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PSoC Designer

PSoC Designer


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PSoC Designer is the revolutionary Integrated Design Environment (IDE) that you can use to customize PSoC to meet your specific application requirements. PSoC Designer software accelerates system bring-up and time-to-market. Develop your applications using a library of pre-characterized analog and digital peripherals in a drag-and-drop design environment. Then, customize your design leveraging the dynamically generated API libraries of code.  Finally, debug and test your designs with the integrated debug environment including in-circuit emulation and standard software debug features.
  • Application Editor GUI  for device and User Module configuration and dynamic reconfiguration
  • Extensive User Module Catalog
  • Integrated source code editor (C and Assembly)
  • Free C compiler with no size restrictions or time limits
  • Built-in Debugger
  • Integrated Circuit Emulation (ICE)
  • Built-in Support for Communication Interfaces:
    • Hardware and software I2C slaves and masters
    • Full-speed USB 2.0
    • Up to 4 full-duplex UARTs, SPI master and slave, and Wireless

PSoC Designer Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)


A frequently asked questions (FAQ) guide is available to all users. This document gathers the common questions regarding PSoC Designer and PSoC 1 and provides answers and links to appropriate web pages. This document is available on the following PSoC Designer FAQ web page.

PSoC Designer supports the entire library of PSoC 1 devices.

Use PSoC Designer to unlock the power of PSoC.


IDE – User Modules – Design Aids – Training


  1. PSoC Designer New Features

PSoC Designer 5.3

  • New user modules: VoltageSequencer, SMBusSlave, FanController, Thermistor, GasSensorAFE, SwitchCapConfig, EzADC
  • SmartSense2X user module available for CY8C2xx45 devices
  • Fault detection APIs added to CSD2X user module
  • Support for new Automotive, CapSense and PRoC devices
  • Auto-routing for chip view signals
  • New device catalog
  • Support for user module customization
  • New project archive capability
  • Supports side-by-side installation with PSoC Designer 4.4, 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2 versions

For access to past releases of PSoC Designer please navigate to the PSoC Designer Archives page. For users who wish to develop using the obsolete System Level Editor please navigate to the archived PSoC Designer 5.0 SP6 web page.