The PSoC 4 L-Series is suited for industrial and consumer applications, leveraging the flexibility of the PSoC architecture to address multiple product variations and Cypress’s CapSense capacitive touch-sensing technology to implement reliable and elegant user interfaces.
John Weil, vice president of MCU marketing at Cypress, said: “The PSoC 4 L-Series introduces capabilities such as dual-mutual CapSense blocks with up to 94 channels for large, capacitive-touch home appliance applications and USB and programmable digital blocks to create bit-perfect digital audio solutions. Additionally, it provides all the resources needed to create new products for the emerging USB Type-C market.”
The PSoC 4 L-Series delivers up to 13 programmable analogue blocks including four high-performance opamps, four current-output digital-to-analogue converters, two low-power comparators, a 12-bit SAR ADC and dual CapSense blocks with up to 94 capacitive-sensing channels. The programmable analogue blocks are said to enable engineers to create on-chip, custom analogue front ends to support end-product features, without increasing product costs, size or power consumption.
The PSoC 4 L-Series delivers up to 20 programmable digital blocks including eight timer/counter/PWM blocks, four serial communication blocks and eight Universal Digital Blocks (UDBs). UDBs can be configured as coprocessors to offload compute-intensive tasks from the ARM Cortex-M0 core. The blocks are also said to enable engineers to implement custom digital peripherals, state machines or glue logic.
The PSoC 4 architecture is complemented by the PSoC Creator Integrated Design Environment (IDE), which is claimed to simplify system design and accelerates time-to-market by enabling concurrent hardware and firmware design.
The PSoC 4 L-Series will be available in 48-pin TQFP, 64-pin TQFP, 68-pin QFN and 124-pin VFBGA packages.
