Cypress Korea (General Manager Lim Young-do www.cypress.com ) announced the standardized PSoC® 5LP programmable system-on-chip family.

The new PSoC® 5LP device provides the flexibility to design custom systems with excellent high-performance programmable analog capabilities—the best ADC available for ARM® Cortex™-M3-based devices—and over 80 pre-validated production-ready components for the PSoC Creator™ IDE.

Another class-leading feature is a 0.5-V startup with integrated Boost, full-function analog of 1.71-5.5-V, and the industry's widest operating range of 0.5-5.5V. These features are opening a new era of applications requiring single-cell battery performance and highly precise analog capabilities, moving beyond fixed-function MCUs. The PSoC 5LP device is currently shipping, and more detailed information, including data sheets, application notes, and development kits, can be found at www.cypress.com/go/PSoC5LP .

When precise measurement is really important;
The PSoC 5LP provides programmable analog precision with differential 12-bit SAR and 20-bit DelSig ADCs supported by a class-leading 1.024V ± 0.1% precision internal voltage reference. The best-in-class ADC features 62 channels, fully functional analog from 1.71 to 5.5V, and the widest input signal range from ARM Cortex-M devices from 0 to 5.5V. Various PSoC Creator programmable analog components include OpAmps, comparators, transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs), programmable gain amplifiers (PGAs), mixers, segment LCDs, CapSense® touch sensing, DACs, analog muxes, and more. All of these components are configurable to meet individual application requirements for delivering single-chip solutions.

When low power is insufficient;
The PSoC 5LP is designed to deliver capabilities beyond mere standard low-power consumption. Consuming only 300 nA in hibernation mode, the new PSoC 5LP device can wake up on IOs and maintain the state of the CPU core, SRAM, and device configuration. Ideal for single-cell battery operation, Cypress’s Boost technology allows designers to maximize power while regulating it by as much as 0.5V. Unlike fixed-function MCUs, PSoCs allow designers to further reduce power consumption by customizing each peripheral component, thereby preventing power from being consumed due to any unnecessary functions.

When a fixed-function MCU fails to deliver;
PSoC 5LP provides programmable analog and digital functions with flexible routing and interconnects within easy-to-use components in PSoC Creator. Designers can easily build their own custom embedded controllers while implementing standard and proprietary protocols that are resistant to specification changes. With the ability to customize logic functions, peripherals, analog front-ends, and analog subsystems, designers can achieve greater system integration and reduce Bill of Materials (BOM) costs. PSoC enables designers to easily solve complex problems with over 80 pre-validated, production-ready components.

PSoC Creator enables users to configure PSoC programmable hardware into personalized one-chip solutions. Additionally, the free IDE comes with production-ready components and APIs for easy and rapid device configuration, allowing users to create and replicate their own custom components.

Precise measurement and low power consumption are important features for embedded designers, but until now, they have been mutually exclusive. “The PSoC5 LP goes beyond the capabilities of fixed-function MCUs, enabling customized, high-precision analog applications that can run on a single-cell battery,” said Lim Young-do, General Manager of Cypress Korea.

Things that MCUs cannot do but PSoCs can;
PSoC devices adopt a highly combinable system-on-chip architecture for embedded control designs, providing capabilities equivalent to flash-based field-programmable ASICs without lead-time or NRE penalties. PSoC devices integrate combinable analog and digital circuits controlled by on-chip microcontrollers, enabling enhanced design changeability and reduced component count. Furthermore, a single PSoC device reduces customer design time, board space, and power consumption, while
It can integrate more than 100 peripheral functions while improving system quality and reducing system costs.

Flexible PSoC resources enable designers to make firmware-based changes throughout the design, verification, production, and post-launch phases, ensuring that products remain competitive in the future. The inherent flexibility of PSoC shortens design cycle times and enables future feature enhancements. All PSoC devices are also dynamically reconfigurable, allowing designers to modify internal resources while utilizing fewer components to perform a given task. For more information about PSoC products, please visit www.cypress.com/psoc , and for information about free online training, please visit www.cypress.com/psoctraining .

Product Status;
PSoC 5LP samples are currently available through Cypress and official distributors worldwide. The PSoC 5LP development kit (CY8CKIT-050) can also be purchased at www.cypress.com/go/PSoC5LP .