Design techniques and challenges to implement an electronic bike (e-bike) are explored by Ronak Desai, Cypress Semiconductors.

A Canadian-based manufacturer of smart clothing and intelligent software for health and performance, has selected the Bluetooth Smart-based EZ-BLE PRoC module from Cypress Semiconductor for use in its Hexoskin Smart biometric tracking shirts.

For designers of connected devices - from smart home appliances to wearable fitness trackers to factory automation equipment - the interconnectivity of the Internet of Things (IoT) is largely outweighed by the specific application requirements they must address. Cypress Semiconductor is addressing the diversity of the IoT, and common design concerns such as time to market and power consumption, with its expanded portfolio of ARM-Cortex-M-based PS...

Will wireless sensor nodes prove to be fertile ground for energy harvesting solutions, or will reliability and continuity of supply demand a battery-based implementation? Philip Ling takes a look at one option that could challenge perception.

Cypress Semiconductor and THine Electronics have introduced the industry's fastest USB 3.0 camera reference design kit with 13MP resolution at 21fps. The Ascella design kit is based on Cypress’s EZ-USB CX3 USB 3.0 camera controller and THine’s THP7312 Image Signal Processor (ISP). 

A family of energy harvesting PMICs that enable tiny, solar-powered wireless sensors for IoT applications has been introduced by Cypress Semiconductor. The new devices are claimed to be the world’s lowest-power, single-chip energy harvesting PMICs, and can be used with solar cells as small as 1cm2. 

Cypress Semiconductor has announced that its EZ-PD CCG1 and EZ-PD CCG2 USB Power Delivery controllers passed the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) certification test procedure for USB Type-C DRP, DFP, and UFP applications. The Cypress controllers received approved Product Test IDs 1096037, 1096039, 1096040, 1096042, 1096044 and 1096047 at the recently concluded USB-IF Compliance Workshop event held in Portland, Oregon. EZ-PD controllers address a b...

A high-throughput, low-power USB controller that converts GigE data to USB 3.0 data has been introduced by Cypress Semiconductor. The EZ-USB GX3 targets slimmer laptop designs that include an ultra-thin USB Type-C port and no bulky Ethernet port. The device provides comprehensive driver support for all major operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android and Chrome, enabling seamless plug-and-play operation via a USB 3.0 port on any...

Cypress Semiconductor presents this video introduction to FRAM highlighting energy efficiency, longer battery-life and battery free solutions. Cypress FRAM writes instantly at bus speed with no delay and provides 100 trillion cycle endurance.

Tom Sparkman provides a high-level overview and demonstrations of Cypress energy harvesting solutions.

Cypress Semiconductor has announced that Huawei has selected its TrueTouch capacitive touchscreen solution for its next-gen MediaPad X2 tablet PC. The PC utilises the TrueTouch TMA568 controller’s gloved finger tracking, robust water tolerance and easy-wake gestures for its sleek 7” touchscreen display. Users can make calls, surf the web, play games, take pictures and use other key features even if they are wearing thick gloves or the...

Cypress Semiconductor has announced its highly integrated, single-chip BLE solutions for the IoT and other wireless applications now offer double the memory capacity. The PSoC 4 BLE Programmable SoC and PRoC BLE Programmable RoC solutions each now have options with 256KB of flash and 32KB of SRAM, giving designers added flexibility by enabling OTA firmware upgrades without the need for external memory. The offerings are pin-to-pin compatible with...

Parade Technologies and Cypress Semiconductor have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Parade will acquire Cypress’s TrueTouch Mobile touchscreen business for an aggregate acquisition price of $100m in cash.

Cypress Semiconductor has announced that its first and second generation USB Power Delivery controllers passed the USB-IF (USB Implementers Forum) certification test procedure for USB Power Delivery E-Marker capabilities. The EZ-PD CCG1(CYPD1103) and the EZ-PD CCG2 (CYPD2103) controllers have received Product Test IDs 1095059 and 1095054 respectively.

Two Reference Design Kits (RDKs) designed for Bluetooth Smart applications have been introduced by Cypress Semiconductor. Based on the company’s PRoC BLE programmable radio-on-chip, the CY5672 PRoC BLE remote control RDK and the CY5682 PRoC BLE touch mouse RDK provide feature-rich, production-ready implementations with prolonged battery life.

ZTE has selected a TrueTouch capacitive touchscreen controller from Cypress Semiconductor for its nubia Z7 Max smartphone. The phone uses the TrueTouch TMA568 controller to implement an easy-wake gesture feature that enables the user to wake the phone’s screen from sleep-mode by simply double tapping on the screen with a finger.

Synchronous SRAMs claimed to be the industry’s highest-density have been released by Cypress Semiconductor. The integrated ECC feature enables the new 36Mb synchronous SRAMs to provide the highest levels of data reliability, simplifying designs for a wide variety of military, communication and data processing applications.

A family of 4Mb serial Ferroelectric Random Access Memories (F-RAMs), claimed to be the industry’s highest density, have been introduced by Cypress Semiconductor. The 4Mb serial F-RAMs feature a 40Mhz SPI, a 2.0-3.6V operating voltage range and are available in industry-standard, RoHS-compliant package options. All F-RAMs provide 100tn read/write cycle endurance with 10-year data retention at 85°C and 151 years at 65°C. 

A complete silicon and software solution for USB Type-C to DisplayPort adapters has been released by Cypress Semiconductor. The EZ-PD CCG1-based Type-C to DisplayPort Cable solution enables connectivity between a USB Type-C receptacle and a DisplayPort (DP) or Mini DisplayPort (mDP) receptacle, allowing emerging Type-C notebooks and monitors to be interoperable with older products. 

Micrium and Cypress Semiconductor have announced that Cypress's PSoC 4 M-series Pioneer Kit will include a free one-month license of Micrium's uC/Probe Graphical LiveWatch Professional Edition data visualisation software.