MOTIX™ MCU | 32-bit motor control SoC based on Arm® Cortex®-M
System-on-chip (SoC) solutions integrating a gate driver, microcontroller, communication interface and power supply on a single chip.
MOTIX™ MCU | 32-bit motor control SoC based on Arm® Cortex®-M subcategories
Infineon’s System-on-chip (SoC) solution for motor control
Produced on Infineon’s first-in-industry automotive-qualified Smart Power technologies, the MOTIX™ MCU (SoC) solutions offer an unmatched level of integration of all functions required to sense, control and actuate a motor. The different MOTIXTM 32-bit motor control SoC product families integrate on a single die the microcontroller, the non-volatile flash memory, the analog and mixed-signal peripherals, the communication interfaces along with the driving stages needed for either relay, half-bridge or full-bridge DC and BLDC motor applications.
Infineon's portfolio of MOTIX™ MCU | 32-bit motor control SoC solutions
The MOTIX™ MCU (SoC) portfolio contains of different product families with different features e.g. core, power stage (relay driver, 2-phase-, 3-phase bridge driver) or communication layer (PWM, LIN, CAN-FD).
The MOTIXTM 32-bit motor control SoC solutions based on Arm® Cortex®-M integrate on single die the 32-bit microcontroller, the non-volatile flash memory, the analog and mixed signal peripherals, the communication interfaces along with the driving stages needed for either relay, half-bridge or full-bridge DC and BLDC motor applications.
Bridge Driver with a current controlled output stage, flexible charge- and discharge current settings and several diagnostic functions allow optimizing your system with our MOTIX™ system-on-chip solution. These highly integrated products save space and energy, improve the overall system reliability through advanced diagnosis features and reduce the overall cost due to a minimum number of components. They perfectly fit with a range of motor control applications where a small package form factor and a minimum number of external components are essential.
Highlights of MOTIX™ MCU | 32-bit motor control SoC solutions
Our highly integrated system-on-chip solutions have various substantial benefits due to the advanced diagnosis features and minimal number of external devices.
- Enable cost and board space improvements:
Our products integrate data processing, actuation and sensing. Infineon offers different packages: a leadless 7x7mm 48-pin VQFN package, a leaded 48-pin TQFP package or a leaded 64-pin LQFP package and enables PCB space saving. The different families allow driving of relays and MOSFETs at VBatt ≥ 6 V without external components, providing a very cost effective solution on a system level.
- Enabling high levels of system reliability:
Extensive diagnostics and protections are embedded within the system-on-chip, more than a discrete approach can offer. In addition, both the MOTIX™ 32-bit motor control SoC and the external MOSFETs can be protected.ISO 26262-compliant variants for safety-relevant applications are available.
- Support multiple and flexible designs with minimal effort:
MOTIX™ 32-bit motor control SoC solutions are software compatible, maximizing a single design through scalability.
Typical MOTIX™ MCU | 32-bit motor control (SoC) applications
MOTIX™ 32-bit motor control SoC solutions are specifically designed to enable mechatronic motor control solutions for a wide range of motor control applications in which a small package form factor and a minimum number of external components are essential.
- Automotive body applications include window lift, sunroof and wiper.
A reference design for window lift using an H-bridge driver with integrated Arm® Cortex®-M0 is available.
- Automotive powertrain and thermal management applications includes water, oil and fuel pumps, cooling fan and HVAC fans
Reference designs for a 100W auxiliary water pump, a 150W coolant pump and an engine and an engine cooling fan using a 3-phase BLDC driver IC with integrated Arm Cortex M3 are available including detailed documentation, layout files and measurement reports.
- Industrial applications include e.g. power tools, gardening tools, robotics.
Automotive motor control applications
MOTIX™ MCU tool chain and design-in support
MOTIX™ MCU | 32-bit motor control SoC solutions are supported by a complete development toolchain provided by Infineon and third party vendors. The toolchain includes compilers, debuggers, evaluation boards & shields, reference designs, low level drivers, verified and production-ready motor control software and configuration tools. Furthermore plenty of application notes are available to support your design-in activities.
Together with our partners (Preferred Design Houses) we offer an optimized open market customer support for systems using our system-on-chip solutions. They are trained to provide application- and product-specific support such as
- Consulting & training
- Provision of software components, e.g. low level drivers, embedded software, simulation models, etc.
- Software development, e.g. parameterization, customization, optimization, tuning, etc
- Mechatronic development, e.g. design, layout & development of systems, system and test verification, etc
- Testing, e.g. measurement and test services, test bench services like identification, verification, validation
- Prototyping, e.g. target cost development, PCB design & component selectio
MOTIX™ Software and Tools
- MOTIX™ Motor Control Library for BLDC motor control allows users to easily optimize parameters and carry out configurations. Through automated testing and test coverage reporting, production ready quality is ensured. Furthermore, due to modularized MOTIX™ Low-level Driver software architecture and platform approach, software solutions are scalable.
- Low-level drivers provide users with a file pair (c./.h file) per module to allow the initialization and configuration of the module during runtime via the provided APIs. The Low-level Driver is offered as demo code. Customers can also get access to additional documentation and test reports.
- Configuration tools provide graphical user interfaces to define and generate register settings for the evaluation and configuration of MOTIX™ products. For example, the MOTIX™ Solution Designer allows users to analyze, debug and tune your motor control application based on Infineon’s MOTIX™ Motor Control Library.
- Simulation & modeling tools allow for efficient prototyping of design and calculation of right values and parameters.
- Utilities are tools which enable users to accomplish a range of tasks such as get readings, analyze data and create dashboards, e.g. the Infineon MCU Memory Analyzer.
How to easily and quickly design a highly efficient 12 V BLDC motor control solution for Automotive applications?
With our verified chipset based on market-proven hardware and comprehensive expert know-how to optimize the gate driver and MOSFET combination of a motor control design:
12V motor control evaluation board
- Using MOTIX™ TLE9879QXA40 and OptiMOS 6™ IAUC120N04S6N006 and IAUC120N04S6N010 MOSFETs
Simulation models:
- Half-bridge control with TLE987x low-side active (FW in HS)
- Half-bridge control with TLE987x high-side active (FW in LS)
- Summarizing all relevant application characteristics such as switching timings, power dissipation or EMC behavior
- Describing 3 TLE987x different gate driver configuration options to select from for the defined MOSFETs
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Product Selection Tree
MOTIX™ MCU | 32-bit motor control SoC solutions for brushed DC and brushless DC (BLDC) automotive motor control applications.
Various support materials are offered by the Infineon and third party vendors:
- Evaluation Boards
- Low Level Drivers (SDK)
- LIN Low Level Drivers
- Configuration Tools (Config Wizard)
- Debuggers
- Application Notes
- User Manual
- Data Sheets
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Our product offerings for motor control solutions
The MOTIX™ TLE984x family is mainly addressing body and comfort solutions such as sunroof and window lift. Our platform solution for size- and weight-optimized relay-based motor control solutions offers scalability in terms of flash memory size and MCU system clock frequency with pin-compatible devices.
For single-phase applications like engine cooling fan, HVAC blower or auxiliary water pumps, dedicated variants within the MOTIX™ TLE985x (with NN-Halfbaridge) can be used to achieve a cost-efficient solution and saving PCB space due to the high integration.
Infineon´s cost efficient H-Bridge Driver IC with Integrated MOTIX™ Arm® Cortex® M0 is optimized for automotive applications like sunroof, window lift, power lift gates and pumps. It enables optimization of the system concerning EME (electro-magnetic emissions, slow slew rates) as well as power dissipation (short dead times) simultaneously through adaptive MOSFET driver.
MOTIXTM MCU offers TLE986x and TLE988x product families either with LIN or CAN-FD communication interface for DC-motor control applications such as Pumps & fans, Wiper, Seat adjustment.
The MOTIX™ TLE987x and TLE989x families address BLDC applications such as engine cooling fan, HVAC blower or auxiliary pumps (e.g. oil, water and fuel pump). Besides the automotive target applications also power tools, drones and other industrial BLDC applications.
Selection Table – MOTIX™ MCU | 32-bit motor control SoC solutions
Applications
Our MOTIX™ MCU | 32-bit motor control SoC solutions based on Arm® Cortex® M offer dedicated solutions for body and powertrain applications. They enable optimization of the target applications due to the System-on-Chip solution and the minimum number of external parts.
Together with our partners (Preferred Design Houses) we offer an optimized open market customer support for systems using our MOTIX™ 32-bit motor control SoC products. They are trained to provide application- and product-specific support.
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| Classic (Free of Charge) |
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| Premium to be agreed between customers and Preferred Design House |
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