12 Facts About Cypress PSoC

In 2002, Cypress began shipping commercial quantities of the PSoC 1.

Cypress PSoC is used in devices as simple as Sonicare toothbrushes and Adidas sneakers, and as complex as the TiVo set-top box.

In 2014, Cypress extended the PSoC 4 family by integrating a Bluetooth Low Energy radio along with a PSoC 4 Cortex-M0-based SoC in a single, monolithic die.

In 2016, Cypress released PSoC 4 S-Series, featuring ARM Cortex-M0+ CPU.

Cypress PSoC integrated circuit is composed of a core, configurable analog and digital blocks, and programmable routing and interconnect.

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The configurable blocks in a Cypress PSoC are the biggest difference from other microcontrollers.

Cypress PSoC resembles an ASIC: blocks can be assigned a wide range of functions and interconnected on-chip.

Cypress PSoC resembles an FPGA in that at power up it must be configured, but this configuration occurs by loading instructions from the built-in Flash memory.

Cypress PSoC suggests that this allows designers to configure a design and make improvements more easily and faster and with fewer PCB redesigns than a digital logic gate approach or competing microcontrollers with more fixed function pins.

Cypress PSoC provides a complete Bluetooth Low Energy stack licensed from Mindtree with both Peripheral and Central functionality.

Cypress PSoC users get new peripherals for their existing hardware without being charged or having to buy new hardware.

Cypress PSoC Semiconductor has additional documents, such as: evaluation board user manuals, application notes, getting started guides, software library documents, errata, and more.