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Easy switch from 8-bit to 32-bit with Infineon XMC1000 MCUs

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MUNICH, GERMANY & NUREMBERG, GERMANY: The Embedded World Exhibition & Conference 2014 will see Infineon Technologies launching volume production of its XMC1000 microcontrollers that offer 32-bit performance at 8-bit prices and use the ARM Cortex-M0 processor.

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At the same time, Infineon will be presenting new, highly compact VQFN (Very Thin Quad Flat No Leads) package variants for the XMC1000 family and providing information on their new, free ARM® Microcontroller Development Kit (MDK).

The XMC1000 microcontrollers are consistently optimized in line with their target applications: sensor and actuator applications, LED lighting, simple motor drives (e.g. for household appliances, pumps, fans) and digital power conversion (such as uninterruptible power supplies).

"With the XMC1000 microcontrollers, Infineon is creating a decisive incentive for switching architecture from 8 to 32 bit - particularly for motor drives, sensor and actuator applications that need to be highly compact," says Maurizio Skerlj, senior director, Industrial and Multimarket Microcontrollers at Infineon Technologies AG.

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"No rival microcontroller of the XMC1000 in a VQFN-24 package currently offers this much functionality in such a confined space."

With the new VQFN packages featuring 24 pins and 40 pins, Infineon is extending its portfolio for XMC1000 industrial microcontrollers, which currently includes more than 30 products. XMC1000 microcontrollers in the VQFN-24 package are only 4 mm x 4 mm in size.

No one in the market currently offers this much functionality in such a small package, such as for example up to 200KB flash memory and application-optimized control peripherals. This makes the XMC1000 microcontrollers ideally suited for motor drives as well as sensor and actuator applications that need to have a highly compact design. In addition to the VQFN packages, the XMC1000 MCUs are also available in TSSOP packages with 16, 28 and 38 pins.

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