PioneerIoTAdd‐OnShield

The Pioneer IoT Add-On Shield is a unique board designed to add more functionality to the PSoC 6

from Cypress while remaining useful and practical for plenty of other Internet of Things applications.

and microSD functionality not only to the PSoC 6 but also to any board with an Arduino R3 shield

format. On top of designing this board with a reliable IoT performance, we have written a guide that

communicate between a PSoC 4 BLE Pioneer Board and the PSoC 6 Pioneer Board via Bluetooth

Low Energy.

In addition to the microSD card slot, XBee headers and Qwiic connector, the Pioneer IoT Add-On

Shield is equipped with a micro-B USB connector. This connector provides 5V to the 3.3V regulator

for the XBee module, overriding the 5V coming from the Arduino header and allowing high-power

shift circuitry and a voltage supply selection jumper — all found on the shield!

If you aren’t familiar with it, the PSoC 6 Pioneer Board is the development tool associated with this

processor line, sporting an onboard debugger, Arduino-compatible headers, CapSense widgets and

more — all tied to a PSoC 6 processor. The processor is a dual-core device, with a Cortex-M0+ low-

power processor and a Cortex-M4 high-power processor tied together via shared peripherals and

memory space.