In-depth testing: Avenue to Jane - Cypress PSoC 4000S CapSense Prototyping Kit Reviews (2)

As we all know, Cypress is the world leader in capacitive touch sensing, with the industry's broadest product line, and its PSoC-based CapSense device delivers unmatched flexibility and integration with robust noise immunity. Suitable for all types of touch designs from complex, versatile applications to alternative single buttons.

Following yesterday's Avenue to Jane - Cypress PSoC 4000S CapSense Prototyping Kit Review (1), we will continue to test this Cypress PSoC 4000S CapSense Prototyping Kit for you.

Power-on development

Cypress offers its own IDE tool PSoC Creator for its PSoC family of products . PSoC Creator is a very user-friendly, advanced and easy to use integrated design environment (IDE). It introduces revolutionary hardware and software co-design with a pre-verified and feature-enabled PSoC component library. The main features are:

Build a schematic of your own custom design by dragging and dropping PSoC components

Automatically route components and configure GPIO ports

Develop and debug firmware using built-in API components

Similarly, users can compile and program psoc series products through PSoC Creator.

The IDE version installed by Aiban.com engineers is 3.3. The latest version seems to have reached 4.1. You can find the corresponding development demo on the Cypress official website, which is used directly here.

The PSoC Creator tool is very user-friendly and has been introduced in previous PSoC series development board reviews, and it's not awkward.

Cypress officially also provides a demo for the PSoC 4000S CapSense Prototyping Suite. The program is divided into two parts, one is a touch control program, and a variety of BLE programs. After compiling, we can switch the target chip corresponding to the SWD signal through the onboard SW4 switch to download separately.

Compile

In the actual download encountered a problem, the onboard kitprog2 debugger firmware version is a bit low, low is low, actually can not download, it must be updated.

And updates must be made through another tool, PSoC Programmer.

Select Upgrade Firmware in this tool.

After the update is complete, you can return to PSoC Creator for download debugging. The whole process of use is basically a bit problematic here, and other places are still very smooth.

debugging.

I did a small experiment and dripped water onto the touch interface.

Even if there is water stain on the touch interface, the touch state can be accurately judged.

When downloading the BLE program, you need to pay attention to switching the onboard SW4 switch to the corresponding BLE position. If the corresponding current device is not detected, try plugging in the card again.

Once the download is complete, you can connect to the board's Bluetooth via your phone or Cypress's official CySmart.

After several tests, I found out that the Bluetooth signal of the Demo routine is not too stable.

BLE is always disconnected, unstable, sometimes not notified, and the demo still needs to be optimized.

summary

As we all know, touch solutions seem to be narrow, but the market is wide and wide. Nowadays, many electronic products use touch buttons instead of physical buttons. No matter the cost and user experience, this is the market that can evolve forward. The fundamental motivation.

Cypress is the world leader in capacitive touch solutions, and the solution's excellence is undoubted. The PSoC 4000S CapSense prototyping kit is only $15, which is affordable, plus this kit includes master control and debugging. , Bluetooth module, let people see an excellent and practical solution, users who need it may wish to pay more attention. You can apply for free at the start of the 2017 Kozawa Electronics Innovation Forum.