Cypress Semiconductor announced that Epson has selected the CapSense capacitive touch solution to implement buttons and LED controls in its new multi-function printers. The new Epson Artisan 725, Stylus Photo PX720WD, Stylus Photo TX720WD, and Stylus Photo PX660 multi-function printers have a unique control panel with LEDs that intuitively guide users through common tasks. The printers offer a wide array of features, including wireless and wired ...

Cypress Semiconductor announced that HTC has selected the TrueTouch solution from Cypress to implement the touchscreens in the hot new HTC 7 Surround and HTC 7 Mozart mobile phones. Both of the new smartphones are based on the Windows® Phone 7 Series recently introduced by Microsoft.

Cypress Envirosystems, a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced its selection by Sustainability Roundtable Inc as a Sustaining Level Service Leader. SR Inc has created the Sustainable Corporate Real Estate Roundtable, which conducts year-round research programs to develop management best practices for sustainable energy and resource savings that are validated by top industry leaders. In its capacity as a Sustaining Level Serv...

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Micrium, Inc. today announced that Micrium's uC/OS-III RTOS (Real-Time Operating System) supports Cypress’s PSoC 5 development platform.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that over 20,000 users have registered for the Cypress Developer Community™, an online forum for sharing design tips, videos, and blogs on the company’s PSoC® platform and other technologies.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced two extensions to Cypress’s popular VITA family of image sensors—the 2.3-megapixel VITA 2000 and the 5.3-megapixel VITA 5000. They are ideal for machine vision, high-end security, 2D barcode and intelligent traffic applications.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced two extensions to Cypress’s popular VITA family of image sensors—the 2.3-megapixel VITA 2000 and the 5.3-megapixel VITA 5000. They are ideal for machine vision, high-end security, 2D barcode and intelligent traffic applications.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced it has eclipsed the 750 million unit mark in shipments of its fast-growing PSoC® programmable system-on-chip. The world’s only programmable analog and digital embedded design platform combines analog and digital peripheral controllers with memory on a single piece of silicon, maximizing designers’ flexibility.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that Pioneer has selected its CapSense® solution to implement the capacitive touch-sensing controls in the SD8200 family of cordless digital phones. A single CapSense device controls 22 capacitive buttons on the phones, including illuminating the buttons when selected.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced the ARM® Cortex™M3/ PSoC® 5 Design Challenge, a contest to find the most innovative and useful designs from the millions of possibilities available to designers using the Cypress PSoC 5 architecture powered by the ARM Cortex-M3 processor.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that Microsoft’s revolutionary new Arc Touch Mouse uses the Cypress CapSense® solution for the touch scroll strip that lets users navigate documents and Web pages without using the on-screen scroll bar. The CapSense-based scroll wheel delivers a smooth, comfortable navigation experience as opposed to the jerky scrolling that some mechanical wheels provide.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced that revenue for the 2010 third quarter was $231.9 million, up 4.0% from $223.0 million for the prior quarter, and up 29.8% from $178.7 million for the year-ago period.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced that Samsung Electronics Company Ltd. has selected the TrueTouch™ solution from Cypress to implement the touchscreen in the Wave 2 and Galaxy 5 mobile phones.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced that ZTE Corporation has selected Cypress’s QDR™II SRAM devices for the new ZXCME 9500 series of Ethernet switches. Cypress’s 65-nm 72-Mbit QDRII SRAMs deliver the market’s fastest available clock speed of up to 550 MHz, feature the market’s broadest portfolio of device options, and are supported by the industry’s most extensive network of reference designs.

The white paper explains the function of a RAID Storage System write journal and shows why nvSRAM is the most commonly chosen nonvolatile random access memory for this application.

Cypress Semiconductor announced that both its CapSense capacitive touch controllers and TrueTouch touchscreen controllers are now available in tiny Wafer-Level Chip-Scale Packages (WLCSPs). These ultra-small packages enable manufacturers of personal media players, mobile handsets, PC peripherals (printers & mice), and other consumer electronic products to offer end products that are smaller and more attractive to consumers.

Cypress Semiconductor announced new features for its revolutionary PSoC Creator™ Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the PSoC® 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families. PSoC Creator now supports enhanced low-power design techniques, new LCD design capabilities and faster, easier CapSense® capacitive sensing design. More information and free downloads of PSoC Creator are available at www.cypress.com/go/psoccreator.

Cypress Semiconductor announced that a single Cypress PSoC 3 programmable system-on-chip integrates precision analog sensing, system management and user interface functions on Avnet’s low-power Xilinx Spartan®-6 LX16 FPGA Evaluation Board. The PSoC 3 device performs power management, CapSense® touch-sensing, USB/UART/SPI connectivity and configuration of the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) directly on the board. Flexible PSoC 3 I/Os als...

Kionix, Inc. today announced that Cypress Semiconductor Corporation has selected the Kionix KXSC7 accelerometer for use in the new CY8CKIT-014 PSoC® 5 FirstTouchTM Starter Kit for the revolutionary PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip architecture, powered by the 32-bit ARM® Cortex™-M3 processor.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) the market leader in touch-sensing, today announced a new CapSense® capacitive touch-sensing controller that enables designers to achieve mechanical button replacement (MBR) without having to write firmware or learn to use new software tools. The new CapSense Express™ device leverages Cypress’s revolutionary SmartSense™ auto-tuning algorithm, which eliminates the requirement for system tuning. Cypre...