Before I give you the gritty (dirty) details, you need to understand some things about the ABC company and the Fruit Company. They don’t care. You are dirt under their shoes. The only reason the ABC company lets you play in their store is because the Fruit company does....

Going back 10 years to just before I discovered the PSOC5, picking pulses off of a line would require OpAmps, Voltage References, Multiple Power Supplies, bypass capacitors, resistors, and a lot of board space. This time it is different, even though I use the same parts. The difference is...

I have casually followed Artificial Intelligence (AI) since the 1980’s. However, back then, they called it Neural Nets (NN). One of the earliest uses of AI was to do OCR (Optical Character Recognition). This OCR technology was used in scanning the amounts that are hand written on checks, for...

Why do we go through “Economic Contractions?” (EC’s) They used to be called “recessions” (which is now a forbidden word in the USA). In worst case they are called “depressions” (which is more forbidden). The reason for EC’s is merchandising. Merchandising Explained (Simplified) Merchandising is the act of transferring...

I am in the process of creating a cable tester for multi-pin cables, low frequency, high pin count. During this process I used *every* pin available on a TQFP-100 pin CY8C5868 part. The first prototype worked, but was a pain. As is typical for prototypes, I made several errors....

I just got bit by Weasley wording of PSOC5LP data sheet! PSoC® 5LP: CY8C58LP Family Datasheet Programmable System-on-Chip (PSoC®) . *Route any digital or analog peripheral to any GPIO NO! You Can’t Do That (from a NON-RTFM point of view)! There is an App Note which explains this issue....

I finally was able to program a clone stlink-v2 with the BlackMagic probe software completely on the Mac. Note that the STM32CubeIDE software is installed on my Macintosh. Also, the setup for my VSCode follows the previous instructions on this site for PSOC5 programming and working with STM32CubeMX. If...

The VSCode cortex-debug extension can debug using JLink, even for STM32, but you have to add a couple of things into the VSCode System to let it know what to do. Once I had the STM32 being debugged with the STLinkV2 clone, I worked on debugging with my JLink....

As I am searching for debuggers and possible future replacements for PSOC5 (since Infineon appears to dislike Cypress innovation), I stumbled across STMicro. STMicro has a development environment called STM32CubeIDE. There is also a STM32CubeMX application. Get both of them. On the Macintosh, you can download that from st.com...

Using a J-Link with VSCode / VSCodium (vscodium.org) works for many folks. The Segger folks have a web page about it: https://wiki.segger.com/J-Link_Visual_Studio_Code If you have a clone, it might work. I have found even a manufacturer specific J-Link version not targeted for your device will tend to work if...