Cypress To Highlight New PSoC 3 Architecture With Avnet at 37 X-Fest Locations Around The World

Cypress will demonstrate its newly announced PSoC 3 programmable system-on-chip architecture. The new PSoC architectures dramatically increase performance and 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. This new embedded design platform is powered by the revolutionary PSoC Creator™ Integrated Development Environment, 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.



In addition to the demonstrations, Cypress will be participating in three technical sessions at the X-Fest events:



• Interfacing to an Analog World

Attendees will see real-world examples of multiple sensor input signal conditioning, and see the important effects that filtering and amplification can have on low level signals. It will also explore the design considerations around analog resolution, sampling speeds and converter topologies.



• Designing Products for the Human Experience

This session will teach engineers how to design intuitive, reliable Human-Machine Interfaces with CapSense® touch-sensing, low-cost custom segment LCDs, and low-cost USB connections to a host PC. Attendees will also learn how to save power and cost through clever design techniques employed on the new Xilinx Spartan-6 LX16 platform designed by Avnet.



• Powering Xilinx Virtex®-6 and Spartan®-6

This session will explain the key requirements of powering the Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGAs., as well as various techniques in designing a very low power Spartan-6 based system. In addition to seeing the design trade-offs involved in using linear regulators, switchers and integrated modules, attendees will learn new techniques for managing the overall power system, improving energy efficiency, and measuring power consumption in real time using PSoC 3 precision analog capabilities.



“We’re excited to be working with Avnet to present our new PSoC solutions to engineers around the world,” said Geoff Charubin, vice president of Worldwide Distribution for Cypress. “X-Fest attendees understand the importance of programmability, so this provides a great venue to showcase the flexibility, performance and integration of these new architectures.”