to design custom systems with over 80 pre-verified, production-ready components for the PSoC Creator™ IDE. Other top-tier features include a 0.5V turn-on voltage with integrated boost, a fully functional 1.71–5.5V analog circuit, and the widest operating range on the market, from 0.5–5.5V. This capability opens up new applications requiring the performance of a single-cell battery combined with high-precision analog electronics, extending beyond fixed-function microcontrollers. PSoC 5LP devices are now ready for delivery.
When precision measurements are paramount,
the PSoC 5LP delivers programmable analog accuracy with 12-bit differential successive approximation converters and a 20-bit delta-sigma converter, along with an internal voltage reference accurate to 1.024V ± 0.1%. Best-in-class A/D converters feature 62 channels, fully functional 1.71–5.5V analog electronics, and the widest 0–5.5V input signal range among ARM Cortex-M devices. The extensive array of programmable analog components in the PSoC Creator includes operational amplifiers, comparators, transimpedance amplifiers, programmable gain amplifiers, mixers, segment LCDs, CapSense® touch sensing, D/A converters, analog multiplexers, and much more. All components are configurable to meet specific application requirements, providing a comprehensive single-chip solution.
When low power consumption isn't enough,
the PSoC 5LP was designed to provide more than standard low power. The devices, which draw only 300 nA in hibernation mode, can wake up on I/O and retain the state of the CPU core, SRAM, and device configuration. Cypress's boost technology, ideal for single-cell battery operation, allows designers to supply and regulate voltages as low as 0.5V. Unlike fixed-function microcontrollers, the PSoC allows designers to further reduce power consumption by customizing each peripheral component so that unnecessary functions consume no power at all.
When fixed-function microcontrollers fail
, PSoC 5LP offers programmable analog and digital circuitry with flexible routing and interconnection in easy-to-use components within PSoC Creator. Designers can easily generate their own custom embedded controller, implementing standard and proprietary protocols with immunity to specification changes. With the ability to customize logic functions, peripherals, the analog input stage, and analog subsystems, designers can achieve much greater system integration and reduce the bill of materials. PSoC enables designers to easily solve complex problems with its more than 80 pre-tested, production-ready components. It also empowers companies to create and reproduce custom components across the organization.
PSoC Creator allows users to configure PSoC programmable hardware into a custom single-chip solution. The free IDE (Integrated Development Environment) comes with production-ready components and APIs for quick and easy device setup.
Microcontrollers can't; PSoCs can.
PSoC devices employ a highly configurable system-on-a-chip architecture for embedded control design, offering the flash-based equivalent of a field-programmable ASIC without lead times or penalties for non-recurring engineering costs. PSoC devices integrate configurable analog and digital circuitry, controlled by an on-chip microcontroller, providing advanced design revision capabilities and a reduced component count. A single PSoC device can integrate up to 100 peripheral functions, allowing customers to save design time, board space, and power consumption, all while improving system quality and reducing costs.
PSoC's flexible resources enable designers to future-proof their products by accommodating firmware-based changes during design, validation, production, and even in the application environment. PSoC's unique flexibility shortens the design cycle and allows for last-minute feature enhancements. All PSoC devices are also dynamically reconfigurable, so designers can adapt internal resources on the fly, using fewer components to perform a given task.
