Date: 24/11/2010

Design evaluation kit from Infineon for development of IO-Link comm systems

Infineon Technologies AG has released a design evaluation kit for development of communication systems supporting the IO-Link V1.1 standard, using the company’s 16-bit XE166 and 8-bit XC800 microcontrollers.

This kit is supported by Infineon’s partners: Hitex Development Tools, Technologie Management Gruppe, supplier of IO-Link software stack, and the Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden AG (ZMDI) for providing tool chains and evaluation copies of the IO-Link software stack for both master and device. The kit includes a USB stick as the XE164-based master node including physical transceiver PHY and supporting four IO-Link channels, a single 8-bit XC822 based device node, cabling, demos and documentation. Additional projects using the 8-bit XC800 as a device have also been developed with the partners HMT microelectronic, supplier of IO-Link physical transceivers and IP, and MESCO Engineering, supplier of IO-Link device software stack.

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