October 20th, 2007
SoCSicle Development Board Announcement
We are pleased to introduce the SoCSicle Development board. The SoCSicle was conceived last December to complement "The Beginner's Guide to PSoC Express". We began developing the concept in February and went through several prototype stages before completion.
The SoCSicle went to production on October 15th, and will be available November 10th, 2007. This is almost three months later than originally planned but we think the end product will be more useful, have a longer lifecycle, and be easier to use for the beginner and electronics hobbyist.
SoCSicle will be available for pre-order on October 22nd. We will be offering special pricing for customers who pre-order and existing owners of "The Beginner's Guide to PSoC Express".
July 6th, 2007
Book Review in Electronic Design
Cypress Semiconductor’s PSoC configurable microcontroller is a handy part to use in an embedded application because half of its peripheral set is specified by the designer. Unfortunately, when it first came out, this configuration process was a bit more difficult than writing a “Hello World” program. Cypress created the PSoC Express development tool to greatly simplify the process. PSoC Express is a graphical modeling system that allows developers to create applications without resorting to text-based programming tools.
By Oliver H. Bailey
ISBN: 978-0-9790344-0-4
William Wong | ED Online ID #15918 | June 19, 2007
Article Rating: Not Rated
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July 1, 2007
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May 23, 2007
What is PSoCTraining.com
PSoCTraining.com is a site dedicated to the PSoC Mixed-Signal Microcontroller from Cypress Semiconductor. The site operates under the control of Timelines Industries, publisher of "The Beginner's Guide to PSoC Express" and Oliver Bailey, the author of the book. The goal is to provide high quality training and educational tools that include books, DVD's, seminars, board level products and training tours to bring help educators, engineers, students, and hobbyists have the best "PSoC Experience" possible. And psoctraining.com is an offical CYPros consulting entity.
What is the PSoC?
For those new to the PSoC, it is a Mixed-Signal Microcontroller or Processor from Cypress semiconductor. While there are other mixed-signal parts on the market, the PSoC is unique in that the firmware design process is more visual based than other similar type parts. Having visual design tools for low costs parts is unheard of because the investment in software is high. Because of the visual design environment, there are capabilities extended to the developer in how the internal buss is configured allowing for design of cascading mixed signal components within the part. There are two design tools available for PSoC. The first is PSoC Express, a completely visual environment that allows complete project development without writing any manual code at all. This visual front-end generates standard C code which is then compiled, downloaded, and executed entirely from within the visual environment. There is also PSoC Designer which is a more advanced tool, allowing developers direct code control, and access to the internal digital and analog blocks in additiona to the internal buss and I/O pins.
The Beginner's Guide to PSoC Express, Microcontroller Development without Writing Code
This book is 250 pages in length and covers all aspects if PSoC Express. Originally developed using PSoC Express 2.2, the same concepts and methods are applicable to the upcoming PSoC Express 3 which is due later in 2007. The entire PSoC Express development process is covered through hands on examples using a variety of PSoC Parts. While these examples were ddeveloped using the World Tour board from Cypress, they can be easily be ported to other PSoC devices by simply changing the target device type and pin assignments.
The book begins by taking a tour of the PSoC Express visual design desktop. It then moves on to developing a couple of real-world projects using simulations. While PSoC Express doesn't offer souce-level debugging, it has an excellent simulation system that allows proof-of-concept without source code debugging. Afterwards, several chapters are dedicated to devloping a working hour meter which includes buttons, potentioeters, seven-segment displays, I2C communicatios, and LCD outputs. The remaining chapters cover USB, Wireless Communications, CapSense, and an example on how to modify C code generated by PSoC Express. The book concludes with a chapter of available resoures developers will find useful in their own projects, a notes section for personal notes, and a subject index.
"The Beginner's Guide to PSoC Express" will be shipping June 5th, 2007. The book retails for $49.95 and includes a CD of all projjects, PSoC Express, and other useful tools for developers. To kick off the launch of this exciting new book we are offering the book/CD combo, for $39.95 for e very limited time.. Just click on the order button to the left to take advantage of the special introductory pricing. But hurry, because the special price can will be discontinued without notice.
The SoCsicle Development Board
Cypress is continually developing new products so to eliminate our dependency on their hardware we are in the final stages of developing the SoCsicle, a development board based on the CY8C24894 PSoC. This board comes in a 48 pin DIP configuration and has headers for future expansion and piggyback cards which we are already developing. While we could place a phot of the SoCsicle here, we will be dedicating an entire area of this site to the SoCsicle, SoCsicle projects, and additional SoCsicle expansion boards.
The SoCsicle will be available during August or September of 2007.
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July 4, 2007