Date: 28/09/2011

Version 2.0 PSoC creator is announced

The Version 2.0 of Cypress Semiconductor's PSoC Creator Design Environment for the PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families now interoperates with the Keil µVision 4 integrated development environment (IDE).

Cypress says the new version also adds 11 new, pre-configured peripheral components that can easily be dropped into the schematic design canvas and combined into powerful systems. Behind the scenes, Cypress has updated PSoC Creator's design routing functionality and timing-driven routing enables customers to increase clock speed on many designs by 20 percent or more, and increases the effective capacity of the PSoC device, as per Cypress.

Cypress is making PSoC Creator 2.0 available to select, advanced customers prior to its general release in the fourth quarter. Customers can visit the Cypress Design Community site (www.cypress.com/go/community) for details on the early access program and to apply for a free license to the product. Users will also be selected from customers who register at Cypress's booth # 400 at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston from September 26-27.

Cypress explains that PSoC Creator is a revolutionary graphical design tool that allows the user to create powerful and unique new PSoC-based designs in minutes that includes a rich library of dozens of fully tested and characterized analog and digital components that can be drag-and-dropped into a design and configured to suit a broad array of application requirements.

The latest version of PSoC Creator offers 11 new peripherals, including S/PDIF for digital audio, Serial GPIO for hard disk drives, a fan controller, a voltage sequencer, and an external memory interface, among others. PSoC Creator now includes more than 80 analog and digital components in its portfolio. With new components being developed continuously, Cypress content is now organized into "component packs," allowing new peripheral functionality to be released approximately every six weeks without requiring users to update the tool itself.

"We're excited to provide enhanced functionality and performance within PSoC Creator," said Mark Saunders, Cypress's senior marketing manager for PSoC Creator. "It's truly a step ahead of any other embedded design environment, and we continue to make it better. We are also looking forward to lively discussions about the new features with our early access customers in the Cypress Design Community prior to the general release next quarter."