Appendix. Cypress Semiconductor CY15FRAMKIT-001

Below you will find brief information for Serial F-RAM Development Kit CY15FRAMKIT-001. The CY15FRAMKIT-001 Serial F-RAM Development Kit is designed as an easy-to-use and inexpensive development kit, showcasing the features of Cypress serial ferroelectric random access memory (F-RAM). This kit offers footprint-compatibility with CY8CKIT-042 PSoC® 4 Pioneer Kit, CY8CKIT-040, CY8CKIT-042 BLE, third-party Arduino™ UNO R3, and several other Arduino kits.

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Key features

Footprint-compatibility with CY8CKIT-042 PSoC® 4 Pioneer Kit.
Footprint-compatibility with CY8CKIT-040.
Footprint-compatibility with CY8CKIT-042 BLE
Footprint-compatibility with Arduino™ UNO R3.
Footprint-compatibility with several other Arduino kits.
256-Kbit SPI F-RAM.
256-Kbit I2C F-RAM.
Three-pole DIP switch to control the I2C F-RAM device select pins.
Arduino UNO compatible headers.
Two debug headers.

Frequently asked questions

The CY15FRAMKIT-001 Serial F-RAM DVK is a shield board that can be plugged into the PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit or the Arduino UNO R3 Kit. It has four connectors that are Arduino UNO-compatible and connect to either Cypress PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit or Arduino UNO R3 board. These connectors are stackable and hence any other Arduino-compatible shields can be stacked on it.

The factory default setting for the DIP switch is not in the ON position which sets the values for A2, A1, and A0 to logic LOW “0”. This means that the I2C F-RAM device will be addressed at the default slave address.

The SPI F-RAM device uses a serial peripheral interface (SPI) to communicate with the host. It is a synchronous interface, meaning that both the host and the device must be clocked at the same frequency. The I2C F-RAM device uses the I2C interface (2-wire serial interface). It is an asynchronous interface, meaning that the host and the device do not need to be clocked at the same frequency.