We are continuing to host our weekly webinars for PSoC.  These webinars are presented by the PSoC experts, our Applications Team.  

This week's webinar is on Thursday, June 9th at 9:00am PDT.  The topic is on low power designs with PSoC 3 and PSoC 5.  You can access the webinar from this link.  In case anyone has problems with the link, they can always access the meeting by going to http://cypress.webex.com and entering meeting number 498 741 435.  These are VoIP meetings, so all you need is speakers or headphones.

We've had positive feedback on these webinars to date, so I hope you can join.

-Bobby

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I am pleased to announce that starting this week, the Cypress Applications Engineering team will host live, instructor-led, weekly webinars on different PSoC topics!  These webinars are free to all of our customers.

We will initially host them at 9:00am (Pacific Time) on Thursdays.  Our first one will be this Thursday, May 19th.  We will add additional time slots to support different parts of the world.

All webinars will be hosted via WebEx.  You can access the webinar from this link.  In case anyone has problems with the link, they can always access the meeting by going to http://cypress.webex.com and entering meeting number 498 741 435.

For this week's topic, we will give an overview-level description of the PSoC 3 & PSoC 5 bootloader system, as implemented by PSoC Creator.  We'll cover the architecture, how it works, and major features.  Then we'll follow up by building a simple demonstration project for the I2C bootloader.  The webinar will also allow you to ask questions to our bootloader experts.

I look forward to seeing you there!

-Bobby

Rating: (4.8/5) by 4 users

Over the last two weeks I got a chance to do my first international trip of the year--Hong Kong, Shenzhen (PRC) and Taipei (ROC).  It was a whirlwind of a trip with visits to over 10 major companies in the region, meeting over 100 customer engineers, providing about 4-hours of PSoC training to each, visiting at least 30 different bars and making a new friend at the top of Taipei 101, "Damper Baby" (see photo).  From what I can tell, this guy's name is Rich Gold (http://www.taipei-101.com.tw/en/DB/index.asp).  

It was a great trip but I'm extremely happy to be back...

Jim

Rating: (4.8/5) by 5 users

Cypress puts a heap of emphasis on PSoC’s analog capabilities, and understandably so as this is a great means product differentiation.  We don’t want to be compared to microcontrollers, which tend to have much lower levels of analog (both in quantity and quality), yet most of our competitors are microcontroller vendors.  We like to be referred to as a mixed signal chip, which we are, but then customers tend to view us a niche product.  And naturally our PSoC is a system on a chip as well.  It’s a product that is in a unique space, and therefore has been growing into its own identity.  In reality the PSoC is a programmable mixed signal system on a chip microcontroller… but nobody here likes the name PMSSoCM.  I think it rolls off the tongue nicely… but we’ll stick with PSoC… for now.

 

What I love about PSoC is its analog capabilities.  Sure, I’m partial to the product as they keep paying me to keep my anachronistic oil painting addition going (who wouldn’t want a painting of James Joyce using an iPad?), but it really is cool that PSoC pulls in so much analog.  It’s really all about integrating components that are traditionally outside of a microcontroller allowing for smaller and more concise designs.  At a high level, sensors are traditionally an easy example to show this as an example.  Analog sensors, for the most part, need to be conditioned before being digitized.  Some times this involves an amplifier, filter and an ADC, other times it’s just a PGA before a comparator.  Regardless of which design topology is being used, PSoC can be configured by the user to handle this flow.  The components (ADC, PGA, comparator, OpAmp, filters, etc) are all able to be placed in a design and the signals can be routed in any configuration needed.  You want to route a signal to a PGA then an OpAmp then to an ADC? Done. You want to route a signal from a OpAmp to a PGA then to a comparator? Done.  You want to link together 3 comparators, a PGA and an ADC? Wait, you want to do that?  It makes no sense, but you can do it.  That’s what’s cool about the analog: the flexibility to treat it like individual components on a bread board.

 

PSoC’s analog allows the ability to come up with new means to interface and condition analog signals inside of a single chip.  Oh and its has a microcontroller.

 

Rating: (4.4/5) by 7 users