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If you have been trying out some of the incredible functionality available on a PSOC 6 WiFi-BT Pioneer Kit - CY8CKIT-062-WiFi-BT (175-4669)
and want to get serious about prototyping your own PSoC 6 based design, then you may be inspired jump in with both feet by a couple of recent releases from Cypress that will make your first go that much easier: the PSoC® 6 BLE Prototyping Board - CY8CPROTO-063-BLE (181-2207)
and the PSoC® 6 Wi-Fi® BT Prototyping Kit - CY8CPROTO-062-4343W (181-2206)
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PSoC® 6 BLE Prototyping Board
The great thing about the PSoC 6 BLE Prototyping Board is that it gives you easy access to all the MCU I/Os in a breadboard-compatible format and a fully certified, integrated, and programmable (royalty-free) Bluetooth 5.0 BLE stack to use in your design. It also gives you some dev-board essentials such as an LED, a push button, and jumpers for current measuring.
This Board is designed in modular, snap-away segments allowing users to separate the on-board KitProg programmer and debugger module from the target board so you can use them independently. The Prototyping Board also features a mikroBUS™ interface giving your PSoC 6 instant access to the functionality of MikroElektronika’s 500+ click boards™.
Features
CYBLE-416045-02 Creator Module with:
Cypress Semiconductor PSoC 63 BLE Microcontroller
Up to 36 GPIOs with programmable drive modes, strengths, and slew rates
1MB Application Flash with 32KB EEPROM area and 32KB Secure Flash
Integrated trace antenna and passive components
PSoC 6 MCU I/O headers
PSoC Creator Integrated Design Environment (IDE)
2x LEDs to provide feedback
1x push button for user input
Footprint for External Crystal Oscillator (ECO) [2.0mm x 1.6mm, 24MHz]
External Watch Crystal Oscillator (WCO) at 32.768kHz
KitProg2 onboard programmer/debugger with CMSIS-DAP mode and USB to UART/I2C bridge functionality
Perforated, modular snap-away board design
8V to 3.3V operation
PSoC® 6 Wi-Fi® BT Prototyping Kit
If your need is more towards WiFi, don’t worry: you haven’t been left out! The PSoC 6 Wi-Fi BT Prototyping Kit also features a modular, snap-away board design.
The modular features include a CY8CMOD-062-4343W daughter card, an industry-leading CapSense® card with touch buttons and slider, a KitProg3 on-board programmer/debugger, a microSD card, 512Mb Quad-SPI NOR flash, a PDM microphone, and a thermistor module. Also included is a Murata Type 1DX (LBEE5KL1DX) 2.4GHz WLAN and Bluetooth® module, based on the CYW4343W Single-Chip 802.11 b/g/n MAC/Baseband/Radio supporting Bluetooth 4.1.
Features
Cypress Semiconductor PSoC 62 Microcontroller
2MB flash and 1MB SRAM
150MHz Arm Cortex-M4, 100MHz Arm Cortex-M0+
Dedicated SDIO controller
Ultra-low 22μA/MHz power consumption
Murata LBEE5KL1DX 2.4GHz WLAN and Bluetooth Module based on Cypress Semiconductor CYW4343W SoC
11 b/g/n MAC/baseband/radio with Bluetooth 4.1
Integrated Power Amplifier (PA) for low-power handheld systems
Integrated Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) for best-in-class receiver sensitivity
On-board 512Mb QSPI NOR Flash Memory
MicroSD card interface
Micro-B connector for USB device interface
CapSense touch-sensing slider (5 elements), and two buttons, capable of self-capacitance (CSD) and mutual-capacitance (CSX) operation
KitProg3 onboard programmer/debugger with CMSIS-DAP mode and USB to UART/I2C bridge functionality
User LED, user button, plus reset button for PSoC 6 MCU
Mode switch and two status LEDs for KitProg3
8V to 3.3V operation
Software
Both boards can be used with Cypress' Eclipse-based Modus Toolbox Integrated Development Environment (IDE). There is full support for Windows®, macOS®, and Linux®.
Modus Toolbox provides developers with a sophisticated environment and Software Development Kit (SDK) libraries supporting easy system setup, wireless connectivity, power analysis, application-specific configurators for Bluetooth®Low Energy (BLE), CapSense®, as well as other peripherals.
Cypress also give you a ton of example programs to work from when you start out.
Happy Prototyping!
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Mark completed his Electronic Engineering degree in 1991 and worked in real-time digital signal processing applications engineering for a number of years, before moving into technical marketing.
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