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Getting Started with PSoC® 4 BLE
Appendix C: Cypress BLE Development Tools
PSoC 4 BLE Development Kit
The BLE Pioneer Kit shown in Figure 54 is a BLE development kit from Cypress that supports both PSoC 4 BLE and
PRoC BLE family of devices. This kit consists of pluggable PSoC 4 BLE (and PRoC BLE) modules that connect to a BLE
Pioneer Baseboard. The kit can be powered either with a coin-cell battery or through the USB interface.
The BLE Pioneer Baseboard and the BLE module combination enables you to develop battery-operated low-power BLE
designs that work in conjunction with standard, Arduino Uno connector-compliant shields or the onboard PSoC 4 BLE device
capabilities such as the CapSense user interface.
The BLE Pioneer Baseboard has an onboard programming and debugging interface, making the BLE design debugging
through the PSoC Creator IDE quick and easy. The BLE Pioneer Kit has an additional header that supports interfacing with
Pmod™ daughter cards from third-party vendors such as Digilent®. The kit also has a BLE Dongle that acts as a BLE link
master and works with CySmart Host Emulation Tool to provide a BLE host emulation platform on non-BLE Windows PCs.
The kit consists of a set of BLE example projects and documentation that help you get started on developing your own BLE
applications. Visit www.cypress.com/go/CY8CKIT-042-BLE to get the latest updates on the kit and download the kit design,
example projects, and documentation files.
Figure 54. BLE Pioneer Kit
CySmart Host Emulation Tool
The CySmart Host Emulation Tool is a Windows application that emulates a BLE Central device using the BLE Pioneer Kit’s
BLE Dongle; see Figure 15. It is installed as part of the BLE Pioneer Kit installation and can be launched from right-click
options in the BLE Component. It provides a platform for you to test your PSoC 4 BLE Peripheral implementation over GATT
or L2CAP connection-oriented channels by allowing you to discover and configure the BLE Services, Characteristics, and
Attributes on your Peripheral.
Operations that you can perform with CySmart Host Emulation Tool include, but are not limited to:
 ^{Scan BLE Peripherals to discover available devices to which you can connect.}
 ^{Discover available BLE Attributes including Services and Characteristics on the connected Peripheral device.}
 ^{Perform read and write operations on Characteristic values and descriptors.}
 ^{Receive Characteristic notifications and indications from the connected Peripheral device.}
 ^{Establish a bond with the connected Peripheral device using BLE Security Manager procedures.}
 ^{Establish a BLE L2CAP connection-oriented session with the Peripheral device and exchange data per the Bluetooth 4.1}
specification.
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