Infineon Technologies AG’s solutions help engineers develop dependable automotive BMS. Neutron Controls, the preferred design house for Infineon, has now revealed its ECU8 system platform, enabling accelerated development of BMS based on Infineon chipsets. With this offering, the company and its design services clients can greatly decrease development effort by having a full hardware and software platform solution for a battery management unit built on a robust ASIL-D, ISO26262 foundation.
The energy control unit includes Neutron Control’s proprietary microcontroller module featuring the AURIX TC3xx and TC4xx, TLF35584 Hypersonic PMIC, TLE9015 ISO UART Transceiver, and TLE9012 ISO UART Battery Interface Card. It is the latest addition to the company’s Rapid Engineering Development platform family, a collection of versatile platforms created to accelerate software development, prototyping, and product development.
The platform is compatible with lithium-ion battery cells, monitoring up to 12 cells individually per module. By combining up to 20 modules, the platform supports up to 1000V batteries. Available communication interfaces of the platform include iso-UART and iso-SPI for Ring Mode, dual Ethernet ports and triple CAN-FD ports. It also offers high-side and low-side drivers for external contactors. From the software perspective, low-level drivers are implemented for the AURIX TC3x TriCore architecture components. In addition, calculations for SoC and SoH can be integrated.