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Software Dev Suite Helps Simplify Motor-Control Design

Feb. 5, 2025

Equipped with a seamless GUI and adaptable, hardware-abstracted, motor-control core library, this development platform eases the design and optimization of motor drives.

Lee Goldberg

Related To: Electronic Design

The ModusToolbox Motor Suite from Infineon Technologies is a full-featured platform that includes a set of easy-to-use software, tools, and resources for developing, configuring, and monitoring motor-control applications.

Supporting most common motor types, the solution enables developers to bring high-performance motor-control applications to market quickly and efficiently. The suite targets industrial, robotics, and consumer applications such as home appliances, HVAC, drones, and light electric vehicles.

The versatile, user-friendly ModusToolbox Motor Suite features a seamless graphical user interface for motor-control development and an easily adaptable, hardware-abstracted motor-control core library.

Presently configured to support Infineon’s XMC7000 series of microcontrollers,* the suite provides real-time parameter and status monitoring that helps engineers quickly identify issues, optimize designs, and enhance overall functionality. It also offers automatic detection and recognition of supported boards and kits, real-time visualization, and monitoring of motor-control-related signals. The platform’s preconfigured algorithms and real-time monitoring of critical system parameters simplify the process of optimizing system performance.

The ModusToolbox Motor Suite is now available for download.

*Infineon will add support for several other of its MCUs soon, with PSOC Control integration confirmed for upcoming releases.

About the Author

Lee Goldberg | Contributing Editor

Lee Goldberg is a self-identified “Recovering Engineer,” Maker/Hacker, Green-Tech Maven, Aviator, Gadfly, and Geek Dad. He spent the first 18 years of his career helping design microprocessors, embedded systems, renewable energy applications, and the occasional interplanetary spacecraft. After trading his ‘scope and soldering iron for a keyboard and a second career as a tech journalist, he’s spent the next two decades at several print and online engineering publications.

Lee’s current focus is power electronics, especially the technologies involved with energy efficiency, energy management, and renewable energy. This dovetails with his coverage of sustainable technologies and various environmental and social issues within the engineering community that he began in 1996. Lee also covers 3D printers, open-source hardware, and other Maker/Hacker technologies.

Lee holds a BSEE in Electrical Engineering from Thomas Edison College, and participated in a colloquium on technology, society, and the environment at Goddard College’s Institute for Social Ecology. His book, “Green Electronics/Green Bottom Line - A Commonsense Guide To Environmentally Responsible Engineering and Management,” was published by Newnes Press.

Lee, his wife Catherine, and his daughter Anwyn currently reside in the outskirts of Princeton N.J., where they masquerade as a typical suburban family.

Lee also writes the regular PowerBites series.