Automotive safety and cybersecurity: Infineon's AURIX TC3xx, TC4x, TRAVEO T2G & PSoC families of microcontrollers support Rust

Infineon takes the first step to create a Rust ecosystem in the embedded sector. This makes the company the first major semiconductor manufacturer to officially support Rust for its microcontrollers.

First up are the AURIX TC3xx and TRAVEO T2G automotive MCUs. While TRAVEO uses the official Rust tool chain and Arm Cortex-M targets, a dedicated Rust compiler has been developed for AURIX by Infineon's tool partner HighTec EDV-Systeme. PSoC and AURIX TC4x support will follow in the second half of 2023.

The AURIX TC3xx and TRAVEO T2G microcontroller product families offer a wide range of integrated hardware functions for functional safety and cybersecurity. Introducing support for Rust complements these hardware features on the software side. Peripheral access crates (PACs) for AURIX and TRAVEO are provided for native access to microcontroller peripherals.

The PACs are generated with the svd2rust tool and follow the same API standard for peripheral access. PACs are complemented with code examples demonstrating the use of Rust on Infineon microcontrollers and are available in GitHub.

Compared to C/C++, Rust is a new programming language developed by the open-source community. The focus of Rust is on type safety and concurrency support. The programming language is designed to facilitate the development of safe and secure software by providing a convenient build system and the package manager "Cargo".

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At embedded world the development setups for AURIX and TRAVEO will be presented at the Infineon Booth (hall 4A). The setup consists of microcontroller development kits as well as the demonstration of the Rust tool chain.

Infineon at embedded world

embedded world will take place from 14 to 16 March, 2023 in Nuremberg, Germany. Infineon will present its products and solutions for decarbonisation and digitalisation in hall 4A, and virtually.

Company representatives will also hold several TechTalks as well as presentations at the accompanying Embedded World Conference, followed by discussions with the speakers.