Automotive Applications of PSoC

Abstract

The automotive electronics industry is a fast-growing industry as more and more manufactures have started adding multiple electronics devices which weren’t used before and market them as features. Electronic features include systems like adaptive cruise control, automated climate control, a navigation system, parking sensors, touchscreen infotainment etc. There are multiple opportunities for an electronic device manufacturer to enter this market.

Cypress Semiconductor and Infineon Technology both have been prominent in the automotive semiconductor companies. The PSoC 4 series of devices used PSoC architecture designed by Cypress Semiconductor and added features like Capacitive sensing, Analog sensor integration and wireless connectivity. PSoC platform provides a unique set of architecture with programmable analogue and digital block which have been used in the automotive industry.

Due to the uniqueness of the architecture and difference from a normal microcontroller. The need for samples projects grows through which the company can showcase their product use to the customers. This report contains the parts of my project through which the capabilities of the PSoC device in the automotive industry can be shown. My project revolves around creating code examples and innovative solutions to problems reported by customers on their projects. The project includes creating an example project to use various blocks present in PSoC 4 to create an automotive application such as instrumentation cluster, climate control etc.

Internship gave me the opportunity to work with devices like PSoC 4 , Truetouch and IBS. Also to work on software tools like PSoC Creator and IAR workbench. Also, Became familiar with Industry leading technologies like CapSense for capacitive sensing.

This report focuses on the projects that I have created during my internship that shows the PSoC 4 use in the automotive industry. Which later would be used by customers to understand the device and use it in their design of automotive electronics