With the release of their PSoC 4 BLE kit,ย Cypress is doing something intriguing. We spoke withย Gagan Luthra from Cypress Semiconductorย about the Cypress PSoC range and the projects they’ve brought here to Maker Faire.
If youโve been using a combination of different boards in your project โ perhaps an Arduino, or one of the many Arduino-compatible boards, in combination with a Raspberry Piย alongsideย a Bluetooth LE (BLE)ย board or USB dongle โ then the PSoC 4 BLE should be of interest to you.
If youโre a Maker, one of the first things youโll notice when you pullย the boards that come with the kit out of theirย packaging is that the baseboard comes with Arduino-compatible headers. While itโs not going to be software compatible with your Arduino shields, you do have hardware compatibility, which means that a lot of your existing prototyping hardware can get reused with the new board.
However, the real advantage of the PSoC 4 BLE module is when it comes off the baseboard โ when you start putting together your own PCBsย to carry the module, or go further and take the PSoC chip off its board entirely. Thatโs because the PSoC is probably the only chip around that has the MCU, a BLE radio, four OpAmps, two comparators, an IDAC, a SAR ADC capable of 12 MSpS, and programmable digital logic all integrated into a single piece of silicon.
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