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Introducing the “brains” behind artificial intelligence: Microcontrollers from Infineon

Artificial intelligence has evolved beyond compute-hungry, resource-intensive, cloud-based applications to now also shape the embedded world – right at the edge.

Microcontrollers are playing a defining role in the growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) across countless industrial, consumer, and automotive markets by bringing intelligence directly to the edge. Benefits include low latency and real-time responses, improved security and data privacy, higher power efficiency, and reduced cost. Our AURIX™, TRAVEO™, and PSOC™ microcontroller families come in a wide range of shapes and sizes to give you the ideal fit for your individual performance, security, safety, and efficiency requirements across these different segments.

From predictive maintenance in smart factories through assisted driving features in connected cars to gesture control in intuitive wearables, our AURIX™, TRAVEO™, and PSOC™ solutions are building advanced intelligence and responsiveness into everyday products, processes, digital services, and safety-critical real-time applications.

In the following, you can read just some examples of how our high-performance, low-power microcontroller families are driving the deployment of AI-enabled innovation in the industrial, automotive, and consumer spaces.

Automotive in focus: New era of connected,autonomous vehicles

AI and neural networks are transforming the automotive industry by driving innovation, reducing costs, and improving performance. The AURIX™ TC4x, for instance, integrates AI with microcontrollers to enable real-time safety critical applications like autonomous driving and electromobility. This architecture combines a TriCore™ CPU cluster, and a SIMD-based accelerator called PPU (Parallel Processing unit) for safe and efficient AI tasks like linear algebra and signal processing. The AURIX™ TC4x microcontrollers comply with the SAFE AI framework proposed by Fraunhofer IKS based on ISO 26262, 8800, and 21448 standards to support safety-critical real-time applications. This makes AURIX™ TC4x ideal for advanced driver assistance systems, traction inverters, on-board chargers, and battery management systems.

Similarly, our PSOC™ Automotive microcontrollers were developed specifically to bring smart human interfacing and sensing to modern cars. PSOC™ Automotive 4 even integrates capacitive sensing technology for an enhanced interactive user experience by supporting gesture recognition on non-uniform surfaces and compensating for surface gradients.

Flanking our PSOC™ and AURIX™ families, our TRAVEO™ T2G offers high performance, advanced human-machine interfacing as well as robust security for automotive AI applications. Based on the Arm® Cortex® microcontroller, this family is ideal for body control modules (BCM) and automotive gateways as well as HVAC, cluster, graphic, and security applications.

Consumer in focus: Smarter and greenerdevices – closer to the data source

Our PSOC™ Edge series of Arm® Cortex®-M microcontrollers brings embedded AI to the edge of countless applications in the consumer space. These next-generation, low-power, secured microcontrollers feature high-performance Cortex®-M55 microcontrollers, including Helium DSP support paired with Arm® Ethos-U55 as well as a low-power Cortex®-M33 paired with our ultra-low-power NNLite hardware accelerator for ML and AI neural networks. By integrating a high-performance Arm® Cortex®-M core with a dedicated AI engine, this family enables you to create edge devices that can perform complex AI tasks such as computer vision for image recognition and object detection or natural language processing. This – along with support for “always-on” sensing and responsiveness – makes PSOC™ Edge ideal for advanced IoT use cases such as smart home appliances, security devices, wearables, and more. This extensive family scales with ease for software reuse and portability.

PSOC™ Edge combines, for instance, with our XENSIV™ sensing and AIROC™ Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® connectivity solutions to enable innovative sleep monitoring and analytics services. By bringing the computational power of AI algorithms closer to the data source, solutions and services such as these mean users can look forward to smarter and greener devices supporting intuitive real-time interaction – with the added bonus of greater control over data privacy and security.

Industry in focus: Greater productivitywith self-learning systems

Our PSOC™ Control family is helping designers to unlock the potential of embedded AI and ML for real-time control and increased system efficiency in industrial settings. Featuring the Arm® Cortex®-M33 microcontroller, the PSOC™ Control family delivers best-in-class performance – making these the devices of choice for the most demanding AI-enabled industrial applications.

Examples include motor controls and drives, which benefit from smarter, more adaptive, and predictive control – in turn paving the way for higher reliability, lower energy consumption, and greater productivity. PSOC™ Control also brings efficiency gains to industrial power supplies with benefits such as predictive maintenance, fault detection, energy management, and adaptive, more energy-efficient architectures. Similar advances can be expected in the case of power converters in AI server PSUs and solar systems, where PSOC™ Control enables best-in-class performance, also predicting lifetime and detecting anomalies.

And in factories, PSOC™ Control is helping to revolutionize industrial robotics by enabling robots to learn from data, adapt to dynamic environments, and optimize performance. AI and ML capabilities are thus empowering smarter, safer, and more efficient robotic operations.

Unified, secured tools and resources: Ease of development and deployment

We support your entire development lifecycle, starting with the right AURIX™, TRAVEO™, and PSOC™ hardware and extending to edge AI models complemented by end-to-end software solutions for easy training and deployment of AI models across different applications. Highlights of our tool, reference design, and embedded library offering include our AURIX™ Development Studio and our DEEPCRAFT™ software framework with tools such as DEEPCRAFT™ Studio AI. The latter gives you a comprehensive set of tools and libraries so you can create, train, and deploy AI models on edge devices, tapping into the vast amounts of data generated by these devices. Our dedicated DEEPCRAFT™ Ready Models are production-ready models that let you add edge AI features to your products without having to invest the time or cost required to develop AI and ML expertise in house. DEEPCRAFT™, for instance, can be used to develop a smart home system that can recognize gestures and adjust lighting and temperature accordingly, or an industrial automation system that can predict equipment failures and schedule maintenance.

Also worthy of mention in this context is our ModusToolbox™ ML development ecosystem. When paired with PSOC™ Edge, it enables you to optimize power consumption and improve efficiency. ModusToolbox™ also gives you easy access to the full ARM® ecosystem.

Rounding out this rich enablement offering, our AI experts would be delighted to discuss your design needs and advise on the devices and configurations best suited to your priorities and cost constraints so you can quickly unlock the endless opportunities unfolding through edge AI.

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