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Cypress's PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 Architectures Named Finalist For Design News Magazine's Golden Mousetrap Awards

5th May 2010

Cypress Semiconductor

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Design News magazine has named the PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip architectures from Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) as finalists for this year's Golden Mousetrap Awards. The new PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 architectures dramatically increase performance and extend the world's only programmable analog and digital embedded design platform, delivering unmatched integration and flexibility across 8-, 16-, and 32-bit applications. The platform is powered by the revolutionary PSoC Creator Integrated Development Environment, which enables engineers to design the way they think and dramatically shorten time-to-market. The editors of Design News selected the Cypress platform from hundreds of nominations.

For more than two decades, the Design News Awards Program has recognized engineering innovation and creativity in product design. The Golden Mousetraps are awarded in four major categories: Electronics, Motion Control/Automation, Hardware/Software, Materials/Fastening/Joining/Assembly, and 20 subcategories. The magazine's editors gathered a record number of entries and, based on their expertise in each technology area, painstakingly selected the finalists. More information on the awards and the full list of finalists is available at www.designnews.com/mousetrapfinalists2010. The Design News write-up of the PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 architectures can be found at www.cypress.com/go/PSoCmousetrap.

PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 offer high-precision programmable analog including 12- to 20-bit ADCs, digital logic libraries full of dozens of drop-in peripherals, best-in-class power management and rich connectivity resources. The PSoC Creator IDE introduces a unique schematic-based design methodology along with fully tested, pre-packaged analog and digital peripherals easily customizable through user-intuitive wizards and APIs to meet specific design requirements. More information on the PSoC platform is available at www.cypress.com/go/psoc, and free downloads of PSoC Creator are available at www.cypress.com/go/psoccreator.

We are pleased to have the editors at Design News select the PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 architectures as finalists for a Golden Mousetrap Award, said Gahan Richardson, vice president of Cypress's PSoC products. These new PSoC devices, in tandem with the PSoC Creator IDE, offer a revolutionary embedded design platform for our customers to quickly and efficiently develop highly differentiated products in new and emerging applications.

Design News congratulates the finalists of the 2010 Golden Mousetrap Awards for the great work they've done to develop new and innovative products for design engineers, said Jennifer Roy, managing editor at Design News. These products, as always, showcase the highly imaginative ways that today's engineers are 'building a better mousetrap,' and we thank them for their contributions.