The Infinitely Expandable ARM Cortex-M0 Based PSoC 4 Development Kit Provides Compatibility with Arduino Shields and Digilent Pmod Form Factors
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Premier Farnell, the global leader in high service distribution and creator of the industry leading element14 Community, announced that customers can pre-order Cypress’s new PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit for only $25 from www.element14.com. 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.
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 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 and the PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit by the end of April 2013.
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. It also 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.
PSoC 4 leverages the PSoC Creator IDE. The IDE’s easy-to-use graphical interface enables designers to drag and drop pre-characterized, production-ready analog and digital IP blocks—PSoC Components—into a single PSoC device to create customized, feature-rich, and highly differentiated end products. Cypress’s platform solution—PSoC 4, PSoC Creator and PSoC Components—simplifies and accelerates the design process, reduces bills of material, and provides extraordinary system value.
PSoC4 Pioneer Kit Features:
- OnBoard PSoC CY8C4245AXI
- 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 48 MHz CPU
- 16-bit Timer/PWM
- Low Power Comparator
- 12-bit 1 Msps SAR ADC
- Programmable Analog Block
- Programmable Digital Block
- Versatile I/O System
- 150 nA Low Leakage Hibernate Mode
- 20 nA Stop Mode
- 1.71 – 5.5 V Operation
- OnBoard PSoC 5LP CY8C5868LTI
- 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 67 MHz CPU
- Program and Debug
- Supports SWD, USB-UART, USB-I2C
- Kit Expansion Ports
- Arduino Shield Compatible Headers
- Digilent Pmod Compatible Header
- Cypress PSoC 5LP GPIO Header
- Included Example Projects
- Blinking LED with PWM
- RGB LEDs Color Cycle with PWMs
- Low-Power Demo
- CapSense Slider Demo
MCUs Can’t. PSoC Can.
PSoC solutions bring the flash-based equivalent of a field-programmable ASIC to embedded designs without lead-time or NRE penalties. PSoC integrates configurable analog and digital circuits with an on-chip microcontroller, reducing component count and simplifying revisions. A single PSoC device can integrate as many as 100 peripheral functions, accelerating cycle time and improving quality while reducing board space, power consumption, and system cost.
