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Infineon SHIELDXENSIVA XENSIV™ Sensor Shield Evaluation Board

Shenzhen Mingjiada Electronics Co., Ltd., as a trusted electronic component supplier, provides customers with the Infineon SHIELDXENSIVA XENSIV™ Sensor Shield Evaluation Board. This evaluation board transcends a single-function testing tool, serving as a highly integrated, plug-and-play sensor that consolidates Infineon's cutting-edge XENSIV™ series sensors into a single platform. It paves the way for innovation in smart home, building automation, industrial IoT, and other fields.

SHIELDXENSIVA Core Highlight: Integrated Multi-Sensor Fusion Platform

SHIELDXENSIVA's most distinctive feature is its breakthrough from the limitations of traditional single-function evaluation boards. Within a standard Arduino Uno R3 form factor, it integrates up to eight distinct sensor modules, forming a complete environmental sensing and data acquisition system. This multi-sensor fusion design enables developers to simultaneously capture multidimensional environmental information without separately procuring and debugging multiple independent evaluation kits, significantly accelerating the development process for complex applications.

The core sensor array of SHIELDXENSIVA includes:

Advanced Presence and Motion Detection: Integrates the XENSIV™ BGT60LTR11AIP 60GHz radar sensor. Compared to traditional PIR (Passive Infrared) sensors, this radar sensor achieves more precise and reliable presence detection and micro-motion sensing, capable of penetrating non-conductive materials while remaining unaffected by environmental temperature and light variations.

High-Precision Air Quality Monitoring: Features the XENSIV™ PAS CO2V15 sensor based on photoacoustic spectroscopy (PAS) technology, enabling direct measurement of CO2 concentrations in air with accuracy of ±30 ppm or ±3% of reading. This is critical for enabling demand-based ventilation control, enhancing energy efficiency, and safeguarding health.

Comprehensive Environmental Parameter Capture: Incorporates the XENSIV™ DPS368 high-precision barometric pressure and temperature sensor alongside the SHT35 humidity and temperature sensor for precise measurement of pressure, temperature, and humidity.

Precise motion and orientation sensing: Utilizes the BMI270 6-axis inertial measurement unit (IMU) and the BMI350 3-axis magnetometer to detect device acceleration, angular velocity, and geomagnetic field direction, enabling posture recognition and navigation.

High-fidelity audio input: Integrated XENSIV™ IM72D128 MEMS microphone delivers clear audio signal capture, ideal for voice user interfaces or audio analysis applications.

Built-in security chip: Onboard OPTIGA™ Trust M security solution provides hardware-level reliable protection for IoT devices, including secure storage, identity authentication, and encrypted communication. Certified CLS-Ready by the Singapore Cybersecurity Agency.

Additionally, the SHIELDXENSIVA evaluation board features a high-contrast SPI-interfaced TFT display for real-time data visualization.

SHIELDXENSIVA Design Philosophy: Built for Rapid Prototyping

SHIELDXENSIVA perfectly inherits the design philosophy of Infineon's “Shield2Go” product series, with its core objective being to eliminate hardware integration barriers, allowing developers to focus on application logic and innovation.

Minimalist Power and Connectivity Design: The SHIELDXENSIVA evaluation board achieves plug-and-play functionality by connecting to a host microcontroller (such as Infineon's PSoC™ MCU or other Arduino-compatible boards) via an Arduino Uno R3-compatible header. Notably, for the PAS CO2 sensor requiring a 12V drive voltage, the onboard DC-DC boost converter enables power supply from a single 5V USB source on the microcontroller board, eliminating the need for complex external power designs.

Solderless Stacking and Ecosystem Compatibility: All interfaces on the SHIELDXENSIVA utilize solderless connector designs. Developers can stack the SHIELD_XENSIV_A with other Shield2Go boards or standard Arduino expansion boards like building blocks, enabling the construction of more complex systems without soldering.

Robust Software Support: Infineon provides comprehensive software support for the SHIELDXENSIVA evaluation board, including ready-to-use open-source Arduino libraries on GitHub and advanced universal C++ libraries. Developers can quickly access APIs to read various sensor data. Additionally, the board fully supports Infineon's ModusToolbox™ integrated development environment, offering a powerful toolchain for professional-grade application development.

SHIELDXENSIVA Typical Application Scenarios

With its rich sensor suite, the SHIELDXENSIVA evaluation board excels in multiple cutting-edge fields:

Smart Homes & Building Automation: Enables intelligent lighting and HVAC control based on human presence detection. Continuously monitors CO₂, temperature, and humidity to automatically regulate ventilation systems, creating healthy, energy-efficient living and working environments.

Premium Home Appliances: Empowering air purifiers, smart thermostats, and kitchen appliances with environmental awareness for smarter, more user-centric operation.

Industrial IoT (IIoT) and Predictive Maintenance: Monitors environmental parameters in industrial equipment operation. Integrates vibration (IMU) and acoustic (microphone) data for early fault detection.

Innovative Prototyping and Education: An ideal hardware platform for university labs, makers, and R&D teams to validate environmental sensing and multi-sensor data fusion algorithms.

Mingjiada Electronics consistently supplies other Infineon evaluation board components, including but not limited to the following models:

EVAL-MICROIAS

EVAL-CO2-5V-MINIBOARD

EVAL-PASCO2-MINIBOARD

TLV493D-A1B6-MS2GO

KIT-CSK-PASCO2

KIT-CSK-PASCO2-5V

CUR-SENSOR-PROGRAMMER

EVAL-PS-DP-MAIN-M5

REF-CCG7DC-120W-2C

REF-CAV250KMT7INV

S2GO-RADAR-BGT60LTR11

S2GO-3D-TLE493DW2B6-A0