PSoC™ 6 Forum Discussions
Hello everyone,
Our partner Digi-Key recently posted a very interesting technical article discussing the IoT's role in future (and current) horticulture applications. The article features our PSoC 6 MCU, as well as solutions from SparkFun and Wurth that come together to build an ideal prototyping platform for engineers trying to implement connectivity, intelligence, and advanced processing capability in horticulture applications quickly and easily.
Read Full Article at Digi-Key!
Purchase the PSoC 6 SparkFun Platform discussed in this article from Digi-Key here!
Abstract: In horticulture, the Internet of things (IoT) can play a key role in both monitoring and ensuring plant health using a combination of sensors and specialized horticulture LEDs. However, adapting and implementing the right IoT computing platform with the required peripherals, sensors, LEDs, and connectivity options can be time consuming and put both budgets and schedules at risk.
To reduce this risk, a combination of board and device solutions from Cypress Semiconductor, SparkFun Electronics, and Wurth Electronics, among other components, can be used to greatly simplify the design process while at the same time allow the rapid development of sophisticated greenhouse control systems.
This article will explore the relationship between LEDs and plant health before introducing and describing these solutions, and how to use them together.
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Hello PSoC MCU Developers!
We are pleased to announce availability of our brand new ModusToolbox 1.0 SW environment this week! It simplifies development for IoT developers and delivers easy-to-use tools and a familiar MCU IDE for Windows®, macOS®, and Linux®. ModusToolbox 1.0 delivers the PSoC 6 Software Development Kit (SDK) and provides support for all available PSoC 6 MCUs and the following platforms:
With the PSoC 6 SDK, you can evaluate the unique and differentiating features of the PSoC 6 MCU portfolio, such as CapSense®, Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) and other peripherals.
To download and explore the ModusToolbox 1.0 SW environment, please visit the ModusToolbox page. Also, we have started a ModusToolbox Community, where you can leave your feedback, comments, and questions to interact with us.
Happy developing! And Happy Holidays!
Show LessHello Problem-Solvers!
Recently we have partnered with Premiere Farnell and Honeywell to put together a campaign around pairing PSoC 6 MCUs with Honeywell's Pressure Sensors to solve problems for Medical IoT applications. A new example project with full source code is available now - check it out below!
Learn more, download a case study, and get hardware to start your own connected, low-power healthcare device design here: www.farnell.com/smart-care
Follow along an Element14 engineer's project showing how to leverage the PSoC 6 MCU as well as Honeywell's Pressure Sensors in a medical application with full source code, documentation and videos too! Part 1; Part 2
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Hi @ll,
I am pleased to announce that from now the free FORTH Mecrisp-Stellaris in the latest version 2.4.5 for the Eva-Kit-044 with the PSoC cy8c4247azi is available for download.
See: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mecrisp/files/Cypress/ >>> mecrisp-stellaris-2.4.5 for cy8c4247azi-044.zip
Mecrisp-Stellaris-FORTH is available for following Eva-Kits / PSoC`s :
Board: / PSoC:
CY8CKIT-043 -> cy8c4247azi
CY8CKIT-044 -> cy8c4247azi
CY8CKIT-046 -> cy8c4248bzi
CY8CKIT-049 -> cy8c4245axi
CY8CKIT-050 -> cy8c5868axi
CY8CKIT-059 -> cy8c5888lti
FreeSoC2 -> cy8c5888axi
The porting for the PSoC 6 is also planned. With this FORTH-pagage it is possible to test all C-applications interactively without debugger. The Kernel have integrated an interpreter and compiler. The Compiler is extendabel in FORTH itself (generic and generative programming).
If you would like to know more about FORTH, you will find the classic Starting-FORTH and Thinking-FORTH by Leo Brodie:
http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/
The Definition of ANS FORTH you can find here: http://lars.nocrew.org/dpans/dpans.htm
If you want to know more about Mecrisp-Stellaris you are right here:
https://www.forth-ev.de/filemgmt_data/files/4d2015-arm.pdf
Have fun
Klaus
Show LessRegistrations have opened for our upcoming Virtual Training Workshop with Mouser Electronics: Designing low-power, cloud-connected IoT devices with PSoC® 6 MCU’s and WICED® Wi-Fi/Bluetooth
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Sponsor: Mouser Electronics and Cypress
Duration: 2 Hours
Summary:
Join Alan Hawse (@askiotexpert) for a hands-on, technical training on how to develop with Cypress’ dual-core, ultra-low-power PSoC 6 MCUs and WICED® Wi-Fi/Bluetooth connectivity technologies. Participants are highly recommended to purchase a PSoC 6 WiFi-BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062-WIFI-BT) from Mouser to be able to follow along, step-by-step with Alan in building a PSoC 6 based IoT application in the WICED Studio SDK.
In this virtual experience, Alan will take attendants through:
- The basics of getting started with the WICED Studio SDK
- The unique benefits of wireless design with PSoC 6 MCUs and WICED Wi-Fi/Bluetooth
- Ultimately how to reduce time-to-market in next-generation IoT designs using Cypress’ PSoC 6 MCUs and WICED wireless
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Check out this exciting "Road Test" on our partner Farnell's Element14 community: It is a competition to see what interesting and innovative projects you can build with the PSoC 6 MCU and WICED Wi-Fi/Bluetooth!
https://www.element14.com/community/roadTests/1979/l/psoc-6-wifi-bt-pioneer-kit-cy8ckit-062-wifi-bt
Apply for one of 5 free PSoC 6 WiFi-BT Pioneer Kit until 10/9/18 with your ideas for how you would review the kit, what projects you could build with it, etc. Then, if your application is chosen, our friends at Farnell will ship you a free kit so that you can bring your ideas to life and create a blog post to be featured on the Element14 page for this Road Test to 500K+ community members.
Apply today!
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Hello Problem-Solvers!
Check out this video from our friends at Digi-Key, who we partnered with along with SparkFun to create a fast, fun, and easy way to prototype Smart Environmental Monitoring IoT applications using the PSoC 6 MCU.
Learn more here: PSoC® 6 IoT Dev Platform - Cypress/Sparkfun | DigiKey
Thanks!
Best,
Matthew S.
Show LessThe SMIF configuration tool does not generate a correct configuration for the S25FL256S. I'll leave it as an exercise for Cypress to figure out how and why.
Show LessHello PSoC MCU Developers!
We are pleased to announce the production release of PSoC Creator 4.2 ,with full support for our brand new PSoC 6 MCUs, purpose-built for the Internet of Things (IoT). With PSoC Creator 4.2, you get the following support:
What's New in PSoC® Creator 4.2?
In addition to many minor enhancements and defect fixes, PSoC Creator 4.2 adds support for two exciting new PSoC product lines.
The PSoC 6 family provides a real step up in terms of performance and flexibility. It is available as a single-core 150MHz Arm® Cortex®-M4 device or a dual core version with a 100-MHz Arm Cortex-M0+ core to manage peripheral functions.
Dual-Core Application Development
PSoC Creator 4.2 makes dual-core development easy by splitting up your source code into separate folders in the Workspace Explorer. You can easily identify the core that application source code will execute on and, because both cores have access to all peripherals and memory, you can move functionality around by simply dragging the files to the preferred core folder.
Building projects is fully automated, just like with PSoC 4, so you do not waste time maintaining makefile dependencies and re-building for each core after simple code changes. The result of a build is always the complete application in a single file that you just program and go. Debugging is also easy because you can connect to either core in seconds – just pick the one you need and start the debugger normally.
Peripheral Driver Library
PSoC 6 includes up to 56 digital and 7 analog peripherals plus CapSense®, USB, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), USB, and interfaces to serial memory and PDM-PCM digital microphones. Firmware to manage them all is provided by the Peripheral Driver Library (PDL). PDL is a suite of highly-efficient, MISRA-compliant drivers for PSoC peripherals with a comprehensive, searchable documentation package that is HTML-based for easy viewing in any browser.
As usual PSoC Creator 4.2 makes using the PDL easy by automatically pulling the drivers you need into your project. As you add components to your design and build the project, the required code is added to and include paths maintained for you.
PSoC 4100S Plus
Clearly, the big news in this release is public support for PSoC 6 devices but there is a new PSoC 4 series too - PSoC 4100S Plus. Ideally suited to the main control and interface boards in Home Appliance, Consumer and Industrial applications, PSoC 4100S Plus is available in 44-pin TQFP and 64-pin LQFP packages with up to 54 GPIO. 24 of those pins support our unique Smart I/O functionality. The Plus-series also extends the PSoC 4100S with a variety of valuable feature and resource additions.
- More memory (up to 128kB flash and 16kb SRAM)
- Megahertz-range external oscillator support
- True random number generator (program security)
- Segment LCD support
- CAN controller
- Up to eight 16-bit timer/counter/PWM (TCPWM) blocks
- Up to five serial communication blocks (SCBs)