Cypress: PSoC®︎ 4 System-on-Chip Overview

Yiying — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 06:38:22 GMT

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Overview

PSoC® 4 is Cypress's newest ARM-based PSoC, featuring the low-power Cortex-M0 core combined with PSoC's unique programmable mixed-signal hardware IP, resulting in the industry's most flexible and scalable low-power mixed-signal architecture. Use PSoC 4 with PSoC Creator™ to create unique designs, shorten development schedules, and accelerate your time-to-market.

The PSoC 4 architecture enhances Cypress’s patented, industry-leading CapSense capacitive-touch sensing technology by offering significant leadership in noise immunity. In addition to capacitive sensing, PSoC 4 targets field-oriented control (FOC) motor control, temperature sensing, security access, portable medical, and many other applications.

The PSoC 4 architecture offers best-in-class power leakage of 150 nA while retaining SRAM memory, programmable logic, and the ability to wake up from an interrupt. In stop mode, it consumes only 20 nA while maintaining wake-up capability. It has the widest operating voltage range of any Cortex-M0-based device, enabling full analog and digital operation from 1.71V to 5.5V. The architecture facilitates integrated, high-performance custom signal chains and provides both configurable analog and flexible routing.

PSoC 4 leverages the PSoC Creator integrated design environment. The IDE’s easy-to-use graphical interface enables designers to drag and drop pre-characterized, production-ready analog and digital IP blocks—PSoC Components—into a single PSoC device to create customized, feature-rich, and highly differentiated end products. Cypress’s platform solution—PSoC 4, PSoC Creator and PSoC Components—simplifies and accelerates the design process, reduces bills of material, and provides extraordinary system value.

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Key Features

The core features of the PSoC 4 devices are below:

32-bit Cortex-M0 CPU with single-cycle multiply delivering up to 43 DMIPS at 48 MHz
Up to 32-KB flash and 4-KB SRAM
Four independent center-aligned pulse-width modulators (PWMs) with complementary dead-band programmable outputs and synchronized analog-to-digital converter (ADC) operation
Up to 1 Msps 12-bit ADC including sample-and-hold (S/H) capability with zero-overhead sequencing
Up to two opamps with comparator mode and successive approximation register (SAR) input buffering capability
Two low-power comparators
Two serial communication blocks (SCB) to work as SPI/UART/I2C serial communication channels
Up to four programmable logic blocks, known as universal digital blocks (UDBs)
CapSense® and segment LCD drive
Low-power operating modes: Sleep, Deep-Sleep, Hibernate, and Stop
Programming and debug system through serial wire debug (SWD)
Fully supported PSoC Creator™ IDE tool

Development Tools

Software Development Tools:

Tool Type	Supplier	MPN	Supported Family	Description
IDE	Cypress	PSoC Createor	PSoC 3 / PSoC 4 / PSoC 5 / PSoC 5LP	PSoC® Creator™ is a state-of-the-art software development IDE combined with a revolutionary graphical design editor to form a uniquely powerful hardware/software co-design environment. This co-design approach frees embedded designers from hardware re-spins and software hacks. It also enables immediate testing of new ideas, rapid response to hardware changes, and error-free software interaction with on-chip peripherals. Learn More
Programmer Software	Cypress	PSoC Programmer	All PSoC	The PSoC Programmer software tool supports all Cypress PSoC programming hardware and PSoC devices. PSoC Programmer is a simple GUI that connects to programming hardware to program and configure PSoC devices. From the GUI users will be able to select the target device, configure programming selections and execute a number of programming actions such as Program, Read, Verify and Erase. PSoC Programmer is a required installation for both PSoC Creator and PSoC Designer.
IDE	ARM	Keil MDK-ARM	ARM Cortex™-M / Cortex-R4 / ARM7™ / ARM9™	The MDK-ARM is a complete software development environment for Cortex™-M, Cortex-R4, ARM7™ and ARM9™ processor-based devices. MDK-ARM is specifically designed for microcontroller applications, it is easy to learn and use, yet powerful enough for the most demanding embedded applications.Learn More
RTOS	Segger	embOS	ARM Cortex™-M	embOS is a priority-controlled real time operating system, designed to be used as foundation for the development of embedded real-time applications. It is a zero interrupt latency, high-performance RTOS that has been optimized for minimum memory consumption in both RAM and ROM, as well as high speed and versatility. Learn More

Hardware Development Tools:

Tool Type	Supplier	MPN	Supported Family	Description
Emulator / Debugger / Programmer	Cypress	CY8CKIT-002CY8CKIT-002	PSoC 1 / PSoC 3 / PSoC 5	MiniProg3 Program and Debug Kit is an all-in-one programmer for PSoC 1, PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 architectures and debug tool for PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 architectures
Emulator / Debugger / Programmer	ARM	ULINK2ULINK2	ARM Cortex™-M / ARM7™ / ARM9™	ULINK2 Debug Adapter
Emulator / Debugger / Programmer	ARM	ULINKProULINKPro	ARM Cortex™-M / ARM7™ / ARM9™	ULINKpro Debug and Trace Unit
Emulator	Segger	J-LinkJ-Link	ARM Cortex™-M / Cortex-R4 / Cortex-A / ARM7™ / ARM9™	JTAG/SWD Emulator with USB interface
Programmer	Segger	Flasher ARMFlasher ARM	ARM Cortex™-M / Cortex-R4 / Cortex-A / ARM7™ / ARM9™	Flash Programmer for ARM and Cortex cores

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Technical Documents

Learning Center

Type	Description
Product Brochure	Cypress PSoC4 Architecture Overview
Reference Manual	Cypress: Technical Reference Manual for PSoC 4100/4200 Family