Cypress Semiconductor has introduced a new family of its PSoC 4 programmable system-on-chip architectures. The new PSoC 4 L series is the industry's most integrated single-chip solution, with a 32-bit ARM-Cortex-M0 core, added 256KB flash memory, 98 general-purpose I / O, 33 programmable analog and digital modules, USB device control Controller and control area network (CAN) interface.
The PSoC 4 L series leverages the flexibility of the PSoC architecture to respond to multiple product changes and leverages Cypress's industry-leading CapSense capacitive touch sensing technology to achieve reliable and elegant user interfaces, making it a variety of industrial and consumer applications Ideal choice.
"The award-winning PSoC 4 product portfolio enables customers to easily migrate from proprietary 8-bit and 16-bit MCUs to the industry's most integrated ARM Cortex-M0 system-on-chip," said John Weil, vice president of MCU marketing, Parker. "The PSoC 4 L series introduces new features such as dual mutual inductance CapSense modules with up to 94 channels for large capacitive touchscreen home appliances applications, as well as USB and programmable digital modules to create bit-perfect digital audio solutions .In addition, it provides all the resources needed to create a new product for the emerging USB Type-C market. "
The PSoC 4 L series provides up to 13 programmable analog modules, including 4 high-performance operational amplifiers, 4 current output digital-to-analog converters (IDAC), 2 low-power comparators, 12-bit SAR ADCs, and dual CapSense The module has up to 94 capacitive sensing channels. Programmable analog modules enable engineers to create custom on-chip analog front ends to support new end-product features without increasing product cost, size, or power consumption.
PSoC 4 L series can provide up to 20 programmable digital modules, including 8 timer / counter / PWM modules, 4 serial communication modules and 8 universal digital modules (UDBs)-programmable digital modules, each module Contains two programmable logic devices, a programmable data path status and control register. UDB can be configured as a coprocessor to offload computationally intensive tasks from the ARM Cortex-M0 core. These modules also enable engineers to implement custom digital peripherals, state machines or glue logic. Traditional MCUs usually require additional ICs to implement this function.
The easy-to-use PSoC Creator integrated design environment (IDE) complements the scalable PSoC 4 architecture, which simplifies system design and speeds up by enabling parallel hardware and firmware design and PSoC components – the free embedded IC represented Time to market. Via the icon in the IDE. The company says that together they enable rapid prototyping of end applications while minimizing the PCB rotation and firmware changes typically required.
