
Development Tools
September 5, 2002
Document #: 38-12010 CY Rev. ** CMS Rev. 3.20
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12.0 Development Tools
12.1 Overview
The Cypress MicroSystems PSoC Designer is a
Microsoft® Windows-based, integrated development
environment for the Programmable System-on-Chip
(PSoC) devices. The PSoC Designer runs on Windows
98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows Millen-
nium (Me), or Windows XP.
PSoC Designer helps the customer to select an operat-
ing configuration for the microcontroller, write application
code that uses the microcontroller, and debug the appli-
cation. This system provides design database manage-
ment by project, an integrated debugger with In-Circuit
Emulator, in-system programming support, and the
CYASM macro assembler for the CPUs.
PSoC Designer also supports a high-level C language
compiler developed specifically for the devices in the
family.
Figure 34: PSoC Designer Functional Flow
Device
Database
PSoC
Designer
Application
Database
Project
Database
In-Circuit
Emulator
Device
Programmer
Manufacturing
Info File
PSoC
Configuration
Sheet
Graphical
Designer
Interface
Commands
Results
Context
Sensitive Help
Emulation
Pod