Starting at electronica 2016, Infineon Technologies introduces Infineon Designer: the first online prototyping engine combining analog and digital simulation functionalities in an internet application. Requiring a web browser only, it is a perfect match for supporting customers in selecting the right product for a defined application. Infineon Designer works intuitively in a very short time, and neither installation nor licenses are needed.
Infineon Designer features a wealth of application circuits in the domain of Industrial Power, Lighting, Motor Control and Mobile/RF frontend design. It enables analog/digital co-simulation of the 32-bit XMC1000 industrial microcontroller ARM® Cortex®-M0 series, using the free-of-charge code generation platform DAVE™. The digital prototyping engine Infineon Designer aims at making the transition from idea to functional system as smooth and fast as possible. It allows for prototyping a “soft evaluation board” with all functional parameters. In an early stage, hardware for testing and iterations can thus be saved.
The prototyping tool is based on the easy-to-use TINACloud environment from DesignSoft, who partnered with Infineon in this project. TINACloud is the online version of the TINA circuit simulation software running on multiple platforms such as PC, laptop, mobile, and tablets. Analog circuits are modeled in SPICE and can be co-simulated with digital systems using hardware description languages such as VHDL and Verilog or C language. For a greater market penetration, the frontend supports multiple languages.
Infineon Designer can be accessed at Infineon's website. At electronica 2016, Infineon demonstrated the functionality of the prototyping engine with Arduino shields for lighting and motor control applications and compare the results with real hardware. The demonstration was part of the “Maker’s corner”.
