Cypress Korea (Country Manager Young-do Lim, www.cypress.com ) announced a second extension to version 2.0 of its excellent PSoC Creator™ design environment for its PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families.

This update, known as the “Component Pack,” includes new peripheral features that allow customers to easily migrate to existing PSoC devices to realize new capabilities within their designs.

The new Component Pack 2 leverages PSoC's hardware programming capabilities to provide new peripheral features, along with software updates, to silicon already in production and shipment. Each component is thoroughly tested to accelerate time-to-market and ensure high-quality end products for customers. Cypress plans to deliver new Component Packs approximately every eight weeks going forward.

Component Pack 2 adds the following new features for PSoC customers:

• Digital Filter Block Assembler and Simulator: The Digital Filter Block Assembler and Simulator provide low-level access capabilities as an integrated hardware co-processor available on PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 devices. Optimized for digital filtering applications including IIR, FIR, and digital filter blocks, the Digital Filter Block Assembler and Simulator are also useful for offloading complex mathematical processing tasks from the integrated MCU, while enabling much higher performance PSoC solutions.
• High Speed SPI Master Mode: High Speed SPI Master Mode doubles SPI master performance while enabling throughput of up to 18 Mbps for customers. For more details regarding this, please refer to http://www.cypress.com/?rID=48906 .
• USB MIDI Class: The USB MIDI Class adds USB documentation for USB MIDI and USB audio by enabling customers to easily design PSoCs for digital audio applications. For more details, please refer to http://www.cypress.com/?rID=48924 .

“Through small, incremental software updates, customers have gained access to not only fundamental new features that were not anticipated during the original development of Cypress’s PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 devices, but also enhancements to existing peripherals. Since the silicon remains unchanged, customers can utilize these new features without being limited to new peripherals or needing to modify the board layout,” said Lim Young-do, General Manager of Cypress Korea.

Release Status
The free download of Component Pack 2 for existing PSoC Creator 2.0 users is available on the website ( www.cypress.com/go/psoccreator ). Users downloading PSoC Creator 2.0 for the first time will automatically receive the Component Pack. Additionally, registered users will receive notifications when new Component Packs are released.

Cypress PSoC Creator
PSoC Creator is an exceptional graphical design tool that enables users to customize PSoC devices to their specific system requirements in a short amount of time. This design environment includes a rich library of fully tested and characteristic analog and digital components that can be dragged and dropped onto designs and configured to meet a wide array of application requirements. The tool automatically places components onto PSoC devices, routes all on-chip signals, and points I/O to 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, allowing software developers to control the 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. 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. Therefore, design porting between PSoC devices, including the complete migration of the design being worked on 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 combinatorial analog and digital circuits controlled by on-chip microcontrollers, enabling enhanced design changeability and a reduction in the number of components. A single PSoC device can integrate more than 100 peripheral functions while 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 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 regarding PSoC products, please visit www.cypress.com/psoc . Additionally, for information on free online training, please visit www.cypress.com/psoctraining .