The PSoC 4100 / PSoC 4200 families of the PSoC 4 architecture do not feature a CAN BUS today. It is on our roadmap for future families in PSoC 4 architecure.
We do however have CAN on the PSoC 5LP, which is the bigger brother (32-bit ARM Cortex-M3) in the PSoC portfolio. More details here - www.cypress.com/PSoC5LP
I would assume if these work with Arduino, theoretically it should be viable with PSOC4 as well. It might not be as slick as the CY8CKIT-017 CAN/LIN Expansion Board Kit
with the Cypress SDK boards but it might work. Maybe you could get inspired with this project ;-).
Thank you, and great suggestion! You are correct, we should theoritically be able to interface with any arduino shield.The one you showed is nothing special but a standard SPI protocol to the CAN hardware, similar to what we did for the Color LCD Shield.
We'll take a look at this one too.
Glad you're enjoying the projects, hope you find something useful to solve your design problems.
Thank you, and great suggestion! You are correct, we should theoritically be able to interface with any arduino shield.The one you showed is nothing special but a standard SPI protocol to the CAN hardware, similar to what we did for the Color LCD Shield.
We'll take a look at this one too.
Glad you're enjoying the projects, hope you find something useful to solve your design problems.
Definitely enjoy your solutions and I most definitely look forward to playing with your products, it is like breadboarding but in a virtual world without the wire mess. We can now play around with digital filter concepts, hone our skills and solve new sets of problems previously impractical to solve.
I love the PSOC 4 compatibility with the shields and PSOC 3 First Touch seems like a fun bunch of things to play with. I wish they did something similar with the PSOC 5. The power at our fingertips in this era and availability of products like yours, along other IC technology, 3D printing, laser sintering, rapid prototyping techniques and tools seems to put the impossible within our reach. Last but not least very talented and dedicated people like yourself sharing your creations with the user base.
Absolutely! It is a very exciting time for engineers and DIY'ers alike with so many technologies coming to us at affordable prices now.
You mentioned wishing something similar for the PSoC 5LP, I'd suggest checking out freeSoC. It was a kickstarter project by Jon Moeller, student at Texas A&M. He has made a couple very nice, smaller sized board featuring the PSoC 5LP, one of them even carrying the arduino shield footprint.
Also for your knowledge, the PSoC 4 Pioneer kit features the PSoC 4 and a PSoC 5LP (which comes factory programmed as the onboard USB debugger), on the same board!
