Electric power steering (EPS)
By using an electric motor to assist the driver in steering the vehicle, EPS offers lower energy consumption as well as easier and more responsive driving.
The foundation of any reliable and efficient EPS steering is a combination of optimized and powerful microcontrollers and semiconductors. Together they enable your designs to achieve extended vehicle ranges, with greater safety and efficiency, while utilizing software to enhance the driving experience with selectable driving modes. Furthermore, as a safety-critical application, an EPS design must be engineered with dependable components.
System diagram: electric power steering (EPS)
Seamless integration and highest-possible safety standards
We recognize that braking and steering are two of the most important safety functions of a vehicle, and we translate that into a system-level approach to functional safety with products that are ISO 26262 compliant and developed together to meet the strictest standards in safety and robustness.
With a proven track record and years of experience in the automotive sector, Infineon is the right partner for any electric power steering project. Our components have been designed and tested to ensure they work seamlessly and fulfill the highest-possible safety standards. Since our chipset is aligned in-house, you can count on its interoperability to ensure safety while reducing your development effort. Thanks to a small footprint and integrated features, our solution contributes to a lower BOM.
Furthermore, our chipset is suitable for OEMs who want to scale platform solutions across models to increase cost efficiency, from fail-safe to fully redundant fail-operational and high-availability solutions. Last but not least, there’s the peace of mind you gain knowing that all components are manufactured according to Infineon’s high automotive quality standards.
Reliable sensors, regulators, microcontrollers, drivers, and MOSFETs
We have over two decades of expertise in chassis application solutions, deep know-how of safe motor control, dependable products, technical documents, and evaluation boards. With that, we cover every major socket in chassis actuators to enable easy design-in and fast time to market:
- Powerful and scalable chipset featuring a small footprint
Field-proven interoperability - Support of fail-safe and fail-operational EPS systems
- Harmonized safety concept that focuses on the power supply and microcontrollers
- Adaptability via software: suits a range of driving modes and car models
- Designed for a wide range of applications, from advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to actuators
For all your development needs, Infineon provides the full range of ICs, from safety microcontrollers to power supplies, bridge drivers, world-class MOSFETs, and sensors. Find out what is possible with our components to enhance your EPS project.
Scalable fail-safe, high-availability, and fail-operational EPS
We offer a broad range of interoperable and scalable product families to enable module design flexibility across the variations of OEM platforms, from fail-safe to fully redundant fail-operational and high-availability solutions.
Infineon has a proven track record as a quality supplier to the automotive industry. For many years, we have been developing a broad range of easy-to-design-in, scalable product families for highest design flexibility. We now offer complete and cost-effective chipset solutions for safe and secure electric power steering, steer-by-wire, and hydraulic and electro-mechanical braking systems. This includes fail-safe as well as partially and fully redundant systems. With our proven track record, in-house expertise, application knowledge, and dependable solutions, we are the safety motor control partner.
myInfineon: Join now and enjoy the benefits
- Are you looking for smart and reliable solutions to drive brushed DC motors in automotive applications?
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Learn more about Infineon automotive dependability.
Training topics:
- Do you know Infineon’s OPTIREG™ power supply solutions?
- Do you know why OPTIREG™ products stand out from other solutions in the market?
In this training you will:
- Know more about Infineon’s wide MOSFET selection for 48 V mild-hybrid electric vehicle, or MHEV, applications
- Understand why and how Infineon is strengthening its position in the 40 V MOSFET market, and be familiar with Infineon’s newest 60 V MOSFETs
In this training you will:
- Get to know why systems require frequent updates, how this is done and how automotive systems try to ensure their security when they are updated
- Learn how AURIX™ families of microcontrollers support over-the-air software updates
OptiMOS™ 7 40 volts is Infineon’s new automotive MOSFET technology.
It presents a 25 percent Ron improvement when compared to the previous OptiMOS™ 6.
