32-bit TriCore™ AURIX™– TC4x
Infineon’s AURIX™ TC4x family of microcontrollers - a leader in real-time safety and security performance is coming!
Major disrupters have emerged in the automotive market:
- innovation in automotive E/E architecture microcontrollers (MCUs) in the areas of domain and zone control
- accelerated shift from conventional powertrain to xEV
- increased safety and automated driving
Infineon’s AURIX™ TC4x family addresses these challenges, pushing the boundaries in automotive MCU usage for safe and secure processing. These microcontrollers are designed for next generation eMobility, ADAS, automotive E/E architectures and affordable artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The first AURIX TC4x samples have already been chosen by lead customers for their upcoming designs.
The new scalable microcontroller TC4x family provides an upward migration path from Infineon’s leading AURIX™ TC3x family of ASIL-compliant automotive MCUs. Performance is boosted by the next-generation TriCore™ 1.8 and the scalable AURIX™ accelerator suite, including the new PPU (Parallel Processing Unit) and multiple smart accelerators.
Support for high-speed communication interfaces like 5G-bit Ethernet and PCIe along with new interfaces such as CAN-XL and 10BASE T1S Ethernet gives customers the performance, throughput and flexibility needed to implement new automotive-specific microcontrollers with E/E architectures.
The scalable family concept enables a common software architecture supporting significant platform software savings and the feature-rich concept gives plenty of headroom to grow for both Tier 1’s and OEMs.
For more information on the software supporting the AURIX™ TC4x family, please visit TC4x Software, which includes a comprehensive portfolio of embedded productive software and tools, as well as a rich set of software from ecosystem partners.
Key features
- Up to 6 TriCore™ v1.8 in lockstep running up to 500 MHz
- AURIX™ Accelerator Suite:
- Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) – enabling AI up to ASIL-D
- Data Routing Engine (DRE) – for efficient communication and data handling
- cDSP - programmable digital signal processing for the ADC signals
- Signal Processing Unit (SPU) - radar accelerator
- Security Accelerators (CSRM/CSS) - Hardware Crypto Acceleration
- Up to 25 MB on-chip Flash
- Zero downtime SOTA support with optimized A/B swap partitioning and external memory interfaces
- New eGTM timers and high-resolution PWM with low latency interconnect (LLI)
- Faster control loops for e-motors & power conversion
- GTM for compatibility with AURIX™ TC3xx
- ADC Converters TM/FC/DS/
- CDSP/DSEX accelerator
- Security cluster including CSRM and CSS offers enhanced security performance
- ISO 21434 compliant
- Safe DMA
- ASIL-D compliant
- Scalable high-speed communication interfaces:
- 5 Gbps Ethernet
- PCIe
- 10BASE T1S Ethernet
- CAN-XL
- Data Routing Engine (DRE) - communication accelerator
- Infineon MCAL drivers
- Re-use of existing AURIX™ TC3xx algorithms & ecosystem possible
- Rapid prototyping support from Virtual Prototyping using Synopsys - Virtualizer Development Kit for AURIX™ TC4x
- Software Development Kit (SDK)
- Simplify PPU software development using the Synopsys - MetaWare Toolkit for AURIX which includes MATLAB and Simulink, DSP and math libraries, Neural Network Software Development Kit, and AUTOSAR Complex Device Driver
The AURIX™ TC4x family features audio capabilities with I2S/TDM and mixer configurations, supporting 8-to-1 mixing of PCM streams at sample rates between 8 and 192 kbps. It includes a dedicated PLL for generating audio clocks and tunable frequencies for TSN media clock synchronization. The subsystem enables local DMA routing of mixer output with access protection.
Designed for applications like automated driving, the TC4x supports acoustic environment sensing for siren detection, road user identification, and surface analysis. In electric vehicles, it integrates AVAS and in-cabin active noise canceling. For infotainment and telematics, it offers audio amplification in zonal modules, reducing cable complexity and weight, while supporting in-cabin communication, audio zones, and telematics microphone arrays.
