How does the designer get started with PSoC 4 BLE? First, they download the PSoC Creator IDE. Second, purchase the BLE Pioneer Kit from DigiKey. Third, read the “Getting started with PSoC 4 BLE” App Note. The BLE Pioneer kit has a very similar look and feel for those familiar with PSoC 4 Pioneer kits. It retains the Arduino form factor and the Digilent Pmod, therefore it is a very expandable board that can interface with all sorts of third party hardware. It is a two-part board that also includes an RF module. There are two FCC certified modules, one for PSoC 4 BLE and another one for the PRoC BLE product. Note that both of these modules are also sold separately. The board has an on-board CapSense slider, RGB LEDs, all the I/Os are exposed, plus it has a selectable voltage setting of 1.9, 3.3 to 5.5 V. What cannot be seen on the front side is a connector for coin-cell batteries. It is on the rear side of this board, allowing the kit to operate off of the small battery. Cypress also included the PSoC 5LP chip on this board, which comes factory-programmed as a programmer and debugger for the BLE parts. It provides an SWD over USB and also many USB to serial interfaces. Also important to note is that the PSoC 5LP device is broken out into a header allowing it to be used if the user wants to overwrite some custom applications.