Next-Gen MCUs Target Motor Control and Power Conversion

The PSOC Control C3 microcontrollers developed by Infineon focus on boosting system efficiency, reliability, and flexibility.

What you'll learn:

  • Key features of the new PSOC Control MCU family.
  • How these features improve efficiency and overall performance for motor-control and power-conversion apps.

Infineon Technologies’ PSOC Control C3 microcontrollers were built to address the need for greater system efficiency, reliability, and flexibility, as well as higher standards for functional safety and security in motor-control and power-conversion applications. They ultimately equip designers with the tools required to innovate and get products to market faster. 

With real-time control, the Arm Cortex-M33 microcontroller family incorporates a high-performance analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and CORDIC Accelerator. True synchronous "idle" sampling of up to 16 analog signals from the single-core ADC boosts speed by up to 25% without any sampling jitter. The CORDIC Accelerator can offload the CPU and increase computational power for real-time critical tasks such as field-oriented motor-control algorithms. 

PSOC Control brings next-generation technology to industrial product innovation. The MCUs deliver differentiating peripherals to adapt wide-bandgap devices, integrated features to reduce system BOM costs, and ready-to-use code examples and development tools supported in the ModusToolbox software suite. It all leads to increased performance and efficiency for advanced motor-control and power-conversion products.

About the Author

Alix Paultre

Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces

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