r/PSoC • u/[deleted] • Apr 09 '21

I vote that PSOC Creator is one of the best IDE for MCUs

Hello, I enjoy using the PSOC Creator to program Cypress MCU's. I don't know any other MCU IDE that is a nice as Creator. My co-worker is using the latest software to program his PIC. I was not impressed and showed him Creator and he liked it very much. I especially like the graphic entry.

Does anyone feel the same about Creator?

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u/PooFlingerMonkey Apr 10 '21

To bad they are abandoning it.

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u/FullFrontalNoodly Apr 10 '21

Got a reference here?

Maybe there is a chance they are replacing it with something which is actually cross-platform?

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u/PooFlingerMonkey Apr 10 '21

It's not technically EoL, but most of the newer parts like the PSoC 6 are supported in Eclipse based ModusToolbox. -It's only redeeming quality is that it is cross platform. edit to add- my opinion, open for debate.
60% of my current client's end users are running MacOS, and won't run 32 bit apps. It stuck us for example when the DFU included with PSoC creator no longer runs on their machines. The Modus Toolbox DFU is however, 64 bit.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '21

not really interested in views on windows or where your genitals go. I am interested to know the roadmap of PSoC Creator. Is there an official position from Infineon/Cypress? I really like working with it. Trying to make decisions on future product development and a bit concerned PSoC Creator gets dumped in favor of (yet another dull) eclipse based IDE.

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u/jotamudo Apr 27 '21

It is honestly very cool, I'm making a VM to try to port a project from a PSoC 5LP to a PSoC 6. The graphical tools are honestly amazing, the snippets and autocompletion work fine and it's very integrated overall. But I won't be using windows for development anytime soon so it's quite sad to see it stuck on it and a very old version of .net

The new IDE (just eclipse basically) has the cool thing of using usual CLI tools to work with some extras and the experience is quite good from what i've been able to see as I can avoid using the entire eclipse IDE and stick to the CLI, but it's not even close to what Creator does

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '21

Is it really necessary to be so crude?

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u/FullFrontalNoodly Apr 10 '21

This is the polite way of expressing my feelings about Windows.

I've had a number of talks with the person in charge of Creator going back at least five years now with the goal of a cross-platform solution. But the reality is they are completely wedded to .NET so the best option here is a validated solution under Wine. There were a few people working internally who shared this cause but they seem to have disappeared.

I'd be willing to suffer Windows for initial project creation if there was an officially supported means of exporting a project for cross-platform development and compilation. But they can't even seem to manage even that.

Which is a shame, because I really do like the PSoC architecture.

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