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Development platform for iPhone and iPod accessories

Cypress Semiconductor has introduced a development platform for Apple iPhone and iPod accessories based on its new PSoC 3 architecture. Designers can use new CY8CKIT-023 PSoC expansion board kit for iPhone and iPod accessories – a plug-in board to the company’s CY8CKIT-001 PSoC platform development kit – to streamline design of advanced mobile accessories using the flexible PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture. The new kit leverages the iPhone OS (operating system) of Apple’s iPhone and iPod products and the corresponding iPhone SDK (software development kit) to provide a two-way communication interface between applications from Apple's App Store and corresponding accessories. The easy-to-use PSoC-based development platform enables highly-integrated modular design of functions such as capacitive touch-sensing, and LCD segment drive and much more for traditional iPhone and iPod accessories such as audio docks and speakers, chargers and automotive products.

When used in conjunction with the PSoC development kit, the PSoC expansion board kit offers support for the company’s recently announced PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 product families, as well as the PSoC 1 family. The expansion board kit features a plug-in board that connects to the PSoC development kit, enabling PSoC to communicate with the iPhone and iPod. The kit showcases the capabilities for developers to record to and play from an iPhone or iPod with a microphone input and speaker output on the plug-in board, while simultaneously highlighting PSoC’s capabilities to power CapSense capacitive touch-sensing buttons and sliders for playback control as well as drive an LCD to display metadata from multimedia. The kit also comes with an iPhone app and a PSoC project example to demonstrate communication between iPhone apps and accessories.