Infineon and AWS Collaborate to Virtualize Automotive-Grade MCU Development

On June 22, Infineon Technologies AG partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate the evaluation process of microcontrollers (MCUs), thereby shortening the development cycle of automotive systems.

As part of this collaboration, Infineon will launch a cloud-based platform that leverages AWS technology to enable virtual evaluation of Infineon's automotive-grade MCUs. This new platform eliminates reliance on physical hardware, reducing evaluation cycles from weeks to minutes, significantly lowering per-user evaluation costs, and supporting concurrent use by hundreds of users worldwide. The platform already covers Infineon's next-generation RISC-V architecture.

Thomas Schneid, Vice President of Software, Partners, and Ecosystem Management at Infineon Technologies, stated: "Development speed is a key competitive factor in the automotive industry, and its importance is increasingly highlighted under the trend of 'software-defined vehicles.' In the past, hardware-dependent MCU evaluations often became a bottleneck for many engineering teams; now, our cloud-based platform allows customers to more easily start working with and evaluating our microcontrollers in the early stages of the development cycle. This is particularly beneficial for evaluating entirely new MCU product families, such as our future products based on the RISC-V architecture."