Cypress Semiconductor has announced its highly integrated single-chip Bluetooth low energy solution, and is currently sampling with new packaging and temperature range options.
PSoC 4 BLE Programmable System-on-Chip and PRoC BLE Programmable Radio-on-Chip now have options in microsphere chip-scale packages (CSP) packages that are optimized to introduce Bluetooth smart connectivity into secure credit card applications. With a package thickness of only 0.38mm, this makes a reliable, fully Bluetooth-certified solution ideally suited to replace on-board chip devices.
Cypress also offers an extended industrial temperature range solution with an operating temperature range of -40C to + 105C. This ensures that industrial, automotive and lighting applications that must operate in extreme climates maintain consistent product performance over this temperature range. For the 128KB and 256KB flash versions of the PSoC 4 BLE and PRoC BLE solutions, microball CSP packages and extended industrial temperature options will be available. These new products are pin compatible with Cypress's original Bluetooth low energy solution, simplifying upgrades.
Jayant Somani, senior director of Bluetooth low energy products, said: "Bluetooth low energy is rapidly expanding its market reach, and Cypress is constantly innovating to meet the needs of a variety of emerging applications." "These new CSPs And temperature options bring the ease of use, programmability, and powerful low-power performance of PSoC 4 BLE and PRoC BLE solutions to a wider range of customers. "
Customizable Bluetooth low energy solutions for IoT applications, Home automation, wireless human-machine interface (HID), remote control, medical devices, sports and fitness monitors, and other wearable smart devices provide unprecedented ease of use and integration. PRoC BLE is a Bluetooth smart microcontroller with Cypress's industry-leading CapSense capacitive touch sensing capabilities, while PSoC 4 BLE provides extended design versatility by adding intelligent analog and programmable digital modules. Both solutions integrate Bluetooth Smart Radio, a high-performance 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 core with ultra-low-power mode, up to 256KB of flash memory, 36 GPIOs and customizable serial communication modules, timers and counters. In addition,
In addition, Cypress also offers a compact Bluetooth Smart EZ-BLE PRoC module, which integrates PRoC BLE, two crystals, an on-chip chip antenna, a metal shield and passive components, all in a compact 10mm x 10mm x 1.8 mm package size. It includes Bluetooth 4.1 certification and global regulatory certification, which greatly simplifies design and reduces time to market. Cypress is the sole supplier of chip, software, firmware and module hardware, streamlining the customer support needed to develop remote control, health and fitness equipment, home appliances, toys and other wireless applications. This combination of technologies provides unparalleled system value for Bluetooth Smart products, with extended battery life, customizable sensing capabilities, and a stylish, intuitive user interface.
Designers seeking to create Bluetooth Smart products must often use software tools from multiple vendors and develop complex firmware to meet wireless specifications. Cypress has abstracted the Bluetooth Low Energy protocol stack and configuration files as royalty-free, GUI-based BLE components that can be dragged and dropped into the design using Cypress's PSoC Creator Integrated Design Environment (IDE). PSoC Creator enables a complete system design with a single tool, greatly reducing 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 offers the $ 49 CY8CKIT-042-BLE development kit, which allows users to easily access Bluetooth low energy devices while maintaining the design size of the PSoC 4 Pioneer kit. The development kit includes a USB Bluetooth low energy dongle, which is paired with the CySmart main simulation tool to convert a designer's Windows PC into a Bluetooth low energy debugging environment. Cypress also offers two ready-to-run reference design kits (RDKs) that enable customers to get to market faster: the CY5672 remote control RDK and the CY5682 touch mouse RDK.
