Infineon XMC4700 Relax series evaluation kits

Infineon Technologies has released the XMC4700 Relax, Relax Kit for 5V Shields and Relax Lite evaluation kits. The kits are designed to evaluate the capabilities of the XMC4700 microcontroller and Infineon’s free-of-charge, Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE), DAVE. They enable engineers to prototype designs for a variety of industrial and consumer applications, including automation, construction and agricultural vehicles, motor control, solar energy systems and power supplies.

The evaluation kits are all equipped with an Infineon XMC4700 microcontroller based on a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 core; an onboard debug probe that supports serial wire debug (SWD), serial wire output (SWO) and a virtual COM port; and a micro-USB port. All three boards feature Arduino Uno-compatible headers.

The Relax and Relax Lite boards include 0Ω bridges that allow the kits to work with 3.3 V Arduino Uno-compatible shields. The Relax Kit for 5 V Shields includes a voltage level shifter that allows it to work with both 3.3 and 5 V Arduino Uno-compatible shields.

The XMC4700 Relax Kit adds ethernet-enabled communication, which can facilitate an embedded server, and a microSD Card slot that allows users to store HTML web pages. It also features 32 Mb of quad-SPI flash memory; an Infineon high-speed CAN transceiver suitable for 12 and 24 V bus systems; and a 32.768 kHz real-time clock (RTC) crystal.