Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq:CY) today announced new features for
its revolutionary PSoC Creator Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
for the PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families. PSoC
Creator now supports enhanced low-power design techniques, new LCD
design capabilities and faster, easier CapSense capacitive
sensing design. More information and free downloads of PSoC Creator are
available at www.cypress.com/go/psoccreator.
“Our customers tell us every day that PSoC Creator represents the future
of embedded design”
PSoC Creator combines a state-of-the-art software development IDE with a
revolutionary graphical design editor to form a uniquely powerful
hardware/software co-design environment. It provides a rich library of
dozens of pre-configured analog and digital peripherals that can easily
be dropped into the schematic design canvas and combined into powerful
systems. The tool automatically places components into the PSoC device,
routes all on-chip signals and directs I/O to the optimum pins. Each
peripheral component is carefully parameterized so that the
implementation is automatically optimized to fit the developers needs
perfectly with no wasted resources. The build process generates a
consistent, easily remembered set of APIs for each component that allows
the software developer to control the hardware without worrying about
the underlying implementation. Customized designs, and their associated
APIs, can even be saved in a library for future reuse and easily shared
within an organization.
The latest version of PSoC Creator improves support for very low power
designs with per-component control over sleep and hibernate behavior,
allowing designers to selectively reduce power to certain parts of the
chip without having to impact performance. It also introduces two
powerful new LCD graphics components; one that communicates with the LCD
panel via the popular i8080 interface and another that controls the
panel directly, driving the control signals and managing the frame
buffer in an external SRAM. In addition, PSoC Creator adds Cypresss
unique SmartSense algorithm to provide on-the-fly calibration of
CapSense applications, resulting in end-products that are easier to
manufacture and perform better.
Cypress also offers fully functional, free compilers with no code size
limitations for both the PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 device families. The Keil
PK51 Professional Developers Kit for PSoC 3 and the CodeSourcery
Sourcery G++ Lite Edition for PSoC 5 are both bundled with the PSoC
Creator distribution. PSoC Creator also includes a built-in debugger to
support the on-chip JTAG and serial wire debug functionality provided in
all PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 devices. Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS)
supported include Keil RTX51 Tiny, Micrium C/OS-III, and SEGGER embOS.
Our customers tell us every day that PSoC Creator represents the future
of embedded design, said Gahan Richardson, vice president of PSoC
Products for Cypress. These features make designing easier and more
powerful for engineers, and were actively developing a steady stream of
new components and enhancements to PSoC Creator that reduce our
customers time-to-market.
About PSoC Creator
PSoC Creator is a unique design software enables engineers to design the
way they think, using schematic-based design capture along with
certified, pre-packaged peripherals to keep system creation independent
of the target PSoC device. Instead of trawling through device
documentation and memorizing register maps, users simply lay out the
design, just as they would on paper or a whiteboard, and let the tool
translate it into the PSoC configuration. With PSoC Creator, customers
create designs according to application requirements, not the
limitations of the target device. Re-targeting to new devices is as
simple as rebuilding an application, so porting designs between PSoC
devices becomes a snap, including migrating working designs seamlessly
from 8- to 32-bit devices.
PSoC -- Because Change Happens
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. 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
and reducing system cost.
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. More information about PSoC products is available
at www.cypress.com/psoc
and free online training is at www.cypress.com/psoctraining.
About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions
that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system
value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC programmable
system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC solutions for
high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense touch sensing and
TrueTouch solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in
USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge solution
that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets.
Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable
timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer,
mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive,
industrial and military. Cypress trades on the Nasdaq Global Select
Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.
Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, CapSense, West Bridge and EZ-USB are
registered trademarks and PSoC Creator, PSoC Designer, CyFi and
TrueTouch are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other
trademarks are property of their ow
Source: Business Wire
