▪ Keil µVision® IDE Integration
▪ Enhances PSoC performance with timing-based routing capabilities
▪ Added new programmable peripherals
▪ PSoC 5 ARM device production support

Cypress Korea (Country Manager Young-do Lim, www.cypress.com ) announced that version 2.0 of the excellent PSoC Creator™ design environment for its PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families is now available for free download to all users on the website ( www.cypress.com/go/psoccreator ).

Among its many enhanced capabilities, PSoC Creator 2.0 not only provides support for the production of PSoC 5 ARM architecture and devices but also enables customers to interoperate with the universal and powerful Keil µVision® 4 Integrated Development Environment (IDE). This interoperability allows customers to write application code in the familiar and feature-rich µVision® 4 IDE by enabling them to quickly configure and design custom device hardware in PSoC Creator.

The new version improves the device's performance through new timing-based routing by increasing the clock speed by up to 20%. Enhanced static timing analysis tools utilized during the hardware customization process ensure performance at various temperatures and simplify design and debugging.

“The beta release registered with the Cypress developer community elicited a very positive response. Cypress incorporated customer feedback and suggestions into this universal version, and as a result, a design tool that is more intuitive and flexible than anything else we have seen on the market has emerged,” said Lim Young-do, General Manager of Cypress Korea.

PSoC Creator is an excellent graphical design tool that enables users to customize PSoC devices to their specific system requirements. This design environment includes a rich library of fully tested and distinctive analog and digital components that can be dragged and dropped into the design and configured to meet a wide array of application requirements.

This tool automatically places components into PSoC devices, routes all on-chip signals, and points I/O to the optimal pins. Each peripheral component is meticulously parameterized and automatically optimized to perfectly meet the developer's needs without wasting resources. The build process generates a continuously named set of APIs for each component, enabling software developers to control the hardware without knowing the underlying register set. Customized designs and associated APIs can be stored in a library for future reuse and easily shared within the organization.

The latest version of PSoC Creator introduces new peripherals including S/PDIF for digital audio, serial GPIO for hard disk drive controllers, an advanced hardware-based fan controller, a voltage power sequencer, and an external memory interface that simplifies hardware configuration. PSoC Creator now includes more than 80 analog and digital components in its portfolio.

Cypress PSoC Creator
PSoC Creator is unique design software that enables engineers to design exactly as they envision them, utilizing blueprint-based design capture along with fully tested and pre-packaged peripherals to maintain the independence of creating the system for their target PSoC device. Instead of relying on device manuals or memorizing register maps, users can simply lay out designs as if on paper or a whiteboard, allowing the tool to convert them into PSoC configurations. With PSoC Creator, customers can design according to application requirements rather than the limitations of the target device. Resetting the target to a new device is as simple as rebuilding the application. Consequently, design porting between PSoC devices—including the seamless migration of designs from 8-bit to 32-bit devices—is as simple as taking a snapshot.

Cypress PSoC capable of responding to design changes
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. A single PSoC device can integrate over 100 peripheral functions, reducing customer design time, board space, and power consumption while improving system quality and lowering system costs.

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