PSoC Designer 5.0 SP6 will continue to be available for System Level Design users, and it will co-exist with future PSoC Designer 5.1 releases. However, we are not recommending System Level Design for production designs.

We suggest users to use the latest version of PSoC Designer located here:

www.cypress.com/go/psocdesigner

PSoC Designer 5.0 SP6 supports Internet Explorer 6 through 8, but does not support Internet Explorer 8 Beta or Internet Explorer 9 due to compatibility issues.

To Install PSoC Designer 5.0 SP6 users must first have PSoC Programmer installed first. For the latest release of PSoC Programmer please, Click Here

PSoC Designer 5.0 PS6 was tested using Beta version of Windows 7. PSoC Designer 5.0 SP6 is not supported for Windows 7 systems.

To Install:

Shut Down any currently running instances of PSoC Designer.

If an earlier service pack of PSoC Designer 5.0 is currently installed, uninstall it. To do this please navigate to Start>Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs.

• Install latest PSoC Programmer.
• Install PSoC Designer 5.0 SP6 by running the installed in the downloads table below.”

Note to HI-TECH Compiler Users:

There are new devices in this release. To compile projects containing these devices with the HI-TECH compiler, you must manually update the psoc.ini file. The HI-TECH psoc.ini file is found in the HI-TECH installation folder. The default location of the psoc.ini is here:

C:\Program Files\HI-TECH Software\HCPSOC\PRO\9.61\dat\psoc.ini

The default location of the replacement psoc.ini file that adds support for the new devices is here:

C:\Program Files\Cypress\Common\CypressSemiBuildMgr\tools\psoc.ini

PSoC Programmer: The latest version of PSoC Programmer must be installed along with PSoC Designer. For the latest release please navigate to the PSoC Programmer web page: Click Here

PSoC Designer: User Guides - Click Here

PSoC Designer Archive - Click Here

This document helps you to select the proper tool for CapSense sensor data viewing and logging. The two supported communication interfaces are I2C and UART. You should be familiar with CapSense sensing technology before you read this document.

• Provides a global shadow register for a selected port data register
• Generates a set of macros for port pin manipulation
• Prevents corruption of GPIO pin settings during CPU control of GPIO
• Cooperates with other user modules that allocate shadow registers.
   

• Scan 1 to 28 capacitive sensors
• Scan capacitive sliders with 2 to 28 elements
• Slider physical resolution doubling using diplexing
• Slider interpolated resolution up to 1 part in 65535
• Generate touchpad using multiple slider sensors
• Adjustable sensor sensitivity, detection threshold, and sampling rate
• Guided sensor and pin assignments using the CSA_EMC Wizard
• Integrated baseline update algorithm for handling temperature changes
• Compensate for environmental and physical sensor variations
   

The CapSense® Successive Approximation Electromagnetic Compatibility (CSA_EMC) User Module implements an array of capacitive touch sensors using switched capacitor circuitry, an analog multiplexer, digital counting functions, and high level software routines to compensate for environmental and physical sensor variations. The sensor array can consist of combinations of independent sensors, sliding sensors, and touchpads implemented as a pair of orthogonal sliding sensors. High level software routines accommodate slider diplexing. Slider diplexing allows a single pin to measure two electrical sensors in two different physical locations. Diplexing provides resolution enhancement of the slider without the cost of an additional I/O.

• Does not require digital blocks
• Selectable 8, 16, or 32-bit tick counter
• Three types of timer functions.

The SleepTimer User Module provides basic timing functions without the use of valuable digital blocks. This user modules makes use of the standard sleep timer to create a variety of timing functions that are often useful in a project.

• Industry standard Philips I²C-bus compatible interface (version 2.1)
• Only two pins (SDA and SCL) required to interface several slave I²C devices
• Standard mode data supports rate of 100 kbits/s
• High level API requires minimal user programming
• Low level API provided for flexibility

• Uses the industry standard Hitachi HD44780 LCD display driver chip protocol
• Requires only seven I/O pins
• Routines provided to print RAM or ROM strings
• Routines provided to print numbers
• Routines provided to display horizontal and vertical bar graphs
• Uses a single I/O port
   

The Character LCD User Module is a set of library routines that writes text strings and formatted numbers to a common two- or four-line LCD module. Vertical and horizontal bar graphs are supported, using the character graphics feature of these LCD modules. This module was developed specifically for the industry standard Hitachi HD44780 two-line by 16 character LCD display driver chip, but will work for many other four-line displays. This library uses the 4-bit interface mode to limit the number of I/O pins required.

• Supports Serial Peripheral Interconnect (SPI) Master protocol.
• Supports SPI clocking modes 0, 1, 2, and 3.
• Selectable input sources for clock and MISO.
• Selectable output routing for MOSI and SCLK.
• Programmable interrupt on SPI done condition.
• SPI Slave devices are independently selected.
   

The SPIM User Module is a Serial Peripheral Interconnect Master. It performs full duplex synchronous 8- bit data transfers. SCLK phase, SCLK polarity, and LSB First are available to accommodate most SPI clocking modes. Controlled by user supplied software, the slave select signal is able to control one or more SPI Slave devices. The SPIM PSoC block has selectable routing for the input and output signals and programmable interrupt driven control.

• Supports Serial Peripheral Interconnect (SPI) slave protocol.
• Supports protocol modes 0, 1, 2, and 3.
• Selectable input sources for MOSI, SCLK, and ~SS.
• Selectable output routing for MISO.
• Programmable interrupt on SPI done condition.
• SS may be firmware controlled.
   

The SPIS User Module is a Serial Peripheral Interconnect Slave (SPIS). It performs full duplex synchronous 8 bit data transfers. You can specify SCLK phase, SCLK polarity, and LSB First to accommodate most SPI protocols. The SPIS PSoC block has selectable routing for the input and output signals and programmable interrupt driven control. Application Programming Interface (API) firmware provides a high level programming interface for either assembly or C application software.

Features and Overview

• Selectable Positive and Negative Inputs
• Direct connection to interrupt controller
• Programmable power consumption
   

The CMP user module provides two comparators, each having an analog comparison of two selectable inputs (one is always a voltage reference). This user module provides flexibility of the inputs and of the function and routing of the outputs. The output of the comparator, and the neighboring comparator, can be combined with any 2-input logic function. This combinatorial output can be optionally combined with a latched value and routed to a pin output or to the interrupt controller. The input multiplexers and the comparator are controlled through the CMP user module. The combinatorial logic is automatically configured for typical operation when the user module is placed and can be changed through the Device Editor. 

• Support for both Active High and Active Low circuits
• Works with system shadow registers
• Functions (Switch, Invert, and GetState )

The LED User Module is just a couple simple functions to control an LED or any simple device that is controlled by on and off.

• Full byte-oriented EEPROM emulation
• Abstracts block-oriented Flash architecture
• Efficient use of memory

• Industry standard Philips I2C bus compatible interface.
• Slave only operation, Multi Master capable.
• Only two pins (SDA and SCL) required to interface to I2C bus.
• Standard data rate of 100/400 kbits/s, also supports 50 kbits/s.
• High level API requires minimal user programming.
• 7-bit addressing mode.
   

The I2C Hardware User Module implements an I2C Slave device in firmware. The I2C bus is an industry standard, two wire hardware interface developed by Philips®. The master initiates all communication on the I2C bus and supplies the clock for all slave devices. The I2CHW User Module supports the standard mode with speeds up to 400 kbits/s. No digital or analog user blocks are consumed with this module. The I2CHW User Module is compatible with other slave devices on the same bus.

• Industry standard Philips I2C bus compatible interface
• Emulates common I2C EEPROM interface
• Only two pins (SDA and SCL) required to interface to I2C bus
• Standard data rate of 100/400 kbps
• High level API requires minimal user programming
   

The EzI2Cs User Module implements an I2C register-based slave device. The I2C bus is an industry standard, two wire hardware interface developed by Philips®. The master initiates all communication on the I2C bus and supplies the clock for all slave devices. The EzI2Cs User Module supports the standard mode with speeds up to 400 kbps. No digital or analog PSoC blocks are consumed with this module. The EzI2Cs User Module is compatible with multiple devices on the same bus.

• 7/8-bit software serial transmitter
• Data framing consists of start, optional parity, and one or two stop bits
• RS-232 serial-data compatible format with optional parity
   

The TX8SW User Module is an 7- or 8-bit RS-232 data-format compliant serial transmitter. The data transmitted is framed with a leading start bit and a final one or two stop bits. Transmitter firmware is used to start and stop device and control transmission of complex structures like strings, HEX value representations, and so on.

• 13-bit programmable countdown timer
• One shot countdown option where the period is not reloaded on Terminal Count
• Interrupt occurs on Terminal Count
• Uses the internal 32 kHz clock
   

Functional Description

The Timer13 User Module either does a one shot countdown (One Shot mode) or continuously repeats the countdown (Continuous mode) given a certain period. The default Mode and Period values are set in the parameters section of the Device Editor, or programmatically using the SetMode() and SetPeriod() as described in the Application Programming Interface (API) section. 

• Uses the industry standard Hitachi HD44780 LCD display driver chip protocol
• Requires only seven I/O pins
• Routines provided to print RAM or ROM strings
• Routines provided to print numbers
• Routines provided to display horizontal and vertical bar graphs
• Uses a single I/O port
   

The Character LCD User Module is a set of library routines that writes text strings and formatted numbers to a common two or four-line LCD module. Vertical and horizontal bar graphs are supported, using the character graphics feature of these LCD modules. This module was developed specifically for the industry standard Hitachi HD44780 two-line by 16 character LCD display driver chip, but works for many other fourline displays. This library uses the 4-bit interface mode to limit the number of I/O pins required.
 

• Scan 1 to 28 capacitive sensors
• Scan capacitive sliders with 2 to 28 elements
• Slider physical resolution doubling using diplexing
• Slider interpolated resolution up to 1 part in 65535
• Generate touch-pad using multiple slider sensors
• Adjustable sensor sensitivity, detection threshold and sampling rate
• Guided sensor/pin assignments using the CSA Wizard
• Integrated baseline update algorithm for handling temperature changes
• Compensate for environmental and physical sensor variations
   

The CapSense® Successive Approximation (CSA) User Module implements an array of capacitive touch sensors using switched capacitor circuitry, an analog multiplexer, digital counting functions, and high level software routines to compensate for environmental and physical sensor variations. The sensor array can consist of combinations of independent sensors, sliding sensors, and touchpads implemented as a pair of orthogonal sliding sensors. High level software routines accommodate slider diplexing. Slider diplexing allows a single pin to measure two electrical sensors in two different physical locations. Diplexing provides resolution enhancement of the slider without the cost of an additional IO.

Features

• Low Power CapSense® Block

  • Configurable Capacitive Sensing Elements
  • Supports Combination of CapSense Buttons, Sliders, Touchpads, and Proximity Sensors
• Powerful Harvard Architecture Processor
  • M8C Processor Speeds up to 12 MHz
  • Low power at high speed
  • Operating Voltage: 2.4 V to 5.25 V
  • Industrial Temperature Range: -40°C to 85°C
• Flexible On-Chip Memory
  • 8K Bytes Flash Program Storage 50,000 Erase/Write Cycles
  • 512 Bytes SRAM Data Storage
  • Partial Flash Updates
  • Flexible Protection Modes
  • Interrupt Controller
  • In-System Serial Programming (ISSP)
  • For more, see pdf.

PSoC® Functional Overview

The PSoC family consists of many Programmable System-on-Chips with On-Chip Controller devices. These devices are designed to replace multiple traditional MCU based system components with one low cost single chip programmable component. A PSoC device includes configurable analog and digital blocks and programmable interconnect.

The CY3207ISSP PSoC In-System Serial Programmer programs PSoC ICs with HEX files created with Cypress' PSoC Designer software.

The ISSP programs a single PSoC IC in one of three ways:

1. mounted on your PCB.
2. inserted into the ISSP socket.
3. via a test fixture.

The ISSP connects to your PC via USB and connects to your PCB with a 5-wire cable. Programming software includes Windows« GUI and command line capability. ISSP kit contains programmer, software, power supply, 5-wire programming cable, and USB cable.

 

Software Title	Description	Link
CY3207ISSP	Latest CY3207ISSP software

 

CY3280-BK1 Kit Contents:

• CY3280-20x34 Universal CapSense Controller Board
• CY3280-21x34 Universal CapSense Controller Board
• CY3280-SLM Universal CapSense Linear Slider Module
• CY3280-BBM Universal CapSense Prototyping Module
• CY3240-I2USB Board
• CY3210 MiniProg1 Programmer
• USB 2.0 Retractable Cable
• PSoC Express Installation CD
• PSoC Designer and PSoC Programmer Installation CD
• CY3280-BK1 Universal CapSense Controller Kit CD
• 1.5 mm and 3 mm Polycarbonate Overlays
   

Hardware Description

The CY3280-BK1 Universal CapSense Controller Kit is designed for easy prototyping and debug of CapSense designs with pre-defined control circuitry and plug-in hardware.  The kit comes with controller boards for the CY8C20x34 and CY8C21x34 PSoC devices as well as a breadboard module and a button(5) / slider module.

 

Software Title	Description	Link
PSoC Designer	This kit requires PSoC Designer for development
PSoC Programmer	This kit requires PSoC Programmer for programming

 

CY3210-20x34 Kit Contents:

• One (1) CY8C20x34 PSoC EvalPod

CY3250-20434QFN-POD Kit Contents:
 

• Two (2) QFN CY8C20434 ICE Pods

Hardware Description

The ICE pod provides the interconnection between the CY3215-DK In-Circuit Emulator via a flex cable and the target PSoC device in a prototype system or PCB via package-specific pod feet. Pod feet sold separately.

• One (1) CY8C20x34 ICE Pod
• One (1) Flex Cable
• Two (2) 28-pin SSOP Feet
• Two (2) CY8C20534-12PVXI (28-pin SSOP) samples

CY3250-20334QFN-POD Kit Contents:

• Two (2) QFN CY8C20334 ICE Pods
   

Hardware Description

The ICE pod provides the interconnection between the CY3215-DK In-Circuit Emulator via a flex cable and the target PSoC device in a prototype system or PCB via package-specific pod feet. Pod feet sold separately.

• CY3280-SLM Linear Slider Module Board
• CY3280-SLM Quick Start Guide
• CY3280-SLM Kit CD
• One 1.5mm Acrylic Overlay
• One 3mm Acrylic Overlay
   

1. Any CY3280 Universal CapSense Controller Board
2. CY3210-MiniProg
3. CY3240-I2USB Bridge
4. USB Mini-B Cable

Software Title	Description	Link
PSoC Designer	This kit requires PSoC Designer for development
PSoC Programmer	This kit requires PSoC Programmer for programming

• CY3280-BMM Matrix Button Module Board
• CY3280-BMM Quick Start Guide
• CY3280-BMM Kit CD
• One 1.5mm Acrylic Overlay
   

1. Any CY3280 Universal CapSense Controller Board
2. CY3210-MiniProg
3. CY3240-I2USB Bridge
4. USB Mini-B Cable

Software Title	Description	Link
PSoC Designer	This kit requires PSoC Designer for development
PSoC Programmer	This kit requires PSoC Programmer for programming

Kit Contents:

• CY3280-BBM Universal CapSense Prototyping Module
• CY3280-BBM Quick Start
• CY3280-BBM Universal CapSense Prototyping Module Kit CD

Hardware Description
 

CY3250-20434QFN Kit Contents:

• One (1) QFN CY8C20434 ICE Pod
• One (1) Flex Cable
• Two (2) 32-Pin QFN Pod Feet

Hardware Description

The ICE pod provides the interconnection between the CY3215-DK In-Circuit Emulator via a flex cable and the target PSoC device in a prototype system or PCB via package-specific pod feet. Two (2) 32-pin QFN pod feet included.

CY3250-20334QFN Kit Contents:

• One (1) QFN CY8C20334 ICE Pod
• One (1) Flex Cable
• Two (2) 24-Pin QFN Pod Feet

Hardware Description

The ICE pod provides the interconnection between the CY3215-DK In-Circuit Emulator via a flex cable and the target PSoC device in a prototype system or PCB via package-specific pod feet. Two (2) 24-pin QFN pod feet included.

The CY3210-MiniProg1 is an inexpensive evaluation kit that allows you to program PSoC(R) devices using the MiniProg programming unit. A MiniEval PCB is also included in the kit for your use.

The MiniEval PCB is a programming and evaluation board that allows DIP device socket programming. The MiniEval board also includes LEDs and a POT for simple evaluation and demonstration, but does not include a prototyping area. The MiniProg uses a 5-pin ISSP (In-System Serial Programming) header to program PSoC devices on the MiniEval PCB or directly on a target board. To learn how to prepare your target board for ISSP.

User’s interested in purchasing just the Minprog1 programmer without the development board, please click here.

Hardware Description

Supports all PSoC Programmable System-On Chip families, including automotive, except CY8C25/26xxx devices.

Kit Includes:

• MiniProg Programming unit
• MiniEval Socket Programming and Evaluation board
• 28 pin CY8C29466-24PXI PDIP PSoC Device Sample
• PSoC Designer Software CD
• Getting Started Guide
• USB 2.0 Cable

Software Title	Description	Link
PSoC Designer	This kit requires PSoC Designer for development
PSoC Programmer	This kit requires PSoC Programmer for programming

Related Resources:

Datasheet: CY8C29x66

The PSoC® family consists of many Programmable System-on-Chip devices. As described in this Technical Reference Manual (TRM), the CY8C20x34/24 PSoC device does not have regular digital PSoC blocks and global interconnects that are found in most PSoC devices. The CY8C20x34/24 devices have one analog resource and digital logic in addition to a fast CPU, Flash program memory, and SRAM data memory to support various CapSense® algorithms.

To access Sense and Control Dashboard archives please Click Here

The ISSP programmer programs PSoC(R) ICs with .hex files created with the Cypress PSoC Designer(TM) software. The programmer programs a PSoC chip mounted on your PCB, one at a time. It connects to your PCB with a 5-wire cable and to your PC with a USB cable. Programming operation can be automated by incorporating the programmer into a PC-based test system. The tester software communicates with the programmer-control software through a command-line interface. The ISSP programmer can also be operated manually using the supplied Windows-based GUI software.

To purchase the ISSP Programmer Hardware (CY3207ISSP), go to the click here.

Hardware Description:
The PSoC In-System Serial Programmer programs PSoC ICs with .hex  files created with the Cypress MicroSystems PSoC Designer software.

Archived Software:
PSoC Programmer software is archived at the following page: Click Here

 3rd Party Programmers: The CY3207 kit and software will continue to be maintained, but Cypress encourages customers to engage with our 3rd party vendors for all production programming needs.

For the most up-to-date version of PSoC Programmer please Click Here.

Capacitive Sensing as a human-device interface is becoming increasingly popular. Capacitive sensing can be recognized in many popular consumer products such as laptop trackpads, MP3 players, computer monitors and cell phones, but it is certainly not limited to these applications. More and more engineers choose capacitive sensing for its flexibility, unique human-device interface and cost reduction over mechanical switches.

Designs are likely to experience many different environmental changes, marketing requirement changes and user abuse; choosing a device that is flexible, programmable, and upgradeable is necessary. Without question, the most flexible, programmable and upgradeable device on the market is the Cypress Semiconductor Programmable System on a Chip (PSoC). PSoC is a mixed-signal array which includes analog and digital resources as well as an integrated microcontroller all on the same chip! Choosing a fixed-function device, such as an ASIC, seems like a good idea at first, but overcoming its problems requires spending more money on hardware. A mixed-signal array device allows resolution of most issues with a firmware change. One major advantage of having a flash-based device is that its firmware can be updated after the device has shipped by including a bootloader. Bootloaders are valuable are worth considering on a new design. To read more on this topic, click the download link above.