Cypress’s New PSoC Creator 2.2 IDE Delivers New Components, Easy Component Distribution and Custom Documentation

PSoC Creator is more than merely an IDE. In addition to a robust compiler and programmer, it allows users to configure PSoC programmable hardware into a custom one-chip solution. It includes a rich library of over 100 pre-verified, production-ready analog and digital Components—“virtual chips,” represented by an icon—that users can drag-and-drop into a design and configure to suit a broad array of application requirements.

PSoC Creator 2.2 with Component Pack 5 features seven new and five enhanced Components including MDIO Interface, SAR Sequencer and a digital Component pack with multiple Flip/Flops, a Pulse Converter and a Frequency Divider. It also offers a new PWM-based sensor interface Component that connects to Analog Devices’ TMP05 temperature sensors. Components integrate system interfaces and discrete ICs into a PSoC solution, reducing BOM costs and board-space.

“What truly sets PSoC apart from other solutions is not just the flexible architecture of the chips, but the ability to simultaneously design both hardware and software in the PSoC Creator IDE,” said John Weil, Senior Director of PSoC Marketing and Applications for Cypress. “PSoC Components can encapsulate hardware layout, peripheral initialization and the required application firmware to generate a complete virtual IC. This allows engineers to create unique designs that can be optimized for almost any application and then shared and reused throughout their organization.”

Version 2.2 adds easy import and export tools to simplify the sharing of user-created PSoC Creator Components. Customers can generate complete Components and easily pass them to a system integration team. This allows global engineering teams to work on the hardware and software of a particular block, complete and package their design and send to a system integration team. PSoC Creator customers can easily implement Center of Excellence design methodologies throughout their global design teams.

Simplifying project creation, PSoC Creator 2.2 generates complete, custom datasheets for any PSoC project design. Generated datasheets contain system settings, clock and pin details, registers, and Component set-up for each unique custom project. These datasheets are specific to each individual project and greatly simplify documenting the final project.

“PSoC Creator 2.2 with Component Pack 5 enhancements are part of a continuous improvement process for PSoC Creator.” Alan Hawse, Executive Vice President of Software for Cypress. “We’ve now made custom datasheet generation a part of PSoC Creator so that information about a customer’s unique design is more readily available. Custom datasheets, along with our Document Manager, are just part of our focus to put information where the developer needs it, when they need it.”