Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today introduced the
new development platform for the revolutionary PSoC® 5 programmable
system-on-chip architecture. The company unveiled two new design
kits, a new version of the PSoC Creator Integrated Development
Environment (IDE), and announced that devices from the CY8C55xxx
family are now sampling. The unique programmable analog and digital
peripherals in PSoC 5, along with the high performance 32-bit ARM®
Cortex™-M3 processor, position PSoC 5 for demanding applications
such as industrial, medical, automotive, and consumer equipment.
PSoC 5 devices offer industry-leading integrated analog resources,
including one 20-bit Delta Sigma ADC and two 12-bit SAR ADCs with
sample rates as high as 1 Msps. The PSoC 5 architecture also
includes the powerful, PLD-based Universal Digital Blocks for
implementing standard and custom digital peripherals. The new PSoC
5 development platform including kits, samples and PSoC Creator are
available today at www.cypress.com/go/psoc5.
The PSoC 5 FirstTouch™ Starter Kit (CY8CKIT-014) helps designers
get acquainted with the new PSoC 5 architecture. It includes
software and example projects which take advantage of the kit’s
onboard sensors including an accelerometer, a thermistor, proximity
sensing, and CapSense. The kit enables easy development via 28
general-purpose I/O pins, a 12-pin wireless module header, and
Serial Wire Debugging (SWD). It also includes the PSoC Creator™
IDE, a powerful design environment that combines schematic and
textual entry with pre-configured, pre-tested components that can
be simply “dropped-into” designs. The kit is available today,
priced at US$49.00.
The CY8CKIT-010 PSoC CY8C55 Family Processor Module Kit is
available for more in-depth design work. It works with the PSoC
Development Kit (CY8CKIT-001), which offers support for the entire
PSoC line. The CY8CKIT-001 kit contains a main PSoC development
board, and three processor module boards for the different
architectures: PSoC 1, PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 devices. It also includes
a MiniProg3 debug and evaluation device, prototyping cable kit, a
USB cable, a 12V AC power adapter, and both PSoC Creator™ and PSoC
Designer™ software. Sample projects are also provided. The kit is
available today, priced at US$249.00. The PSoC 5 processor module
is priced at US$65.00. Designers can get more information and order
kits and samples from www.cypress.com/go/psoc5.
“We’re confident that PSoC 5 will build upon the success of PSoC
1 and PSoC 3, and engineers will find the unique programmable
analog and digital resources combined with the proven Cortex-M3
core to be a powerful embedded design platform,” said Matt Branda,
PSoC Platform marketing director for Cypress. “The broad base of
ARM eco-system customers now have the ability to take advantage of
the revolutionary PSoC platform.”
“The flexibility and integration of PSoC meshes perfectly with
the high performance and low power of the Cortex-M3 to deliver a
truly powerful product for embedded designers,” said Eric Schorn,
VP marketing, Processor Division, ARM. “The integration of the
Cortex-M3 processor into the innovative PSoC 5 platform is a clear
demonstration of the processor’s growing adoption and flexibility
for a wide range of applications.”
About the PSoC 5 Architecture
The PSoC 5 architecture combines the industry-leading ARM
Cortex-M3 processor, which operates at a maximum frequency of 80
MHz enabling up to 100 DMIPS of performance, with flexible analog
and digital subsystems. The analog subsystem include
high-precision, programmable analog resources such as ADCs, DACs,
TIAs, Mixers, PGAs, OpAmps and more that can be configured to suit
a designers unique needs. The digital subsystem includes enhanced
programmable-logic based digital resources that can be configured
as 8-, 16-, 24- and 32-bit timers, counters, and PWMs, as well as
more advanced digital peripherals such as Cyclic Redundancy Check
(CRC), Pseudo Random Sequence (PRS) generators, and quadrature
decoders. Designers have a unique ability to customize this digital
system through full featured general purpose PLD-based logic
available in PSoC 5. The new architectures also support a wide
range of communications interfaces, including Full-Speed USB, I2C,
SPI, UART, CAN, LIN, and I2S.
The new PSoC 5 architecture meets the demands of extremely low
power applications by delivering the industry’s widest voltage
range from 5.5V down to 0.5V along with low 300nA hibernate
current. It offers programmable routing, allowing any signal,
whether analog or digital, to be routed to any general-purpose I/O
to ease circuit board layout. This capability includes the ability
to route LCD Segment Display and CapSense signals to any GPIO
pin.
The PSoC 5 architecture is powered by the revolutionary PSoC
Creator™ Integrated Development Environment, which introduces a
unique schematic-based design capture along with fully tested,
pre-packaged analog and digital peripherals easily customizable
through user-intuitive wizards and APIs to meet specific design
requirements. PSoC Creator enables engineers to design the way they
think and dramatically shorten time-to-market, and allow a seamless
transition between 8-bit PSoC 3 designs and 32-bit PSoC 5 designs
with pin and API compatibility. More information, including data
sheets, application notes, online training, development kits, free
PSoC Creator downloads and device samples, is available at
http://www.cypress.com/go/psoc5.
Availability
The PSoC 5 FirstTouch™ Starter Kit and CY8CKIT-010 PSoC CY8C55
Family Processor Module Kit are both available today, priced at
US$49.00 and US$65.00, respectively. The CY8CKIT-001 PSoC
Development Kit is also available, priced at US$249.00. All the
kits, as well as samples of the CY8C55xxx family, are available at
www.cypress.com/go/psoc5.
About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable
solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and
exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship
PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as
PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting
applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for
touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers,
including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances
connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is
also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing
devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile
handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial
and military. Cypress trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market
under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at
www.cypress.com.
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