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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, image sensors and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity solutions ranging from its WirelessUSB™ radio system-on-chip, 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, industrial, and solar power. Visit www.cypress.com for more information.

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PowerPSoC® 101: Introduction to the ArchitectureNew!
This module is course #1 of a series designed to provide the necessary training enabling you to quickly take advantage of the PSoC 3 and 5 programmable system-on-chips and get to market faster. This course focuses on the architecture and design flow of PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 devices, ending with an introductory digital design project.
PowerPSoC® 102: Introduction to System ResourcesNew!
This module is course #2 of the PSoC 3/5 series. It focuses on the system resources of the PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 devices, ending with an introductory analog design project.
PowerPSoC® 103: Introduction to Digital PeripheralsNew!
This module is course #3 of the PSoC 3/5 series. This module introduces the digital peripherals of PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 devices that can be implemented using PSoC Creator.
PowerPSoC® 104: Introduction to Analog PeripheralsNew!
This module is course #4 of the PSoC 3/5 series. This module introduces the analog peripherals of PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 devices that can be implemented using PSoC Creator.
PowerPSoC® 101: Intro to Power Converters
This course provides a detailed introduction to power converter design, including specific circuit elements, operating principles, topologies and transfer functions. The course ends with an introduction to the use of these power converters in several hardware control techniques.
PowerPSoC® 110: Power Converter Efficiency Analysis
This course provides instruction on how to build the most efficient power converters through an understanding of power loss, including non-idealities in circuit parameters and circuit parasitics.

Application Notes

Frequency Margining with Flexo: What it is and How it is Used - AN52133
The frequency margining capability built into Flexo devices helps to complete product designs quickly and with greater surety. You can reduce testing costs and time, and improve your product's performance.

User Interface - LCD Driver Based on the HT1621 Controller - AN2343
This Application Note describes implementation of a liquid crystal display (LCD) driver based on the widely available HOLTEK HT1621 LCD Controller. Methods and algorithms of display control are described and an API library is provided. The LCD used in this example was a customer's custom part. The proposed algorithms can be easily adapted to any custom LCD panel connected to the controller.

Power Supply Noise and Clock Generators - AN54019
This application note describes how power supply noise affects clock noise performance. It analyzes the noise sources and explains how to measure power supply noise and improve system performance by cleaning up noise at the source.

Implementing an Integrated DMX512 Receiver using the PowerPSoC™ Family - AN51891
This application note introduces PowerPSoC™ and the DMX512 communication standard. It describes the implementation of a DMX512 receiver using Cypress's PowerPSoC® family of devices. This device, with its integrated power peripherals, can control and drive HB-LED based light fixtures. This application note includes an example code and an example project for PSoC® Designer™.

Hysteresis Comparator with PSoC(R) (CY8C22x45) - AN50990
Correlated Double Sampling (CDS) is used to measure small, slowly changing analog signals in the presence of large volumes of low frequency (1/f) noise and DC offset. A type K thermocouple is used as an example.

Implementation of MPPT Solar Charge Controller with PowerPSoC® - AN54121
This application note details the implementation of low frequency RFID Card Reader based on CY8C24x23. The working principle of LF RFID card and CY8C24x23 are explained. The LF RFID card memory construction, the hardware schematic, and the firmware about data decoding algorithm are also described in detail.


Product Brochures

Cypress PSoC® Programmable System-on-Chip Brochure
The Cypress PSoC® brochure shows you how to discover the best solution for your most demanding embedded design challenges.

Cypress Memory Solutions Brochure
Cypress remains an optimal solution for a memory market characterized by a shrinking supplier base and dwindling product portfolios. This brochure covers the Cypress memory family: Synchronous SRAMs, Micropower SRAMs, Fast Asynchronous SRAMs, nonvolatile SRAMs, Multiport, FIFO and serial EEPROM memories.



Technical Reference Manuals

PSoC® CY8C20x24, CY8C20x34 Technical Reference Manual (TRM)
This document is a technical reference manual for the CY8C20x34 and CY8C20x24 family of PSoC® devices. To use this manual effectively, you must know how many digital rows and how many analog columns your PSoC® device has and be aware of your PSoC® device's distinctions (see the PSoC® Device Distinctions).

CY8C22x45, CY8C21345: PSoC® Programmable System-on-Chip™ Technical Reference Manual (TRM)
This document is a technical reference manual for all PSoCs with a base part number of CY8C2xxxx, except for the CY8C25122 and CY8C26xxx PSoC® devices. It also applies to CY7C64215, CY7C603xx, and CYWUSB6953.

PowerPSoC™ Intelligent LED Driver Technical Reference Manual (TRM)
This document contains Specifications for all devices in the CY8CLED0xx0x PowerPSoC® family of products.
The PowerPSoC™ family incorporates Programmable System-on-Chip™ technology with the best in class power electronics controllers and switching devices to create easy to use system-on-chip solutions for lighting applications.

enCoRe™ V and enCoRe™ V LV CY7C643xx and CY7C604xx Technical Reference Manual (TRM)
The enCoRe™ V family consists of many On-Chip Controller devices. The CY7C643xx and CY7C604xx enCoRe V devices have fixed analog and digital resources in addition to a fast CPU, Flash program memory, and SRAM data memory to support various algorithms.


White Papers

Multi-Touch All-Point Touchscreens: The Future of User Interface DesignNew!
The transparent nature of touchscreens enables a completely different user interaction with devices as the user directly "touches" the varied content within the display.

Touchscreens 101: Understanding Touchscreen Technology and DesignNew!
Embedded in phones, office equipment, speakers, digital photo frames, TV control buttons, remote controls, GPS systems, automotive keyless entry, and medical monitoring equipment, touchscreens are everywhere. As a component, they have reached into every industry, every product type, every size, and every application at every price point. Touchscreens are everywhere.

An Introduction to CY8C22x45
This whitepaper is a brief introduction to CY8C22x45, an enhanced product of CY8C21xxx PSoC® family.

Cypress′ CapSense Sigma-Delta Algorithm
CapSense Sigma Delta algorithm (CSD) is Cypress's latest capacitive sensing algorithm for the CY8C21x34 and CY8C24x94 PSoC(R) device family.

Squeeze More Code Into Your PSoC
New compiler technology effectively doubles the Flash on your existing PSoC® by achieving nearly twice the code density of existing compilers. By optimizing pointers, registers and stacks, it can also free up 10% to 15% of SRAM resources. With "omniscient code generation" (OCG) technology, you can keep growing that application in the PSoC® device you are currently using.


Developer Kits

PSoC3 FirstTouch Starter KitNew!
The PSoC® 3 FirstTouch™ Starter Kit is designed to get you acquainted with Cypress's PSoC programmable system-on-chip design methodology and architecture.

PSoC Development KitNew!
Cypress's PSoC® programmable system-on-chip architecture gives you the freedom to not only imagine revolutionary new products, but the capability to also get those products to market faster than anyone else.

CY3250 - ICE Pod Kit for Debugging 44TQFP CY8C22545 PSoCNew!
The CY3250-22545 emulation pod kit provides developers with a solution for debugging CY8C22545 projects.

CY3210-MINIPROG1 PSoC® Mini Programming and Evaluation KitNew!
This basic evaluation kit allows a user to program PSoC® devices via the MiniProg programming unit.

CY3268 PowerPSoC® Lighting Starter Kit
HB LED control and drive by a single chip; PSoC® Technology for creating custom analog and digital peripherals; Integrated CapSense™ Touch-Sensing functionality.

PSoC® CapSensePLUS with USB Evaluation Kit
This PSoC® CapSensePLUS Evaluation Kit features a development board for the CY8C24794-24LFXI PSoC® device. Special features of the board include both USB and capacitive touch sense development and debugging support.