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That’s a rather good article. I will digest that today. I’m currently using Cypress’s PSoC line (4200M boards) for a couple of personal projects. The reconfigu

by cjsuk 9y ago

That’s a rather good article. I will digest that today. I’m currently using Cypress’s PSoC line (4200M boards) for a couple of personal projects. The reconfigurable hardware and analogue parts actually kill a lot of external hardware. It’s pretty amazing and ridiculously cheap. Visual Studio is the IDE for this. https://uk.rs-online.com/mobile/p/processor-microcontroller-development-kits/1244185/ https://uk.rs-online.com/mobile/p/processor-microcontroller-... Note: don’t just jump into these if you think it’s just a better Arduino as the learning curve is extreme. You really have to know your stuff before you open the box.

joezydeco 9y ago
PSoC is an underrated line of parts. Now that they've dropped the wacky 8051-alike used in the older models and switched to ARM, there's a lot more you can do with these things.
- jason_s 9y ago
  hope the development toolchain is better than it was 6 or 7 years ago... I wanted to look into PSoC but couldn't figure out how to blink an LED after a few hours of messing around with it, so I gave up. And I'm not a beginner; I've had 22 years of microcontroller experience.
  - joezydeco 9y ago
    It's still heavily dependent on the IDE, but at least you're not bound to the compilers that were used 6 or 7 years ago. The better compiler of the two was bought by Microchip and subsequently abandoned/crippled-on-purpose for the PSoC instruction set.
05 9y ago
£8 is not even close to 'ridiculously cheap', compared to, say, Cortex-M0 STM32 boards for $1.5 with free shipping https://www.ebay.com/itm/1PCS-STM32F030F4P6-ARM-CORTEX-M0-Core-Minimum-System-Dev-Board-for-Arduino/182216811895?epid=556113683&hash=item2a6cf7e577:g:aDAAAOSwSv1Xkte~ https://www.ebay.com/itm/1PCS-STM32F030F4P6-ARM-CORTEX-M0-Co...
- cjsuk 9y ago
  Yeah you can indeed. But that £8 includes next day courier delivery (which is free), a phone number you can actually call and talk to someone instantly, materials and tutorials on their web site and product support. They do a slightly lesser dev board for £3 as well. Hell I can order a £0.20 resistor and get it next day!

by cjsuk 9y ago

joezydeco 9y ago

PSoC is an underrated line of parts. Now that they've dropped the wacky 8051-alike used in the older models and switched to ARM, there's a lot more you can do with these things.

jason_s 9y ago
hope the development toolchain is better than it was 6 or 7 years ago... I wanted to look into PSoC but couldn't figure out how to blink an LED after a few hours of messing around with it, so I gave up. And I'm not a beginner; I've had 22 years of microcontroller experience.
- joezydeco 9y ago
  It's still heavily dependent on the IDE, but at least you're not bound to the compilers that were used 6 or 7 years ago. The better compiler of the two was bought by Microchip and subsequently abandoned/crippled-on-purpose for the PSoC instruction set.

05 9y ago

£8 is not even close to 'ridiculously cheap', compared to, say, Cortex-M0 STM32 boards for $1.5 with free shipping https://www.ebay.com/itm/1PCS-STM32F030F4P6-ARM-CORTEX-M0-Core-Minimum-System-Dev-Board-for-Arduino/182216811895?epid=556113683&hash=item2a6cf7e577:g:aDAAAOSwSv1Xkte~ https://www.ebay.com/itm/1PCS-STM32F030F4P6-ARM-CORTEX-M0-Co...

cjsuk 9y ago
Yeah you can indeed. But that £8 includes next day courier delivery (which is free), a phone number you can actually call and talk to someone instantly, materials and tutorials on their web site and product support. They do a slightly lesser dev board for £3 as well. Hell I can order a £0.20 resistor and get it next day!