Infineon expands its cost-effective and scalable XC800 MCU portfolio with two new device series. The new XC82x and XC83x series were specifically developed to further reduce system cost and allow for improved energy efficiency of a wide range of industrial applications. With the XC82x and XC83x series of 8-bit microcontrollers Infineon combines the 8-bit 8051 CPU and peripherals optimized to enable high energy savings at very low implementation costs. In addition, several of the new devices offer special features to improve the design of man-machine interfaces such as touch panels and LED display applications.
XC82x and XC83x features comprise capacitive touch sense and LED matrix controller, EEPROM emulation, 10-bit A/D Converter, Capture Compare Unit with hardware link to ADC, window watchdog timer, power down modes, and various communication interfaces, such as UART, high speed SPI and I2C. The XC82x series integrates a Multiply-Division-Unit. The XC83x provides a 16-bit vector computer and a ROM library for field oriented control functions, and high current pads (30mA to 50mA). To implement efficient system designs using 8-bit MCUs, both of the new series provide features for generation of high resolution PWM signals, fast ADC measurements, autonomous peripherals, and comparators for control loop and for protection.
The portfolio of the XC82x and XC83x series ranges from 2KB to 8KB of programmable flash and from 16-pin to 28-pin package variants, with temperature robustness up to 125 °C. Dedicated variants to meet ACQ100 requirements for automotive applications are as well part of the portfolio.
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