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Overview

Infineon XENSIV™ – sensing the world in automotive, industrial and consumer markets

Infineon’s XENSIV™ family was developed to meet today’s sensing challenges in automotive, industrial and consumer applications. Building on the company’s in-depth system understanding, it is the broadest portfolio of sensor types on the market, giving customers the widest selection of ready-to-use solutions offering fast time-to-market. Spanning magnetic sensors, current sensors, pressure sensors, acoustic sensors, 3D image sensors (REAL3™) and radar sensor MMICs (RASIC™ for automotive), XENSIV™ ensures the perfect fit for all performance and integrity needs – regardless of the industry.

XENSIV™ sensors are designed to “smartify” lives by enabling “things” to “see”, “hear”, “feel” and “understand” their environment. They empower customers to build more intelligence into their designs, thus paving the way for new and compelling applications offering more intuitive interaction and contextual awareness. Infineon also joins forces with its ecosystem partners to jointly develop innovative, synergized use cases that give customers a clear market lead in emerging areas such as robotics, autonomous driving and building automation.

Building on the 40 years of experience that Infineon has clocked up in developing sensor products and its world-leading sensing technology portfolio, XENSIV™ delivers exceptional accuracy and best-in-class measurement performance. All XENSIV™ sensors are designed for the utmost in reliability. Enhanced design and production standards coupled with extended testing under the harshest conditions are reflected in the field-proven quality of this portfolio. Because of this robustness, customers worldwide can rely on XENSIV™ for system stability, durability and integrity over their entire product lifetime. This is a key success factor for safety-critical applications in automotive designs, for instance.

In addition, customers have the added reassurance of a proven track record. Over the past 10 years, Infineon has shipped more than 20 billion units and clearly demonstrated its ability to develop ready-to-use sensor solutions that match real-world, customer-specific needs while optimizing system design overall. Looking ahead, Infineon is committed to a path of continuous innovation and technology excellence to keep its customers ahead of the sensing curve.

 
Highlights

Prototyping has never been easier

Coreless magnetic current sensors entering high power – a miniature sensor family for 120A/1kV applications

Looking to pass the Turing test – Natural conversations enabled by premium microphones

Details
Simulation

Description of our online simulation tools

XENSIV™ - 3D Magnetic Sensors

3D magnetic field sensor for smaller, more accurate and robust designs. The sensor family, with low current consumption and cost-optimized design, specifically addresses the needs of new magnetic sensor applications in consumer, industrial and automotive. They are ideally suited for the measurement of three dimensional movement within a magnetic field, linear slide movement as well as 360° angle rotation.
XENSIV™ - Magnetic Hall Switches

Discover Infineon´s broad energy saving portfolio of Hall switches in smallest package. Simulate your Hall switch applications and see the results in an accurate simulation of the magnetic field and  the switching behavior of the Hall switch in the application.
XENSIV™ - Magnetic Angle Sensors

Highest variety - low end to high end, standardized and specialized in all four magnetic technologies: Hall, GMR, AMR and TMR. This tool calculates the valid distance from the magnet surface to the sensor  and the assembly error, given certain parameters: magnetic properties , sensor specification and assembly tolerances.

 

Videos

Infineon XENSIV™ – sensing the world in automotive, industrial and consumer markets

XENSIV™ sensors are designed to “simplify” lives by enabling “things” to “see”, “hear”, “feel” and “understand” their environment. Watch video.

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GPD reference board with Easy3B IGBT7 slew-rate-control gate driver and XENSIV™ current sensor

The REF_22k_GPD-INV_Easy3B GPD Reference Design Kit provides industry’s best performance by using Infineon’s newest technologies. The power module is the new Easy3B FP100R12W3T7_B11 populated with the newest TRENCHSTOP™ IGBT7 technology in PIM configuration. For enhanced control of the IGBT7, the galvanically isolated single-channel gate driver 1ED3131MC12H with low inductive losses is used enabling an additional gain in efficiency of up to 0.5 percent. For controlling and sensing the current, the coreless current sensor TLI4971 features a unique combination of current measurement for motor control and short-circuit protection of the IGBT. The power supply of the inverter is implemented with a flyback inverter equipped with a 1.7 kV CoolSiC™ MOSFET IMBF170R1K0M1.

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Get your robot hardware ready for today´s key trends

Innovative robots need high-performance electronic components. Infineon collaborates closely with advanced robotic solution providers like Synapticon. They teamed up with Infineon to enhance their high-performance, robust and easy-to-use 48 V / 1 kW servo motor drive. Integrated components form Infineon reduced BoM cost by more than 20% for active components.

Discover the full potential of this new current sensor with Infineon XENSIV(TM) TLI4971 2GO kits

The TLI4971 is Infineon’s new industrial current sensor offering an unique feature set for highly accurate, coreless current sensing. The sensor offers a current measurement range of 25A to a 125A full scale range, an analog output with a bandwidth of 120kHz as well as 2 overcurrent channels for ultra-fast overcurrent detection of 1.8us. Discover the full potential of this new current sensor with Infineon’s TLI4971 2GO kits offering ready-to-use hardware combined with a dedicated GUI for fast start-up and evaluation.

XENSIV™ - TLE5012B magnetic angle sensor 2GO kit

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XENSIV™ Magnetic Angle Sensor 2GO kit – Infineon’s 2GO kit for the TLE5012B GMR angle sensor

Let’s welcome a new member of the famous XENSIV™ sensor 2GO kit family – the Magnetic Angle sensor 2GO kit is equipped with a TLE5012B digital GMR angle sensor for measuring rotational movements such as rotor position for motor commutation. As part of the 2GO kit family Infineon is offering a ready-to-use and plug-and-play evaluation kit by providing a dedicated GUI for fast prototyping. Download the GUI, connect the 2GO kit and start your evaluation!

Infineon XENSIV™ magnetic angle sensor TLE5012B E1000

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How to replace an optical encoder with Infineon XENSIV™ magnetic angle sensors

Check out how to easily replace a bulky optical encoder for motor commutation with Infineon XENSIV™ magnetic angle sensor TLE5012B E1000. This GMR angle sensor provides an incremental interface imitating the pulses and behavior of an optical encoder, offering smaller size and faster start-up due to absolute angle information right from the start.

XENSIV™ KP2xx automotive and industrial pressure 2GO Kits

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XENSIV™ KP2xx automotive and industrial pressure 2GO kits

www.infineon.com/sensors2go Infineon’s XENSIV™ 2GO kit family is extending its portfolio. Our well established family of 3D magnetic, magnetic angle, current and speed sensor 2GO kits has a new family member – the Pressure 2GO kits. KP2xx automotive pressure 2GO kit is a budget-priced evaluation kit enabling the possibility to evaluate several derivatives of the Infineon KP2xx pressure sensors – check it out now!

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Industrial drives demonstrator using XENSIV™ magnetic current sensor TLI4971 from Infineon

Infineon presents its new industrial drives demonstrator using XENSIV™ magnetic current sensor TLI4971 for general purpose drives up to 22 kW including micro controller, sensor, power module EconoPIM™ 2 & auxiliary power supply More information: https://www.infineon.com/current-sensors

Learn how to use our XENSIV™ Sensors - Getting Started Box IoT

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Take your first steps with the unboxing and some programming for the joystick. The XENSIV™ Sensors - Getting Started Box IoT includes a great selection of sensors, micro controllers and security ICs. Everything is compatible with the Arduino IDE. We will show you what software you need and where to download it.

XENSIV™ Sensors - Getting Started Box IoT - Teaser

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Building the joystick for a robot is now super easy with the new XENSIV™ Sensors - Getting Started Box IoT. The box is made for fast, flexible and easy prototyping. It contains a great selection of sensors, microcontrollers and security ICs - all compatible with the Arduino IDE.

Unboxing the TLE5501 - XENSIV™ - magnetic TMR angle sensor

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Unboxing the Infineon XENSIV™ - Magnetic TMR Angle Sensor TLE5501

Getting Started Box IoT

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Visit us @electronica 2018 in Munich and grab your free box. Find us at hall C3 (northern entrance), booth 502.

Infineon´s Shield2Go - just discover

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Overview of Shield2Go portfolio with Arduino-compatible My IoT Adapter from Infineon for easy, flexible and fast prototyping.

3D magnetic sensor - 2GO kit vs Shield2Go

The video explains the concept and setup of Infineon’s evaluation environments for the 3D Magnetic sensor the 2GO kits and Shield2Go. In addition, it provides an overview of all add-on components (e.g. joystick) and gives insights into the usage of the GUI enabling the fastest evaluation and prototyping for 3D magnetic sensors on the market

3D magnetic sensor out of shaft adapter angle measurement

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3D magnetic sensor linear slider adapter for sensor 2GO Kits

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Sensors in industrial applications

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www.infineon.com/sensors 
We have sold more than 3 Billion sensors over the past decade. We use Worldwide Leading Technologies and provide an extended product portfolio for industrial applications including:
• Industrial automation,
• Renewable energy,
• Home appliances.

Leading Magnetic Sensor Technologies

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www.infineon.com/sensors
Infineon sensors can be found in almost every car around the world. Now we are celebrating more than 2.5 Billion sensors shipped. This video gives you an insight on how our Automotive Sensors make driving your car more comfortable, safer and environmentally friendly.


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Position Sensors in automotive and industrial applications

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Introduction into Magnetic Position Sensor Markets for ATV and I applications; presentation of IFX Hall Switch and Angle Sensor Product Families.

Smallest and most efficient 3D Magnetic Sensor

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Our new 3D magnetic sensor was designed to perform three dimensional sensing on the lowest possible power consumption. Capable of measuring 3D, linear and rotational movement, it is perfect for a wide range of industrial and consumer applications such as e-meters, joysticks and white goods control knobs.

Get further Information on www.infineon.com/3Dmagnetic

Precision Current Measurement with Miniature Sensor

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Sensors solutions for autonomous driving

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Infineon 3D Image Sensor IC (short)

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The Infineon 3D Image Sensor IRS10x0C is the most integrated and sophisticated Time-of-Flight (ToF) imager available for touchless natural user interfaces.
Touchless gesture control is a revolutionary new way of interacting with our computer and machines in everyday life. Thanks to our seamlessly integrated sensor, you can now use gestures to communicate with your computer – just like you would with a friend.
This advancement has only been possible through the synergy of two of leaders in the motion technology field: PMD technologies and Infineon Technologies. The combination of their strengths has developed the most highly integrated 3D sensor currently available worldwide.

The Best in 3D Image Sensing

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The Infineon 3D Image Sensor IRS10x0C is the most integrated and sophisticated Time-of-Flight (ToF) imager available for touchless natural user interfaces.
Touchless gesture control is a revolutionary new way of interacting with our computer and machines in everyday life. Thanks to our seamlessly integrated sensor, you can now use gestures to communicate with your computer – just like you would with a friend.
This advancement has only been possible through the synergy of two of leaders in the motion technology field: PMD technologies and Infineon Technologies. The combination of their strengths has developed the most highly integrated 3D sensor currently available worldwide.

3D Image Sensor - Highest level of integration

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On-chip A/D converter for full digital readout
Integrated controller and logic for illumination control, pixel matrix modulation and autonomous imaging phase sequences
Illumination control interfaces (LVDS and full swing single ended)
Digital high speed data-output interfaces (parallel and serial)

3D Image Sensor - Highest functionality and flexibility

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Dynamically configurable during operation via I2C
Product variants for QQVGA and CIF lateral resolution:
QQVGA: 160 x 120 pixel (19k pixel)
CIF: 352 x 288 pixel (100k pixel)
Configurable region-of interest (ROI)
Binning of pixels in groups

3D Image Sensor - Best performance

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Optimized ToF process for best infra-red photo sensitivity and contrast
pmdtechnologies ToF pixel architecture including Suppression of Background Illumination (SBI)
Shortest readout time
Continuous image frame rate up to 100fps
Intelligent sequence controller for autonomous imaging phase schemes and optimized duty cycling

Training

XENSIV(TM) - TLI4971 industrial magnetic current sensor: Main features and applications

  • Understand the basics of the technology used by Infineon’s new TLI4971 current sensor
  • Identify its main features, advantages and benefits
  • Recognize the main technologies used for position sensing

  • Identify use cases in the automotive sector where Infineon’s XENSIV™ products can be applied

Missed our webinar on 3D Magnetic Sensors? Watch the recording here, now!

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Sensing the World in All Three Dimensions

A brief description of the webinar such as the agenda or what attendees will be learning: On this webinar we are discussing exciting details about Infineon's 3D Hall sensor technology as well as a brief overview on the different applications where these sensors can be applied. Here is the detail agenda for our webinar: - 3D Hall effect sensors operation principles and benefits - 3D Sensors market and possible applications - Technical features - Infineon 3D sensors portfolio overview - Documentation and development tools

Applications

Fast finder

Welcome to our new interactive sensor selection tool, designed to connect you with the best fit for your design as quickly and effortlessly as possible. Simply select the overarching industry (automotive or industrial/consumer) and drill down on the applications till you find your target use case. The selection tool will then tell you what Infineon XENSIV™ sensor is the best choice for your design. It couldn’t be easier.

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