Cypress Combines PSoC® and Non-Volatile SRAM Technologies for Fail-Safe, Mixed-Signal Data Logging | Cypress Semiconductor
Cypress Combines PSoC® and Non-Volatile SRAM Technologies for Fail-Safe, Mixed-Signal Data Logging
New PSoC NV Family Unites Unlimited Read, Write and Recall Endurance of nvSRAMs With Flexibility and Integration of PSoC architecture
SAN JOSE, Calif., September 22, 2008 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today introduced the industry's first device to integrate a non-volatile static random access memory (nvSRAM) and a programmable system on chip. The new PSoC® NV family combines the flexible design capabilities of Cypress's flagship PSoC architecture with an infinite endurance nvSRAM in a single package. PSoC NV devices integrate configurable analog and digital circuits, controlled by an on-chip microcontroller, providing both enhanced design revision capability and component count savings. The secure-store data logging devices target the computing, networking, telecomm, automotive and industrial markets.
The PSoC NV family serves applications requiring continuous data logging from sensors, analog, and digital inputs. The devices have a powerful analog front-end that can simultaneously sample up to 8 inputs from sensors and analog sources and store the data in the embedded nvSRAM. Regular operation accesses are directed to an SRAM array and automatically secured into a non-volatile quantum trap cell in case of power failure. This data can be recalled on power up. The data logging capabilities of the PSoC NV family enables field diagnostics and failure mode analysis, helping customers identify problems quickly and reducing system downtime. The devices have a 20-year data retention capability and can perform a host of applications such as voltage monitoring, voltage sequencing, thermal management, on-board diagnostics, power management, fan control, industrial data logging, and sequence-of-events monitoring. For more information on the products, visit https://www.cypress.com/go/PR/PSoCNV.
"The PSoC architecture offers integration and flexibility advantages over other embedded control offerings, and nvSRAMs deliver superior performance compared to other non-volatile memories," said Robert Dunnigan, vice president of Non-Volatile Products business unit at Cypress. "The PSoC NV family delivers both of these functions in an integrated solution that serves as a 'black box' for industrial controls, servers, and other applications."
PSoC NV devices feature:
- A 64-, 128- or 256-Kbyte nvSRAM with a throughput between 100 KBPS and 1 MBPS
- An M8C-based core with speeds up to 24 MHz
- 32 Kbytes Flash and 2 Kbytes SRAM
- 12 analog blocks that can be programmed to create an ADC, DAC and comparator
- 16 digital blocks that can be programmed to create timers, counters, PWM, UART and SPI
- Programmable GPIOs
- An I2C interface Watchdog and sleep timers
- On-chip precision voltage reference
- 3.3V operation over the industrial temperature range (-40°C to 85°C).
Cypress also introduced two kits to support the PSoC NV family:
- The PSoC NV Demonstration Kit showcases the fail-safe data logging capabilities of the PSoC NV family in an event monitoring and diagnostics application. Data from multiple analog channels are continuously sampled and logged by the device. For a power failure, data can be retrieved through a plug-and-play interface via a versatile GUI, reconstructing the events leading to system failure.
- The PSoC NV Evaluation Kit provides a flexible and easy-to-use platform for developers to experiment with the mixed-signal and data-logging capabilities of PSoC NV devices. The kit includes a fan module for temperature sensing and fan control applications, PSoC Designer software and example projects.
Availability About Cypress nvSRAMs PSoC -- Because Change Happens The flexible PSoC resources allow designers to future-proof their products by enabling firmware-based changes during design, validation, production, and in the field. The unique PSoC flexibility shortens design cycle time and allows for late-breaking feature enhancements. All PSoC devices are also dynamically reconfigurable, enabling designers to morph internal resources on-the-fly, utilizing fewer components to perform a given task. Easy to use development tools enable designers to select configurable library elements for analog functions such as amplifiers, ADCs, DACs, filters and comparators and digital functions such as timers, counters, PWMs, SPI and UARTs. The PSoC family's analog features include rail-to-rail inputs, programmable gain amplifiers and up to 14-bit ADCs with exceptionally low noise, input leakage and voltage offset. A single PSoC device can integrate as many as 100 peripheral functions saving customers design time, board space and power consumption while improving system quality. Customers can save as much as $10 in system costs. More information about PSoC products is available at https://www.cypress.com/psoc and free online training is at https://www.cypress.com/psoctraining. About Cypress # # # Cypress, the Cypress logo and PSoC are registered trademarks, and Programmable System-on-Chip and S8 are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.