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Anonymous
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Hi,

   

I start with cypress products and have a hard time understanding the product range and tools.

   

I am looking for a module totally CE certified to make uart between PC / tablet / smartphone and a BLE device (virtual UART over BLE). If possible with SPI connection.

   

I see this module
http://www.cypress.com/part/cyble-212019-00
Is it a good choice ? Are there other modules to advise?

   

I can not understand if it is necessary to program them with a firmware or if uart over BLE is a functionality by default.

   

Are there any tutorials, sample applications and sample code (C code) for these modules (Ideally for UART over ble) ?

   

Thank you very much in advance.

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Bob_Marlowe
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Welcome in the forum, Charly.

   

Yes, it is necessary to program the modules which needs the PSoC Creator IDE and a programmer like the Miniprog3 or a Kitprog which is (a snap-off) part of most (non BLE) prototyping kits.

   

PSoCs are a bit different from "normal" BLE modules:. They contain some quite flexible hardware which you may use for your project. The hardware includes interfaces (SPI, I2C,UART,BLE ...), analog blocks (ADC, DAC, OpAmp ..) and digital blocks (Timer, counter, PWM, Quad decoder, status and control registers...). Even some PSoCs contain configurable digital logic that can be set up using HDL (Hardware Description Lamguage). All that for a quite reasonable price. The BLE modules are CE certified, while the "naked" PSoC BLE chips need a certification when designed onto a self-made PCB.

   

When PSoC Creator is installed you have access to a lot of example projects and a bunch of documentation concerning all the components inside the PSoC.

   

 

   

Happy coding

   

Bob

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