PSOC™ 61xA, 61x8 Low power MCUs with embedded security, rich analog and digital peripherals
PSOC™ 61xA / 61x8 is a product family within the PSOC™ 6 MCU portfolio and comes under the PSOC™ 61 Programmable Line. PSOC™ 6 MCU is based on an ultra-low power 40nm platform and supports various run time configurable power modes. The platform also supports various embedded security features like secured boot, secured key storage, and secured firmware updates. PSOC™ 62 Programable Line enables user application development on both the CPU cores (ARM® Cortex®-M4F and Cortex®-M0+) to optimize for power and performance.
PSOC™ 61xA product family offers 2048 KB of flash, 1024 KB of SRAM (1024 KB Flash / 512 KB SRAM in PSOC 61x8), and a rich set of analog and digital peripherals. PSOC 61xA / 61x8 product family can be used for a broad category of use cases - battery powered applications, low power sensor processing, Wi-Fi host MCU, touch user interface plus main MCU, system management control, general purpose embedded applications.
- High-performance, low-power compute system
- 150-MHz Arm® Cortex®-M4F. Arm® Cortex®-M0+ reserved for system functions
- Ultra-low power 40 nm platform, ULP (0.9 V) and LP (1.1 V) core voltage operation
- Six power modes for fine-grained power management
- Three DMA Controllers
- On chip memory in PSOC™ 61xA – 2048-KB flash, 1024-KB SRAM
- On chip memory in PSOC™ 61x8 – 1024-KB flash, 512-KB SRAM
- Memory expansion with external Quad SPI Flash (code / data)
- Robust Security Features
- Advanced cryptographic accelerator and true random number generator
- One-time programmable eFUSE for secure key storage
- Secured boot, ROM based root of trust, and image authentication
- Secure over-the-air (OTA) firmware update with read-while-write flash technology for firmware updates
- System Features
- 1.7-V to 3.6-V operation, On-chip DC-DC Buck converter
- Up to 102 Programmable GPIOs
- On chip clocking, PLL, FLL, External 32 KHz / MHz crystal oscillator support
- Rich on-chip peripherals
- CAPSENSE™ capacitive touch – buttons, sliders, proximity sensing
- Smart I/O for Boolean operations, discrete digital logic integration
- 1x 12-bit 2-MSPS SAR ADCs, Hardware sequencer / multiplexer
- 2x Low power Comparators
- 8x 32-bit, 24x 16-bit Timer/Counter/PWM
- 8x Serial Communication Blocks (I2C / SPI / UART)
- 4x Serial Communication Blocks (I2C / UART)
- 1x Deep sleep Serial Communication Block (I2C / SPI)
- 1x USB Full-speed (Host / Device)
- Segment LCD drive, serial interface display drivers
- 2x SD Host Controllers (SD / SDIO / eMMC)
- 2x I2S, 1x PDM-PCM for audio applications
- Packages
- 68-QFN (53 IOs), 100-WLCSP (82 IOs), 124-BGA (100 IOs), 128-TQFP (102 IOs)
- Software / Hardware Development Support
- ModusToolbox™ Software for embedded application development
- Hardware Evaluation Platforms
- Get the PSOC™ 62S2 Wi-Fi Bluetooth® Prototyping Kit (CY8CPROTO-062S2-43439) or other applicable kits to get started with the PSOC™ 61xA / 61x8 family
- Download the ModusToolbox™ software
- Read the application note: AN228571 Getting started with PSOC™ 6 MCU
- Explore more code examples, application notes for the various topics
- Participate in the PSOC™ 6 community to brainstorm ideas, ask queries, debug technical issues