rickman wrote: # So now they have a tool that they can claim eliminates writing code. I # have only seen that once before in my career and that was a full page # ad in Byte magazine some 20+ years ago. I never saw anything further # from that company. :^)
:)
# I have been pursuing info on the new PSOC3 chips and I am pretty sure I # have the straight scoop on it now. They will be coming out with two # new PSOC3 lines, one with an 8051 type CPU and one with an ARM # Cortex-M3 CPU.
Interesting - seems Cypress have not bought into the "Cortex M3 replacing 8 bit uC" spin, from ARM :) Cypress doing this sounds more similar to Freescale's push, which is more than one core choice, but more common peripherals.
# Both lines will have the new, NEA (no excuses analog) # programmable blocks.
Oh dear, who makes up these names. Last time I looked at a PSoC analog block, it really did look like an Analog bock done in a digital process : a long way from high performance Analog. I prefer my Analog Blocks to be fully specified, - the buck has to stop somewhere, and names like NEA sound like the triumph of optimisim over experience
# I hope they can also improve on the digital # blocks. I have a small, 10 input multiplexer that I would like to # implement in the PSOC instead of having to add a CPLD. But the current # PSOC can't really do this.
CPLD + uC is a tough target. The uPSDs have this, and there was talk of a 32 MCell CPLD variant, but that never appeared, and they offer versions spec'd with NO cpld at all, to avoid scaring off users who do not want to use a CPLD.
# Don't hold your breath for the PSOC3 parts. They are still banging on # the keyboard writing the upfront documentation, so samples may be # available a year from now.
That's a long way out. Freescale will have their Simplified Coldfire by then, and maybe SiLabs will have entered the 32 bit realm by then as well.
-jg