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Cypress and Future Electronics develop low-cost PSoC 3 development board

July 13, 2010 // Paul Buckley

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Future Electronics have introduced a low-cost development board to demonstrate the ease-of-use of Cypress's new PSoC 3 architecture. The  Future Electronics PSoC 3 Development Board shows how developers can use  the flexible PSoC 3 architecture and the PSoC Creator Integrated  Development Environment (IDE) to streamline designs.

The Future  Electronics PSoC 3 Development Board features:    

• On-Board  Debug/Programmer   
• CapSense Touch Pad Interface   
• TriColor -  Red/Green/Blue LEDs   
• User USB Interface  Power through USB Ports   
• Two Connectors for I/Os and Expansion Boards  Optional CAN  Oscillator    
  

The two Expansion Board Kit (EBK) connectors on the board  enable it to work with a growing ecosystem of solution-based expansion kits that  Cypress is developing, including segment LCD, CAN and more. Future will also be  developing an expansion board for the new Sharp Pixel in Memory LCD with power  consumption 130 times lower than standard LCDs of comparable size.       


The companies have also announced that interested parties can request free onsite introductory demonstrations of the new development board or half-day, hands-on workshops.     

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. PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 offer high-precision programmable analog  including 12- to 20-bit delta-sigma ADCs, digital logic libraries full of dozens  of drop-in peripherals, best-in-class power management and rich connectivity  resources. The PSoC Creator IDE 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.      

“We're pleased  to offer our customers a low-cost entry point to experience how Cypress's PSoC  platform provides the power and flexibility to develop innovative products and  get to market fast," said Frantz Saintellemy, Chief Technical Officer at Future  Electronics. “We're also looking forward to providing hands-on demonstrations  through our free, onsite trainings.”     

The  free onsite demonstration introduces the PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 architectures and  features, shows applications development using PSoC Creator software and the  Future Electronics PSoC 3 Development Board, and includes a short lab. The free  half-day workshop gives participants hands-on experience using and developing  PSoC 3 applications through the PSoC Creator IDE and the CY8CKIT-001 PSoC  Development Kit. Attendees will learn how to easily implement high-performance,  low-power 8-bit or 32-bit mixed-signal applications with an architecture  integrating powerful and programmable analog and digital resources.   

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Future PSoC 3 board  

Free downloads of PSoC Creator   

PSoC 3 demonstrations or workshops  

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