From: Joerg on
Charlie E. wrote:
> On Tue, 11 May 2010 18:16:40 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>> krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz wrote:
>>> On Tue, 11 May 2010 17:24:14 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 11 May 2010 10:21:58 -0700 (PDT), Klaus Kragelund
>>>>> <klauskvik(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11 Maj, 09:47, robert seczkowski <jaschgaug...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On cypress site there is an "out of stock" notice on sales page.
>>>>>>> Does anyone know where to buy any of psoc3 chip?
>>>>>>> They released new devel. software however only eval kits are available.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> As far as I know its only available in sample quantities. Production
>>>>>> ramps up Q4 2010
>>>>> It was supposed to ramp in 2Q '09, then 1Q '10. Hint to the wise; forget a
>>>>> design-in until they actually do provide production hardware.
>>>> Anyone know why there's two different design suites, Designer for PSoC1,
>>>> and Creator for PSoC3 and PSoC5?
>>> They're completely different products. My bet is that PSoC1 goes away, sooner
>>> than later.
>>
>> Not sure about them going away, those are inside a ton of products that
>> will be produced for a long time but might need the occasional feature
>> change. I hope the pricing on the 3 and 5 series comes in favorably.
>
> Jeorge,
> As I understand it, the PSOC1 doesn't have the designed in debug and
> other tools that are now available for the PSOC3 and PSOC5, so they
> can't use the new Creator program. The new chips also seem to have a
> different set up for choosing pins and connections, so need the newer
> development suite. Too bad. If the PSOC1's had used a more robust
> debug interface, I probably would have used them instead of the PICs
> for the color reader...
>

Still, it would have been good if they had integrated the old stuff into
PSoC Creator. Else lots of people or whole EE departments might shy
away and push out any migration. Along the lines of "let's not touch a
running system" because they are afraid the software part might blow and
they'd end up egg in the faces.

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