New: Scalable PSoC® Platform with 8 and 32 Bit Core!

Cypress introduced a new scalable platform which combines programmable precision analog and digital logic with high performance ARM-Cortex M3 (PSoC 5) and 8051-based MCU ( PSoC 3 ) sub-systems, delivering unmatched time-to-market, integration, and flexibility for 8-, and 32-bit Mixed Signal Applications.

PSoC® 3: Single-cycle 8-Bit 8051 Core, 33 MIPS, 67 MHz,

PSoC® 5: 32-Bit ARM Cortex-M3 Core with 100 MipS

• Programmable High Precision Analog
• Delta-Sigma ADC, 12 to 20 Bit, 192 ksps at 12 Bit, 1 Msps 12 bit with PsoC 5
• SAR ADC, 12 Bit, Trans Impedance Amplifier,
• Digital Filter Block, DACs
• Reference Voltage accuracy better than +-0,1%
• Digital Sub System
• 16 to 24 programmable PLD based Universal Digital Blocks
• Full CAN 2.0b 16 RX, 8 TX buffers
• Full-speed (FS) USB 2.0 12 Mbps using internal oscillator
• Up to four 16-bit configurable timer, counter, or PWM blocks
• New Function
• 24 Channel DMA Controller
• Powermanagement, from 0.5 to 5.5 V, four Power Modes
• Industry standard JTAG/SWD (Serial Wire Debug)
• up to 64 kB Flash, 8 kB SRAM and 2 kB EEPROM on board
• LCD direct drive from any GPIO, up to 46x16 segments
• New Core Concept
• start with PSoC 3, 8 Bit 8051 core, easy change to PSoC 5, 32 Bit Cortex-M3, reusing the same
  peripherals
• quickest time to market and maximum flexibility
• New Tool: PSoC Creator
• Create and share hierarchical schematic design
• Automatically place and route selected components
• Fully functional, free compilers for both device families
• Design in 4 steps: Configure, Develop, Debug, Reuse!

This architecture provides a seamless, programmable design platform from 8- to 32-bit architectures with pin and API compatibility between PSoC 3 and PSoC 5, along with programmable routing, allowing any signal, whether analog or digital, to be routed to any general-purpose I/O to ease circuit board layout. This capability includes the ability to route LCD Segment Display and CapSense signals to any GPIO pin.

PSoC 5 Samples now available!

Neue PSoC® 3 und 5 Entwicklungskits

The CY8CKIT-001 PSoC® Development Kit provides you a common development platform where you can prototype and evaluate different solutions using any one of the PSoC, PSoC3, or PSoC5 architectures. This guide and kit gives you a practical understanding of PSoC technology. In addition, the kit gives several example projects with step-by-step instructions to enable you to easily get started developing PSoC solutions. This kit includes PSoC1 CY8C28xxx and PSoC3 CY8C38xxx and PSoC5 CY8C55xxx Family Processor Modules.

Order Code: CY8CKIT-001A

Also available is the CY8CKIT-014 FirstTouch™ Starter Kit, for trying out PSoC 5, gain full access to other features of the FirstTouch Starter Kit like Serial Wire Debugging (SWD), an Accelerometer, a Thermistor, Proximity Sensing, a CapSense® touch-sensing interface.

More information: cypress-support@msc-ge.com