I had to interface motor-controllers with CAN, CANopen to be specific. The Name CANopen suggests that this is some kind of open standard with tons of free Stacks and documentation, right? No, not at all. I had a hard time implementing a own CANopen-Stack on a PSoC 5LP. I want to change these circumstances by … Read more
Modern microcontrollers have advanced memory systems such as SRAM, DRAM and also Flash on chip. Because of the limited write-cycles of Flash and the fact that you usally have to write big chunks of data at once, writing non volatile data to the flash is usually a bad idea. When I had a more detailed … Read more
Getting in touch with the PSoC 5 had been an expensive mission in the past. The development kit is around 100USD and if you order it with shipping, taxes etc… better don’t ask… The difference between the PSoC 5 and the PSoC 4 is that the PSoC 5 is using a Cortex M3 while the … Read more
I received the new bluetooth low energy pioneer kit from cypress and want to write a bit about what it is and how to get started with it. The chips in this kit are designed to make the Internet of things (IoT) happen by connecting everything to everything. An example is your dishwasher which is … Read more
After finishing the introduction into State Machines I wanted to come up with a implementation on a real device (I don’t own an FPGA so far). At the electronica I visited the Cypress booth and they showed me how to create own user componentes. The process looked very simple and indeed it is, at least … Read more
While I contributed to Active Games at Frankfurt University this year I digged a bit deeper into the capabilities of Cypress PSoC 4. I already played a bit with the capsense feature to realize touch-buttons or sliders. This time I went for the proximity sensor. I started by connecting a single wire to the PSoC4 and enable … Read more