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Updated PSoC Express

Cypress Semiconductor has introduced Version 3.0 of PSoC Express, the visual embedded-system design tool for its PSoC mixed-signal-array chipproduct line. The release has real-time monitoring and tuning of designs, allowing engineers to observe and improve the performance of designs with the company’s CapSense touch-sensing and EZ-Color High-Brightness LED (HBLED) packages. You can monitor application data via an I2C-to-USB bridge connected to a target board. PSoC Express acquires and logs the data and enables you to select variables, set sample rates, and watch updated variable values in real time. With the target board still running, the tuner allows users to adjust configurations and tune system performance. The software is a free download. The new version also includes new functional drivers, including support for high-brightness LEDs, a new wirelessdriver and an LCD driver.

With PSoC Express, designers work within their areas of application expertise, defining a custom solution by choosing input and output devices from a catalogue, and then logically linking them to define system behaviour. You can then verify designs through simulation, then generate and download the device-programming file for the PSoC device: these chips employ a configurable SoC (System-on-Chip) architecture for embedded-control design, offering a Flashbased equivalent of a field-programmable ASIC, integrating configurable analogue and digital circuits, controlled by an onchipmicrocontroller.

Cypress Semiconductor, www.cypress.com