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20th anniversary of PSoC™
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the PSoC™ programmable system-on-chip. Over the last 20 years, more than 4 billion products with PSoC™ have shipped to the market, but for Infineon, we are just getting started.
Infineon technology has the power to change the world. From connected devices to autonomous vehicles to smart homes, Infineon's solutions help make our lives more comfortable, safer and greener. Infineon's PSoC™ microcontroller family has been powering people's lives for over 20 years. Please see here for the detail.
Infineon PSoC™ Latest Family
Introducing the Infineon PSoC™ 6 Microcontroller Family
The PSoC™ microcontroller line-up forms an important part of Infineon's 32-bit MCU portfolio. Based on Arm® Cortex®-M processor cores and high-performance programmable and analog blocks, PSoC™ is one of the most programmable embedded SoCs in the world.
Launched in 2002, PSoC™ 1 ushered in a new era of microcontrollers by combining an industry-standard microcontroller architecture with programmable and reconfigurable analog and digital capabilities. Flexible and configurable analog and digital capabilities enable embedded system engineers to incorporate multiple hardware circuit functions within a single IC. This integrated approach significantly reduces BOM cost and board area and virtually eliminates board rework by enabling last-minute design changes to be addressed in a quick and convenient manner. became.
Today, PSoC™ continues to have programmability, allowing, for example, the ability to design analog front-ends and signal conditioning circuits for new sensor elements. This eliminates the need for adding analog ICs, complicating the BOM, and increasing board area and layers. Universal Digital Blocks (UDBs) feature multiple logic primitives that can be configured to implement application-specific gating requirements or state machines that operate independently of the PSoC™ MCU core.
The PSoC™ family currently consists of two series, PSoC™ 4 and PSoC™ 6. These series serve a wide range of consumer applications including home automation, wearables and personal medical devices.
PSoC™ 6 - IoT-focused MCU
PSoC™ 6 employs Arm's ultra-low power architecture at the 40 nm process node. Power consumption in active power mode is only 22 µA/MHz. The 150 MHz Arm Cortex-M4 and 100 MHz Arm Cortex-M0+ dual-core architecture allows embedded developers to optimize their applications in terms of power consumption and computing performance. Powered by industry-leading security, Arm's Platform Security Architecture (PSA), PSoC™ is truly built for the IoT.
PSoC™ addresses IoT requirements for processing performance, wireless connectivity, and low-power reliability by bridging the gap between expensive, power-hungry application processors and resource-constrained microcontrollers.
The PSoC™ 6 MCUs also feature Infineon's state-of-the-art CAPSENSE™ capacitive sensing technology, the latest generation. CAPSENSE™ enables developers to design robust, reliable, innovative and intuitive multi-touch and gesture-based HMI interfaces. In addition to its built-in BLE support, PSoC™ 6 can be paired with Infineon's companion ICs AIROC™ Wi-Fi, AIROC™ Bluetooth, or AIROC™ Combo radio modules.
The PSoC™ 6 SoC MCU family has a standard feature set available across all series as well as some series-specific features. All are capable of low-power operation from 1.7 VDC to 3.6 VDC and offer six power modes for fine-grained power management. A deep-sleep mode reduces current consumption to 7 μA while retaining 64 KB of SRAM.
PSoC™ 6 common feature set
・DMA controller: 2 or 3
Flash memory: typically up to 2048 KB, exact capacity varies by product
・External memory interface: Quad-SPI (QSPI) and serial memory interface (SMIF)
CAPSENSE™: Uses Infineon's capacitive touch and proximity sensing Sigma-Delta technology for the best signal-to-noise ratio in its class, with SmartSense automatic hardware tuning
・Serial communication peripheral interface
7 or 9 configurable run-time serial communication blocks (SCB), 6 or 8 SPI, I 2 Contains 1 deep-sleep SCB configurable as C, UART, and configurable as SPI or I2C
・USB full speed device interface
・SD host/eMMC/SD controller
・Programmable general purpose pins (GPIO): Depending on the product, usually 62 to 102 pins, some can be used during MCU deep sleep, up to 2 overvoltage tolerant pins
・Programmable analog functions
・12-bit 2 Msps successive approximation type (SAR) analog/digital converter (ADS), differential/single-ended mode, 16-channel sequencer (with result averaging function)
Two low-power comparators, both available in MCU deep sleep and hibernate modes
・Internal temperature sensor connected to ADC
・Various clock options are available, including an 8 MHz main oscillator with ±2% accuracy, an ultra-high output 32 kHz low-speed oscillator, and an on-chip crystal oscillator. Multiplication by internal PLL is possible, and the main clock can be multiplied by FLL (Frequency Locked Loop). Divider has both fractional division type and integer division type functions
Timer and PWM functions include over 12 configurable time, counter, and pulse width modulators (TCPWM) with center-aligned, edge, and pseudo-random modes
・Maximum 63 segments, 8 commons, LCD segment driver capable of deep sleep operation
・Cryptographic accelerators for symmetric/asymmetric cryptographic functions (DES, TDES, AES, CRC, RSA/ECC) and true random number generators (TRNG)
PSoC™ 61 Series Entry Level Line General Purpose Programmable Arm Cortex-M4 Microcontroller
In addition to the above, the PSoC™ 61 programmable product line includes Flash memory from 256 KB to 2048 KB, SRAM from 128 KB to 1024 KB, and programmable GPIO pins from 62 to 102. Although PSoC™ 61 uses a dual-core architecture, only the Arm Cortex-M4 core is accessible to applications, and the Arm Cortex-M0+ is reserved for internal system functions. Product-specific features include audio I2S interface (PDM/PCM), CAN-FD serial interface, digital-to-analog (DAC), two operational amplifiers with low-power operation, CAN-FD, and 12-bit DAC doing. PSoC™ 61 is offered in BGA, TQFP, QFN and WLCSP packages.
PSoC™ 62 Series Performance Line - General Purpose Dual-Core Programmable Microcontrollers
This PSoC™ microcontroller product allows access to both Cortex-M4 and Cortex-M0+ cores. The logic operation of the core is user-selectable at either 0.9 V or 1.1 V, providing excellent active current consumption operation at low voltages. The current consumption of the Cortex-M4 at 1.1 V operation is typically 40 μA/MHz, dropping to 22 μA/MHz at 0.9 V operation. Corex-M0+ reduces to 20 µA/MHz at 1.1 V and 15 µA/MHz at 0.9 V. Audio, CAN-FD, DAC, Opamp blocks are device dependent.
Represents a CY8C62x4/CY8C62x6 microcontroller in a touch-sensing intelligent home heating controller. The part contains two op amps configured as analog front ends for multiplexed 12-bit SAR-based ADCs. Programmable analog and digital functions minimize BOM. Infineon's Wi-Fi wireless ICs provide secure wireless connectivity to the Internet, enabling remote control and over-the-air (OTA) firmware update capabilities.
PSoC™ 63 Series Connectivity Line - machine learning enabled microcontroller with Bluetooth low energy (BLE) transceiver highly optimized for IoT applications
The PSoC™ 63 line represents an IoT innovation that balances high performance and low power consumption. With the programmable and reconfigurable features of PSoC™, security, and BLE connectivity, PSoC™ 63 has everything you need to design feature-rich connected IoT devices.
PSoC™ 64 Series Security Line - Dual-core, high-performance, low-power programmable and reconfigurable microcontrollers, secure processing environment
The PSoC™ 64 line has it all. Combining the ultra-low power, programmable and optimized PSoC™ 6 architecture with comprehensive security features, the PSoC™ 64 line is the benchmark for IoT MCUs. Built-in security features include hardware-based root of trust (RoT), immutable secure boot firmware, and hardware-isolated keys.
Learn more about Infineon's PSoC™ 6 product portfolio, view datasheets, access application notes and download technical reference manuals here.
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Development secret story... In the late 1980s, Cypress had a line of CPLDs (Complex Programmable Logic Devices) using SONOS (Silicon Oxide Nitride Oxide Semiconductor) type process technology. In addition to its line of CPLDs, Cypress has developed mouse control ICs using the SONOS process, followed by USB controllers. At the core of these ASICs is the microcontroller (MCU). With the rapid spread of USB-connected PC peripherals and graphic interfaces, the demand for such ASICs has grown significantly. Memory devices were also a major Cypress product. |
Cypress (Infineon since April 2020) launched its first Programmable System-on-Chip (PSoC™) at a time when 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) were saturating the market, but into a rapidly growing market Cypress made a bold move to gain a foothold in Rather than going head-to-head with a wide-ranging competitor, PSoC™ 1 incorporates a key differentiator: programmable analog and digital capabilities. |