- Enhanced PSoC Creator integrated design environment with new version
- Free download available through Cypress website

Cypress Korea (Managing Director Lim Young-do www.cypress.com) has announced the new PSoC Creator™ 2.1 version, an integrated design environment (IDE) for its PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip product families.

The new software update includes over 100 new features and functional enhancements while accelerating digital design by an average of 80% or more, simplifying analog design, and significantly improving ease of use. Users can access detailed information about PSoC Creator and download it for free through the website (www.cypress.com/go/psoccreator).

PSoC Creator enables users to configure PSoC programmable hardware as a custom single-chip solution. PSoC Creator also features a rich library of over 75 fully specialized analog and digital components that users can drag and drop from icon-represented "virtual" chips and configure to meet a wide range of application requirements. Components reduce BOM cost and board space by integrating system interfaces and individual ICs into the PSoC solution. Cypress regularly releases "component packs" that provide new components and update existing ones.

PSoC Creator 2.1 is characterized by improved programmable digital logic placement and routing, which maximizes peripheral performance. Programmable digital components including timers and counters also benefit from this dramatic performance improvement with enhancements averaging 80% or more.

The new Analog Device Editor simplifies development and debugging of analog design. Developers draw their analog circuits in the PSoC Creator schematic entry tool. During the build cycle, PSoC Creator automatically configures the underlying PSoC programmable hardware. It also enables developers to optimize analog circuit graphics and lock the circuit so it never changes. More detailed information about the product and other new PSoC Creator features can be found in Cypress's developer community (www.cypress.com/go/community).
"PSoC programmable hardware and easy-to-use development tools enable designers to create custom single-chip mixed-signal solutions explicitly built for their applications. With the new PSoC Creator 2.1, we have significantly simplified analog design items and improved programmable digital design performance for Cypress's growing user community," said Lim Young-do, Managing Director of Cypress Korea.

Cypress PSoC Creator
PSoC Creator is unique design software that enables engineers to design the way they think by using schematic-based design capture with certified and pre-packaged peripherals to keep the target PSoC device system creation independent. Instead of searching through device documentation or memorizing register maps, users simply lay out the design as it appears on paper or a whiteboard and move the tool to PSoC configuration. With PSoC Creator, customers design according to application requirements rather than the limitations of the target device. Retargeting to a new device is as simple as rebuilding the application, making design porting between PSoC devices straightforward, from 8-bit to 32-bit devices. PSoC Creator automatically places components and routes all on-chip signals to optimal pins for I/O in the selected PSoC device. Each peripheral component is carefully parameterized and automatically optimized to precisely meet the developer's needs without wasting resources. The build process continuously generates a named API set for each component, allowing software developers to control hardware without knowing the underlying register set. Customized designs and associated APIs can be saved to a library for future reuse and easily shared within the organization.

Cypress PSoC Responsive to Design Changes
PSoC devices employ a highly combinable system-on-chip architecture for embedded control design, providing flash-based field programmable ASIC-equivalent functionality without lead-time or NRE penalties. PSoC devices integrate combinable analog and digital circuits controlled by on-chip microcontrollers while enabling improved design change capability and reduced component count. A single PSoC device can integrate over 100 peripheral functions while reducing customer design time, board space, and power consumption while improving system quality and reducing system cost. Flexible PSoC resources enable designers to make firmware-based changes from design, verification, production, and post-launch stages, ensuring the product remains competitive in the future. PSoC's inherent flexibility shortens design cycle time and enables future functional enhancements. All PSoC devices also support dynamic reconfiguration, allowing designers to modify internal resources while utilizing fewer components to perform a given task. More detailed information about PSoC products can be found at the www.cypress.com/psoc website. Additionally, information about free online training can be found at www.cypress.com/psoctraining.