Cypress have revealed that Schneider Electric has designed Cypress’s nonvolatile static random access memories into two of its new programmable automation controllers. The Schneider BMXCRA31210 and BMXERT1604 controllers each employ Cypress’s CY14B101Q2 1-Mbit nvSRAM as a time-stamp buffer. When an event such as the closure of a switch or power line defect is detected, the nvSRAM records it in a rolling buffer. These types of events can occur...

Cypress Semiconductor Corp today introduced the newest members of the TrueTouch Gen4 touchscreen controller line. Gen4X controllers offer the industry's highest noise immunity, and were designed for cost-sensitive platforms including models for the rapidly growing China smartphone market. They deliver unparalleled performance in the presence of all noise sources the biggest challenge faced by touchscreen designs and support both in-cell and SLIM...

Cypress Semiconductor have today announced the keynote speeches that will be presented at the upcoming PSoC World international virtual embedded design conference on December 12 and 13. The speakers at the event include:

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As one of the most precise analogue instruments in everyday circulation, digital weigh-scales are used in many different ways. However the complexities that arise when measuring weight can cause a number of problems when designing such a sensitive piece of equipment. By Kannan Sadasivam, Staff Applications Engineer with Cypress, and Sachin Gupta, Senior Applications Engineer at Cypress.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp today announced that Tesla Motors has selected its TrueTouch automotive touchscreen solution for the infotainment system in Model S, the world’s first premium electric sedan. The 17-inch touchscreen in Model S is the largest in a production vehicle to date, and is the first to integrate all functional controls into a touchscreen. To Model S, the TrueTouch solution brings design flexibility and a multi-touch experience...

Cypress Semiconductor Corp has selected the Gen4 TrueTouch touchscreen controller for its flagship Vega R3 smartphone. The Gen4 solution brings dynamic multi-finger tracking to Vega R3’s vibrant screen, with leading signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to deliver highly responsive and accurate touch performance in any operating environment.

Cypress Semiconductor today introduced a single-chip solution that integrates a wireless radio with touch-sensing circuitry for wireless mice, trackpads, remote controls, presenter tools, and other Human Interface Devices (HIDs).

Cypress Semiconductor a annoncé ce jour que TASCAM, la division audio professionnelle de TEAC Corporation, a choisi le système-programmable-sur-puce PSoC 3 pour ses nouveaux microphones iM2, iM2X, et iXJ2. Ces accessoires stéréophoniques de poche transforment les iPhone, iPad et iPod touch en enregistreurs audio génèrant un flux parfait au bit près, sans ajout ni perte d'échantillons. Ces produits s'appuient sur le composant PSoC 3 pour g...

Cypress have revealed that TEAC has selected the PSoC 3 programmable system-on-chip for its new iM2, iM2X, and iXJ2 microphones. The pocket-sized stereo microphone accessories each turn the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch into audio recorders that deliver bit-perfect streaming with no added or dropped audio samples.

Cypress have today released version 5.3 of its PSoC Designer Integrated Design Environment for the PSoC 1 Programmable System-on-Chip architecture. The new version includes over 30 new or enhanced User Modules, which are free “Virtual Chips,” represented by an icon, that are used to integrate multiple ICs and system interfaces into a single PSoC device. Also included in Version 5.3 are multiple new features to make designing with PSoC faster ...

Cypress announced today the completion of its initial tender offer for all of the outstanding stock of Ramtron International Corporation. The initial offering period expired at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, on October 9, 2012.

Cypress Semiconductor today announced that Sysgration, a leading OEM/ODM manufacturer of PC peripherals in Taiwan, has selected Cypress’s 2.4-GHz WirelessUSB-NL radio-on-a-chip for its “U” and “W” wireless presenter series. Sysgration will also use Cypress’s enCoRe II microcontrollers in the presenter and complementary USB dongles.

Cypress Semiconductor today announced that Himax Imaging has selected Cypress’s EZ-USB FX3 peripheral controller for its USB 3.0 5M Sensor Evaluation Board. This evaluation board can be used with a variety of image sensors, including the popular HM5065(5M), HM3451(3.4M), HM2056/2057(2M), HM1375 (1.3M) and HM1055(HD) models, which are widely used in application such as PC cameras, document scanners and industrial cameras.

Cypress Semiconductor today announced that, in connection with its previously announced merger agreement with Ramtron International it has increased the offer price in its tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding stock of Ramtron to $3.10 per share and extended the expiration date of the offer to 12:00 midnight, New York City time, on October 9, 2012, unless further extended. The all-cash offer is subject to customary closing conditions as ...

Cypress and Ramtron have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Cypress will acquire all outstanding stock of Ramtron at a price of $3.10 per share in cash. The transaction, valued at approximately $109.8 million, represents a premium of 71% to Ramtron’s closing price of $1.81 per share on June 11, 2012, the day before Cypress publicly disclosed its offer for Ramtron.

This video shows a block diagram of the major components of a PSoC 1 debugging setup, the two types of pods -- the CY3210 pod and the CY3250 pod, complete hardware setup for both types of the pods and a pod selector guide that lists all the PSoC 1 devices and the relevant pod and pod feet.

Total Phase has unveiled their new series of Beagle USB 5000 v2 SuperSpeed Protocol Analysers. These new models build on the reliable technology seen in the original Beagle analysers, adding advanced features such as SuperSpeed USB downlink and multi-analyser synchronization to allow engineers to access their captured data with unparalleled precision and speed.

Cypress have today unveiled a new family of 16-Mbit non-volatile static random access memories, including devices with synchronous NAND flash memory interfaces. The family marks the industry’s first non-volatile SRAM memory that can interface directly with Open NAND Flash Interface and Toggle NAND bus controllers.

Cypress has declared that it has shipped over 1 billion capacitive touch units. Included in the billion units are Cypress’s TrueTouch touchscreen controllers; CapSense controllers for mechanical button, slider and switch replacement; and trackpad units for cursor navigation in laptop computers.