PSoC™ 5, 3 & 1 Forum Discussions

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AN73468 explains a single-cell Lithium-Ion (Li-ion) battery charger implementation using PSoC 3. Two types of implementations-linear and switching type are supported. An attached PSoC Creator project, which includes a charge display tool, demonstrates Li-ion battery charging.

Li-ion batteries are used in a wide range of systems such as cameras, cell phones, electric shavers, and toys. The charging circuit for the batteries can either be an integral part of the system (online charging) or an external plug-in circuit (offline charging). With its wide range of devices, PSoC 3 offers a cost-effective solution in both segments. And with its configurable digital and analog features, PSoC 3 enables implementation of other critical tasks required in the system.

AN74170 explains the analog structure of standard PSoC® 1 devices and how the global analog parameters affect many of the analog user modules.

When designing with the PSoC 1 family of microcontrollers, you use PSoC Designer and its highlevel interface to configure the PSoC, including the analog architecture. In addition to placing and configuring the individual user modules (building blocks), several global analog parameters also require configuration. Understanding these global parameters and the overall analog architecture is important, especially when a design consists of several analog user modules that are affected by these settings.
 

How to register the default Keil compiler in PSoC Creator if normal registration using "Keil License Registration" window fails?
 

Kindly go through the link http://www.cypress.com/?id=4&rID=38519 to register Keil compiler in PSoC  Creator.

The above method may not work and gives any of the following errors:

a) Error-->prj.M0132: Unable to register your LIC number. Confirm if the number you entered is correct then try again.

b) 'Your Keil License has expired' 

If you get any of these errors then check the version of the Operating system i.e. is it 32-bit or 64-bit, and then only use the following process to Register Keil:

1) Make sure to register Keil from within the copy of uVision that ships with PSoC Creator. It is installed by default at:

          C:\Program Files (x86)\Cypress\PSoC Creator\1.0\PSoC Creator\import\keil\pk51\8.16\UV3\Uv3.exe
          ... on 64-bit versions of Windows and:

          C:\Program Files\Cypress\PSoC Creator\1.0\PSoC Creator\import\keil\pk51\8.16\UV3\Uv3.exe

          ... on 32-bit flavors of Windows.

Then we can find the uVision registration dialog by selecting File -> License Management. We must run this as an administrator and this can be done by right-clicking the executable and selecting "Run as administrator" from the context menu.

2) Also we can manually edit the Keil tools.ini file (which is where it stores registration information). To do this:
        - Open...    C:\Program Files (x86)\Cypress\PSoC Creator\1.0\PSoC Creator\import\keil\pk51\8.16\TOOLS.INI
        ... for 64-bit Windows 7,

OR

           C:\Program Files\Cypress\PSoC Creator\1.0\PSoC Creator\import\keil\pk51\8.16\TOOLS.INI
        ... for have 32-bit Windows 7.

This file must be edited as an administrator. This can be done by clicking the Start Menu, searching for Notepad, right clicking on the notepad search result and selecting "Run as administrator". Now use File->Open to open the tools.ini file listed above.

- Look for a line that starts with LIC:

LIC0=XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

If the registration is expired after one year of usage then the line “LIC0=…” will already be present. In that case we have to write the license code as LIC1=XXXXX-XXXXX….

If even the above mentioned methods does not work then kindly contact our technical support and report the same.

AN77759 briefly introduces you to PSoC® 5; if you are looking at PSoC 5 for the first time, this is an excellent place to start.

In this Application Note you briefly learn about PSoC 5 and PSoC Creator™, an interactive integrated development environment (IDE) and graphical design tool that you use to develop your system-on-chip project.

In addition, this application note walks you through an example project for PSoC 5. Through this project example, PSoC Creator is introduced. The first part of the project guides you on how to blink an LED like a typical MCU. In the second part you develop a "breathing" LED using the Programmable-System-On-Chip concept.

An additional bonus project is included with this application note that takes a design example a little farther than simply blinking LEDs. The bonus project uses some of the mixed signal functionality of PSoC 5 to create an ambient light/dark detector using one of the LEDs on the CY8CKIT-050 demonstration board.