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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