Which PSoC for my project?

[Anonymous]

 Hello Everyone,

   

I have just finished designing and building a tangentially tracking tone arm for LP record players.

   

The next thing to do is to design the electronic servo that controls the motion of the tone arm.

   

I am attaching a PDF of a block diagram to show how I intend to accomplish the above.

   

My questions are:

   

1) Should this be done with a micro processor and which one?

   

2) Which development kit should I buy?

   

3) Should I be proficient in the programming laguage? (I'm not!)

   

4) Is there a glossary available, of the jargon associated with micro processors, such as FIFO, UART, etc.?

   

I am familiar with basic electronics even though I have never actually designed any circuits.

   

At one point during my professional life I designed tape transports for a manufacturer of professional studio tape machines.

   

That included electronic packaging and taping of printed circuit boards.

   

I am mentionig all that to show that I am not a stranger to the industry.

   

I am hoping that this post is the beginning of a series of helpful information so that I may finish my project.

   

Sincerely,

   

Ralf

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1) Should this be done with a micro processor and which one?

       

Yes, looks like a PSOC 4 would be appropriate. If you need com with

   

a PC then PSOC 5 for USB.

       

2) Which development kit should I buy?

       

CY8CKIT-001 or CY8CKIT-042

       

3) Should I be proficient in the programming laguage? (I'm not!)

       

C certainly a basic level of understanding.

       

4) Is there a glossary available, of the jargon associated with micro processors, such as FIFO, UART, etc.?

       

The web has many, google "web glossary hi tech".

       

Below a number of projects already done with motor drive.

           

Regards, Dana.

               

 PSOC 4 element14.com

                                           

S No Date Project Title 1 01-May-2013 Simple Blinking LED 2 02-May-2013 CapSense Slider Example 3 03-May-2013 PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit Annotation Library 4 06-May-2013 USB-UART utility 5 07-May-2013 USB-I2C Utility 6 08-May-2013 Danger Shield with Light Sensor Control 7 09-May-2013 Danger Shield with 7-segment display 8 10-May-2013 Danger Shield Buzzer of Doom 9 13-May-2013 Graphics LCD Display 10 14-May-2013 LCD - Rotating Cube Demo 11 15-May-2013 GLCD Paddle Game 12 16-May-2013 Pioneer Board Oscilloscope 13 17-May-2013 CapSense Button & LED Control with Bridge Control Panel 14 20-May-2013 What was the value? - LED Memory Example 15 21-May-2013 CapSense Proximity Detection 16 22-May-2013 Proximity Theremin 17 23-May-2013 2-Channel OScope with GraphicsLCD 18 24-May-2013 'Catch the Shells' Game with ColorLCD Shield 19 28-May-2013 LED Memory! Part Deux. Just Deux it! 20 29-May-2013 Starter Designs 21 30-May-2013 Fractional Frequency Synthesizer 22 31-May-2013 “Kill The Ghost” Game 23 03-Jun-2013 tinyprintf Example 24 04-Jun-2013 XBee Router Loopback Example 25 05-Jun-2013 XBee Direct IO 26 06-Jun-2013 XBee API RxTx Example 27 07-Jun-2013 XBee RGB CapSense Control 28 10-Jun-2013 “WiFi? Why Not!” Arduino WiFi Shield Example 29 11-Jun-2013 Bluetooth Home Automation System 30 12-Jun-2013 Bluetooth with GLCD 31 13-Jun-2013 Ethernet Shield 32 14-Jun-2013 More Relay! 33 17-Jun-2013 Sweet Music Everywhere! MIDI Shield 34 18-Jun-2013 Resistive Touch Example 35 19-Jun-2013 UART, I2C, and SPI Joystick Example 36 20-Jun-2013 What? I can use the PSoC 5LP too? 37 21-Jun-2013 PSoC With Friends! Word Scramble Game 38 24-Jun-2013 Ultrasonic Distance Measurement 39 25-Jun-2013 Two PWMs for the price of one 40 26-Jun-2013 Pioneer PnP Sensors 41 27-Jun-2013 Thermistor Example 42 28-Jun-2013 Hangman Game 43 01-Jul-2013 Rise of the Machines (Rolling Robot) 44 02-Jul-2013 Run Away Run Away! (Proximity Robot) 45 03-Jul-2013 Stepper Motor Example 46 05-Jul-2013 “Paint The Night” Accelerometer Example 47 08-Jul-2013 Obstacle Avoider Robot 48 09-Jul-2013 Walk The Line! Robot Example 49 11-Jul-2013 Android Device Controlled Robot 50 12-Jul-2013 SD Card Example

S No Date Project Title 51 15-Jul-2013 Music Player 52 16-Jul-2013 Strike A Pose! Digital Camera 53 17-Jul-2013 PSoC Eye 54 18-Jul-2013 Custom Component 4x4 Keypad 55 19-Jul-2013 Parallel to Serial UDB Component 56 22-Jul-2013 Accelerometer Level 57 23-Jul-2013 Digital Audio From A Single Pin 58 24-Jul-2013 An Introduction to Processing 59 25-Jul-2013 But Wait There’s More! Single PWM with 3 Outputs 60 26-Jul-2013 PSoC 4 Mini-Billboard 61 29-Jul-2013 Nokia 5110 LCD Interface 62 30-Jul-2013 Ready…Set…GO! PSoC Stopwatch 63 31-Jul-2013 Some Like it Hot! PSoC Thermostat 64 01-Aug-2013 Workspace Organization using PSoC Theromostat 65 02-Aug-2013 New to PSoC or the Pioneer Kit? START HERE! 66 05-Aug-2013 LED Blinky Revisited 67 06-Aug-2013 PSoC 4 Getting Started Lab 1 (LED Blinky) 68 07-Aug-2013 PSoC 4 Getting Started Lab 2 (PWM LED) 69 08-Aug-2013 PSoC 4 Getting Started Lab 3 (CapSense UART) 70 09-Aug-2013 PSoC 4 Getting Started Lab 4 (ADC) 71 12-Aug-2013 Get Your Motor Runnin’! 72 13-Aug-2013 TFT Touchscreen Shield 73 14-Aug-2013 TFT Touchscreen Tic-Tac-Toe Game 74 15-Aug-2013 PSoC Creator Training 110 75 16-Aug-2013 PSoC Creator Training 111                                           76 19-Aug-2013 PSoC Creator Training 112 77 20-Aug-2013 PSoC Creator Training 113 78 21-Aug-2013 PSoC Creator Training 210 79 22-Aug-2013 PSoC Creator Training 211 80 23-Aug-2013 PSoC Creator Training 212/213/214 81 26-Aug-2013 NFC/RFID Shield 82 27-Aug-2013 RFID Reader and Writer Project #2 83 28-Aug-2013 Raspberry Pi Integration 84 29-Aug-2013 State Machines in PSoC 4 85 30-Aug-2013 UART Bootloader in PSoC 4 86 03-Sep-2013 GPS Algorithm 87 04-Sep-2013 Gas Sensor Example 88 05-Sep-2013 Simulation of Gas Sensor Example 89 06-Sep-2013 GPS Example 90 09-Sep-2013 Comparator Example 91 10-Sep-2013 Infrared Remote Control 92 11-Sep-2013 Serial Communications Examples 93 12-Sep-2013 4 Channel Multiplexed Comparator 94 13-Sep-2013 Opamp Dynamic Gain 95 16-Sep-2013 Hibernate and Stop Power Modes 96 17-Sep-2013 P4 Light Sensor Project Design 97 18-Sep-2013 Rice Cooker 98 19-Sep-2013 Thermal Printer 99 20-Sep-2013 I2C Pass Though 'Smart Wire' 100 23-Sep-2013 PSoC 4 Time Square Billboard

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Video training -

       

Start with PSOC 101 series

               

http://www.cypress.com/?id=1162&source=home_support     Video Training

       

Download Creator IDE -

               

http://www.cypress.com/psoccreator/     Creator

       

If you decided to hire assistance -

               

http://www.cypress.com/?id=1088     Cypros

                   

 Regards, Dana.

[Anonymous]

 Thank you very much Dana,

   

Quote: Yes, looks like a PSOC 4 would be appropriate. If you need com with

   

a PC then PSOC 5 for USB.

       

Does a lower PSoC number mean an older design, likely to become obsolete soon?

   

Would the CY8CKIT-050 be ok to use?

       

Sincerely,

       

Ralf

[Bob_Marlowe]

The numbering has nothing to do with obsoleting a PSoC family

   

PSoC1: No new family members will be created

   

PSoC3: Core is a 8051 which looks old, so customers will decide

   

PSoC4: Newest design, core is an ARM M0, new members are anounces and come frequently

   

PSoC5: Most performant family so far, Core is an ARM M3

       

The prices for the development kits and prototyping boards are very low. So you have the choice to design on a $100 development kit and later using a $10  prototyping board for the PSoC5 family. The same constellation for a PSoC4 is a $25 Pioneer kit and a $4 Prototyping board. So why not spend the money to get hands on all of these.

   

Start with the CY8C-050, the CY8C-059 will come out within two weeks, the Pioneer Kit will ship soon as a modified -M version, so buy them when they are on the market.

       

Bob

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Here is current roadmap -

           

          http://www.cypress.com/?rID=95931

       

Regards, Dana.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

PSoC 1	PSoC 3	PSoC 4	PSoC 5
8-bit M8C core	8-bit 8051 core (single-cycle)	32-bit ARM Cortex-M0	32-bit ARM Cortex-M3
up to 24 MHz, 4 MIPS	up to 67 MHz, 33 MIPS	up to 48 MHz, 0.9 DMIPS/MHz	up to 67 MHz, 84 MIPS
Flash: 4 KB to 32 KB	Flash: 8 KB to 64 KB	Flash: 16 KB to 32 KB	Flash: 32 KB to 256 KB
SRAM: 256 bytes to 2 KB	SRAM: 3 KB to 8 KB	SRAM: 2 KB to 4 KB	SRAM: 8 KB to 64 KB
8 x 8 MAC	24 bit Digital Filter Block	32 x 32 single cycle	24 bit Digital Filter Block
Switch Cap Filters, BP, LP, HP…DTMF generation
I²C, SPI, UART, One Wire, LIN, FS USB 2.0, Powerline	I²C, SPI, UART, LIN, FS USB 2.0, I²S, CAN	I²C, SPI, UART	I²C, SPI, UART, LIN, FS USB 2.0, I²S
		.
1 Delta-Sigma ADC (6 to 14-bit), 131 ksps @ 8-bit, also SAR	1 Delta-Sigma ADC (8 to 20-bit), 192 ksps @12-bit	1 SAR ADC (12-bit), 1 Msps @ 12-bit;	1 Delta-Sigma ADC (8 to 20-bit), 192 ksps @12-bit, 2 SAR ADCs (12-bit) 1 Msps @ 12-bit;
Up to four DACs (6 to 9-bit)	Up to four DACs (8-bit)	Up to two DACs (7 to 8-bit)	Up to four DACs (8-bit)
Up to 64 I/O	Up to 72 I/O	Up to 36 I/O	Up to 72 I/O
Operation: 1.7 V to 5.25 V	Operation: 0.5 V to 5.5 V	Operation: 1.71 V to 5.5 V	Operation: 2.7 V to 5.5 V
Active: 2 mA, Sleep: 3 μA, Hibernate: ?	Active: 1.2 mA, Sleep: 1 μA, Hibernate: 200 nA	Active: 1.6 mA, Sleep: 1.3 μA, Hibernate: 150 nA	Active: 2 mA, Sleep: 2 μA, Hibernate: 300 nA
Requires ICE Cube and FlexPods		On-chip SWD, Debug	On-chip JTAG, SWD, SWV, Debug, Trace
CY8CKIT-001 Development Kit	CY8CKIT-001 Development Kit	CY8CKIT-040 Pioneer Kit	CY8CKIT-001 Development Kit
	CY8CKIT-030 Development Kit	CY8CKIT-042 Pioneer Kit	CY8CKIT-050 Development Kit
		CY8CKIT-049 Prototype Kit

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Key (not all) kits -