Cypress’s PSoC Creator™ 2.0 Design Environment Now Available to All Users
December 13 2011 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq:CY) today announced that
Version 2.0 of its revolutionary PSoC Creator™ Design Environment
for the PSoC® 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families is
available for free download for all users at
www.cypress.com/go/psoccreator. Among the hundreds of feature
enhancements, PSoC Creator 2.0 introduces support for the
production PSoC 5 ARM architecture and devices as well as enabling
customers to interoperate with the popular and powerful Keil
µVision® 4 integrated development environment (IDE). This
interoperability enables customers to rapidly draw, configure and
design custom device hardware in PSoC Creator and then write the
application code in the familiar and feature-rich µVision® 4
IDE.
The new version boosts device performance through new,
timing-driven routing enabling clock speeds to increase by as much
as 20 percent. Enhanced static timing analysis tools utilized
during the hardware customization process guarantee performance
across temperature variations and simplify design and debug.
“The Beta release to registered Cypress Developer Community
users generated very positive responses,” said Jim Davis, Manager
of PSoC Software Marketing for Cypress. “We have incorporated
customer feedback and suggestions into this general release. The
result is a more intuitive and flexible design tool than anything
else we have seen in the market.”
PSoC Creator is a revolutionary graphical design tool that
allows users to customize the PSoC device to their unique system
requirements in minutes. The design environment includes a rich
library 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 introduces new peripherals,
including S/PDIF for digital audio, Serial GPIO for hard disk drive
controllers, an advanced and hardware-based fan controller, a
voltage power sequencer, and an external memory interface to
simplify hardware configuration. PSoC Creator now includes more
than 80 analog and digital components in its portfolio.
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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