Introduction In today's world, where technology has taken over, electronic devices have become an essential part of our daily routine. However, with the constant use of electronic devices, the issue of eye strain and fatigue has become increasingly common. To counter this problem, many devices now come with features like adaptive brightness that adjust the screen brightness according to the ambient lighting conditions. In this blog post, we will introduce you to the PSoCTm 62S4 Pioneer Kit and its light sensor, which can help you build your own adaptive brightness feature.
Unboxing the PSoCTm 62S4 Pioneer Kit The PSoCTm 62S4 Pioneer Kit comes in a compact box that contains the PSoC 62S4 Pioneer Board, USB Type-A to Micro-B Cable, Six Jumper Wires, Quick Start Guide.
Product Overview
The development board itself is small and lightweight, making it easy to carry around. The board has a variety of features, including a PSoC 62S4 microcontroller, a digital ambient light sensor, an RGB LED, and various other peripherals. It also has a built-in programmer/debugger that allows you to program and debug the microcontroller without the need for an external programmer. The Quick Start Guide provides clear instructions on how to set up the board and get started with your project. It also includes links to Cypress' software tools, which you'll need to install before you can start programming the board.
Technical Details
PSoCTM 62S4 pioneer kit (CY8CKIT-062S4) is a low-cost hardware platform that enables to design and debug applications using the PSoC 62 MCU. The PSoC 62S4 Pioneer Kit features the PSoC 62 MCU CY8C62x4 (CY8C6244LQI-S4D92) with: 150-MHz Arm® Cortex®-M4 and 100-MHz Arm Cortex-M0+ cores, 256KB of Flash, 128KB of SRAM, programmable analogue blocks including two 12-bit SAR ADCs, programmable digital blocks, Full-Speed USB, a serial memory interface, a CAN-FD interface and industry-leading capacitive-sensing with CapSense
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- 512Mbits quad SPI nonvolatile flash provides high-performance, safe NOR flash memory solution
- Rich analogue including dual SAR ADCs, DAC, Opamps and comparators
- Capable of operating in system deep sleep mode
- Industry leading CapSense (4th generation CapSense)
- Capacitive sensing interfaces including two buttons and a 5-segment slider
- ModusToolbox software suite support
Blog 03 : Project Concept Overview(What we gonna make)
Blog 04 Implementing Code on PSoCTm 62S4 pioneer kit (CY8CKIT-062S4)