accessory and battery pack authentication
  • Ideal Infineon parts: OPTIGA Trust and Authenticate families, TPM where required by platform policy
  • Tips: Define PKI and provisioning flows early, align security with OTA and manufacturing tests
  • Tools: OPTIGA host libraries, example flows and integration notes

 

 


 

 

Sense

Depth, presence, position, current, pressure, and acoustic sensing

  • Use cases: Obstacle detection, contactless vital signs, encoderless position, air quality, acoustic classification
  • Ideal Infineon parts: REAL3 hybrid ToF, XENSIV 60 GHz radar, XENSIV magnetic angle sensors, TLI4971 current sensors, DPS368 pressure, digital MEMS microphones, PAS CO2
  • Tips: Plan FOV and range early, budget for shielding and calibration, use sensor fusion to improve confidence
  • Tools: Sensor SDKs, data logging utilities, depth and radar visualization tools

 

Product Families

 

CategoryFamilyShort copyIdeal applicationsRecommended starter part or kit

Microcontrollers

PSoC Control C3

Motor control oriented MCU with fast ADCs, high resolution PWMs, and peripherals for FOC and BLDC control.

AMR wheel drives, pumps and fans, lab automation actuators

PSoC Control C3 evaluation kit

PSoC 6

Ultra low power dual core MCU for connected HMI and sensing with plenty of memory for RTOS and comms stacks.

Wearables, patient monitors, smart health devices, robotics HMI panels

60 GHz radar evaluation board

PSoC Edge

Edge ML processing with sensor fusion support and secure boot to run local inference efficiently.

Vision and navigation pre processing, vital signs processing, anomaly detection at the edge

PSoC Edge starter kit

XMC

Industrial control MCUs that pair well with gate drivers for precise motor and power control.

Robot joints and conveyors, pumps, fans, industrial motion control

XMC motor control kit

AURIX

Safety focused multi core MCU for automotive control and gateways with powerful peripherals.

Body control modules, domain controllers, safety related control paths

AURIX TC3xx evaluation board

TRAVEO

Automotive grade MCUs for body, comfort, lighting, and cluster applications.

Body control, lighting controllers, instrument clusters

TRAVEO II body control starter kit

Sensors

REAL3 hToF depth

Hybrid Time of Flight depth sensing for navigation and close range perception with robust performance indoors.

Obstacle avoidance, path planning, people detection in service robots

REAL3 evaluation module

60 GHz radar

Compact radar modules for presence, motion, and contactless vital sign detection that work in all lighting.

Patient monitoring, human presence, fall detection, occupancy and intrusion sensing

60 GHz radar evaluation board

Magnetic angle TLE5012

Precise angle sensing for position feedback in motors and mechanisms, supports FOC control.

Robot joints, gimbals, closures, valves and actuators

TLE5012 angle sensor eval kit

Current sensing TLI4971

Accurate, fast current measurement with excellent linearity to stabilize motor and power loops.

Motor phase current, battery current, power rails

TLI4971 current sensor shield

DPS368 pressure

High precision pressure sensing in a very small package for environmental and flow feedback.

Airflow, altitude and pressure feedback, pump control

DPS368 pressure sensor board

Digital MEMS microphones

Low noise digital microphones for voice and acoustic sensing with simple digital interfaces.

Operator HMI, sound classification, audio monitoring

Infineon digital MEMS mic eval board

PAS CO2

Photoacoustic CO2 sensing for precise indoor air quality measurement and ventilation control.

Hospital rooms, labs, clean spaces, smart building monitoring

XENSIV PAS CO2 evaluation kit

Motor Control

MOTIX IMD701A

Integrated motor control SoC that combines control MCU and three phase gate driver for compact designs.

AMR wheel drives, pumps and fans, compact drives in lab equipment

IMD701A motor control kit

6EDL7141

Programmable three phase gate driver with protections and diagnostics for BLDC and PMSM control.

High performance drives using PSoC or XMC control, cobot joints, conveyors

6EDL7141 driver board

EiceDRIVER gate drivers

High side and half bridge drivers that simplify robust, efficient power stages.

Drives that require isolation or higher voltage stages, pumps, HVAC

EiceDRIVER evaluation board

iMOTION

Motor control IC family with built in field oriented control to speed time to spin.

Fans, pumps, compressors, appliances and facility systems

iMOTION MADK platform

Intelligent Power Modules

Compact modules that integrate switches and drivers for small, reliable power stages.

Space constrained drives and actuators in robots and lab tools

IPM dev board

Power

OptiMOS MOSFETs

Low Rds(on) MOSFETs for efficient switching with many voltage and package options.

Motor phases, battery protection, DC DC converters

OptiMOS reference design

CoolMOS

Superjunction MOSFETs for high efficiency AC DC and DC DC conversion.

Power supplies and PFC stages, chargers and adapters

CoolMOS PFC reference design

CoolGaN

Gallium nitride devices for high frequency, high density power stages.

Compact chargers, on robot power supplies where size matters

CoolGaN half bridge board

CoolSiC

Silicon carbide devices with excellent efficiency for demanding power conversion.

Fast charging, high power inverters and supplies

CoolSiC evaluation kit

DC DC and LDO regulators

Point of load conversion and low noise regulation for sensitive analog and compute domains.

Sensors, radios, MCUs, mixed signal subsystems

Multi rail DC DC eval board

Connectivity

AIROC Wi-Fi plus Bluetooth

Combo radios with certified stacks for robust device and fleet connectivity.

Fleet telemetry, OTA updates, service BLE pairing, local AP links

Wi-Fi 6 plus Bluetooth dev kit

CAN transceivers

Robust networking for vehicles and industrial robots with fault tolerant options.

AMRs and AGVs, ECUs, distributed motion nodes

TLE CAN transceiver shield

LIN transceivers

Simple low cost networking for body and actuator nodes.

Automotive body and comfort, auxiliary actuators and sensors

LIN transceiver board

USB C Power Delivery controllers

USB C and PD negotiation for device attach, charging, and accessory support.

Service and debug ports, accessory power, battery powered devices

USB C PD controller kit

Security

OPTIGA Trust

Secure element for device identity, authentication, and protected key storage.

Secure onboarding, accessory and battery authentication

OPTIGA Trust evaluation kit

OPTIGA Authenticate

Security IC for accessory and consumable authentication with lightweight host integration.

Disposable medical consumables, accessory lock out, anti counterfeiting

OPTIGA Authenticate starter kit

TPM

Trusted Platform Module for systems that require standards based measured boot and attestation.

Gateways, PCs and embedded controllers that adopt TPM policy

Infineon TPM module

Memory

SEMPER NOR Flash

High reliability NOR flash with safety features for code storage and OTA updates.

Automotive ECUs, robotics controllers, gateways

SEMPER evaluation board

EXCELON F RAM

Non volatile RAM with fast writes and high endurance for logs and parameters.

Event logs, configuration and counters, black box data

EXCELON F RAM shield

HYPERRAM

High bandwidth, low pin count PSRAM for frame buffers and scratch storage.

Depth and radar buffers, display and vision tasks

HYPERRAM Pmod board

nvSRAM

SRAM speed with non volatile backup for critical data retention.

Robotics safety and state data, medical device records

nvSRAM dev board

USB and Interface

EZ USB bridges

Flexible USB bridges for high speed data movement between sensors and hosts.

Cameras and sensors to host, test and measurement tools

EZ USB dev kit

USB C PD controllers

USB C attach and power delivery control for peripherals and device charging.

Docking, charging and accessory power for robots and healthcare devices

USB C PD controller kit

Isolation and transceivers

Digital isolators and robust transceivers for noisy or high side domains.

High voltage motor and power stages, medical isolation paths

Isolation reference board