Cypress intros PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 device selection tool for designers

SAN JOSE, USA: Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has introduced a new online product selection tool for its powerful new PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 architectures.

The Electronic Product Selector Guide, now available at www.cypress.com/go/PSoCePSG, streamlines the selection of the optimal PSoC device based on the peripheral functions a designer wants to implement in the programmable analog and digital resources.

As a user makes selections in the tool’s intuitive user interface, the “Results” field of applicable parts dynamically narrows down, displaying the part with the best match first. Once the search criteria are entered, the user can select devices to compare, click on the part numbers for more information, and rearrange the feature columns to highlight the most relevant data.

“It helps PSoC veterans and newcomers alike to quickly identify the ideal part for a design based on the desired peripheral functions, while also highlighting the unique flexibility of PSoC to solve a wide range of applications with the on-chip programmable analog and digital resources.”

The Electronic Product Selector Guide allows designers to easily customize:
* the number of ADCs, DACs, comparators, OpAmps, PGAs, TIAs and mixers needed in the analog subsystem;
* the number of timers, PWMs, counters and communications interfaces, including I2C, SPI, UART, I2S, Full-Speed USB and CAN, needed in the digital subsystem;
* the speed, microcontroller core, memory, voltage, temperature range and package in the CPU subsystem;
* advanced features such as CapSense touch-sensing, LCD direct drive and more.

PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 devices extend the world’s only programmable analog and digital embedded design platform, delivering unmatched time-to-market, integration and flexibility across 8-, 16-, and 32-bit applications.

The platform is powered by the revolutionary PSoC Creator Integrated Development Environment (IDE), which introduces a unique schematic-based design methodology along with fully tested, pre-packaged analog and digital peripherals easily customizable through user-intuitive wizards and APIs to meet specific design requirements.

“This new product selection tool makes it even easier to add the flexibility and integration of the PSoC platform into a design,” said Matt Branda, marketing director of PSoC Platform products at Cypress.

“It helps PSoC veterans and newcomers alike to quickly identify the ideal part for a design based on the desired peripheral functions, while also highlighting the unique flexibility of PSoC to solve a wide range of applications with the on-chip programmable analog and digital resources.”

Cypress is planning to expand the Electronic Product Selector Guide to include PSoC 1 devices later this year.