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概要

Why choose Infineon's advanced solutions for your robotics design?

Infineon empowers robotics evolution, enabling Physical AI that perceives, thinks, and acts in real-world environments. As both a leading supplier of robotics components and an advanced user of robots in our own fabs, we bring a unique, inside-out perspective to every design challenge . 

Our comprehensive portfolio of robotics components covers all major categories relevant for robotics: power semiconductors, microcontrollers, sensors, connectivity, safety, and security. Infineon's solutions include attractive options for engieeers designing humanoid robots, industrial robots, cobots, mobile robots, drones, UAVs, eVTOLs, or domestic robotics systems.

Key reasons to choose Infineon: 

  • One-stop-shop portfolio covering all robotics subsystems 
  • Faster time-to-market with a complete ecosystem of simulations, reference designs, documentation, and demonstration boards
  • Trusted portfolio of high-performance power semiconductors, MCUs, sensors, and more
  • Hardware-based security and component authentication 
  • Certified functional safety—drawing on decades of automotive-grade safety expertise 
  • Future-oriented development, including ML-enabled MCUs for Edge AI and WBG solutions
Our robotics story
We enable AI

What does Infineon offer for robotics motor control?

Precise, efficient motor control is at the heart of every robot's movement. Infineon offers solutions for compact, high-power-density motor control across all robot types and power ranges. 

Our solutions support the full spectrum of motor types from brushed DC or brushless DC (BLDC) to PMSM, servo, and stepper.

What sets Infineon apart: 

  • High power density and integrated solutions for driving wheels, rotors, hands, fingers, arms, and legs
  • OptiMOS™ and StrongIRFET™ MOSFETs boost energy efficiency by minimizing power losses, ensuring cooler operation, and longer lifespan
  • CoolGaN™ HEMTs enable higher switching frequencies, reducing motor losses and improving thermal and efficiency performance
  • PSOC™ Control C3 MCUs with advanced ADCs designed specifically for high-RPM systems, especially where GaN devices are implemented
  • CoolSiC™ power modules for high power applications like industrial robots
  • Dedicated software ecosystem via ModusToolbox™ Motor Suite accelerates firmware development 
  • Easy-to-implement reference designs and evaluation boards reduce design cycles 
  • Solutions span 6 V to 200 V+ for domestic, mobile, drone, industrial/cobot, and humanoid robotics applications 
Explore PSOC™ Control C3 MCUs
Discover CoolGaN™ gallium nitride solutions

How do Infineon sensors enable smarter, safer robots?

Robots need to perceive their environment with precision and reliability. Infineon's sensor portfolio delivers the contextual awareness robots require for navigation, obstacle avoidance, motor feedback, and human-robot interaction. 

Our sensors are precise, robust, and ready to integrate, with ready-to-use solutions that provide fast time-to-market and ensure stability over the entire product lifetime. 

Sensing capabilities for every robotic function: 

  • Environment sensing: XENSIV™ 24/60 GHz radar for obstacle detection, gesture recognition, and speed-over-ground measurement 
  • 3D perception: REAL3™ hybrid Time-of-Flight (hToF) sensors for object recognition, navigation, and tracking 
  • Motor sensing: XENSIV™ 3D magnetic sensors and current sensors for precise position, speed, and torque feedback 
  • Interaction sensing: XENSIV™ MEMS microphones for sound detection and HMI; PSOC™ 4 MCUs with CAPSENSE™ capacitive sensing technology for touch interfaces 
  • Environmental monitoring: XENSIV™ air pressure sensors for height and altitude sensing 

Infineon's sensors enable SLAM navigation, predictive collision avoidance, seamless human-robot collaboration, and much more.

Sense anything with XENSIV™ sensors
Ensure safe human-machine collaboration: REAL3™

How to address functional safety and security in robotics?

Robots operating alongside humans or in critical environments must meet the highest safety and security standards. Infineon draws on decades of automotive functional safety expertise, including  ISO 26262 certification, to make robots trustworthy by design. 

FuSa highlights: 

  • PRO-SIL™ ISO 26262-compliant and ISO 26262-ready products for safety-critical applications 
  • Safety documentation, safety manuals, and FMEDA support to ease system integrator certification 
  • Motor control and sensor solutions supporting designs up to ASIL D 
  • IEC 60730 Class B library support for robot compliance 

Security highlights: 

  • OPTIGA™ Trust and OPTIGA™ Authenticate provide hardware-rooted security for authentication, encryption, and IP protection 
  • Layered security architecture supports zero-trust and defense-in-depth approaches 
  • Pre-provisioning for safer manufacturing across complex supply chains 
  • Tamper resistance against physical and cyber attacks 
  • Secure onboard and over-the-air communication protects firmware updates and operational data
  • PQC-compliant PSOC™ Control MCUs

Infineon is a security market leader with a proven track record and partner network for embedded security. 

Infineon functional safety and you
Learn more about OPTIGA™ embedded security

What does Infineon offer for robotics compute and connectivity?

Modern robots depend on powerful compute fabrics and reliable communication, both within the robot and to the outside world. Infineon provides a complete range of microcontrollers and connectivity solutions to support every layer of the robot's communication architecture. 

Compute solutions: 

  • XMC™ MCUs with integrated EtherCAT® nodes for high-speed, low-latency deterministic communication in industrial robots and humanoids 
  • PSOC™ MCUs, including ML-enabled variants, for Edge AI, HMI, and system control 
  • AURIX™ TC3x/TC4x for high-performance, safety-critical compute with embedded Hardware Security Modules (HSM)

Wired connectivity: 

  • BRIGHTLANE™ 100/1000 Mbps IEEE 802.3bp compliant automotive Ethernet PHYs
  • BRIGHTLANE™ secure multi-gig aggregation automotive Ethernet switches
  • Automotive-grade high-speed CAN transceivers
  • SPI/UART/I²C support across MCU families

Wireless connectivity: 

  • AIROC™ Wi-Fi and Bluetooth®/Bluetooth® LE ICs for reliable, low-power wireless communication
Discover BRIGHTLANE™ ethernet solutions
Browse AIROC™ wireless connectivity devices

How to maximize robot battery life, performance, and uptime?

Safe, efficient energy management is essential to robot performance and longevity. Infineon provides end-to-end solutions covering battery management, power distribution, and both wired and wireless charging. 

Battery management: 

  • TLE9012DQU and TLE9018DQU multi-cell Li-ion monitoring and balancing ICs with advanced SoC/SoH determination and temperature management 
  • XENSIV™ current sensors for precise current measurement and overcurrent protection 
  • OPTIGA™ Authenticate S for battery cell authentication, preventing counterfeit cell use

Power management: 

  • LDO and step-down switching regulators, single/dual OptiMOS™ MOSFETs, and digital power controllers for efficient voltage conversion 
  • CoolMOS™ and CoolSiC™ MOSFETs for auxiliary power supply with high robustness and efficiency 

Charging: 

  • AC-DC conversion solutions using OptiMOS™, CoolGaN™, and CoolSiC™ power devices for fast, efficient charging 
  • USB-C for domestic and mobile robot power supply systems
  • EiceDRIVER™ gate drivers for optimized switching performance in charging topologies 
Browse Infineon battery management ICs
Explore Infineon solutions for battery charging

Why choose Infineon's advanced solutions for your robotics design?

Infineon empowers robotics evolution, enabling Physical AI that perceives, thinks, and acts in real-world environments. As both a leading supplier of robotics components and an advanced user of robots in our own fabs, we bring a unique, inside-out perspective to every design challenge . 

Our comprehensive portfolio of robotics components covers all major categories relevant for robotics: power semiconductors, microcontrollers, sensors, connectivity, safety, and security. Infineon's solutions include attractive options for engieeers designing humanoid robots, industrial robots, cobots, mobile robots, drones, UAVs, eVTOLs, or domestic robotics systems.

Key reasons to choose Infineon: 

  • One-stop-shop portfolio covering all robotics subsystems 
  • Faster time-to-market with a complete ecosystem of simulations, reference designs, documentation, and demonstration boards
  • Trusted portfolio of high-performance power semiconductors, MCUs, sensors, and more
  • Hardware-based security and component authentication 
  • Certified functional safety—drawing on decades of automotive-grade safety expertise 
  • Future-oriented development, including ML-enabled MCUs for Edge AI and WBG solutions
Our robotics story
We enable AI

What does Infineon offer for robotics motor control?

Precise, efficient motor control is at the heart of every robot's movement. Infineon offers solutions for compact, high-power-density motor control across all robot types and power ranges. 

Our solutions support the full spectrum of motor types from brushed DC or brushless DC (BLDC) to PMSM, servo, and stepper.

What sets Infineon apart: 

  • High power density and integrated solutions for driving wheels, rotors, hands, fingers, arms, and legs
  • OptiMOS™ and StrongIRFET™ MOSFETs boost energy efficiency by minimizing power losses, ensuring cooler operation, and longer lifespan
  • CoolGaN™ HEMTs enable higher switching frequencies, reducing motor losses and improving thermal and efficiency performance
  • PSOC™ Control C3 MCUs with advanced ADCs designed specifically for high-RPM systems, especially where GaN devices are implemented
  • CoolSiC™ power modules for high power applications like industrial robots
  • Dedicated software ecosystem via ModusToolbox™ Motor Suite accelerates firmware development 
  • Easy-to-implement reference designs and evaluation boards reduce design cycles 
  • Solutions span 6 V to 200 V+ for domestic, mobile, drone, industrial/cobot, and humanoid robotics applications 
Explore PSOC™ Control C3 MCUs
Discover CoolGaN™ gallium nitride solutions

How do Infineon sensors enable smarter, safer robots?

Robots need to perceive their environment with precision and reliability. Infineon's sensor portfolio delivers the contextual awareness robots require for navigation, obstacle avoidance, motor feedback, and human-robot interaction. 

Our sensors are precise, robust, and ready to integrate, with ready-to-use solutions that provide fast time-to-market and ensure stability over the entire product lifetime. 

Sensing capabilities for every robotic function: 

  • Environment sensing: XENSIV™ 24/60 GHz radar for obstacle detection, gesture recognition, and speed-over-ground measurement 
  • 3D perception: REAL3™ hybrid Time-of-Flight (hToF) sensors for object recognition, navigation, and tracking 
  • Motor sensing: XENSIV™ 3D magnetic sensors and current sensors for precise position, speed, and torque feedback 
  • Interaction sensing: XENSIV™ MEMS microphones for sound detection and HMI; PSOC™ 4 MCUs with CAPSENSE™ capacitive sensing technology for touch interfaces 
  • Environmental monitoring: XENSIV™ air pressure sensors for height and altitude sensing 

Infineon's sensors enable SLAM navigation, predictive collision avoidance, seamless human-robot collaboration, and much more.

Sense anything with XENSIV™ sensors
Ensure safe human-machine collaboration: REAL3™

How to address functional safety and security in robotics?

Robots operating alongside humans or in critical environments must meet the highest safety and security standards. Infineon draws on decades of automotive functional safety expertise, including  ISO 26262 certification, to make robots trustworthy by design. 

FuSa highlights: 

  • PRO-SIL™ ISO 26262-compliant and ISO 26262-ready products for safety-critical applications 
  • Safety documentation, safety manuals, and FMEDA support to ease system integrator certification 
  • Motor control and sensor solutions supporting designs up to ASIL D 
  • IEC 60730 Class B library support for robot compliance 

Security highlights: 

  • OPTIGA™ Trust and OPTIGA™ Authenticate provide hardware-rooted security for authentication, encryption, and IP protection 
  • Layered security architecture supports zero-trust and defense-in-depth approaches 
  • Pre-provisioning for safer manufacturing across complex supply chains 
  • Tamper resistance against physical and cyber attacks 
  • Secure onboard and over-the-air communication protects firmware updates and operational data
  • PQC-compliant PSOC™ Control MCUs

Infineon is a security market leader with a proven track record and partner network for embedded security. 

Infineon functional safety and you
Learn more about OPTIGA™ embedded security

What does Infineon offer for robotics compute and connectivity?

Modern robots depend on powerful compute fabrics and reliable communication, both within the robot and to the outside world. Infineon provides a complete range of microcontrollers and connectivity solutions to support every layer of the robot's communication architecture. 

Compute solutions: 

  • XMC™ MCUs with integrated EtherCAT® nodes for high-speed, low-latency deterministic communication in industrial robots and humanoids 
  • PSOC™ MCUs, including ML-enabled variants, for Edge AI, HMI, and system control 
  • AURIX™ TC3x/TC4x for high-performance, safety-critical compute with embedded Hardware Security Modules (HSM)

Wired connectivity: 

  • BRIGHTLANE™ 100/1000 Mbps IEEE 802.3bp compliant automotive Ethernet PHYs
  • BRIGHTLANE™ secure multi-gig aggregation automotive Ethernet switches
  • Automotive-grade high-speed CAN transceivers
  • SPI/UART/I²C support across MCU families

Wireless connectivity: 

  • AIROC™ Wi-Fi and Bluetooth®/Bluetooth® LE ICs for reliable, low-power wireless communication
Discover BRIGHTLANE™ ethernet solutions
Browse AIROC™ wireless connectivity devices

How to maximize robot battery life, performance, and uptime?

Safe, efficient energy management is essential to robot performance and longevity. Infineon provides end-to-end solutions covering battery management, power distribution, and both wired and wireless charging. 

Battery management: 

  • TLE9012DQU and TLE9018DQU multi-cell Li-ion monitoring and balancing ICs with advanced SoC/SoH determination and temperature management 
  • XENSIV™ current sensors for precise current measurement and overcurrent protection 
  • OPTIGA™ Authenticate S for battery cell authentication, preventing counterfeit cell use

Power management: 

  • LDO and step-down switching regulators, single/dual OptiMOS™ MOSFETs, and digital power controllers for efficient voltage conversion 
  • CoolMOS™ and CoolSiC™ MOSFETs for auxiliary power supply with high robustness and efficiency 

Charging: 

  • AC-DC conversion solutions using OptiMOS™, CoolGaN™, and CoolSiC™ power devices for fast, efficient charging 
  • USB-C for domestic and mobile robot power supply systems
  • EiceDRIVER™ gate drivers for optimized switching performance in charging topologies 
Browse Infineon battery management ICs
Explore Infineon solutions for battery charging

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