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Cypress's New PSoC® Creator™ 2.2 IDE Delivers New Components, Easy Component Distribution and Custom

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Cypress’s New PSoC® Creator™ 2.2 IDE Delivers New Components, Easy Component Distribution and Custom Documentation

Along with a New Component Pack Release, Version 2.2 Simplifies Design and Enhances Collaboration for Global Design Teams

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NAS: CY) today introduced PSoC® Creator™ 2.2, the integrated design environment (IDE) for Cypress’s PSoC 3 and PSoC 5LP architectures, along with a new Component Pack. The new software update simplifies and accelerates designs with new PSoC Components™, enabling easy creation and distribution of custom Components, and generates custom datasheets.

PSoC Creator is more than merely an IDE. In addition to a robust compiler and programmer, it allows users to configure PSoC programmable hardware into a custom one-chip solution. It includes a rich library of over 100 pre-verified, production-ready analog and digital Components—”virtual chips,” represented by an icon—that users can drag-and-drop into a design and configure to suit a broad array of application requirements. Developers can download the new software free of charge at www.cypress.com/Creator.

PSoC Creator 2.2 with Component Pack 5 features seven new and five enhanced Components including MDIO Interface, SAR Sequencer and a digital Component pack with multiple Flip/Flops, a Pulse Converter and a Frequency Divider. It also offers a new PWM-based sensor interface Component that connects to Analog Devices’ TMP05 temperature sensors. Components integrate system interfaces and discrete ICs into a PSoC solution, reducing BOM costs and board-space.

“What truly sets PSoC apart from other solutions is not just the flexible architecture of the chips, but the ability to simultaneously design both hardware and software in the PSoC Creator IDE,” said John Weil, Senior Director of PSoC Marketing and Applications for Cypress. “PSoC Components can encapsulate hardware layout, peripheral initialization and the required application firmware to generate a complete virtual IC. This allows engineers to create unique designs that can be optimized for almost any application and then shared and reused throughout their organization.”

Version 2.2 adds easy import and export tools to simplify the sharing of user-created PSoC Creator Components. Customers can generate complete Components and easily pass them to a system integration team. This allows global engineering teams to work on the hardware and software of a particular block, complete and package their design and send to a system integration team. PSoC Creator customers can easily implement Center of Excellence design methodologies throughout their global design teams.

Simplifying project creation, PSoC Creator 2.2 generates complete, custom datasheets for any PSoC project design. Generated datasheets contain system settings, clock and pin details, registers, and Component set-up for each …read more

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

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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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Cypress's PSoC® 4 Architecture Delivers the Industry's Most-Flexible, Lowest-Power ARM® Cortex™-M0-B

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Cypress’s PSoC ® 4 Architecture Delivers the Industry’s Most-Flexible, Lowest-Power ARM ® Cortex™-M0-Based Devices for Embedded Designs

Truly Scalable, Infinitely Reconfigurable Architecture with Component-Based Design Methodology is Positioned to Challenge 8-, 16-, and 32-bit Standalone MCUs

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NAS: CY) today unveiled the PSoC® 4 programmable system-on-chip architecture, which combines Cypress’s best-in-class PSoC analog and digital fabric and industry-leading CapSense® capacitive touch technology with ARM®‘s power-efficient Cortex™-M0 core. The truly scalable, cost-efficient architecture delivers PSoC’s trademark flexibility, analog performance and integration, along with access to dozens of free PSoC Components™—”virtual chips” represented by icons in Cypress’s PSoC Creator™ integrated design environment. The new PSoC 4 device class will challenge proprietary 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers (MCUs), along with other 32-bit devices. Cypress plans to announce the availability of new PSoC 4 families in the first half of 2013.

The PSoC 4 architecture enhances Cypress’s patented, industry-leading CapSense capacitive-touch sensing technology by offering significant leadership in noise immunity. In addition to capacitive sensing, PSoC 4 targets field-oriented control (FOC) motor control, temperature sensing, security access, portable medical, and many other applications. For more information, visit www.cypress.com/go/psoc4.

“PSoC 4 enables design engineers to leverage the overall trend toward industry-standard, lower-cost ARM-based solutions, the broad availability of ARM software, and the migration of 8-and 16-bit MCU applications to 32-bit solutions,” said John Weil, Senior Director of PSoC Marketing for Cypress’s Programmable Systems Division. “It is the industry’s only fully scalable, infinitely reconfigurable Cortex-M-class MCU with best-in-class analog integration. It can replace entire portfolios of proprietary MCUs and analog solutions, and it is well-positioned to capture significant market share.”

“Inserting the popular Cortex-M0 processor core into the highly-customizable logic and analog circuitry of Cypress’s PSoC products makes a very appealing combination for applications with unique I/O requirements that warrant a higher performance processor or the widely-used ARM architecture,” said Tom Starnes, Principal Analyst with semiconductor market research firm Objective Analysis. “The trim PSoC 4 with the highly optimized Cortex-M0 processor makes it easier to step up from 8- and 16-bit or proprietary MCU architectures.”

The PSoC 4 architecture offers best-in-class power leakage of 150 nA while retaining SRAM memory, programmable logic, and the ability to wake up from an interrupt. In stop mode, it consumes only 20 nA while maintaining wake-up capability. It has the widest operating voltage range of any Cortex-M0-based device, enabling full analog and digital operation from 1.71V to 5.5V. The architecture …read more
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