User Manual Part 1

CY8CKIT-042-BLE Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) Pioneer Kit Guide, Doc. # 001-93731 Rev. *A 11

1. Introduction

Thank you for your interest in the CY8CKIT-042-BLE Bluetooth

Low Energy (BLE) Pioneer Kit. This

kit is designed to showcase the functionality and ease-of-use of the PSoC

4 BLE and PRoC™ BLE

devices while developing Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth Smart) applications. Cypress's BLE solu-

tion has an easy-to-use, intuitive GUI to configure the BLE protocol stack using the BLE component

available in the Cypress standard integrated development environment (IDE), PSoC Creator. The

CySmart PC tool allows emulation of a BLE Central device and quick access to peripheral connec-

tions and debugging. The solution is a true single-chip solution with an integrated balun, Cypress's

industry-leading capacitive sensing technology, an analog front end (AFE) for biometric sensors, and

digital peripherals suited to a wide variety of applications. Designed for flexibility, this kit offers foot-

print compatibility with several third-party Arduino™ shields. The kit includes a provision to populate

an extra header to support Digilent

Pmod™ peripheral modules. In addition, the board features a

CapSense

slider, an RGB LED, a push-button switch, an integrated USB programmer, a program

and debug header, an F-RAM™, and USB-UART/I

C bridges.

1.1 Kit Contents

The BLE Pioneer Kit contains the following items, as shown in Figure 1-1.

■ BLE Pioneer Baseboard preloaded with the CY8CKIT-142 PSoC 4 BLE Module

■ CY5671 PRoC BLE Module

■ CY5670 CySmart USB Dongle

■ Quick start guide

■ USB standard A to mini-B cable

■ Four jumper wires (4 inch) and two proximity sensor wires (5 inch)

■ Coin cell