Automotive PSoC™ 4100S Plus - Infineon Technologies

Overview

Description

PSoC™ 4 is a scalable and reconfigurable platform architecture for a family of programmable embedded system controllers with an Arm® Cortex®-M0+ CPU while being AEC-Q100 compliant. It combines programmable and reconfigurable analog and digital blocks with flexible automatic routing. PSoC™ 4100S Plus is a member of the PSoC™ 4 platform architecture. It is a combination of a microcontroller with standard communication and timing peripherals, a capacitive touch-sensing system (CAPSENSE™) with best-in-class performance, programmable general-purpose continuous-time and switched-capacitor analog blocks, and programmable connectivity. PSoC™ 4100S Plus products will be upward compatible with members of the PSoC™ 4 platform for new applications and design needs.

Key Features

Automotive Electronics Council (AEC) AEC-Q100 Qualified

32-bit MCU subsystem

48-MHz Arm® Cortex®-M0 CPU
Up to 128 KB of flash with Read Accelerator
Up to 16 KB of SRAM
8-channel DMA engine

Programmable Analog Blocks

Two opamps with reconfigurable high-drive external and high-bandwidth internal drive and Comparator modes and ADC input buffering capability. Opamps can operate in Deep Sleep low-power mode.
12-bit 1-Msps SAR ADC with differential and single-ended modes, and channel sequencer with signal averaging
Single-slope 10-bit ADC function provided by a capacitance sensing block
Two current DACs (IDACs) for general-purpose or capacitive sensing applications on any pin
Two low-power comparators that operate in Deep Sleep low-power mode

Programmable Digital

Programmable logic blocks allowing Boolean operations to be performed on port inputs and outputs

Low Power 1.71-V to 5.5-V operation

Deep Sleep mode with operational analog and 2.5 µA digital system current

Capacitive Sensing

Capacitive sigma-delta (CSD) provides best-in-class signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) (>5:1) and water tolerance
Infineon-supplied software component makes capacitive sensing design easy
Automatic hardware tuning (SmartSense™)

Serial Communication

Five independent run-time reconfigurable serial communication blocks (SCBs) with re-configurable I2 C, SPI, UART functionality, or LIN slave functionality

LCD Drive Capability

LCD segment drive capability on GPIOs

Timing and Pulse-Width Modulation

Eight 16-bit timer/counter/pulse-width modulator (TCPWM) blocks
Center-aligned, Edge, and Pseudo-random modes
Comparator-based triggering of Kill signals for motor drive and other high-reliability digital logic applications
Quadrature decoder

Clock sources

4 to 33 MHz external crystal oscillator (ECO)
PLL to generate 48-MHz frequency
32-kHz watch crystal oscillator (WCO)
±2% internal main oscillator (IMO)
32-kHz internal low-power oscillator (ILO)

True random number generator (TRNG)

TRNG generates truly random number for secure key generation for cryptography applications

CAN block

CAN 2.0B block with support for time-triggered CAN (TTCAN)

Up to 54 Programmable GPIO Pins

40-pin QFN, 48-pin QFN, 64-pin QFN, and 64-pin TQFP packages
Any GPIO pin can be CapSense, analog, or digital
Drive modes, strengths, and slew rates are programmable

PSoC™ Creator Design Environment

Integrated Development Environment (IDE) provides schematic design entry and build (with analog and digital automatic routing)
Applications Programming Interface (API) component for all fixed-function and programmable peripherals

Industry-Standard Tool Compatibility

After schematic entry, development can be done with Arm-based industry-standard development tools

Temperature Ranges

A Grade: –40 °C to +85 °C
S-Grade: –40 °C to +105 °C
E-Grade: –40 °C to +125 °C

Key benefits

Fourth-generation CAPSENSE™

PSoC™ 4 S-Series delivers robust noise immunity with superior SNR (>300:1), allowing home appliance customers to easily pass IEC 61000 standards. CapSense fourth-generation also implements robust liquid-level sensing solutions with mutual-capacitance sensing support and improving manufacturing robustness with SmartSenseTM auto-tuning.

Solves complex design problems with PSoC™ 4

PSoC™ 4 S-Series expands the portfolio by introducing Cypress’s fourth-generation CapSense®, Smart I/Os to implement pin-level digital logic and the 32-bit ARM® Cortex®-M0+ for all your mixed-signal embedded requirements.

Simplified low-power system design

PSoC™ 4 S-Series reduces average power consumption by boosting performance. Processing instructions at more than 2x the rate of legacy 8-bit and 16-bit MCUs the system is allowed to spend more time in sleep modes. CapSense fourth-generation also simplifies low-power system design with a low 3µA average current.

CAPSENSE™: Industry’s Best Capacitive Sensing Solution

Enables a touch user interface with up to 24 I/Os
SmartSense Auto-tuning speeds time-to-market and eliminates the need for manual system tuning.
Prevents false touches caused by liquids.
Implements advanced proximity sensing: wake-on-approach, liquid level detection, and IR sensor replacement.

Reduced system costs

Automotive PSoC™ 4 reduces system cost with Programmable Digital Blocks, Programmable Analog Blocks, CapSense and LIN Slave to:

Create custom AFEs for sensors and add sophisticated user interfaces
Communicate to car network with integrated LIN
Slave controllers
PSoC™ Creator enables easy integration of multiple ICs and system interfaces into one PSoC

Reliable Operation in Harsh Automotive EM Environment

Zero false touches reported by the touch sensors in harsh automotive environment.
Reduces Radiated Emissions (RE) by easily modifying CapSense Component parameters in PSoC™ CreatorTM IDE.
Complies with standard emission and immunity specifications like CISPR 25, ISO 11452, IEC 61967 and IEC 62132.