Thumbdrive kit eases PSoC array evaluation

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Sep 13, 2007

The PSoC FirstTouch Starter Kit provides designers with CapSense touch, temperature, light and CapSense proximity sensing right out of the box.

Cypress Semiconductor has released the PSoC FirstTouch Starter Kit, a USB thumbdrive kit that provides a quick, easy, and affordable way for embedded customers to evaluate the integration, flexibility, and real mixed-signal programmability of PSoC mixed-signal arrays.

Without writing or debugging a single line of C or Assembly code, the PSoC FirstTouch Starter Kit, working with Cypress' PSoC Express visual embedded system design tool, provides designers with CapSense touch, temperature, light and CapSense proximity sensing right out of the box.

Customers can also experiment with many more designs available on the Cypress website, or build their own in minutes via PSoC Express.

They can also add all of this functionality directly to their own development systems via the detachable expansion card.

The PSoC FirstTouch Starter Kit includes two small boards, a main system board that interfaces with a computer over USB and a detachable multifunction expansion card.

The expansion card includes inputs and outputs for the many applications supported by the kit.

"The FirstTouch Kit is a convenient, inexpensive vehicle for designers to experience the flexibility of the PSoC family, both in terms of our mixed-signal programmability and through the plethora of embedded designs", said Geoff Charubin, Vice President of Global Marketing and Applications for Cypress.

"We encourage designers of embedded systems, no matter what their level of experience, to visit our website and try the FirstTouch Kit".