Infineon Technologies Home Appliance Solutions

In a connected world, and with the rapid rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), home appliances are part of smart home automation networks. Resulting in quieter and more energy-efficient home appliance designs driven by intuitive sensor-based operation. Products can now be linked seamlessly, forming widespread digital networks with built-in intelligence and communication. This trend delivers higher levels of functionality, making life more convenient for tech-savvy consumers.

Infineon's components and system solutions will bring more intelligence to smart and connected home appliances to securely sense, control, and connect them. Achieve the highest efficiency levels and smallest form factors and significantly improve appliances' carbon footprint using the smartest power designs. Choosing Infineon components easily sets designs apart from the competition. Infineon offers a comprehensive portfolio that easily meets all consumer needs.

CIPOS™ family of IPMs is the optimal solution for highly integrated compressor drives. Discrete solutions are the best choice whenever layout flexibility and thermal performance optimization are the major factors. The devices can all be combined with iMOTION™ products for dedicated motor control. For the auxiliary power supply, the CoolSET™ rounds up the power portfolio by offering increased robustness and performance. Infineon's Discrete IGBTs products designed for induction heating applications, in combination with PSOC™ microcontrollers for system control, AIROC™ Wi-Fi and Combos products, and XENSIV™ sensors enable highly compact, robust, and reliable systems that consume less power and offer a rich user interface.

Featured Products for Home Appliance Circuit Designs

• CIPOS Intelligent Power Modules (IPMs)
Highly integrated, compact power modules designed to drive motors in applications ranging from home appliances, fans, and pumps to general-purpose drives. The devices are divided into the compact, standard, and performance families: CIPOS Nano, CIPOS Micro, CIPOS Tiny, CIPOS Mini, and CIPOS Maxi, with different semiconductors in different packages and different voltage and current classes. These energy-efficient intelligent power modules integrate power semiconductor and IC technology.
 
• iMOTION 
A digital motor controller family of highly integrated products for the control of a variable speed drive. It integrates all control and analog interface functions required for PM motors' sensorless field-oriented control (FOC) using DC-link or leg shunt current measurements. The devices also feature Infineon's patented and field-proven motor control engine (MCE), which frees the motor control algorithm development process from software coding. Implementing a variable-speed drive is reduced to configuring the MCE for the specific motor.
 
• CoolSET™
AC-DC integrated power stages with quasi-resonant switching schemes offer increased robustness and excellent performance. Infineon's generation of fixed-frequency CoolSET offers higher efficiency and lower switching frequency at medium and light loads, enabled by an integrated frequency step-down.
 
• TRENCHSTOP™ Family
Infineon combines the industry-leading performance of the TRENCHSTOP family with the innovative Reverse Conducting RC IGBT technology to create a generation of best-in-class devices. With a monolithically integrated diode, the RC IGBTs are perfectly suited for soft switching applications such as microwave ovens and high-frequency PFC topology. The 600V RC-D2 is a perfect match for low-power consumer drives application.
 
• PSOC 6
Microcontrollers (MCUs) bridge the gap between expensive, power-hungry application processors and low-power microcontrollers. The ultra-low-power PSOC 6 MCU features an Arm® Cortex® M4 for high-performance AI/ML tasks such as _FP match algorithm, TFT LCD driver, voice recognition and motor control, and an Arm Cortex M0+ for low-power tasks System control, BLE, and Caps. With built-in security, an IoT system is protected.
 
• PSOC 4
Microcontrollers have tackled some of the complex portions of embedded system design, making it easier to get a product to market. Functions such as analog sensor integration, capacitive touch, and wireless connectivity have been integrated and optimized to make the PSOC 4 the perfect product to build the user interface smoothly.
 
• AIROC Wi-Fi & Combos
AIROC Wi-Fi and Combos integrate IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WLAN and Bluetooth in a single-chip solution to enable small-form-factor IoT designs. Combo solutions are available for 1x1 SISO with up to 433 Mbps PHY data rates and 2x2 MIMO with up to 867 Mbps PHY data rates. These solutions can be coupled with external MCUs from popular vendors or Linux on applications processors to implement a complete Wi-Fi + Bluetooth system.
 
• XENSIV™ Sensors
Predictive maintenance enables a data-driven approach to predict and prevent device failures based on pattern recognition and intelligent software models. To collect the necessary data and enable monitoring of the condition of devices in a building, smart XENSIV sensors help to record the most crucial parameters of a device's status.
 
• OPTIGA™ Trust
Responding to a growing focus on embedded systems amongst attackers, Infineon offers OPTIGA Trust hardware security solutions based on a high-end security controller optimized for connected devices. It provides extremely flexible, high-performance, secured access to any major cloud provider.
 
• EiceDRIVER™
Overcome ground-shift challenges in designs with Infineon's single-channel, non-isolated EiceDRIVER gate driver ICs that feature true differential inputs. The 1EDNx550x gate driver ICs have true differential inputs. The devices' control signal inputs are largely independent of ground potential. The EiceDRIVER™ 25V single-channel low-side non-inverting gate drivers for IGBT feature typical 2.6A source and sink currents in a 6-pin PG-SOT23 package with best-in-class fault reporting accuracy.

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