To be perfectly clear, if a manufacturer provides good support for their product, you should buy from them, regardless of the cost. However, if you are scraping by on less than optimum wages, that is sometimes not possible. Period. In that case, people often turn to Chinese knock-offs. In...

Since Infineon has made the PSOC5LP parts and dev kits unobtainium, I am having to look at other products for low volume production at work, and for SocMaker Weekend Engineering. QuickLogic has a processor that combines a tinyFPGA with an M4F processor and a 12 bit A/D. SparkFun has...

I am a proponent of the PSOC5. If the PSOC6 had as many UDB’s in it, I would be on that bandwagon. If it worked at high temperature (not yet tested), at the office we would switch to it ASAP, even though it is NOT 5 volt tolerant. The...

Here is information from one extraordinary Monday….. I have two old Macbook Pro 3,1’s. One is a 32 bit, one is a 64 bit Core 2 Duo. The hard drive on the 32 bit failed. I had an old 128gb flash drive so I threw it in there, wanting...

I was viewing some interesting YouTube videos concerning the current world economic emergency. Mexico has declared it is in a recession, using the metrics the current USA administration is declaring are now incorrect. The government says if the economy stays in this recession, then the economy will eventually be...

I received a comment that the USB port on the CY8CKit-059 is causing a timeout. This is from a Thesis. I looked at the student’s code, and it is slightly different from my implementation, so I suspect something is missing. I borrowed the code from the automatically generated API...

The PSOC 4200 part, especially the CY8C4245 part, is *barely* a PSOC. It has 4 UDB’s in it, which will allow you to put in a 16 bit PWM and a Pulse Stretcher. This will cost 1/2 of the available UDB’s. It is still more than other vendor’s processors...

After my experience with the Busy Bee developer board, I decided to create a project with their Arm based EFM32GG12 part. One word: Disaster. Their configurator does not work for the EFM32GG part, except for one or two random components. Forget any analog ADC, DAC, or other part. No...

In the last post, I covered the Blinky project for the EMF8BB51 board. I currently believe that is a dead end project if you wish to use any of the tools that Simplicity Studio provides. However, it gets your feet wet. If you want to use any of the...

I purchased a “Busy Bee” EMF8BB51xxx processor test board (for around $15) (BRD2700A, Rev A01). That board has an EMF32GG12 on it, which is programmed with the Segger J-Link firmware, as well as a 20 pin QFN package 8051 Busy Bee processor. The EMF32 processor handles USB as well...