Sephora, semiconductor and hardware enthusiasts community Hackster today announced joint design competition "perceive the world challenge", provides the hardware engineer will be in the Internet of things, home appliances, consumer goods and industrial application field perceive the world around innovative ideas in practice. "Perceive the world challenge will be to plath easy-to-use CY8CKIT - 048 PSoC ® simulation coprocessor pioneer suite as a hardware platform development. Hackster respectively from the americas, Asia Pacific and Australia, Europe and Africa select one winner in these three areas, each winner will get a pair of Oculus Rift virtual reality helmet and development tools.
Benzion Hackster co-founder and chief executive Adam said: "when it comes to the Internet of things, people would first think of connectivity, but in fact most of the next generation of application starts with the ability to perceive the real world situation. The purpose of the design challenge is to fire the imaginations of Hackster enthusiasts around the world. With the plath PSoC simulation coprocessor, engineers can take advantage of its abundant sensor input combination, developed a large number of innovative applications."
Sephora, microcontroller, vice President of marketing, John Weil said: "in the design competition, I am very much looking forward to seeing Hackster engineers in the community of our rich and flexible simulation resources to create the new Internet applications. The use of PSoC simulation coprocessor, engineers can easily create a high precision, high sensitivity of cost-effective analog sensor system; and intuitive PSoC Creator ™ IDE (integrated development environment) is designed for rapid prototyping and iterative provides the hardware and software flexibility."
"Perceive the world challenge" primary design proposal submitted to the Pacific time on October 30, 2016, 55 points by 11 PM, Hackste will choose 100 excellent design and provide the team with PSoC analog coprocessor pioneer suite to design prototype. Prototype projects submitted to Pacific time on January 8, 2017, 55 points by 11 PM, regional winners will be announced on January 18.
Coprocessor PSoC simulation will be efficient and powerful signal processing system with ARM ® architecture ® M0 + kernel and programmable analog integration, including a new by general simulation module of GUI software components are configured (UAB). This combination allows engineers without changing the hardware design and the host processor software quickly update the sensor function, thus simplifying the multisensor analog front-end custom design of interface, and reduce the cost of materials (BOM). In home automation applications, for example, engineers can easily configure devices to continuous monitoring of temperature, humidity, ambient light, movement and sound of multiple sensors, keep the host in the low power consumption standby mode. In the future, in order to support the new sensor types need to change the design, but can be by reconfiguration of programmable analog module to easily implement.
Custom sensor interface design is based on the free plath PSoC Creator ™ IDE (integrated development environment), can simplify system design, let the engineer can use PSoC components (IDE to free embedded IC) icon indicates the development of both the hardware and firmware. Engineers simply drag and drop components PSoC Creator design drawings, and then use the graphical component configuration tool customization, can very easily configure PSoC programmable analog modules of simulation coprocessor. These components provide comprehensive design embedded initialization, calibration and temperature correction algorithms.
