Dalian Dapinjia Group launched a low-cost automotive lighting general-purpose single-chip solution based on Infineon products

“The core of this solution is the PSoC4200M chip, which is designed based on the Cypress PSoC4 platform and is a highly scalable and reconfigurable platform architecture. It has a built-in Cortex-M0 core, which combines a microcontroller and programmable digital logic, high-performance analog-to-digital conversion, operational amplifiers with comparator mode, and standard communication and timing peripherals, and is AEC-Q100 qualified, ensuring the solution Application design flexibility and field adjustment capability.

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On November 4, 2021, Dalian General Holdings, a leading semiconductor component distributor dedicated to the Asia-Pacific market, announced that its subsidiary Pinjia has launched a low-cost automotive lighting general-purpose microcontroller based on Infineon’s CK8CKIT-044 evaluation board solution.

Figure 1 – Display board diagram of Dalian Dapinjia’s low-cost automotive lighting general-purpose microcontroller solution based on Infineon products

Nowadays, automobiles have become an indispensable means of transportation in people’s lives, and their safety issues have also received great attention from the society. Among all the components of the car, the importance of taillights to the safety of the car is self-evident, and its existence has greatly reduced the occurrence of traffic accidents. Therefore, how to design various functions of taillights to maximize their value is an urgent problem for major manufacturers to solve. With the development of technology, today’s automobile taillights not only have a changeable appearance, but also have greatly improved functions, and the main credit for this is due to the design of the taillight control circuit. Dalian Dapinjia is based on Infineon’s low-cost automotive lighting general-purpose single-chip solution, which has ultra-high scalability and can realize flexible taillight control design.

Figure 2 – Block diagram of Dalian Dapinjia’s low-cost automotive lighting general-purpose microcontroller solution based on Infineon products

The core of this solution is the PSoC4200M chip, which is designed based on the Cypress PSoC4 platform and is a highly scalable and reconfigurable platform architecture. It has a built-in Cortex-M0 core, which combines a microcontroller and programmable digital logic, high-performance analog-to-digital conversion, operational amplifiers with comparator mode, and standard communication and timing peripherals, and is AEC-Q100 qualified, ensuring the solution Application design flexibility and field adjustment capability.

Figure 3-Scenario application diagram of Dalian Dapinjia’s low-cost automotive lighting general-purpose microcontroller solution based on Infineon products

In addition, this solution also provides an Arduino interface, a 6-pin Digilent PMOD module, two CapSense proximity headers and a CapSense gesture board, and integrates an ambient light sensor, 3-axis accelerometer, PWM temperature sensor, RGB LED, push button switch, board On-board programmer/debugger and USB-UART/I²C bridge functional modules and Cypress F-RAM, etc., support 3.3V or 5V working voltage, to meet the design requirements.

Core technical advantages:

• 48MHz Arm Cortex-M0 CPU with DMA controller and RTC;
• Up to 128K Flash & 16K SRAM;
• Up to 55 pins support touch keys;
• two comparators (cmp);
• Four op amps, programmable gain amplifiers (PGAs), comparators (CMPs), filters, etc.;
• Four (2 * 8 bit, 2 * 7 bit) DACs;
• Four Universal Digital Blocks (udbs): custom digital peripherals;
• Eight programmable 16-bit timers/counters/pulse width modulators (PWM);
• Four Serial Communication Blocks (scb) configurable as I²C master or slave, SPI master or slave, or UART;
• Two CAN.

Program Specifications:

• The working voltage is 3.3V or 5V;
• With Arduino interface & 6 pin Digilent PMOD module;
• Two CapSense proximity headers & one CapSense gesture board;
• Ambient light sensor, 3-axis accelerometer, PWM temperature sensor.