Cypress Unveils Latest Elements for PSoC Creator 2.2

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (News - Alert) has unveiled an enhanced Component Pack 6, comprising of the latest elements for PSoC Creator 2.2. Four of the latest PSoC Components, which are pre-confirmed “virtual chips” signified by an icon, form the modified Component Pack 6. PSoC Creator 2.2 is the integrated design environment for the organization’s PSoC 3, PSoC 4 and PSoC 5LP programmable system-on-chip architectures. The Component Pack 6 and PSoC Creator 2.2 can be downloaded by developers by going to the company website. It is currently being made available for no cost at all.

Users can drag-and-drop the latest components into a design and configure them, making the components ideal for a wide assortment of application necessities. These components offer the latest peripheral functions to current PSoC devices by advantageously using PSoC’s hardware programmability, thereby accelerating time-to-market.

PSoC customers are offered several fresh capabilities by Component Pack 6, like Software Transmit UART, Emulated EEPROM, Segment/Matrix LED Driver and SC/CT Comparator. A straightforward Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, which does not guzzle hardware digital resources, is offered by the Software Transmit UART capability. Access to non-volatile memory is simplified with Emulated EEPROM, which stores data without including specific Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory to a product’s bill of materials. While speedy prototyping of displays is possible with Segment/Matrix LED Driver, developers can use Switched-Capacitor/Continuous-Time hardware blocks as comparators using the SC/CT Comparator capability.

In a statement, John Weil, senior director of PSoC Marketing and Applications for Cypress, said, “Component Pack 6 is another example of how Cypress is continually adding new functionality to PSoC. We take customer feedback into consideration in planning our new PSoC Components, with the goal of empowering those same customers to design truly differentiated products that they can quickly bring to market.”

Apart from being a sturdy compiler and programmer, PSoC Creator facilitates users to configure PSoC programmable hardware into a customized single-chip solution. PSoC Creator features a valuable library of a minimum of 100 pre-verified, production-ready analog and digital PSoC Components.

Engineers can now design in the manner they conceptualize using the innovative design software, PSoC Creator. System generation is no longer dependant on the target PSoC device with PSoC Creator’s graphic-based design capture and pre-verified, production-ready Components.