PSoC dev board combines with IDE to hasten development
October 13, 2017
Cypress Semiconductor has just released the PSoC 6 BLE Pioneer Kit and PSoC Creator Integrated Design Environment (IDE) software version 4.2.
Cypress Semiconductor is one of those vendors that designers seem to gravitate to, mostly because their products are very easy to use. I’m referring to board-level products, design kits, eval boards, software-development kits, and the like. To that end, the company has just released the PSoC 6 BLE Pioneer Kit and PSoC Creator Integrated Design Environment (IDE) software version 4.2. This combination lets developers begin designing with the PSoC 6 microcontroller in an IoT application. PSoC BLE 6 is a low-power MCU with built-in Bluetooth Low Energy wireless connectivity and integrated hardware-based security. It’s built with an ARM Cortex-M4 core as a host processor and a Cortex-M0+ to manage peripheral functions, such as capacitive sensing.
The PSoC BLE Pioneer Kit enables development of touch and gesture-based interfaces that employ a linear slider, touch buttons, and proximity sensors based on Cypress’ CapSense capacitive-sensing technology. Designers can add USB Power Delivery (PD) with a USB-C controller. The kit also includes a 2.7-inch E-ink Display Shield add-on board with thermistor, digital mic, and 9-axes motion sensor.
The PSoC 6 BLE Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062-BLE) is available now for $75. PSoC 6 devices are currently sampling. Production devices are expected by the end of 2017.
