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.

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

Thanks,

Palani

Signing off! Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

By the way, I know that a lot of you have expressed interest in participating in the ARM Cortex M3 PSoC5 Design Challenge. If you have not submitted your entries. The deadline is coming soon (January 17, 2011). For more details: http://www.cypress.com/go/challenge

Palani

If you are in embedded design community and thought about developing an accessory for iPod, iPhone or iPad devices you are the right place. You should check out PSoC3.

The PSoC® Expansion Board Kit For iPhone & iPod Accessories speeds up your development of accessories tremendously by offering both a hardware development kit and a pre-developed and tested software component that takes care of 2-way communication with the iPod or iPhone device. Drag and drop the component in PSoC Creator and start developing with the development kit. The kit and the component are available only to licensees of Apple's Made for iPod program, through Apple’s authorized Made for iPod component distributor. For more information on the Made for iPod program, visit http://developer.apple.com/programs/ipod

My friend and colleague, Leon Tan, explains the benefits of this development in an elegant video at http://www.cypress.com/?rID=40218. If you are type who likes iPhone applications, he also demonstrates a cool iPhone Application that shows our development kit communicating in both directions to the iPod or iPhone device.

If you are in the design community and are thinking about or you have thought about development of accessories for iPod or iPhone you are at the right place.

-Palani