Suitable for commercial, construction, and agricultural vehicles
DAVE™ development environment support, free use of libraries available

Infineon Technologies introduced development kits that can shorten the development period to three months.

These kits are the XMC4300 Relax EtherCAT Kit and the XMC4800 EtherCAT Automation Kit. Both kits have passed EtherCAT approval testing and are currently being supplied.

The XMC4300 and XMC4800 microcontrollers, which integrate EtherCAT nodes, are suitable for use in factory automation, I/O modules, and robots. All XMC4800 microcontrollers meet AEC Q100 standards, making them suitable for use in commercial, construction, and agricultural vehicles.



This kit is designed to evaluate the performance of the XMC4300 (LQFP-100 package) in EtherCAT slave applications. The XMC4300 is based on the ARM® Cortex®-M4 processor and includes up to 256KB of embedded flash memory and 128KB of SRAM running at 144MHz.

The XMC4300 Relax EtherCAT Kit provides standard magnetic plugs, IN and OUT interfaces via RJ45 jacks, EtherCAT nodes using cables, and optional EtherCAT nodes using PHY-to-PHY connections. Mixed networks can be conveniently evaluated using CAN transceivers and CAN connectors via D-SUB 9 plugs. In addition, this kit provides Arduino hardware-compatible pinouts and includes voltage level shifters for 3.3V and 5V Arduino shields.

The XMC4800 microcontroller is based on the ARM® Cortex-M4 processor. It also includes a 144MHz CPU, integrated EtherCAT slave controller, up to 2MB of embedded flash memory, 352KB of RAM, and a comprehensive range of peripheral and interface capabilities.

These kits support software development tools. Since both kits support the DAVE™ development environment, libraries containing low-level drivers and applications can be utilized for free. For EtherCAT, DAVE uses Beckhoff's SSC (Slave Stack Code). Additionally, commercial EtherCAT slave stacks provided by major third-party vendors can be used.