PSoC is so Tough
Category: Dave Van Ess
Monday, August 18, 2008 10:41I am offically sarting a "How tough is PSoC". Prizes include
First Place: choice of an ICE, PSoC Eval 1 board, or PSoC USBeval board.
Second Place: One of the remaining two.
Third Plaice: What ever second place didn't take
Here are my entries.
When Chuck Norris saw PSoC he backed down.
My PSoC was able to do an infinite loop in 7 seconds. I upgraded the compiler and it now does it in 4.2 seconds.
Monday, August 18 at 17:42 (GMT -8:00)
My PSoC is so tough it can call an ambulance if you need help.
Monday, August 18 at 17:53 (GMT -8:00)
A few days ago I had to program one 29466 chip for a new prototype board. The programming failed so I started to look for any possible reasons while trying agin and again. Eventually I found out that there is something wrong in the power supply but during all this time the PSoC was actually connected on 8.3V power. It is working now :) Unfortunatelly it is very reluctant to improve its preformance doing infinite loops. Maybe because of that burning experience...
Monday, August 18 at 23:50 (GMT -8:00)
The PSoC is so tough, when it's put in backwards, it heats up and puts on a BBQ for all the other chips. Then it parties hard till its put in the right way around. After which its back to work as usual.
The PSoC is so tough, it refuses to cooperate in destructive tests... just to piss you off!
The PSoC is so tough, it has analog AND digital...
(homage to blues brothers film)
The PSoC is so tough, it doesn't need radiation hardening.
Takes on the work of five other chips and still has time to sleep...
Tuesday, August 19 at 02:20 (GMT -8:00)
Just a few years ago, I needed some kind of component in one of my designs.
That's the reason I put a PSoC in.
Then sudden, I became to realize that PSoC couldn't do what it was needed to do.
So I slept and woke up in the middle of the night. Solution has kicked in..
I did some reconfiguring and.... it worked!
That reminds me why I have put a PSoC in.
Rolf.
Tuesday, August 19 at 02:27 (GMT -8:00)
PSoC shines bright!
Where others stopped after polishing all the bytes, you can still polish PSoC's analog blocks...
Rolf.
Tuesday, August 19 at 14:03 (GMT -8:00)
PSoC is capable of outputting only two levels: off and power surge.
PSoC make MacGyver jealous.
When the first PSoC prototypes were powered on, they caused the California rolling blackouts.
The PSoC Comparator User Module is the only thing in the universe that can accurately discriminate between right and wrong.
In the movie War Games, David’s home computer that hacked NORAD was actually a PSoC with the DTMFDialer User Module installed.
If connected to a solar cell, the PSoC powers the Sun.
Tuesday, August 19 at 16:40 (GMT -8:00)
PSoC is so tough...
...it won't cost you an ARM or a leg
...it eats RABBITs for breakfast
...it's not PICky
Tuesday, August 19 at 17:19 (GMT -8:00)
Okay, let me tell you this. PSoC is so tough that it can change men and turn even the most maniacal engineer into a lazy PD user. Hence PSoC has become the best friend of the engineer's wife. When I start a new project my wife always says "Do it with that thing". So she knows "that thing" means less work for me and more time for the kids and family. So that tough the PSoC is - 1g against 100kg and still winning :)))
Wednesday, August 20 at 11:58 (GMT -8:00)
PSoC must really be tough:
It survived the transition from CMS
It survived the numerous iterations of the Cypress web site
It will survive(I hope) the current access problems of PSoCDeveloper.com
Wednesday, August 20 at 18:19 (GMT -8:00)
My PSoC is so tough it will take on four MIPS and a dozen op-amps and still have 40 pins tied behind its back.
My PSoC is so tough it can reduce the size of a BOM by 90% while delivering more bang for the buck.
- B
Wednesday, August 20 at 19:43 (GMT -8:00)
My PSoC is so tough it give you 400% with dynamic reconfiguration.
Thursday, August 21 at 18:10 (GMT -8:00)
The PSoC is so tough that unanticipated new features from changing product requirments were met, just by spending a few minutes configuring new modules.
Friday, August 22 at 14:04 (GMT -8:00)
PSoC is so tough because it can do lots of push-ups and pull-ups. When push-pulled to another MCU, it always "smokes" the competition.
PSoC is so tough, that due to its noise resilience, no matter how loud you shout at it, it won't change its ways.
PSoC is so tough, that it can integrate and differentiate signals at the same time, all while it's asleep.
PSoC is so tough, because it is fluent in the ancient ninja art of _analog_
Saturday, August 23 at 22:31 (GMT -8:00)
The PSoC is so tough, because you are learning on and on.
1) I started with PD with supplied examples which I extended with my own ideas (here I learned the philosophy of the system and the basics)
2) Then I modified simple running projects with variants of SW and HW-modules (here I learned "new alternatives" with the strong coupling between HW-modules and SW-API)
3) The deeper my insight in the documentation got, I learned about more features of PSoC which are not covered by PD
4) My personal favourite is the SC-module. The deeper my understanding of function got, the more untraditional solutions I found.
Sunday, August 24 at 09:35 (GMT -8:00)
PSOC is so tough that Cypress does not feel the need to make PSOC3.
PSOC went back in time to kill john conner.
When PSOC sh*ts, AVRs/PICs/Z8s come out.
PSOC is so tough that if it was an eight year old boy, not even Micheal Jackson would touch him.
Sunday, August 24 at 09:42 (GMT -8:00)
PSOC is so tough that walmart carries it in the gun department
PSOC is so tough that it can run on nothing but russian vodka
PSOC is so tough that on radar it looks like a SCUD
Sunday, August 24 at 12:56 (GMT -8:00)
PSoC is so strong it made Dave Van Ess misspell "plaice"
PSoC invented the word "tough"
When God said, "Let there be light!", Power-PSoC said, "Say please".
If you Google "Something tougher than PSoC" you get zero results
When PSoC does a Pull-Up it does pull itself up; it pulls the earth down
PSoC once woke-up with a power surge and the BITS-Goa transformer blew up
PSoC is so tough it can play Russian roulette with a fully loaded gun and win
PSoC once visited The Virgin Islands for Microcontrollers. Now they are called The Islands for Microcontrollers
PSoC is the reason Wall E survived the beating
NASA's original saying at a space launch was, "3, 2, 1, PSoC!"
My PSoC is so tough it can leave a message before the beep
Sunday, August 24 at 15:42 (GMT -8:00)
PSOC is so tough that part of the startup sequence is me calling it daddy.
Sunday, August 24 at 15:52 (GMT -8:00)
Ben Johnson was banned from the Olympics because he tested positive for PSOC
Sunday, August 24 at 19:22 (GMT -8:00)
This one had me in tears:
toalan2001 said
"PSOC is so tough that Cypress does not feel the need to make PSOC3."
Sunday, August 24 at 21:09 (GMT -8:00)
PSoC is so tought because at Cypress they have a special press machine to press a whole PCB into a single chip. The secret name of PSoC actually is "Pressed Salad of Circuits"
Monday, August 25 at 18:36 (GMT -8:00)
PSOC is so tough that legend once told of a time when 300 PSOCs crushed an army of over 2 million spartans led by xilinx.
Monday, August 25 at 21:59 (GMT -8:00)
This is all getting out of hand! (I just love reading the new ones each day) ;-)
The PSoC Community is so tough they will stay with PSoC even if PSoC3 doesn't materialise this year.
PSoC's are so tough that building regulations require their use as foundation.
Paul. :)
Wednesday, August 27 at 09:42 (GMT -8:00)
PSOC is so tough it's real name is PSOB, Programmable Son Of a B*tch
Thursday, August 28 at 15:37 (GMT -8:00)
PSOC is so tough, at 1 o'clock it has a 5'oclock shadow
PSOC is so tough the ICE comes with a helmut and a cup
PSOC is so tough that when attached to a USB port it supplies the computer with 500ma
Thursday, August 28 at 18:53 (GMT -8:00)
Suddenly the firemen come to my lab searching for something is on burning. My freind tell them "we working on PSoC, burn the program into the IC". The Firemen reply,"Wow!! how tough PSoC is".
Friday, August 29 at 14:16 (GMT -8:00)
Once I let PSoC out of my lab to see the world he came back and tooled me: “The world is mine, from now on everyone will say preys in my name“.
Sunday, August 31 at 13:05 (GMT -8:00)
Psoc is so tough, it can divide by zero.
Psoc is so tough, it calls diamond a sensitive crystal.
Psoc is so tough, its never been stress tested.
Psoc is so tough, Rohs has banned them all, they are a hazardous substance.
PSoc is so tough, it beat me up for making jokes about how tough it is.
Tuesday, September 2 at 02:28 (GMT -8:00)
My PSoC is so tough it got B.A.Baracus on a plane without resorting to drugged milk.
Tuesday, September 2 at 07:14 (GMT -8:00)
PSoC is damm tuf because of its analog arrays............... for me as an application engineer the tuffness of it seems those analog blocks again and again, not only those blocks are analog, those are configurable, instrumentation engineers do remember: after lots of work the project using ad converter is done, but the stabelity is not ther......... but the boss wants it right now??? what will we do??? we will again do some change in circuit and then again put the design in the pcb design section. it takes some days to re-test our design again....... but with PSoC, just reconfigure the analog part, may be put a LPF, may be increase the gain of PGA, and it works.......
i am comparatively new to PSoC, i was working on AVR platform and i was happy, even when i saw the ad about job in cypress as application engineer for PSoC in a national electronics magazine in india for bangalore office, i still remember i laughed myself that what the Hell?? who would want to use PSoC leaving AVR????? but now i understand how tuf psoc is..... inbuilt 7seg display driver, inbuilt hd44780 interface, inbuilt lpf,bpf, 14-bit ad converter............. just like dreams.....
the taughness of psoc comes from its analog part, not from digital part.......as much as i can think of..... i am doing a temp controller project, it is to measure 40uV change per degree..... and in a vero-board, the project is almost completed....... know what i achieved rock solid stability withen few days..........
people who did this type of instrumentation project can understand how tuf it is to design these type of project with discrete component, after lots of tryng and lots of prototyping of pcb we can achieve this much of stabelity..........
but again, if ther was not analog part.... i would not change my project platform for M8C from AVR, i still will consider AVR for Digital only project.
anyways When Chuck Norris saw PSoC he backed down because of its performance of analog reconfigurable blocks and whisper in the air as "PSoC will get the combined power of ARM and analog blocks".
"Dave Van Ess"--thank for your very helpful and accurate application notes. hats off to u........