Virscient collaborates with Infineon to accelerate customers' time-to-market for designs

Under this agreement, Virscient will provide expert design and engineering services, and licensable software solutions to help innovative OEMs and platform vendors rapidly deliver products integrating Infineon’s leading AIROC Wi Fi + Bluetooth combo ICs – whether chip-down, or in modular form.

Virscient will offer their Ubiquios embedded connectivity platform, which enables use of AIROC transceivers with small microcontrollers based on ultra-low-power Arm Cortex M cores such as Infineon's PSoC 6 family. Applications with Infineon connectivity and MCU solutions include video and telemetry HD video streaming with real-time control; indoor environment monitoring; professional, active noise cancelling microphones; in-flight electronic systems; hobby craft machines with cutting capabilities; and wireless remote-control electric skateboards.

Virscient's software enables AIROC-based Wi-Fi and Bluetooth solutions to be implemented in less than 128 kilobytes of flash and 32 kilobytes of RAM on the host, enabling full-stack applications supporting dual-imaged over-the-air update on tiny platforms such as Infineon’s PSoC 61 programmable line. Ubiquios further enables secure IoT applications using Infineon's OPTIGA embedded security solutions, integrated directly with the network stack.

Virscient also has particular expertise in supporting integration of chip-down Wi-Fi solutions for volume manufacture, including design, implementation, and optimisation of custom RF front-end circuitry, antenna systems, and radio coexistence technologies.

Sivaram Trikutam, VP of Wi-Fi Product Line at Infineon said: "This collaboration helps customers accelerate their development of highly-integrated products by applying Virscient expertise in advanced hardware design and software optimisation to Infineon’s AIROC wireless portfolio. We look forward to future collaboration with Virscient on innovative solutions for the IoT."

Dr. Dean Armstrong, CTO of Virscient said: "With over 24 years of success across markets such as consumer, industrial and automotive, Infineon is a clear semiconductor leader in meeting customers' unique needs and solving their pain points. We look forward to growing our collaboration across our new and existing customers, while delivering next-generations solutions that meet companies’ needs today and tomorrow.