Date: 16/09/2009

Cypress embed ARM cores in new version of PSoC devices

In recent times Embedded System design engineers showing more interest towards Cypress Semiconductor's Programmable System on Chip (PsoC) devices. PSoC is gearing up to become another long living EE keyword. A good percentage of PSoC engineers are also experts and admirers of ARM processor architecture.

But many PSoC users were disappointed all these years for not availability of ARM core inside PSoC devices. Now they can look forward to work with ARM based PSoC devices.
Cypress Semiconductor has licensed ARM processor cores ARM9 and Cortex to use in their future PSoC devices. Cypress Semiconductor has also licensed more than 75 other IP elements from ARM.

In India, embedded system designers are keen to use ARM core integrated PSoC devices in their designs. Phani Kumar, Senior Staff Engineer at Motorola India says, "It's our long time desire to have ARM in PSoC, we also expect more peripherals available inside ARM based PSoC chip"

Do you like to see what engineers are chatting about this, visit
http://www.embeddedrelated.com/usenet/embedded/show/75287-1.php

Cypress Semiconductor is going to talk on the advantages of ARM-Cypress partnership in the event "ARM Techcon Developers Conference" on October 21-23, 2009 at Santa Clara, CA. (Santa Clara convention center) U.S.

Cypress' new PSoC architecture called PSoC3 and PSoC5 packs Programmable Precision Analog and Digital Logic with High Performance ARM-Cortex M3 and 8051-Based MCU Sub-Systems.

Samples of the PSoC 3 devices are available now, with volumes in the first quarter of 2010.
Package: 100-pin TQFPs, 48- and 68-pin QFNs, and 48-pin SSOPs.
PSoC 5 is sampling in the first quarter of 2010 with volume availability in the second half of the 2010.

Cypress Semiconductor has also introduced the PSoC Creator Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the new PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 families. PSoC Creator software is available for free from www.cypress.com/go/psoccreator.