A friend of mine used to make a sell speech chips turned me on to them. I went to a class hosted by a Cypress vendor a couple of years ago. I was excited by the

A friend of mine used to make a sell speech chips turned me on to them. I went to a class hosted by a Cypress vendor a couple of years ago. I was excited by the potential for mixed digital and analog designs. Unfortunately, their development tool chain really let me down. After a couple of updates it stopped working and no amount of registry cleaning or re-installing would fix it. Apparently, I wasn't the only one who had problems: http://failheap-challenge.com/showthread.php?4488-My-rant-about-Cypress-PSoC-s http://failheap-challenge.com/showthread.php?4488-My-rant-ab... "Designer was a great system for making PSoC's do shit, it worked quite well. Lately though, it's gone to hell leading to some wild speculation around the office of outsourcing, disgruntled employees, corporate favoritism, or a combination thereof. It's gotten to the point where Designer won't even install on my dev system, and it only actually STARTS on one machine in the office."