Cypress Announces Advanced Availability of PSoC Creator™ 2.0 Design Environment for PSoC® 3 and PSoC 5 Architectures
September 22 2011 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today introduced
Version 2.0 of its revolutionary PSoC Creator™ Design Environment
for the PSoC® 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families.
PSoC Creator 2.0 now interoperates with the popular and powerful
Keil µVision® 4 integrated development environment (IDE), enabling
software engineers to create PSoC applications using an
industry-leading firmware development tool. The integration of the
two tools means that PSoC designs can be rapidly drawn, configured
and built in PSoC Creator, and the application code built in the
familiar and feature-rich µVision® 4 IDE.
The new version also adds 11 new, pre-configured peripheral
components that can easily be dropped into the schematic design
canvas and combined into powerful systems. Behind the scenes,
Cypress has updated PSoC Creator’s design routing functionality.
The new, timing-driven routing enables customers to increase clock
speed on many designs by 20 percent or more, and increases the
effective capacity of the PSoC device. More information on PSoC
Creator is available at www.cypress.com/go/psoccreator.
Cypress is making PSoC Creator 2.0 available to select, advanced
customers prior to its general release in the fourth quarter.
Customers can visit the Cypress Design Community site
(www.cypress.com/go/community) for details on the early access
program and to apply for a free license to the product. Users will
also be selected from customers who register at Cypress’s booth #
400 at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston from September
26-27.
PSoC Creator is a revolutionary graphical design tool that
allows the user to create powerful and unique new PSoC-based
designs in minutes. It includes a rich library of dozens of fully
tested and characterized analog and digital components that can be
drag-and-dropped into a design and configured to suit a broad array
of application requirements. The tool automatically places
components into the PSoC device, routes all on-chip signals and
directs I/O to the optimum pins. Each peripheral component is
carefully parameterized so that the implementation is automatically
optimized to fit the developer’s needs perfectly with no wasted
resources. The build process generates a consistently-named set of
APIs for each component that allows the software developer to
control the hardware without knowing the underlying register set.
Customized designs, and their associated APIs, can even be saved in
a library for future reuse and easily shared within an
organization.
The latest version of PSoC Creator offers 11 new peripherals,
including S/PDIF for digital audio, Serial GPIO for hard disk
drives, a fan controller, a voltage sequencer, and an external
memory interface, among others. PSoC Creator now includes more than
80 analog and digital components in its portfolio. With new
components being developed continuously, Cypress content is now
organized into “component packs,” allowing new peripheral
functionality to be released approximately every six without
requiring users to update the tool itself.
“We’re excited to provide enhanced functionality and performance
within PSoC Creator,” said Mark Saunders, Cypress’s senior
marketing manager for PSoC Creator. “It’s truly a step ahead of any
other embedded design environment, and we continue to make it
better. We are also looking forward to lively discussions about the
new features with our early access customers in the Cypress Design
Community prior to the general release next quarter.”
About PSoC Creator
PSoC Creator is a unique design software that enables engineers
to design the way they think, using schematic-based design capture
along with certified, pre-packaged peripherals to keep system
creation independent of the target PSoC device. Instead of trawling
through device documentation and memorizing register maps, users
simply lay out the design, just as they would on paper or a
whiteboard, and let the tool translate it into the PSoC
configuration. With PSoC Creator, customers create designs
according to application requirements, not the limitations of the
target device. Re-targeting to new devices is as simple as
rebuilding an application, so porting designs between PSoC devices
becomes a snap, including migrating working designs seamlessly from
8- to 32-bit devices.
PSoC -- Because Change Happens
PSoC devices employ a highly configurable system-on-chip
architecture for embedded control design, offering a flash-based
equivalent of a field-programmable ASIC without lead-time or NRE
penalties. PSoC devices integrate configurable analog and digital
circuits, controlled by an on-chip microcontroller, providing both
enhanced design revision capability and component count savings. A
single PSoC device can integrate as many as 100 peripheral
functions saving customers design time, board space and power
consumption while improving system quality and reducing system
cost.
The flexible PSoC resources allow designers to future-proof
their products by enabling firmware-based changes during design,
validation, production, and in the field. The unique PSoC
flexibility shortens design cycle time and allows for late-breaking
feature enhancements. All PSoC devices are also dynamically
reconfigurable, enabling designers to morph internal resources
on-the-fly, utilizing fewer components to perform a given task.
More information about PSoC products is available at
www.cypress.com/psoc and free online training is at
www.cypress.com/psoctraining.
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.
Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, CapSense, West Bridge and
EZ-USB are registered trademarks and PSoC Creator, PSoC Designer,
CyFi and TrueTouch are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp.
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