New Product Discoveries - Cypress' PSoC 6 BLE Pioneer Kit and Murata's Piezo Electric Vibrator

In keeping up with our effort to bring you the most relevant cutting-edge products available, this time I will be focusing on a dual core embedded system processor with Bluetooth 5.0 capabilities from Cypress Semiconductor and a piezo electric vibration device from Murata Electronics.

Cypress has a popular line of programmable system-on-chip devices amply named PSoC which is currently in its sixth generation. One of the highlighted features of this new controller is the addition of Bluetooth 5.0. To aid in development Cypress has created the PSoC 6 BLE Pioneer Kit. This kit allows you to experiment with all that PSoC 6 has to offer by interfacing with an Arduino shield compatible board filled with sensors and peripherals. The kit itself includes the Pioneer Board, an E-INK Display shield, BLE Dongle, USB cable and jumper/hookup wires.

One specification to note on the PSoC 6 is that its high-end dual core processor targets low power. The dual core is made up of two ARM processors, an M4 and an M0+. The M4 performs at 22 µA per MHz and the M0+ performs at 15 µA per MHz. Cypress notes that this is great for IoT products, but I would challenge that only because this highly capable, low power device could fit a very wide range of applications.

The other product I have today is from Murata Electronics. This is a small two pin piezo electric vibrator capable of delivering around 1.2 g of acceleration. It is operated simply by providing a voltage which makes it easily incorporated into a handheld of wearable device.

Thanks for watching! If you have used either of these products we would love to hear from you in the comments.

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Randall Restle 在电子元器件行业从业四十余载,学识渊博、经验丰富。 现处于半退休状态,担任 DigiKey 应用工程副总裁。他曾经领导过多个应用工程、技术人员和管理人员团队,指导他们开发原创、独有的先进技术产品。

其个人擅长数字信号处理、可编程逻辑实现、运动控制改进和软件设计。 他拥有多项专利,横跨多个行业,是 IEEE 的高级会员。 Randall 拥有辛辛那提大学 BSEE、MS 和 MBA 学位。

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