Sep 17, 2011
I'm sure all of you have been waiting with bated breath for my next post (I wish there was such a thing as a sarcasm font...) and hopefully this post was worth the wait. I'm excited to announce that Cypress will be at the upcoming Embedded Systems Conference in Boston. We will have a booth at the expo, which is open to the public (and free!) on September 27th and 28th. We have some exciting new stuff to announce, so keep an eye out for upcoming press releases. I'll be at the show both days, working the booth. We'll be demonstrating some of the coolest applications PSoC can do. If you are in the Boston are those days, please stop in and say hi! We'll be in booth #400. You can learn more about ESC Boston here: esc.eetimes.com/boston/
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Jan 12, 2011
That's right, you asked, we listened. We've extended Phase 1 of the ARM Cortex-M3 / PSoC 5 Design Challenge. You now have until Monday, January 24th to submit an abstract for your design. In total there is over $10,000 in available prizes. After Phase 1, we'll pick the top 100 submission. Those chosen will advance to Phase 2 and receive a free PSoC 5 Development Kit for their design. If you haven't already submitted a design abstract, I hope you consider doing so now that you have an extra few weeks. For more information, visit www.cypress.com/go/challenge.
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Dec 16, 2010
Today we have a special guest blog written by Ian Ferguson from ARM. Ian is ARM's Embedded Segment Director and is also a judge for the Design Challenge.
Congratulations! If you are reading this you have taken the first step toward developing a highly innovative platform based on Cypress’s PSoC 5 device. One of ARM’s primary value propositions is about enabling innovation and, as a judge for this design contest, I am really excited at the prospect of seeing how you will harness the combination of an MCU, programmable logic and analog IP this device contains, to make our decision process as fun and as difficult as possible!
Many innovative products were showcased recently at the annual ARM Techcon event in Santa Clara, California. I am looking forward to seeing your far more creative uses for a 32-bit MCU, especially when it is coupled with the programmable capabilities of PSoC 5.
If you are looking for information about the Cortex-M3 processor itself, this URL is a great starting point. Some of you may be unfamiliar with this processor. ARM posts a lot of technical information here. There are a couple of application notes here that might be of use to some of you.
In subsequent blogs I will be exploring some of the reasons why people are shifting over to 32-bit solutions. The obvious one of course is “my application needs more performance.” However we see a lot of people moving to 32-bit as the processing efficiency gained from making this transition enables the processor to be active for a much short period of time, resulting in significant power savings.
If you have questions regarding the Cortex-M3 processor itself during the conference, you can submit a question through the Cypress Forum and myself or one of our excellent support staff will get to them as quickly as we can.
Good Luck….I will write again soon!
Ian Ferguson
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Jun 23, 2010
As the self proclaimed leader of the Patron Saints of Cypress (I feel that I need a special title, but in fear of making some horrible religious reference, I have decided to keep my
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Jun 18, 2010
Jessie James did it. David Letterman did it. Brad Pitt might have done it. Tiger Woods is probably still doing it. You know what I’m getting at. Everyone’s doing it, and I think you should too.
   .jpg)  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that I agree with what they did, but they are hitting on a subject that I want to talk about: don’t you think it’s time to cheat on your traditional microcontroller?
Maybe you’ve been married to the same microcontroller company for the past 5 to 10 years. Maybe your starting to get bored, or your relationship with your vendor is getting stale. Maybe you’re starting to take notice of PSoC’s ads, noticing their sleek IDE, the way their digital subsystem can be configured to do everything you desire, the way their voluptuous analog capabilities can control an entire programmable signal chain. Maybe you’re even clicking on them. It can be exciting, I know. Maybe you’ve even taken an online training (GASP). Nobody wants to be caught in their office dabbling with another microcontroller’s training.
That’s where I can help. I have some tried and true techniques that can allow you to learn and develop with the PSoC platform. First off, when taking a look at sexy website like www.cypress.com/go/PSoC5 use your browser’s private browsing function. Whether it’s IE’s InPrivate Browsing, FireFox’s Private Browsing, or Chrome’s Incognito function, this will help you comb our website without your manager logging into your history to find where you’ve been.
Secondly, close the door to your office/conference room, draw the blinds, and turn off the lights before taking an online training. Trust me on this one: it will not draw any suspicion about you looking at another microcontroller’s website.
Lastly, when you order a kit, start small with a kit that has a non-assuming name like the PSoC 5 FirstTouch Kit. And when you order it, have it shipped to your house so your manager can’t see it.
Don’t feel guilty, try it out and see how it feels yourself.
Stay classy my PSoC brethren.
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