Fieldbuses and Ethernet for industrial MCUs

RT-Labs is has extended its U-Phy fieldbus and Ethernet industrial protocol library to cover Infineon’s Arm Cortex-M7 based XMC7000 industrial microcontroller family.

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Profinet RT, EtherCAT Master, Ethernet/IP, CANopen, CC-Link and ModBus/TCP are available, accessible through Infineon’s Modbus Toolkit – although only ‘registered XMC7000 opportunities’ can use it commercially in products, Infineon told Electronics Weekly. 

Infineon is providing code examples and documentation, and there is a sample application on GitHub.


RT-Labs U-Phy web page can be found here. Versions of it are also available for Microchip SAM9X75 and ST STM32F769 MCU families.


Steve Bush

Steve Bush is the long-standing technology editor for Electronics Weekly, covering electronics developments for more than 25 years. He has a particular interest in the Power and Embedded areas of the industry. He also writes for the Engineer In Wonderland blog, covering 3D printing, CNC machines and miscellaneous other engineering matters.

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