Cypress’s New $25 PSoC ^® 4 Pioneer Kit Available For Pre-Order from Premier Farnell

The Infinitely Expandable ARM ^® Cortex™-M0 Based PSoC 4 Development Kit Provides Compatibility with Arduino™ Shields and Digilent ^® Pmod™ Form Factors

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NAS: CY) and Premier Farnell, the global leader in high service distribution and creator of the industry leading element14 Community, today announced that customers can pre-order Cypress’s new PSoC^® 4 Pioneer Kit for only $25 from www.element14.com/PSoC4. Combined with the free PSoC Creator Integrated Design Environment (IDE), the expandable kit enables engineers to create unique designs powered by the PSoC 4 Programmable System-on-Chip. Embedded engineers finally have the power of an ARM^® Cortex-M0 processor combined with the flexibility of the programmable analog and digital fabric of the PSoC architecture in the palm of their hands.

The PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit is highly expandable. It includes Arduino™ Shield and Digilent^® Pmod™ compatible connectors, enabling customers to pick from a variety of third-party expansion boards. The new kit also includes a CapSense^® slider, an RGB LED, a user button and more. In addition, an onboard PSoC 5LP device serves as the programmer and debugger, eliminating the need for external programmers.

“PSoC 4 is a game-changing product that combines PSoC’s unique programmable analog and digital fabric with the powerful, economical ARM Cortex-M0 processor,” said John Weil, senior director of PSoC Marketing and Applications for Cypress. “This new PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit is the perfect development platform for this architecture because it provides tremendous functionality at a low price. We’re very pleased to partner with element14 and their entire development community in introducing and enabling pre-orders for this exciting new kit.”

“The PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit is exactly the type of innovative product that our customers want: flexible, cost-effective and expandable with open-source architectures,” said David Shen, Group CTO at Premier Farnell. “We are extremely pleased to collaborate with Cypress to introduce this new product to the market and excited about the opportunities this versatile new product brings to the design engineers. As the first supplier taking pre-orders for this kit, we’re expecting it to be in very high demand by designers everywhere.”

The truly scalable and cost-efficient PSoC 4 architecture delivers Cypress’s trademark flexibility, analog performance and integration, along with access to over 50 PSoC Components™—”virtual chips” represented by icons in Cypress’s PSoC Creator™ IDE. The new PSoC 4 architecture will challenge proprietary …read more

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