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Thanks for the welcome Fred. About the EZUSB, I'm not certain if it's 3.3 or other. Usually these types of chips have multiple voltage capabilities, purchased by altering the part number. I haven't looked into it. I know it's usually powered by the USB port, so I would have assumed it's 5v. 3.3v has...

I do not think PSOC is suitable for general EMS, you would probably do better with something like AVR and ARM just because of the processing power, large user community, and cheap dev tools. Sorry to hear you don't think it's a good idea. I know Cypress has specifically targeted the automotive indu...

I also believe that it is about 6-8mhz per MIP, so 24mhz would be 3-4 MIPs. The tech ref notes this The CPU core, called the M8C, is a powerful processor with speeds up to 24 MHz. The M8C is a four MIPS 8-bit Harvard architecture microprocessor. Within the CPU core are the SROM and Flash memory com...

Can anyone tell me (before i start researching those things in more depth) what parallels are there (if any) between these devices and programmable logic (i.e FPGA/CPLD), i suspect there are some, vs ordinary uCs, as someone mentioned flexibility and DSP functions in the earlier posts Sounds like y...

Here's a reference design that could likely be modified for a knock sensor

http://www.psocdeveloper.com/docs/appno ... n2186.html

With a couple adjustments, it could be changed to detect the signature of engine knock instead of glass a glass break signature.

As a general platform they are not good, by most typical metrics they totally suck: -banked memory, -3MIPS @ 24mhz, -power hungry. To be honest with you it's been a little while since I've used my cube. I seem to recall the on-board clock goes up to like 50 to 60MHz. I also seem to recall it was ar...

I'm a big fan of PSoC's, they offer many features not found on other chips for a low cost. I recently found this article about using it as a tach and thought I should post it here http://www.psocdeveloper.com/docs/appnotes/an-mode/detail/an-pointer/an2301.html Take notice of how few parts it require...

Has anybody used one of these or a variation there-of? Post up what you know, from what I've seen this is one of the more popular and availible solutions. And the drivers are royalty free, basic COM, so shouldn't change anything on the software side for use on megasquirt. Personally I'm not a fan o...