|
Date: 16th Sept 09
Cypress embed ARM cores in new version
of PSoC devices
In recent times Embedded System design engineers showing
more interest towards Cypress Semiconductor's Programmable
System on Chip (PsoC) devices. PSoC is gearing up to become
another long living EE keyword. A good percentage of PSoC
engineers are also experts and admirers of ARM processor
architecture.
But many PSoC users were disappointed all these years for
not availability of ARM core inside PSoC devices. Now they
can look forward to work with ARM based PSoC devices.
Cypress Semiconductor has licensed ARM processor cores ARM9
and Cortex to use in their future PSoC devices. Cypress
Semiconductor has also licensed more than 75 other IP elements
from ARM.
In India, embedded system designers are keen to use ARM
core integrated PSoC devices in their designs. Phani Kumar,
Senior Staff Engineer at Motorola India says, "It's
our long time desire to have ARM in PSoC, we also expect
more peripherals available inside ARM based PSoC chip"
Do you like to see what engineers are chatting about this,
visit
http://www.embeddedrelated.com/usenet/embedded/show/75287-1.php
Cypress Semiconductor is going to talk on the advantages
of ARM-Cypress partnership in the event "ARM Techcon
Developers Conference" on October 21-23, 2009 at Santa
Clara, CA. (Santa Clara convention center) U.S.
Cypress' new PSoC architecture called PSoC3 and PSoC5 packs
Programmable Precision Analog and Digital Logic with High
Performance ARM-Cortex M3 and 8051-Based MCU Sub-Systems.
Samples of the PSoC 3 devices are available now, with volumes
in the first quarter of 2010.
Package: 100-pin TQFPs, 48- and 68-pin QFNs, and 48-pin
SSOPs.
PSoC 5 is sampling in the first quarter of 2010 with volume
availability in the second half of the 2010.
Cypress Semiconductor has also introduced the PSoC Creator
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the new PSoC
3 and PSoC 5 families. PSoC Creator software is available
for free from www.cypress.com/go/psoccreator.
|