Gavin Hesse introduces you to PowerPSoC, the worlds first embedded power controller.

Cypress Semiconductor has announced that Electronics Weekly magazine has selected Cypress’s PowerPSoC® family of integrated embedded power controllers as the winner of the 2009 Elektra Award for “Power Systems Product of the Year.” The family offers the industry’s first single-chip solution to control and drive high-power LEDs. The devices integrate four constant-current regulators and four 32V MOSFETs with Cypress’s PSoC programmable ...

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today introduced a demonstration kit highlighting the broad precision analog capabilities of its new PSoC 3 architecture. The new CY8CKIT-007 PSoC 3 Precision Analog Voltmeter Demo Kit showcases a PSoC 3 device as a single-chip voltmeter, using an onboard 20-bit Delta Sigma Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) to measure the voltage from the included test leads and onboard thermocouple while directly driving an LCD. With ...

Cypress Semiconductor has introduced two evaluation kits showing the ease-of-use, fast development time and flexibility of its new PSoC® 3 architecture for LCD segment drive applications. The new CY8CKIT-006 PSoC 3 LCD Segment Drive Evaluation Kit and the CY8CKIT-029 PSoC LCD Segment Drive Expansion Board Kit demonstrate how a single PSoC 3 device can drive up to 736 LCD segments, more than any microcontroller-based solution. With the kits, des...

Cypress Semiconductor today introduced an upgraded module for its West Bridge peripheral controllers that offers the fastest sideloading solution for transfer of multimedia files from a PC to handheld device via the widely-used Media Transfer Protocol (MTP). The new Turbo-MTP 2.0 module enables users to sideload a feature-length movie in less than 45 seconds – more than 10 times faster than traditional MTP implementations. Additionally, the new...

Cypress Envirosystems, a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp, today announced that it has appointed electric power industry veteran Thomas R. McDaniel to its board of directors. McDaniel recently retired from Edison International after 37 years of service.

Cypress Semiconductor has introduced a new PSoC 1 programmable system-on-chip with enhanced analog performance. The superior programmable analog of the new CY8C28xxx device enables more advanced mixed-signal and sensing applications, as well as faster and more robust capacitive touch-sensing interfaces. The devices also deliver the best digital performance among the PSoC 1 family, including support for directly driving an LCD and dual hardware I2...

Cypress Semiconductor today announced three of its state-of-the-art CMOS Image Sensors for space applications are on-board the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Proba-2 Satellite, which was successfully launched on November 2. Cypress’s new HAS2 image sensor, specially designed for high accuracy star tracking, is implemented on a new Star Tracker developed by SELEX Galileo of Italy. The HAS2 image sensor is also being used in an extreme-ultraviol...

Cypress Semiconductor today announced three of its state-of-the-art CMOS Image Sensors for space applications are on-board the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Proba-2 Satellite, which was successfully launched on November 2. Cypress’s new HAS2 image sensor, specially designed for high accuracy star tracking, is implemented on a new Star Tracker developed by SELEX Galileo of Italy. The HAS2 image sensor is also being used in an extreme-ultraviol...

Cypress Semiconductor today introduced a high-sensitivity, high-speed CMOS image sensor targeted for the machine vision market. The new 1.3-megapixel VITA 1300 sensor combines a pipelined and triggered global snapshot shutter with a high frame rate of 150 frames-per-second (fps) for undistorted images and fast readout.

Cypress Semiconductor today introduced a high-sensitivity, high-speed CMOS image sensor targeted for the machine vision market. The new 1.3-megapixel VITA 1300 sensor combines a pipelined and triggered global snapshot shutter with a high frame rate of 150 frames-per-second (fps) for undistorted images and fast readout.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp today announced a new line of CapSense capacitive touch-sensing devices with low-power 1.8V operation to extend battery life in handheld mobile consumer applications. The CY8C20xx6A devices replace mechanical buttons and sliders, offering attractive, functional interface options for designers. The new family also offers exceptional response time with the most precise scanning of any CapSense devices. With superior immun...

Cypress Semiconductor today announced an automatic tuning solution for its CapSense capacitive touch-sensing devices. While existing solutions require engineers to perform time-consuming calibrations for up to 15 capacitive-sensing parameters, the new patent-pending SmartSense™ solution sets these automatically during the design process, significantly reducing development time. The solution dynamically optimizes the baseline and detection thres...

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today announced that it will voluntarily transfer its stock exchange listing from The New York Stock Exchange to the NASDAQ Global Select Market, on November 12. The company’s stock will continue to trade under the symbol “CY”. This transfer will be seamless to Cypress investors.

Cypress Semiconductor has announced a free, online seminar that presents a new embedded design platform based on Cypress’s PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 architectures. The 60-minute webinar, entitled “Introducing an Evolutionary Leap in Embedded Design,” will be presented in conjunction with EE Times on Wednesday, November 11 at 9:00 a.m. PST. Online registration is available at www.cypress.com/go/psoc3and5webinar.

Cypress Envirosystems, a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor and Adura Technologies, which creates turn-key wireless lighting management systems for commercial facilities, today announced they have formed a strategic sales and technology partnership. As part of the partnership, both companies will sell a fully compatible solution that combines Cypress Envirosystems’ Wireless Pneumatic Thermostat (WPT) and the Adura LightPoint System (ALPS). Th...

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced that revenue for the 2009 third quarter was $178.7 million, up 15% from $155.8 million for the prior quarter, and down 20% from $222.7 million for the year-ago period (excluding SunPower).

Cypress Semiconductor has announced the industry’s first monolithic SRAMs at 144-Mbit densities, the latest members of its 65-nm SRAM family. The new 144-Mbit QDRII, QDRII , DDRII and DDRII memories leverage 65-nm process technology developed with foundry partner UMC. They feature the market’s fastest available clock speed of 550 MHz and a total data rate of 80 Gbps in a 36-bit I/O width QDRII device, and consume half the power of 90-nm SRAMs...

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has recently published several videos about the new PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip architectures. The videos, all of which are available at www.cypress.com, deliver a wide range of information about the new offerings, including details on the new PSoC 3 FirstTouch™ Starter Kit and on the new PSoC Creator™ integrated development environment (IDE).

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced its founder, president and CEO T.J. Rodgers will present the keynote address at the 2009 ARM techcon3 in Santa Clara, California on Wednesday, October 21 at 12:00 p.m. at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The presentation, entitled “Not Your Father's Embedded Design: How System-Level Programmability is Now Changing the Engineer's World,” will examine how a new embedded design paradigm is enabling g...