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 is a reference for all the CapSense Express registers in address order.

Features

• Capacitive Slider and Button Input
• Target Applications
• Low Operating Current
• Industry's Best Configurability
• Advanced Features
• Wide Range of Operating Voltages
• I2C Communication
• Industrial Temperature Range: –40°C to 85°C.
• Available in 16-pin QFN and 16-pin SOIC Package
• For more, see pdf
   

Overview

These CapSense Express™ controllers support 4 to 10 capacitive sensing CapSense buttons. The device functionality is configured through an I2C port and can be stored in onboard nonvolatile memory for automatic loading at power on. The CapSense Express controller enables the control of 10 I/Os configurable as one capacitive sensing slider (10 segments)[1] or one slider (5 segments) with the rest of the pins as buttons or GPIOs (for driving LEDs or interrupt signals based on various button conditions).

Features

• 10/8/6/4 capacitive button input
• Target applications
• Low operating current
• Industry's best configurability
• Advanced features
• Wide range of operating voltages
• I2C communication
• Industrial temperature range: –40 °C to 85 °C.
• Available in 16-pin QFN, 8-pin, and 16-pin SOIC packages
• For more, see pdf

Overview

These CapSense Express™ controllers support four to ten capacitive sensing (CapSense) buttons. The device functionality is configured through an I2C port and can be stored in onboard nonvolatile memory for automatic loading at power-on. The CY8C20110 is optimized for dimming LEDs in 15 selectable duty cycles for back light applications. The device can be configured to have up to 10 GPIOs connected to the PWM output. The PWM duty cycle is programmable for variable LED intensities.

Features

• Easy to use capacitive button controller
• SmartSense™ Auto-Tuning
• Noise Immunity
• System Diagnostics of CapSense buttons - reports any faults at device power up
• Advanced features
• Wide operating voltage range
• Low power consumption
• Industrial temperature range: –40 °C to +85 °C
• 32-pin Quad Flat No leads (QFN) package (5 mm × 5 mm × 0.6 mm)
   

Overview

The CY8CMBR2010 incorporates several innovative features to save time and money to quickly enable a capacitive touch sensing user interface in your design. It is a hardware configurable device and does not require any software tools or coding. This device is enabled with Cypress’s revolutionary SmartSense™ Auto-Tuning algorithm. SmartSense™ Auto-Tuning ends the need to manually tune the user interface during development and production ramp. This speeds the time to volume and saves valuable engineering time, test time and production yield loss.

Features

• Hardware Configurable Matrix CapSense® Controller
  • Does not require software tools or programming
  • 16 buttons can be configured individually or as a matrix
  • Supports 3x4 and 4x4 matrix configurations
• Matrix Host Interface Communication
  • Industry standard host interface protocols reuse existing host processor firmware
    • Key Scan Interface
    • Truth Table Interface
  • Encoded GPO Interface - minimizes number of pins required
• For more, see pdf

Overview

The CY8CMBR2016 CapSense Express capacitive touch sensing controller incorporates several innovative features to save time and money to quickly enable a capacitive touch sensing user interface in your design. It is a hardware configurable device and does not require any software tools, firmware coding or device programming. This device is enabled with Cypress's revolutionary SmartSense™ auto-tuning algorithm.

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Coming Soon

EZ-Click 1.0 is a simple yet revolutionary customizer tool (GUI) that enables additional design flexibility with device configuration, visual feedback and production line testing within a single tool for the latest, register configurable MBR devices, CY8CMBR2110 thereby accelerating time-to-market .

This tool currently supports CY8CMBR2110 (10 button/GPO)enabling register configurability of advanced features such as customizable LED effects and buzzer for audio feedback. The CY8CMBR2xxx family leverages Cypress’s revolutionary SmartSense™ Auto-tuning algorithm, and eliminates the requirement for system tuning. The EZ-Click tool maintains the CapSense Express value, eliminating the need for large software tools, firmware configuration, device programming or system tuning.
 

Features

• Capacitive Button Input tied to a Configurable Output
• Target Applications
• Industry's Best Configurability
• Advanced Features
• Wide Range of Operating Voltages
• I2C Communication
• Industrial Temperature Range: –40°C to 85°C
• Available in 8-Pin SOIC Package
• For more, see pdf

Overview

The CapSense® Express™ controllers support two capacitive sensing (CapSense) buttons and two general purpose outputs in CY8C20121 and one CapSense button and one general purpose output in CY8C20111. The device functionality is configured through the I2C port and can be stored in on-board nonvolatile memory for automatic loading at power on. The digital outputs are controlled from CapSense inputs in factory default settings, but are user configurable for direct control through I2C.

• Up to 10 CapSense buttons with direct LED drive capability
• 1.71V to 5.5V Operating Range Voltage
• 15uA per button in run mode
• 100nA, Deep Sleep mode
• Patented CSD technology for robust immunity to conducted and radiated noise
• Robust noise-immunity to RF, LCD driver and AC Line Noise
• SmartSense® Auto-tuning – eliminates the tuning process and compensates for environmental changes during runtime
• Small footprint package: 32-pad QFN (5 x 5 x 0.6 mm)
• EZClick™ software tool for easy configuration of advanced features

Features

• Easiest to use capacitive button controller
  • Four-button solution configurable through Hardware straps
  • No software tools or programming required
  • Four general-purpose outputs (GPOs)
  • GPOs linked to CapSense® buttons
  • GPOs support direct LED drive
• Robust noise performance
  • Specifically designed for superior noise immunity to external radiated and conducted noise
  • Low radiated noise emission
• SmartSense™ auto tuning
• For more, see pdf

Overview

The CY8CMBR2044 incorporates several innovative features to save time and money to quickly enable a capacitive touch sensing user interface in your design. It is a hardware configurable device and does not require any software tools or coding. This device is enabled with Cypress's revolutionary SmartSense™ Auto-Tuning algorithm. SmartSense™ Auto-Tuning ends the need to manually tune the user interface during development and production ramp. This speeds the time to volume and saves valuable engineering time, test time and production yield loss.

Table 1: Factory Default Values for Internal Pull-Up Setting
 

CY3218-CAPEXP2 Kit Contents:

• CY3218-CAPEXP2 CapSense Express Evaluation Board
• CY3240-I2USB Board
• USB Retractable Cable 
• Kit Installation CD (includes PSoC Programmer, .NET Framework 2.0, PSoC Express, CapSense Express Extension Pack, and CapSense Express Documentation)
• AAA Battery

The evaluation kit showcases the 16-Pin QFN CY8C201A0-LDX2I CapSense Express device providing the following interfaces: 

• 5 Segment CapSense Slider with Monitoring and Tuning for Sensitivity Adjustments
• 4 status LEDs
• 1 mechanical button
   

Software Title	Description	Link
PSoC Designer 5.0 SP6	This kit requires PSoC Designer 5.0 SP6
PSoC Programmer	This kit requires PSoC Programmer for programming

Note: This kit requires the System Level functionality of PSoC Designer 5.0. This functionality does not exist in versions 5.1 or newer.

CY3218-CAPEXP1 Kit Contents:

• CY3218-CAPEXP1 CapSense Express Evaluation Board
• CY3240-I2USB Board
• USB Retractable Cable 
• Kit Installation CD (includes PSoC Programmer, .NET Framework 2.0, PSoC Express, CapSense Express Extension Pack, and CapSense Express Documentation)
• AAA Battery

The evaluation kit showcases the 16-Pin QFN CY8C20110-LDX2I CapSense Express device providing the following interfaces: 

• 3 CapSense buttons with Monitoring and Tuning for Sensitivity Adjustments
• 3 backlighting LEDs
• 3 status LEDs
• 1 mechanical button
   

CapSense Express is part of the PSoC Mixed-Signal Array Product line but individual CapSense Express device information needs to be accessed via the individual part number links in the line below titled Related Part Numbers.

Software Title	Description	Link
PSoC Designer 5.0 SP6	This kit requires PSoC Designer 5.0 SP6
PSoC Programmer	This kit requires PSoC Programmer for programming

Note: This kit requires the System Level functionality of PSoC Designer 5.0. This functionality does not exist in versions 5.1 or newer.

• Touch sensing buttons
• Upto ten CapSense buttons & ten LEDs/GPOs.
• World's easiest Capsense Solution.

Description:
CapSense Express Evaluation kit with SmartSense™ Auto-Tuning.

Features:

• Touch sensing buttons
• Upto four CapSense buttons & four LEDs/GPOs.
• World's easiest Capsense Solution.

Kit contents :

• CY3280-MBR Kit
• Two AAA batteries
• Overlay - Clear acrylic overlays with matt finish on one side in 1 mm, 2 mm, and 3 mm thickness.
• 2 mm thick overlay is stuck to the board
• Axial capacitors 10 pF, 22 pF, 68 pF
• Quick Start Guide

SAN JOSE, Calif., October 6, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY), the market leader in touch-sensing, today announced the new CY8CMBR2016 device that enables designers to implement capacitive matrix button systems of up to 4 x 4 buttons without having to write firmware or learn new software tools. A matrix system is a row and column array of buttons typically found in keypad applications in a variety of industrial applications. This is the latest addition to the popular CapSense® Express™ capacitive touch-sensing controller line from Cypress that leverages Cypress’s revolutionary SmartSense™ Auto-tuning algorithm, which completely eliminates the requirement for system tuning and is the only solution that offers run-time environmental compensation.

The CY8CMBR2016 supports industry standard “keypad scan” and “truth table” host interface protocols, enabling customers to leverage their existing host processor firmware. The device also features multi-touch, perfect for matrix applications that require simultaneous button presses to enter various user interface modes. The CY8CMBR2016 operates over a 1.71 V to 5.5 V range making it ideal for a wide range of regulated and unregulated battery applications, and a supply current in run mode as low as 15 uA/button. It is targeted for applications such as security panels, card reader keypads, biometric scanner keypads, fire alarm control panels, thermostats, home appliances as well as any system requiring up to 16 individual CapSense buttons. More information is available at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

SmartSense Auto-tuning dynamically optimizes the capacitive baseline and detection threshold for each button. It adjusts for the optimal capacitance sensing range at power-up and during runtime as environmental conditions change, including temperature, humidity, and noise. Eliminating the need to tune is a significant advantage for large and small manufacturers alike, as it saves engineering time and yield loss that can occur with even slight variations in manufacturing tolerances. This savings is greatly multiplied for customers with a global factory footprint and supply chain. SmartSense Auto-tuning can eliminate the need for additional test steps required by competing solutions to address variations in PCBs and overlays.

“This new CapSense Express controller with SmartSense Auto-tuning technology extends the world’s easiest mechanical button replacement portfolio to matrix keypad applications,” said Dirk Franklin, business unit director for Cypress’s CapSense solutions. “The CY8CMBR2016 Matrix Keypad solution enables firmware, hardware, and mechanical engineers to implement capacitive sensing quickly and easily in their application.”

The device offers reliable operation in the harshest sensing conditions and ensures superior immunity to conducted and radiated noise. It also integrates a voltage regulator to address power supply noise as well as filters for any spurious noise.

Cypress’s accompanying design toolbox provides detailed resources to ensure optimal CapSense performance, and advanced system debug features allow customers to take designs directly to production for significantly shorter time-to-market.

Availability and Photo
The CY8CMBR2016 CapSense Express controller is currently in production in a 48-pad QFN package. For a high-resolution photo of a CY8CMBR2016 device, visit www.cypress.com/go/PR/photos/CY8CMBR2016.

About CapSense
Cypress's CapSense touch-sensing solutions have replaced 3.5 billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the industry touch-sensing leader. The CapSense portfolio, the industry's broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not required. CapSense proximity sensing provides power savings by activating an interface only when needed while further enhancing industrial designs by only exposing interfaces when necessary. The portfolio ranges from the fixed-function CapSense Express controllers that streamline the transition to a robust touch-sensing interface, to the sophisticated CapSense Plus™ controllers based on the PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture that can integrate a wide variety of Analog and Digital system blocks to reduce total chip count and system BOM cost. Learn more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks and CapSense Express, SmartSense, CapSense Plus and TrueTouch are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

This demo walks viewers through the features of Cypress's CapSense® Express™ technology, including SmartSense™ which automatically tunes touch-sensing "buttons" when capacitance is changed. No software or firmware development is required.

SAN JOSE, Calif., January 27, 2009 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today announced that its CapSense Express™ capacitive touch sensing solution for mechanical button and slider replacement has been recognized with an ECN Readers Choice Tech Award. The awards are selected by the readers of ECN Magazine for the best new products of the year. The CapSense Express solution, which was selected in the sensor category, enables designers to implement up to 10 buttons and/or sliders in as little as five minutes - with no coding. The PSoC Designer™ visual embedded system design tool and CapSense Express configuration tool allow designers to monitor and tune the performance of the buttons and sliders in real time using a graphical user interface, saving significant cycle time on designs. The ECN product review of the CapSense Express solution is available at www.cypress.com/go/pr/ecnaward."

Cypress is the worldwide leader in capacitive touch-sensing with the industry's broadest portfolio. Its PSoC®-based CapSense™ devices have implemented over 2.5 billion buttons, sliders and other touch sensing interfaces in systems worldwide. The CapSense portfolio offers unmatched flexibility and integration, addressing a broad range of designs from complex, feature-rich applications to simple button replacement. More information about the CapSense Express solution is available at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

"We are honored that the engineering community has selected CapSense Express for this award," said Babak Hedayati, senior vice president of worldwide marketing and applications for Cypress." "This is further validation of our position as the market leader in touch-sensing solutions." In a related release, Cypress announced that a recent report from industry analyst firm IMS Research cited Cypress as the industry leader for touch-sensing.

About CapSense
Cypress's CapSense Touch-Sensing solution has replaced 2.5 billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the industry touch-sensing leader. The CapSense portfolio, the industry's broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not required. CapSense proximity sensing, with its industry leading detection range up to 25 cm, provides power savings by activating an interface only when needed while further enhancing industrial designs by only exposing interfaces when necessary. Based on the PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture and the PSoC Designer Embedded-System Design Tool, users complete CapSense designs quickly and easily using pre-configured and verified "user modules" and real-time sensor tuning and monitoring. Learn more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value." Cypress offerings include the PSoC® programmable system-on-chip, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity technologies ranging from its CyFi™ Low-Power RF solution, to West Bridge® and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, and industrial. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo and PSoC are registered trademarks and CapSense Express, CapSense and PSoC Designer are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

Response: YES, It is possible to control the status of the DIG0 output though the I2C. If it controlled by CapSense input, host should write output value required on DIG0 to DIG[0] bit of OUTPUT_PORT register and then write "0" to Op_En bit of OP_SEL_0 register.

To have the feature of CapSense input controlling DIG0 back, Write "1" to Op_En again.

Response: Yes, this can be done by writing "1" to bit 7 of the CS_Filtering Register, the baseline will be initialized and this bit will be automatically cleared once the baseline is reset.

Also, Host should not reset the baseline when Finger is on the button.

Response: No, the CapSense Express devices does not support diplexing feature.

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