Psoc lecture related to electrical engineering students. Those development boards are just a way for someone to quickly get up to speed in using the PSoC. The intention is for an engineer to become familiar with that chip and then go and design it into your own custom PCB (and build millions of them and make everybody fist-fulls of money). They also use those boards at college as sort of a "gateway drug". They get you hooked on the PSoC early, so when you go out into the real world you will tend to use them, ship millions, and make everybody fist-fulls of money.I saw a demo (which was actually meant for my seniors) of a PSoC 5 board by cypress at my college. They demonstrated how to use the capsense built into the board and one of the PSoC chips to turn an LED on and off. This is basic Hello World stuff.Cypress PSoC devices have blocks (PWM modules, counters, timers, UARTs, ADC, DAC, etc.) that can be configured easily by a GUI, which can speed up the development time of a project. (no need to design external circuitry, lay it out, etc.) Also, the PCB real estate reduction is a nice plus (no need for external chips for all of these functions). Since these blocks are actual hardware modules, you also don't need to spend time writing software to emulate these functions. They can be configured to trigger interrupts, so your state machine can easily interact with the blocks.