Positive Temperature (PTC) Heater System
NXPs robust product portfolio provides automotive MCU, sensor, interface solutions, and anti-tamper products for positive temperature coefficient (PTC) heater system and control applications, In an Electrical Vehicle, the PTC heater brings efficiency and safety to heating system. The PTC heater runs off the high voltage battery to maximize the power delivered to the heater. An IGBT or other high current power device is used to turn the heater on and off.
Supported Devices
Power Management
Powertrain and Engine Control
- GD3100: Advanced High Voltage Isolated Gate Driver for IGBT and SiC MOSFETs
System Basis Chips
- FS4500: Grade 1 and Grade 0 Safety Power System Basis Chip with CAN Flexible Data Transceiver
Sensors
I3C/I²C Digital Temp. Sensors
- PCT2075: I²C-Bus Fm+, 1 Degree C Accuracy, Digital Temperature Sensor and Thermal Watchdog
Processors and Microcontrollers
S32K Auto General-Purpose MCUs
- S32K1: S32K1 Microcontrollers for Automotive General Purpose
Features
Scalable single platform
- 48 MHz Cortex-M0+ core or 80/112 MHz Cortex-M4F core
- 128 kB to 2 MB flash memory with ECC. Up to 4KB EEPROM
- 12-bit 1 Msps ADC, 16-bit FlexTimers with dead-time insertion and fault detection
- Scalable low power Run and Stop modes. Fast wake-up, clock and power gating
- QFN, LQFP and MAPBGA packages. -40 to 125/150° C. Minimum 15 years longevity
- AEC-Q100 qualified
Safety, security and connectivity
- Functional Safety ISO 26262 compliant, up to ASIL B
- HW and SW watchdogs, clock/power/temperature monitors
- Safety documentation and SafeAssure community support
- CSEc security engine - AES-128, secure boot and key storage
- Ethernet (10/100 Mbit/s), CAN FD, FlexIO (UART, I2C, SPI, I2S, LIN, PWM...), serial audio interface, QSPI
Complete production-grade software ecosystem
- S32 Design Studio IDE: Eclipse, GCC and debugger
- Production-grade S32 Software Development Kit (S32 SDK): SPICE Level 3 compliant, MISRA tested
- NXP AUTOSAR® MCAL (ISO 26262 and QM compliant) and O
- Security firmware - NXP provided
- Core Self-Test Library for functional safety applications
- Production-grade ASIL compliant Real Time Drivers (RTD) support
Documentation
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