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Hello everyone,
I have developed a capsense board with 5 buttons & a slider.
I intend to use these boards for the electrical switching applications like light, fan with regulators T.V. etc.
I want to know will they function like the normal mechanical swiches or not for longer durational operations.
I wish to know the +ve & -ve effects on the board if I keep the apps running continuously for longer durations (suppose for complete 1 day).
Will that degrade the performance of the board with such operating over the period of time?
If it does what are the remedies you would suggest me?
Thanks & Regards-
Amit
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I do not know what you mean with "+ve & -ve effects", but a correctly designed PSoC board will run for longer than a couple of days. Keep an eye on ambient temperature and power dissipation and on stability of the power supply.
Bob
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Hi Bob,
thats what I was to know, as you say keeping the apps running for 1 day contiuously in our normal household conditions will not alter the performance of either the board or the app its controlling. Is it correct what I ment of your comment.
Also what will be the response of the board if there are fluctuations in the mains supply? I have used a relay card with power converter, a bridge bet mains & board.
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Main supply issues have to be caught by the power supply. When you live in an area where brown-outs and power losses are usual (I didn't have any in the last two years) you could do some protection by software and hardware as
Detection of AC loss of a single sine-wave and alerting via interrupt the PSoC
Bridging short power-losses with (gold)caps or batteries.
Measuring with ADC the incoming supply voltage
Probably there are some more methods
Bob
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Also Bob & Dana,
- what are the things I will have to do if I wish to switch to the PSoC 4 from the CY8C20X34 (PSoC 1).
- Will that be a OK one or a bit tedious?
- What will be the advantages considering the switching application with PSoC 4?
- Will this transition help me ease the programming & interfacing scenario?
- Will that help me interface the remote?
Thanks & Regards-
Amit
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what are the things I will have to do if I wish to switch to the PSoC 4 from the CY8C20X34 (PSoC 1).
Consider a Pioneer board or the USB boards or high end CY8CKIT-001
http://www.cypress.com/?app=search&searchType=advanced&keyword=&rtID=110&id=4749
Will that be a OK one or a bit tedious?
Creator, PSOC 4, a more advanced GUI tool, better debugging.
What will be the advantages considering the switching application with PSoC 4?
Better CPU , better compiler, more routability, more MIPs available, more fixed function resources,
better ability to make custom components. More RAM, FLASH.
Will this transition help me ease the programming & interfacing scenario?
Programming ~ same effort, some advantage as tool has better debugging capability.
Will that help me interface the remote?
http://www.cypress.com/BLE/?source=home_products a possibility
PSOC 4 element14.com projects
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- what are the things I will have to do if I wish to switch to the PSoC 4 from the CY8C20X34 (PSoC 1).
PSoC1 components are more restricted in handling/wiring, you'll have to read and understand the datasheets for the PSoC3
Will that be a OK one or a bit tedious?
- What will be the advantages considering the switching application with PSoC 4?
Capsense tuning is more modern
- Will this transition help me ease the programming & interfacing scenario?
Your programming logic can be transferred to PSoC4, only the APIs are named differently
- Will that help me interface the remote?
Not much. Will be as complicated as with a PSoC1.
Two outstanding differences between PSoC1 and 4
- The ARM M0 core is a 32bit-CPU, much faster, better interrupt handling
- Debugging capabilities integrated, no additional hardware needed when using a pioneer kit, Setting breakpoints, inspecting variables, monitoring the call stack.
Bob
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Hi Bob,
I'm going through the links you have given, will go through them n get back soon.
Thanks & Regards-
Amit
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It was Dana giving you the links, I'm good in giving advices 😉
Bob