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CY8CKIT-042-BLE-A ® Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Pioneer Kit Guide Doc. # 002-11468 Rev. *A Cypress Semiconductor 198 Champion Court San Jose, CA 95134-1709 Phone (USA): 800.858.1810 Phone (Intnl): +1.408.943.2600 www.cypress.com...
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Cypress is not liable, in whole or in part, and Company shall and hereby does release Cypress from any claim, damage, or other liability arising from or related to all Unintended Uses of Cypress products.
USB-UART Bridge .....................34 USB-I2C Bridge ......................35 Updating the KitProg Firmware..................36 4. Example Projects Using Example Projects.....................37 CapSense Slider and LED ..................41 4.2.1 Project Description ..................41 4.2.2 Hardware Connections...................44 CY8CKIT-042-BLE-A Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) Pioneer Kit Guide, Doc. # 002-11468 Rev. *A...
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5.2.5 Antenna Matching Network ................111 5.2.6 BLE Passives ....................112 5.2.7 Test Points....................113 BLE Dongle Board ....................113 5.3.1 Power System ....................114 5.3.2 USB Type-A Plug ..................114 5.3.3 User LED......................115 CY8CKIT-042-BLE-A Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) Pioneer Kit Guide, Doc. # 002-11468 Rev. *A...
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Programming BLE Modules via MiniProg3 ..............129 BLE Modules and BLE Dongles Compatible with the BLE Pioneer Kit ....130 Migrating Projects Across Different Pioneer Series Kits ..........136 Revision History CY8CKIT-042-BLE-A Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) Pioneer Kit Guide, Doc. # 002-11468 Rev. *A...
Handling Boards CY8CKIT-042-BLE-A boards are sensitive to ESD. Hold the board only by its edges. After removing the board from its box, place it on a grounded, static-free surface. Use a conductive foam pad if available.
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It is important not to dispose large amounts of batteries in a group. Used batteries are often not completely “dead.” Grouping used batteries together can bring these “live” batteries into contact with one another, creating safety risks. CY8CKIT-042-BLE-A Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) Pioneer Kit Guide, Doc. # 002-11468 Rev. *A...
BLE. The Cypress BLE solution, which includes the device, the BLE Component, and the BLE firmware stack will take care of it for you. The Cypress BLE firmware stack is royalty free. You will use two software tools, PSoC Creator™ and CySmart™ Central Emulation Tool, to develop and debug your BLE project.
Coin cell (3-V CR2032) Figure 1-1. Kit Contents If any part of the BLE Pioneer Kit is missing, contact your nearest Cypress sales office for help: www.cypress.com/go/support. CY8CKIT-042-BLE-A Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) Pioneer Kit Guide, Doc. # 002-11468 Rev. *A...
PSoC Creator also enables you to tap into an entire tool ecosystem with integrated compiler chains and production programming programmers for PSoC devices. For more information, visit www.cypress.com/psoccreator. Visit PSoC Creator training page for video tutorials on learning and using PSoC Creator. CY8CKIT-042-BLE-A Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) Pioneer Kit Guide, Doc. # 002-11468 Rev. *A...
You can then adapt that design to your application. Figure 1-6. Code Examples in PSoC Creator CY8CKIT-042-BLE-A Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) Pioneer Kit Guide, Doc. # 002-11468 Rev. *A...
PSoC Creator Components. System Reference Guide: Choose Help > System Reference Guide. This guide lists and describes the system functions provided by PSoC Creator. CY8CKIT-042-BLE-A Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) Pioneer Kit Guide, Doc. # 002-11468 Rev. *A...
Bluetooth Low Energy protocol and systems. Some of them are: Training videos GATT profiles Bluetooth community forum 1.5.2 Other Related Resources Digilent Pmod: www.digilentinc.com/pmods/ Arduino: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardUno CY8CKIT-042-BLE-A Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) Pioneer Kit Guide, Doc. # 002-11468 Rev. *A...
Bluetooth Low Energy Communications Device Class communication port data length extension ECDH Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman digital video disc electrostatic discharge F-RAM ferroelectric random access memory GATT generic attribute profile CY8CKIT-042-BLE-A Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) Pioneer Kit Guide, Doc. # 002-11468 Rev. *A...
(listed in step 5) are installed on your computer. c. CY8CKIT-042-BLE-A DVD ISO: This file is a complete package, stored in a DVD-ROM image format, that you can use to create a DVD or extract using an ISO extraction program such as WinZip or WinRAR.
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Figure 2-1. Figure 2-1. Installer Screen 4. Select the folder in which you want to install the CY8CKIT-042-BLE-A kit-related files. Choose the directory and click Next. 5. When you click Next, the CY8CKIT-042-BLE-A Kit installer automatically installs the required software, if it is not present on your computer. The following software packages are required: Note: For the Kit Only Package, download and install the following prerequisites.
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The BLE Pioneer Kit installer also installs the CySmart Central Emulation Tool on your computer. This software, along with the BLE Dongle, allows the computer to emulate as a BLE Central device. CY8CKIT-042-BLE-A Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) Pioneer Kit Guide, Doc. # 002-11468 Rev. *A...
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Under Advanced settings, expand USB Settings > USB selective suspend setting. e. Select the Disabled option for Plugged in and On battery operation. f. Click OK. CY8CKIT-042-BLE-A Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) Pioneer Kit Guide, Doc. # 002-11468 Rev. *A...
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