The CY3270CY3270 PSoC FirstTouch Starter Kit provides a quick and easy way to evaluate the integration flexibility and real mixed-signal programmability of PSoC mixed-signal arrays The kit highlights PSoC programmable mixed-signal flexibility with proximity ambient light temperature and capacitive touch sensing in a small form factor It demonstrates the power of PSoC mixed-signal arrays without writing or debugging a single line of“C or assembly code with two thumb-drive form factor boards .
Cypress’s powerful PSoC
FirstTouch
Kit, in USB thumbdrive format, enables customers to design multiple sensing applications.
Without writing or debugging code, the PSoC FirstTouch Starter Kit, working with Cypress's PSoC Express visual embedded system design tool, provides designers with an ‘out of the box’ experience on CapSense touch, temperature, light and CapSense proximity sensing right. Users can experiment with many more designs available on www.cypress.com/go/firsttouch, or build their own via PSoC Express, adding functionality directly onto development systems via the detachable expansion card.
The PSoC FirstTouch Starter Kit includes two small boards. The main system board that interfaces with a computer over USB, and a detachable multifunction expansion card, which includes inputs/outputs for the many applications supported by the kit.
The PSoC is configurable by a PSoC Designer. It is used to configure the analogue and digital blocks that surround the microcontroller, as the first step in designing a PSoC system. The second is to program the microcontroller.
The two steps can be combined using the PSoC Express ( Visual Design Tool Tackles Multiple MCUs). PSoC Express is free and downloadable from the Cypress website. It is a graphical tool that allows for selection of a set of peripherals that can be constructed from the analogue and digital blocks as well as a set of code to implement a standard set of functions that can be linked to other components on the graphical canvas.
PSoC devices use a configurable system-on-chip architecture for embedded control design, offering a flash-based equivalent of a field-programmable ASIC with no NRE concerns. PSoC devices integrate configurable analogue and digital circuits, controlled by an on-chip microcontroller, providing enhanced design revision capability, including up to 32KB of Flash memory, 2KB of SRAM, an 8x8 multiplier with 32-bit accumulator, power and sleep monitoring circuits, and hardware I2C communications.
The flexible PSoC resources allow designers to update their products by enabling changes to firmware during design, validation, production, and in the field. The flexibility shortens design cycles, allowing for late feature enhancements. All PSoC devices are dynamically reconfigurable, enabling designers to amend and utilize internal resources with fewer components to perform a given task.
Development tools enable designers to select configurable elements for analogue functions such as amplifiers, ADCs, DACs, filters, comparators and digital functions such as timers, counters, PWMs, SPI and UARTs. The PSoC family's analogue features include rail-to-rail inputs, programmable gain amplifiers, up to 14-bit ADCs with low noise, input leakage and voltage offset.
A single PSoC device can integrate upto 100 peripheral functions saving on design time, board real-estate and power consumption whilst improving on system quality.
Features & benefits:
The PSoC FirstTouch Starter Kit offers extensive features, including:
- Four embedded designs ‘out of the box’
- No code, no debugging PSoC Express-based design platform
- 16-pin connection interface to plug the multifunction expansion card into target boards
- Pins accessible for user functions
- Convenient, USB thumb drive format
- I2C and ISSP support
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