Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today introduced a new series from its PSoC® 4 programmable system-on-chip architecture that completes its platform for seamless migration of 8- and 16-bit MCU-based embedded systems to 32-bit ARM® platforms. Engineers have had limited options to upgrade to the performance and flexibility of 32-bit ARM-based products that also offer the ease of use and broad array of features found in 8-bit products. With the new PSoC 4 S-Series, Cypress offers the broadest portfolio of 32-bit ARM Cortex®-M0 and Cortex®-M0+ products with accompanying on-chip resources for engineers to complete new designs. The PSoC 4 S-Series devices are ideal for a broad range of industrial systems, wearable electronics, home appliances and consumer applications, leveraging the ease-of-use and flexibility of the PSoC architecture to quickly design new products and accommodate last-minute feature changes.
PSoC 4 S-Series integrates an ARM Cortex-M0+, 16KB to 64KB flash memory, up to 36 general purpose I/Os and Cypress’s industry-leading CapSense® capacitive-sensing technology. The series marks the debut of the fourth generation of CapSense, which consumes half the power of the previous generation and enables the world’s most reliable and differentiated user interfaces, as well as contactless, capacitive-sensing solutions such as liquid level sensing. The series includes options that are cost-competitive with 8- and 16-bit products, while providing engineers with 9 programmable analog blocks and 7 programmable digital blocks to create new, differentiating features. PSoC 4 S-Series, and the scalable PSoC 4 architecture, are complemented by Cypress’s easy-to-use PSoC Creator™ Integrated Design Environment (IDE), which simplifies system design and accelerates time-to-market by enabling concurrent hardware and firmware design.
More information on the PSoC 4 portfolio is available at http://www.cypress.com/PSoC4.
