Cypress University Alliance and Bhubaneswar Institute of Technology (BIT) Team Up To Build New PSoC® Laboratory

As part of the agreement, Cypress will provide hands-on training to the faculty and students of BIT, along with free hardware kits and software tools. BIT will provide the facilities for the laboratory.

BIT plans to immediately introduce PSoC training for its 120 students in Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE) and Electrical & Electronics Engineering (EEE), beginning with the students’ first year. It plans to develop courseware and lab material for its basic electronics labs on the PSoC platform. A two-semester course on PSoC has also been planned at BIT, in which the course materials will be developed by the faculty of BIT in collaboration with Cypress. The course will include both theories and practical lab sessions, with emphasis on allowing students to use PSoC in innovative applications and in their academic projects.

This Laboratory will expose the students to the PSoC platform, a flexible family of devices with programmable analogue and digital blocks integrated with a microcontroller. With its unique architecture, PSoC provides an unrivaled learning platform for embedded design students. The lab will also be used for training the local engineering community

PSoC combines the familiarity of a microcontroller, configurability of a CPLD and the capabilities of an ASIC. This unique platform provides a powerful development environment to learn practical design skills,” said Dr. Mahapatra, Chairman of BIT. ”Our partnership will allow ECE & EEE students to receive hands-on lab experience using Cypress’s industry-leading technology right from their first year. This is in tune with BIT’s hands-on learning methodology and will significantly augment traditional lectures, exercises and assignments. This demonstrates BIT’s commitment to bring emerging technologies to education in Orissa.

We are pleased to partner with BIT on this new PSoC lab,” said Kane. These agreements are exactly what the Cypress University Alliance is about - partnering with leading universities and students to establish PSoC as the premier embedded design learning platform,