Infineon has announced that it will launch a new automotive microcontroller family based on RISC-V in the coming years. It will become part of the established automotive microcontroller brand AURIX and will extend the company’s existing portfolio of automotive microcontrollers based on TriCore (AURIX TC family) and Arm (TRAVEO family, PSOC family). The new AURIX family is designed to cover a wide range of automotive applications, from entry-level MCUs to high-performance MCUs that will outperform current solutions, according to the company. Infineon will present a virtual prototype at Embedded World 2025. This is a starter kit that Infineon’s partners can use to begin software development even before the hardware is available.
The virtual prototype kit is based on the Synopsys tool suite. It will support the development of the ecosystem and accelerate its growth, as partner companies can use it to start developing their software and tool products for Infineon’s RISC-V architecture now – even before the microcontroller hardware is available.
Several partners such as IAR, Elektrobit, Green Hills, HighTec, Lauterbach, PLS, Synopsys and Tasking have already started working with the kit and will be presenting their first solutions at Embedded World 2025. Further partners will follow in the course of 2025. Based on their solutions, the virtual prototype will develop into a complete digital twin of Infineon’s future microcontroller family. (jr)
