Now PSoC3/5 customers can add Wi-Fi to their designs seamlessly.

The partner solution of this month is developed and supported by one of our design and module partners, Redpine Signals. The RS-CY8C001-220X Wi-Fi Expansion Board Kit (EBK) is an expansion board that is designed to work with the Cypress PSoC3® and PSoC5® development kits that have an expansion connector CY8CKIT-001 (PSoC3/5), CY8CKIT-030 (PSoC3) and CY8CKIT-050 (PSoC5). It allows you to jump start your PSoC Designs that requires Wi-Fi (wireless) connectivity with an easy-to-use Wi-Fi component for Cypress's PSoC Creator , or altering sample projects provided with this kit. The Redpine Wi-Fi module present in this kit simply connects to PSoC3/5 devices using a serial interface (UART or SPI). The FCC certified Wi-Fi module present on this kit runs a TCP/IP stack and contains RF front end also, thereby offloading the entire WiFi interface to the module, which leads to quicker development cycles. The expansion board kit and the Wi-Fi module (for production purposes) are available for sale from Redpine Signals (through their distributors, Arrow and Future Electronics). The PSoC Creator component is also available for download along with example projects at the Redpine Signals Website (http://www.redpinesignals.com/cypress/psoc).

Features:

• Expansion board designed to work with the Cypress PSoC3® and PSoC5® development kits that have an expansion connector
• Based on the Redpine Signals Connect-io-n module - RS9110-N-11-22
• Fully self-contained IEEE 802.11bgn based wireless device server
• Includes all the protocol and configurations functions for WLAN connectivity in Open and Secure modes of operation
• Payload data through Serial Interface and SPI
• Terminates TCP and UDP connections, and offers transparent serial modem functionality
• Integrated antenna, frequency reference and low-frequency clock
• Ultra-low-power operation with power-save modes
• Ad-hoc and infrastructure modes for maximum deployment flexibility
• Single supply 3.1 to 3.6V operation

Would like to know your thoughts on how you would use Wi-Fi in your embedded designs. Top 3 ideas will receive a dev kit of your choice.

For more information on collateral, please visithttp://www.cypress.com/?rID=54643.

For more details on other Design Partner Solutions visit www.cypress.com/?app=search&searchType=advanced&keyword=&rtID=432&id=0&applicationID=0&l=0

For more details on the Design Partner Program visit: www.cypress.com/?id=1088&source=home_support

Feel free to drop in any questions to designpartners@cypress.com

Thanks,

Palani

Cypress is a known leader in the consumer space and directly services the top OEMs in consumer markets like Smartphones, Tablets and Digital cameras. However, the popularity of multi-touch displays in the consumer applications has created a parallel need for such displays in embedded applications like industrial, home automation, appliances, etc. Cypress is creating an ecosystem of design partners that offer custom, semi-custom and standard touch solutions for these markets. One such solution was announced yesterday by Amulet technologies. They have an off-the-shelf capacitive touch module that has an integrated LCD and graphics controller. Their software suite allows you to quickly develop easy to use iPhone-like user interfaces for embedded applications.

Please check out the following links for more information:

http://www.amulettechnologies.com/news/226-amulet-cypress-partnership

http://www.cypress.com/?rID=59497

http://www.amulettechnologies.com/images/stories/Articles/Capacitivemoduleweb.pdf

With this module, embedded designers can add a capacitve touch display to their design very easily. The module will connect directly to an embedded host processor through a simple serial interface.

I am extremely pleased to announce the new design partner program. More details on the program are available at http://www.cypress.com/go/designpartner.

If you are a registered design partner, you will be receiving a separate newsletter about the new program by email. If you have not received this email, please contact us at designpartners@cypress.com

- Palani 

Kelly Clifford one of the highly reputed PSoC Design consultants in North East US has won the best design (Musical Instrument Tuner) in the analog category at the Cypress ARM Cortex M3 PSoC5 Design Contest. Great show Kelly!

http://www.cypress.com/?rID=51110

And that was not a typo in the title of this blog entry.

The CAN expansion board is available for order entry now. This board will work with CY8CKIT-001 and any other PSoC3 or 5 board that hosts the same expansion connector. Yes we CAN!

CY8CKIT-017 CAN/LIN Expansion Board Kit

For more information and to order the kit, please visit www.cypress.com/go/CY8CKIT-017

Also, the PSoC Insiders have video blogged about implementing CAN interface in a nice video: http://www.cypress.com/?rID=51281