Cypress offers Free Resource of IP (Intellectual Property) for PSoC Designs

Cypress announced new Cypress Solutions Library website, a free resource of  IP (Intellectual Property) addressing a wide range of applications and functions that can be replicated  with programmable PSoC (Programmable System-on-Chip) architecture. The Solutions Library provide complete solutions for specific functions, including capacitive sensing, motor control and I2C. Applications within the library include automotive, consumer electronics, etc. IP elements come in various types:  software and/or firmware, technical documents, user module components, and complete designs that include software/firmware, documentation, schematics and layout files.

About PSoC
PSoC (Programmable System-on-Chip) is a Cypress’ family of mixed-signal arrays, featuring a microcontroller and configurable integrated analog and digital peripherals. PSoC is a software configured, mixed-signal array with a built-in MCU core. The core is a Cypress 8-bit Harvard architecture design called the M8C. PSoC has three separate memory spaces: paged SRAM for data, Flash memory for instructions and fixed data, and I/O Registers for controlling and accessing the configurable logic blocks and functions. The device is created using SONOS technology.
PSoC most closely resembles a microcontroller in usage, since the programs written by a user execute code to interact with the user-specified peripheral functions (called "User Modules"), utilizing automatically generated APIs and interrupt routines. PSoC Designer IDE generates the startup configuration code and peripheral APIs automatically based upon the users selections in a visual-studio-like GUI. -wikipedia.org

Some PSoC (Programmable System-on-Chip) Devices

Babak Hedayati, Cypress, said:

The Cypress Solutions Library website offers a rich resource for designers looking to improve time to market through IP reuse… Our customers can now take advantage of pre-existing designs in order to quickly and easily tap the tremendous flexibility of the mixed-signal PSoC architecture…

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. They include up to 32 Kbytes of Flash memory, 2 Kbytes of SRAM, an 8×8 multiplier with 32-bit accumulator, power and sleep monitoring circuits, and hardware I2C communications.

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.

Easy to use development tools enable designers to select configurable library elements for analog functions such as amplifiers, ADCs, DACs, filters and comparators and digital functions such as timers, counters, PWMs, USB, SPI and UARTs. The PSoC family’s analog features include rail-to-rail inputs, programmable gain amplifiers and up to 14-bit ADCs with exceptionally low noise, input leakage and voltage offset.

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. Customers can save as much as $10 in system costs. Learn more about PSoC products at www.cypress.com/psoc and receive free online training at www.cypress.com/psoctraining.

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