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XC2000 Derivatives

System Units (Vol. 1 of 2)

Introduction

Preliminary

User’s Manual

1-1

V1.0, 2007-06

Intro, V1.0

Introduction

The rapidly growing area of embedded control applications is representing one of the

most time-critical operating environments for today’s microcontrollers. Complex control

algorithms have to be processed based on a large number of digital as well as analog

input signals, and the appropriate output signals must be generated within a defined

maximum response time. Embedded control applications also are often sensitive to

board space, power consumption, and overall system cost.

Embedded control applications therefore require microcontrollers, which:

• offer a high level of system integration

• eliminate the need for additional peripheral devices and the associated software

overhead

• provide system security and fail-safe mechanisms

• provide effective means to control (and reduce) the device’s power consumption

The increasing complexity of embedded control applications requires microcontrollers

for new high-end embedded control systems to possess a significant increase in CPU

performance and peripheral functionality over conventional 8-bit controllers. To achieve

this high performance goal Infineon has decided to develop its families of 16-bit CMOS

microcontrollers without the constraints of backward compatibility.

Nonetheless the architectures of the 16-bit microcontroller families pursue successful

hardware and software concepts, which have been established in Infineon’s popular

8-bit controller families.

This established functionality, which has been the basis for system solutions in a wide

range of application areas, is amended with flexible peripheral modules and effective

power control features. The sum of this provides the prerequisites for powerful, yet

efficient systems-on-chip.

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