PSoC® Creator  2.2 is now officially available for download! This release adds new Components, enhancements for Component distribution and the ability to generate custom project datasheets.

New Components include a Digital Utility Pack with five new Components and PWM-based Temperature Sensor Interface.  There are now over 80 pre-verified, production-ready Components available for your PSoC Design.  We've improved Component distribution with easy import and export tools to simplify the sharing of PSoC Creator Components.  Generate a complete datasheet for your specific PSoC design project without creating a new component library.  

New Features:

• Additional Binding Error Symbols

• Component Distribution (Import/Export)

• Datapath Editor Enhancements

• MISRA Support

• Peripheral Register Debug in IDEs

• Project Datasheet Generation

• Variable Vdda New Parameter

New Components:

• Basic Counter

• D Flip Flop w/ Enable

• Digital Comparator

• Digital Constant

• Edge Detector

• Frequency Divider

• Pulse Converter

• SR Flip Flop

• TMP05/06

• Toggle Flip Flop

Read more about the PSoC Creator 2.2 release in the Release Notes.

Design the way you think with PSoC Creator.       

1/8/2012: The MHz ECO Clock Wizard Enhancements were removed from the PSoC Creator 2.2 features.  Look for these enhancements in a future 2013 release.

We want to offer all of our current PSoC®5 customers the opportunity to upgrade your CY8CKIT-050 kit to a PSoC 5LP for free. There are drop-in, pin-for-pin compatible replacement parts for each of the PSoC 5 products in the PSoC 5LP family. The PSoC 5LP offers increased Analog precision with our class leading 12-bit SAR and a 20-bit DelSig ADC, Boost technology allowing for start-up from only 0.5V and lower power modes. The Kit Upgrade Program allows existing PSoC 5 users to try out these new features for free.

The upgrade program for the CY8CKIT-001 and CY8CKIT-010 to PSoC 5LP silicon will be coming in the first weeks of January. Look for an announcement at that time.  

The PSoC 3 (CY8CKIT-001, CY8CKIT-003) upgrade program will end January 4^th, 2013.  I would like to thank everyone who participated over the last two years for trying out our new silicon. I hope you had an excellent upgrade experience. If you haven't yet had a chance to upgrade your system, you still have a few days.  We are taking upgrade requests through the end of the day on January 4^th. You just need to fill out a short form on the PSoC Kit Upgrade Program website.

The team here at Cypress wants you to have the best experience possible with PSoC.  That's why we offer free kit upgrades to production silicon or new silicon (look for a PSoC 5 to PSoC 5LP upgrade program coming soon).  We strongly believe being an early adopter shouldn't penalize you.  We will continue to offer these kit upgrades to production silicon and new key silicon. The PSoC 3 kit upgrade program was highly successful with just under a thousand total kits upgraded over the last two years and we hope that all PSoC 5 customers will use the kit upgrade program to try out the PSoC 5LP.  

Although I wish everyone could come visit us in our Seattle office where we make PSoC, your programmable solution on a chip, it's a bit cold and grey this time of year.  Instead, virtually visit us at PSoC World 2012 on Dec 12 & 13.  I think you'll really enjoy the technical sessions, inspiring keynotes and a chance to chat with me and the whole PSoC team all from the comfort of your home or desk.  I'm most looking forward to the PSoC pannel discussion between several of our customers, a university professor and a PSoC expert from Arrow all moderated by Dan Byers, Senior Director of World Wide FAEs.  I think the discussion will be lively to say the least. Tom Lantzsch, the EVP of Strategy for ARM, is discussing intelligence everywhere and the pervasive nature both of ARM processors and the fundamental shift in products for increasing technology at lower and less expensive price points.  He also brings up some great thought provoking concepts on energy conservation and low power. If you're an engineer who likes wine, you need to check out Cypress's CEO, T.J. Rodgers' keynote on the science and technology he's introducing to wine-making in his vineyard near the mountains of Santa Cruz, California and at the University of California at Davis.  T.J. is an engineer's engineer and brings measurement, a knowledge of organic chemistry and fun electronics to everything he does and wine is no exception.

If you need more convincing, check out the following:

• Watch the Sneak Peak with real session content
• Take a look at the Agenda
• Read the personal invitation John Weil, Director of PSoC Marketing and Applications, sent to the ARM community
• Meet Alan Hawse, Executive Vice President of Software, in his PSoC Creator Commercial