Check out our new promotions. PSoC is so versatile and can be used for so many applications, it is unbelievable. Creator users are at the forefront of discovering new solutions every day, using the digital and analog programmability of PSoC. Please share your solution with the PSoC community. Find more information about the promotion. If you developed a new component to get to your solution, you will get even more visibility in the Community Components forum. I am so sure there are many solutions and components out there that just wait to be promoted and reused by other friends of PSoC. Don't be shy, give it a try!

Customers who are interested in PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 will be given the opportunity to win more Free Development Kits. Stay put and watch the forum to find out how you can be one of the next winners.

The development kits are once again the CY8CKIT-030, CY8KIT-050 and CY8CKIT-001 kits. Check out the Cypress Store for details on the kits. Please register with the Cypress Developer Community (CDC), if you haven't done so already, and start posting new topics on the PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 forums

Share your thoughts, ask your questions, win a develoment kit!  Be an active member of the CDC.

Have you watched PSoC webisodes lately? If you are new to the ARM check out the webisodes "ARM Architecture" Parts 1-3. Dave interviews Ata Khan, Cypress Vice President and ARM guru. Learn that 32-bit cores can run on smaller code than 8-bit, how it is possible to use less power with a 32-bit and much more. Curious? Be our guest and watch PSoC today.

The Fan Controller component enables designers to quickly and easily develop fan controller solutions using PSoC. The component is a system-level solution that encapsulates all necessary hardware blocks including PWMs, tachometer input capture timer, control registers, status registers and a DMA controller reducing development time and effort.

The PSoC Fan Controller Component can control up to 16 independent 4-wire DC fans. Because the design is done in hardware, the cooling system will run even when the CPU is in a sleep mode or better even, the CPU can handle other real-time critical events while the fans are controlled via a hardware control loop.

Measuring temperature is important for many embedded applications. Effects like increased leakage, lower peak performance, all the way up to damaging the hardware of the system are possible side effects if the temperature is out of control. Cypress has published a number of Application Notes describing different methods to measure temperature. The focus today is measuring using a diode, an internal iDAC and the high resolution ADC. Application Note AN60590 shows the details.