The design requirements for modern wearable products include sleek design, embedded intelligence, energy efficiency, expandability and cost-effectiveness. These create many design challenges for manufactures of these types of devices. The pressure from never-ending improvement forces designers to look for ways to integrate more functionality into a single chip to simplify design.

This video shows the demonstration platform of the PSoC analogue coprocessor used in trade shows during 2016 such as electronica and Maker Faires.

This video demonstrates the implementation of a BLE enabled Quadcopter.

  Cypress Semiconductor has announced what it claims to be the world’s first complete solution for USB-C to native HDMI connections without adapters or converters. 

Cypress Semiconductor and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) have announced that Cypress has begun volume shipments of microcontrollers (MCUs) containing its proprietary 40nm embedded Charge-Trap (eCT) Flash manufactured at UMC. The shipments mark the culmination of a multi-year collaboration between Cypress and UMC to integrate Cypress’s flash technology with UMC’s 40nm Low Power (40LP) logic process.

Create a tiny, solar-powered wireless sensor with the lowest-power, energy harvesting BLE Solution from Cypress.

This video demonstrates the out of the box demo of the CY8CKIT-022 CapSense Liquid Level Sensing shield, connected to a CY8CKIT-042 pioneer board.

Cypress Semiconductor announced a new version of its development platform for the IoT that enables wireless connectivity in minutes. The Wireless Internet Connectivity for Embedded Devices (WICED) Studio 4 platform provides a single development environment for multiple wireless technologies, including Cypress’s world-class Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and combo solutions, with an easy-to-use application programming interface.

electronica 2016 saw Cypress Semiconductor announced a new version of its development platform for the Internet of Things (IoT) that enables wireless connectivity in minutes. The Wireless Internet Connectivity for Embedded Devices (WICED) Studio 4 platform provides a single development environment for multiple wireless technologies, including Cypress’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and combo solutions, with an easy-to-use application programming interfa...

Create a tiny, solar-powered wireless sensor with the lowest-power, energy harvesting BLE Solution from Cypress.

The programmability and SuperSpeed USB performance of Cypress Semiconductor's EZ-USB FX3 controller helped startup SUB2r develop its unique, open-architecture camera platform.

Cypress Semiconductor and Hackster have announced a global design competition that gives engineers the opportunity to prototype their innovative ideas that sense the world around us for use in the growing Internet of Things (IoT) market, home appliances, and consumer and industrial applications. 

Watch Cypress's Senior Product Marketing Manager Anup Shivakumar give a demo of Cypress's USB-C controller portfolio which now supports the latest USB Power Delivery (PD) 3.0 specification.

Cypress Semiconductor has announced that its USB-C controller portfolio now supports the latest USB PD (Power Delivery) 3.0 specification, enabling more robust end-to-end power delivery and charging solutions for laptop and mobile devices. USB PD 3.0 provides a number of key enhancements over the current version of the spec, USB PD 2.0, to enhance robustness in power sources, sinks and cables.

Cypress Semiconductor has introduced an automotive LED driver that enables smaller and more cost-effective headlight systems. The S6BL112A automotive-grade LED driver is the industry’s first to feature synchronous control, which helps it provide industry-leading conversion efficiency, enabling stable performance in a lighting system.

Cypress has announced that it has closed its previously announced acquisition of the Wireless IoT business and related assets of Broadcom in an all-cash transaction valued at $550m. 

Cypress Semiconductor has introduced a new kit with a complete reference design for a tiny, battery-free sensor beacon for a broad range of fast-growing IoT applications. The CYALKIT-E02 Solar-Powered BLE Sensor Beacon Reference Design Kit provides an easy-to-use platform for the development of a solar-powered Wireless Sensor Node (WSN) that can sense the temperature and humidity around its location and transmit the data via BLE.

Cypress Semiconductor and MyScript have joined forces to include MyScript’s intuitive and precise handwriting recognition technology to automotive designers worldwide powered by Cypress’s Traveo MCU family. MyScript’s automotive HMI input method technology enables a low-distraction user interface.

Cypress Semiconductor has introduced a PSoC programmable SoC that simplifies the design of next-gen industrial, home appliance and consumer systems that require multiple sensors. Many IoT applications require multiple sensors and can benefit from dedicated coprocessors that offload sensor processing from the host and reduce overall system power consumption.

Cypress Semiconductor has introduced a BLE module solution that extends the range of Bluetooth to 400m, eight times that of current Bluetooth solutions. The EZ-BLE PSoC XT/XR module’s extended range opens up the use of Bluetooth connectivity to home automation, industrial and smart city applications. E.g., it enables a parking meter to receive payments via the Bluetooth connections on smartphones, while also reporting in to a central hub th...