Cypress Semiconductor has announced its new highly integrated, single-chip Bluetooth low energy solution for Internet of Things (IoT) and other wireless applications, which now provides twice the storage capacity.
PSoC 4 BLE programmable system-on-chip and PRoC BLE programmable on-chip radio solutions now have options for 256KB flash memory and 32KB SRAM, allowing designers to increase flexibility through OTA firmware upgrades without the need for upgrades External storage. These new products are pin compatible with Cypress's original Bluetooth low energy solution, simplifying upgrades.
Cypress's easy-to-use PSoC Creator Integrated Design Environment (IDE) supports the new 256KB Bluetooth low energy solution. Cypress added support for multiple new Bluetooth low energy profiles in PSoC Creator, further simplifying the design of wider applications including blood glucose monitoring, environmental sensing, and Apple Notification Center services. "These new PSoC 4 and PRoC BLE products demonstrate our commitment to: expand our Bluetooth Smart Solutions product portfolio to better meet customer needs." Cypress Programmable Systems Marketing Vice President President John Weil said. "The expanded storage capacity of our new solution further enhances design flexibility by allowing OTA live updates to change firmware."
Cypress's customizable Bluetooth low energy solutions provide unprecedented unprecedented capabilities for IoT applications, home automation, wireless human-machine interface (HID), remote control, healthcare devices, sports and fitness monitors, and other wearable smart devices Ease of use and integration. PRoC BLE is a Bluetooth smart microcontroller with Cypress's industry-leading CapSense capacitive touch sensing function, while PSoC 4 BLE provides expanded design versatility by adding intelligent analog and programmable digital modules. Both solutions integrate Bluetooth smart radio, high-performance 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 core with ultra-low power mode, 256KB flash memory, 36 GPIO and customizable serial communication modules, timers and counters. This combination of technologies provides Bluetooth Smart products with unmatched system value, extended battery life, customizable sensing capabilities, and a stylish, intuitive user interface. In addition, both solutions have on-chip baluns that simplify antenna design while reducing circuit board size and system cost.
Designers seeking to create Bluetooth Smart products must currently use software tools from multiple vendors and develop complex firmware to meet wireless specifications. Cypress has simplified the Bluetooth low energy protocol stack and configuration file configuration to a new royalty-free, GUI-based BLE component (free embedded IC in PSoC that can be represented by an icon), which can be dragged using PSoC Creator Put it in the design. IDE can realize the complete system design through a tool, thus greatly shortening the time to market. In addition, users of Eclipse and other ARM-based tools can customize their own Bluetooth low energy solution on PSoC Creator and export the design to their preferred IDE.
Cypress BLE component application details are embedded in PSoC Creator, which contains examples of all supported Bluetooth low energy profiles and hundreds of example projects (including OTA) for mixed-signal system design. Other new configuration files in the BLE component include: user data-scales-body composition-binding management-and wireless power transmission Cypress provides a new low-cost BLE development kit module with 256KB chip. These modules can be plugged into the existing $ 49 CY8CKIT-042-BLE development kit, which allows users to easily access Cypress Bluetooth low energy devices while maintaining the design dimensions of the PSoC 4 Pioneer kit. The development kit includes a USB Bluetooth low energy dongle, which is paired with the CySmart main emulation tool,
