With plans to introduce a new RISC-V-based family of automotive microcontrollers in the upcoming years, Infineon Technologies is setting the standard for RISC-V adoption in the automotive sector. This new series will join Infineon’s well-known AURIX line of automotive microcontrollers. It will expand the company’s current line of automotive microcontrollers, which are built on the Arm (TRAVEO family, PSOC family) and TriCore (AURIX TC family) platforms.
The RISC-V-based family of automotive microcontrollers with AURIX family will include more automotive applications than the current market offers, ranging from entry-level MCUs to high-performance MCUs. Infineon presents a virtual prototype at Embedded World 2025, made possible by important ecosystem partners. Infineon’s partners can use this starter kit to get started with pre-silicon software development.
Infineon is collaborating closely with its software and tool partners to create a comprehensive ecosystem that will make it easier for the future product line to be adopted.
The tool suite of Infineon’s strategic partner Synopsys serves as the foundation for the virtual prototype starter kit that was showcased at Embedded World 2025. Because it enables Infineon’s partners to begin creating their software and tool solutions for Infineon’s RISC-V architecture before the microcontroller hardware is available, it will support the ecosystem and hasten its growth.
The software development kit has already been used by a number of partners, including IAR, Elektrobit, Green Hills, HighTec, Lauterbach, PLS, Synopsys, and Tasking. These partners will present their initial solutions at Embedded World 2025.
There will be more partners throughout 2025. The virtual prototype will develop into a complete digital twin of Infineon’s next microcontroller family(RISC-V-based family of automotive microcontrollers) based on their solutions, giving customers the opportunity to shift-left their development and achieve a notable time-to-market advantage.
With a 28.5 percent market share, Infineon leads the global automotive microcontroller industry (source: TechInsights: Automotive Semiconductor Vendor Market Shares. 2001 through 2023).
To speed up the industrialization of RISC-V-based devices, the business has been collaborating with other prominent semiconductor industry companies through the joint venture Quintauris. The first semiconductor company to reveal a line of automotive RISC-V microcontrollers is Infineon.
Leadership Comments
“Infineon is committed to making RISC-V the open standard for the automotive industry,” said Peter Schiefer, President of Infineon’s Automotive Division. “In the era of software-defined vehicles, real-time performance, safe and secured computing as well as flexibility, scalability and software portability become even more important than today. Microcontrollers based on RISC-V help to meet these complex requirements, reducing vehicle complexity and time to market at the same time.”
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