Cypress PSoC 5LP Prototyping Kit Measurement Electronics: hardware and software

Nowadays both developers and hobbyists designing various electronic devices and systems have a lot of opportunities to realize their ideas and thoughts. This book is dedicated to one of the popular and powerful development tools from Cypress Semiconductors, CY8CKIT-059 PSoC 5LP Prototyping Kit, which allows to greatly simplify design of electronic circuitry.

This kit includes CY8C5888LTI-LP097 device from the PSoC 5LP family which is the industry’s most integrated programmable SoC, combining high-precision and programmable analog and digital peripherals with an ARM® Cortex®-M3 CPU in a single chip. Developers and hobbyists can build complicated embedded systems using the Programmable Analog Blocks including op-amps, PGAs, filters, comparators, SAR and Delta-Sigma analog-to-digital converters. Combined with the free PSoC Creator 3.3 IDE, the PSoC 5LP Prototyping Kit enables developers to create unique designs powered by the PSoC 5LP Programmable System-on-Chip.

This book is thought as a highly practical guide which can help a developer to build various electronic circuits, measurement and control systems. Each project allows to understand various theoretical and practical aspects of design using PSoC 5LP. The material of the book assumes that the readers are familiar, at least, with basics of designing and assembling electronic circuits. For most projects having some basic skills in electronics will serve the readers well and allow them to understand what is going on behind the scenes. Each project is accompanied by a detailed description of hardware and software which helps to make things clear.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Disclaimer
• PSoC 5LP Prototyping Kit details
• Interfacing PSoC 5LP Prototyping Kit to the PC via an USB-to-UART adapter
• Developing a C# control application for the PSoC 5LP Prototyping Kit
• Designing the application with PWM controlled by UART
• Designing the application with the timer controlled by UART
• Processing signals from mechanical switches
• Processing several digital inputs at a time
• The sine wave synthesizer using a timer and digital-to-analog converter
• Measuring analog signals with a SAR analog-to-digital converter
• High-precision measurements of analog signals with a Delta-Sigma A/D converter
• Processing multiple analog signals using a Delta-Sigma A/D converter
• Designing the Pulse-Width Modulator using digital and analog components
• Designing the simple measurement system with an analog temperature sensor
• Designing programmable external circuits with digital potentiometers
• Designing small signal AC amplifiers
• Measuring the frequency of digital signals: project 1
• Measuring the frequency of digital signals: project 2
• Measuring a pulse width of digital signals