Glossary
This section lists the most commonly used terms that you might encounter while working with PSoC
™
family of
devices.
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Component Customizer: Simple GUI in PSoC
™
Creator that is embedded in each Component. It is used to
customize the Component parameters and is accessed by right-clicking a Component
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Components: Components are used to integrate multiple ICs and system interfaces into one PSoC
™
Component that is inherently connected to the MCU via the main system bus. For example, the Bluetooth
®
LE Component creates Bluetooth
®
Smart products in minutes. Similarly, you can use the Programmable
Analog Components for sensors
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KitProg: The KitProg is an onboard programmer/debugger with USB-I2C and USB-UART bridge
functionality. The KitProg is integrated onto most PSoC
™
development kits
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/
: Programming hardware for development that is used to program PSoC
™
devices on
your custom board or PSoC
™
development kits that do not support a built-in programmer
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Personality: A personality expresses the configurability of a resource for a functionality. For example, the
SCB resource can be configured to be an UART, SPI or I2C personalities
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: A programmable, embedded design platform that includes a CPU, such as the 32-bit Arm Cortex-
M0, with both analog and digital programmable blocks. It accelerates embedded system design with
reliable, easy-to-use solutions, such as touch sensing, and enables low-power designs
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: An Eclipse based embedded design platform for IoT designers that provides a single,
coherent, and familiar design experience combining the industry’s most deployed Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
®
technologies, and the lowest power, most flexible MCUs with best-in-class sensing
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: PSoC
™
3, PSoC
™
4, PSoC
™
5LP, PSoC
™
6 MCU, and PSoC
™
6 Bluetooth
®
LE Integrated Design
Environment (IDE) software that installs on your PC and allows concurrent hardware and firmware design
of PSoC
™
systems, or hardware design followed by export to other popular IDEs
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: The Peripheral Driver Library (PDL) simplifies software development for the
PSoC
™
6 MCU architecture. The PDL reduces the need to understand register usage and bit structures, so
easing software development for the extensive set of peripherals available
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: A flexible, integrated programming application for programming PSoC
™
devices. PSoC
™
Programmer is integrated with PSoC
™
Creator to program PSoC
™
3, PSoC
™
4, PRoC, PSoC
™
5LP, PSoC
™
6 MCU,
and PSoC
™
6 Bluetooth
®
LE designs
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: WICED (Wireless Internet Connectivity for Embedded Devices) is a full-featured platform with
proven Software Development Kits (SDKs) and turnkey hardware solutions from partners to readily enable
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
®
connectivity in system design
Getting started with PSoC
™
6 MCU on PSoC
™
Creator
Glossary
Application Note
40
002-21774 Rev. *G
2022-07-21