Infineon Technologies expands its Automotive power semiconductor lineup with the new 650V CoolMOS CFDA. This is the industry’s first Superjunction MOSFET solution with Integrated Fast Body Diode to meet the highest Automotive qualification standard AEC-Q101. The 650V CoolMOS CFDA is particularly designed for resonant topologies such as battery charging, DC/DC converters and HID (High Intensity Discharge) Lighting, also in hybrid and electric ve...

Infineon Technologies enhanced its online design solution Infineon Light Desk, adding additional features and the support for a new series of AC/DC off-line LED drivers.

Infineon Technologies today introduced an innovative package technology providing high-current capability and high efficiency for demanding automotive electronics applications, including electric and hybrid vehicles. The new TO package is compliant with JEDEC standard H-PSOF (Heatsink Plastic Small Outline Flat lead). The first available products using the H-PSOF package technology are 40V OptiMOS T2 power transistors offering up to 300A current ...

Infineon Technologies AG today introduced automotive qualified 100 percent lead-free power MOSFETs for TO package types. Based on the combination of innovative packaging technology and Infineon’s thin wafer process technology, the new 40V OptiMOS T2 power MOSFETs offer best-in-class specifications. Infineon uses a diffusion soldering die attach approach to produce the lead-free packages that include TO-220, TO-262 and TO-263. Because of specifi...

Infineon Technologies AG now offers 32-bit microcontrollers of the AUDO MAX family with integrated security hardware. The new AUDO MAX SHE microcontrollers extend the tamper-proofing of electronic control units (ECU) and protect against tuning, for example. AUDO MAX SHE enables automotive manufacturers to ensure the integrity of their ECUs and to guard better against exposure to liability claims. Today three products of the AUDO MAX family come w...

Infineon Technologies AG and Bombardier Transportation have entered into a strategic partnership in the field of drive electronics for advanced rail vehicles. The agreement envisages the supply of semiconductor components by Infineon to Bombardier in the course of the coming five years. These power semiconductors enable energy-efficient control of electric motors in locomotives, high-speed trains, underground and urban railways. Infineon will ens...

Infineon Technologies AG today introduced its 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) multicore architecture. The new architecture is the foundation of Infineon’s next generation MCU family that will fulfill the requirements of upcoming automotive powertrain and safety applications. The multicore architecture features up to three processor cores to share the application load, introduces lockstep cores and contains further enhanced hardware safety mechanis...

Infineon Technologies AG today announced that Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors Corporation have selected Infineon as supplier of power modules for their current hybrid car generations, the Hyundai Sonata Hybrid and Kia Optima. Hyundai and Kia, together the world’s fastest-growing and fifth-largest car manufacturer, teamed up with Infineon on the hybrid powertrain design including the Infineon HybridPACK™1 power module and the related cont...

Infineon Technologies AG introduced its latest family of single P-channel 40V automotive power MOSFETs produced using advanced trench technology. The new 40V OptiMOS P2 products strengthen Infineon’s leadership in power management for next-generation automotive applications by setting new benchmarks in improved energy efficiency, reduced CO2 emissions and cost savings.

Germany’s foreign trade success is determined to an ever-increasing degree by the quality and reliability of high-tech products. Seven partners from the German business and research communities are teaming up in the three-year “RELY” project to explore ways of enhancing the quality, reliability and resilience of modern microelectronic systems. The focus will be on applications in transportation, in particular electromobility, in medical tec...

September 2010 saw the launch of the European e-BRAINS (Best-Reliable Ambient Intelligent Nano Sensor Systems) research project in which Infineon Technologies AG is joining forces with 19 partners to conduct research into the integration of heterogeneous systems. Led by Infineon and Fraunhofer EMFT (Fraunhofer Research Institution for Modular Solid State Technologies), for the technical management, the project will run until the end of 2013. Nano...

Giving the medium-sized and compact car category access to the safety and convenience applications of the premium segment and enabling their compliance with the strictest fuel consumption and pollutant emission requirements, Infineon Technologies AG today announced the cost-optimized extension of its successful XC2000 automotive microcontroller portfolio. Enabling 32-bit equivalent performance at 8-bit costs the new 16-bit devices address low-end...

Even today, a medium-sized vehicle contains about 1,000 chips and as many as 80 networked electronic systems. These numbers are set to grow as state-of-the-art safety technology gains traction – for example, driver assistance systems that help to prevent hazards such as rear-end collision in fog. The tight design envelope of a car means that existing systems have to become ever smaller and new ones have to be as compact as possible. This is whe...

Germany’s foreign trade success is determined to an ever-increasing degree by the quality and reliability of high-tech products. Seven partners from the German business and research communities are teaming up in the three-year “RELY” project to explore ways of enhancing the quality, reliability and resilience of modern microelectronic systems. The focus will be on applications in transportation, in particular electromobility, in medical tec...

Infineon Technologies has introduced a new series of Receive Front-End Modules for implementation of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) functionality in Smart Phones and other handheld devices. The new BGM103xN7 Series devices are the first modules available that support separate or simultaneous reception of both Global Positioning System (GPS) and Globalnaya Navigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema (GLONASS) signals.

Giving the medium-sized and compact car category access to the safety and convenience applications of the premium segment and enabling their compliance with the strictest fuel consumption and pollutant emission requirements, Infineon Technologies AG today announced the cost-optimized extension of its successful XC2000 automotive microcontroller portfolio. Enabling 32-bit equivalent performance at 8-bit costs the new 16-bit devices address low-end...

Even today, a medium-sized vehicle contains about 1,000 chips and as many as 80 networked electronic systems. These numbers are set to grow as state-of-the-art safety technology gains traction – for example, driver assistance systems that help to prevent hazards such as rear-end collision in fog. The tight design envelope of a car means that existing systems have to become ever smaller and new ones have to be as compact as possible. This is whe...

Infineon Technologies presents the EconoPACK + D family, the latest generation of power semiconductor modules in the 1200V and 1700V voltage classes with up to 450A nominal current, at the PCIM Europe 2011 (May 17-19) in Nuremberg, Germany. Infineon has developed the new EconoPACK™ + D series based on the well-known and established EconoPACK™+ platform to master the ever-growing demands in applications such as renewable energies, commercial v...

At PCIM Europe (May 17-19) in Nuremberg, Germany, Infineon expanded its family of Reverse Conducting (RC) 600V IGBT with two new switching power devices that achieve up to 96% efficiency in target applications. The new RC-Drives Fast devices allow design of energy efficient, electric-motor driven consumer appliances that use smaller components and thus have a lower overall cost compared to alternative systems.

With its latest generation of high-voltage CoolMOS MOSFETs Infineon is rolling out another innovation setting new standards in the field of energy efficiency. At the PCIM Europe 2011 (May 17-19) in Nuremberg, Germany, Infineon presents the new 650V CoolMOS™ CFD2 – the world`s first high-voltage transistor with both a drain-source voltage of 650V and an integrated fast body diode. The new CFD2 devices succeed the 600V CFD products, enabling no...