Cypress Announces Revolutionary Changes in Embedded Design with High-Performance, Low-Power 'PSoC 3' and 'PSoC 5' Programmable System-on-Chip Architectures!

The new scalable platform combines programmable precision analog and digital logic with high-performance ARM-Cortex M3 and 8051-based MCU subsystems, delivering exceptionally fast time-to-market capability, integrated capabilities, and flexibility for 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit applications.

▪ High-precision integrated analog integration with up to 20-bit resolution
▪ Delivery of an extensive library of drop-in programmable analog and digital peripherals
▪ Enable ultra-low power applications with the industry's widest voltage range
▪ Provides easy migration from 8-bit to 32-bit architectures through compatibility with PINs and APIs
▪ Expand the market that PSoCs can enter by more than tenfold or to $15 billion.
▪ Implemented by the innovative PSoC Creator™ integrated development environment

Cypress Korea (Country Manager Young-do Lim, www.cypress.com ) announced two new architectures for its PSoC programmable system-on-chips platform that dramatically improve performance while delivering exceptionally fast time-to-market capabilities, integrated functions, and flexibility for 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit applications, and significantly expand the world's only programmable analog and digital embedded design platform.

These new programmable analog and digital embedded design platforms are easily customizable through user-intuitive wizards and APIs to meet specific design requirements.It is enabled by the innovative PSoC Creator™ integrated development environment (IDE), which introduces unique blueprint-based design capture along with fully tested and pre-packaged analog and digital peripherals that can be terminated.

Furthermore, PSoC Creator enables engineers to design the way they think and dramatically shorten time-to-market. *** (Refer to the attached “PSoC Creator Software” document). For more detailed information regarding data sheets, application notes, online training, development kits, free PSoC Creator downloads, device samples, etc., please visit the Cypress website. ( www.cypress.com/go/psoc )

Along with new high-performance 8-bit and 32-bit MCU subsystems, the unique programmable analog and digital peripherals of the PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 enable new functionalities such as motor control, intelligent power supply, battery management, audio/voice processing, and communication protocols, as well as human interfaces like CapSense® touch sensing, LCD segment displays, and graphics control. These new capabilities dramatically expand the markets that PSoC can serve, including industrial, medical, automotive, telecommunications, and consumer devices. The total available market for PSoC products has now expanded to over $15 billion across the precision analog market as well as 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit applications.

The new PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 architectures include highly precise programmable analog resources that can be composed of ADCs, DACs, TIAs, Mixers, PGAs, OpAmps, etc. In addition, PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 include advanced digital peripherals such as Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC), Pseudo Random Sequence (PRS) generators, and quadrature decoders, as well as enhanced programmable-logic-based digital resources that can be configured as 8-, 16-, 24-, and 32-bit timers, counters, and PWMs.

Designers gain the unique ability to customize these digital systems through fully functional, general-purpose PLD-based logic available in PSoC 3 and PSoC 5. In addition, the new architecture supports a wide range of communication interfaces, including Full-Speed USB, I2C, SPI, UART, CAN, LIN, and I2S.

The new PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 architectures are implemented by high-performance, industry-standard processors. The PSoC 3 architecture is based on the new high-performance 8-bit 8051 processor with up to 33 MIPS, while the PSoC 5 architecture includes the powerful 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 processor with up to 100 DMIPS.

Both the PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 architectures meet the demands of very low-power applications by delivering the industry's widest voltage range, from below 5.5V to 0.5V, along with a low maximum power saving current of 200nA. Furthermore, these architectures provide a complete programmable design platform ranging from 8-bit to 32-bit architectures, featuring pin and API compatibility between PSoC 3 and PSoC 5, along with programmable routing capabilities that allow any signal—whether analog or digital—to be routed to any general-purpose I/O to simplify circuit board layout. These functions include the ability to set the LCD Segment Display and CapSense signals to any GPIO pin.

“Together with the innovative PSoC Creator software, this new product family will change the way embedded designers solve problems. The PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 architectures deliver a scalable platform with the computing power of high-precision MCUs, the precision of standalone analog devices, and the flexibility of PLDs, all accompanied by powerful and easy-to-use software tools. This combination provides designers with, for the first time, the flexibility and integration of true 'system-level' programmability for 8-, 16-, and 32-bit applications,” said TJ Rodgers, President and CEO of Cypress.

The PSoC is the only architecture that extends the concept of programmability beyond instructions for customizing processors and digital functions for peripheral configuration. Combined with more than just analog precision on-chip found in any other MCU, this highly integrated PSoC is easier to program than any other chip. “Adding precision analog and ARM Cortex processors to this product family must deliver the performance required for any modern application,” said Tom Starnes, Senior Analyst at Objective Analysis.

Features of the new PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 architectures

Programmable precision analog sub-system
Up to 20-bit resolution for Delta-Sigma ADCs
Sample rate of up to 1 MSPS in 12-bit SAR ADC
Reference voltage accuracy for +/- 0.1% above industrial temperature and voltage ranges
Up to 4 8-bit resolutions, 8 Msps DACs; 1x to 50x PGA; 25mA drive capability