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Cypress Delivers Media Transfer Protocol Reference Design For Portable Media Players; New Design Enables Quick and Economical Digital Rights Management Implementation
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Cypress's New High-Speed USB 2.0 Microcontroller Has World's Smallest Package And Lowest Power For Mobile Phones, PMPs, PDAs and Webcams
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY), the market leader in USB, introduced the world's smallest high-speed USB 2.0 programmable microcontroller. Cypress is now offering its EZ-USB FX2LP(TM) controller in a 56-ball VFBGA (Very Fine Pitch Ball Grid Array) package that measures only 5 mm x 5 mm with 0.5-mm ball pitch. The device, with its diminutive package and the EZ-USB LP(TM) family's industry-leading low power specifications, delivers an ideal solution for implementing high-speed USB in small-form-factor and/or battery-powered applications such as mobile phones, portable media players, PDAs and webcams.
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Cypress Introduces World's First Industrial Grade High-Speed USB 2.0 Microcontroller; New Offering Supports Temperature Range of -40 Degrees C to +105 Degrees C for Industrial, Automotive and Military Applications
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY), the market leader in USB, introduced the world's first industrial temperature grade high-speed USB 2.0 programmable microcontroller. Cypress is now offering its EZ-USB FX2LP(TM) controller with a temperature rating of -40 degrees C to +105 degrees C, providing an ideal solution for implementing high-speed USB in industrial, automotive and military applications.
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Cypress Expands Industry's Most Popular Family of USB Microcontrollers With Next Generation Full-Speed and Low-Speed Flash-Based Offerings
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY), the market leader in USB, introduced a suite of new additions to its versatile family of USB microcontrollers. The new enCoRe(TM) III (enhanced component reduction) microcontrollers extend the enCoRe family's industry-leading performance and flexibility to full-speed applications, while the enhanced low-speed enCoRe II devices have added Flash memory and reduce overall system costs while increasing performance. The enCoRe family's flexible mix of speeds and configurations serves a broad range of human interface devices (HIDs) such as mice, keyboards, wireless dongles, and gaming controllers as well as Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) handsets.
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Texas Instruments and Cypress Collaborate to Deliver Low-Power, 27-MHz Wireless Mouse Reference Design
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI), and Cypress Semiconductor Corp. introduced today a power- optimized wireless mouse reference design kit with a 27-MHz dual-channel receiver. Enabled by low-power, highly-integrated and easy-to-use integrated circuits and an optical sensor, the kit allows designers to develop and quickly take to market a complete wireless mouse and receiver system, while reducing component count, system power consumption and cost.
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Cypress offering dual-port interconnects for consumer electronics
Claiming the industry's lowest power consumption and smallest footprint, Cypress Semiconductor Corp. introduced a family of asynchronous dual-port interconnects said to serve as an easy communication mechanism between two processing units in modular system designs with throughput of up to 400 megabits per second.
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Cypress and AuthenTec Deliver Reference Design for Biometric Security in ''Plug-and-Play'' External USB Hard Disk Drives
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and AuthenTec jointly introduced a reference design for adding biometric security to external hard disk drives (HDDs) using fingerprint recognition technology.
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Cypress Introduces High-Speed USB Transceiver Optimized for Intel's XScale Technology; New MoBL-USB(TM) TX2 Device Offers Industry's Smallest Package and Lowest Power Consumption for Handheld Applications
Cypress Semiconductor, the market leader in USB, introduced a high-speed USB 2.0 transceiver that is optimized for Intel Corporation's newest processor family (codenamed Monahans) based on the third generation Intel XScale(R) architecture. The device is compliant with the USB 2.0 Transceiver Macrocell Interface (UTMI) standard, and is approved for the Monahans Platform Development Kit (PDK).
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Cypress Ships Over 20 Million Low-Power USB 2.0 Controllers in Less Than One Year Since Family Introduction
Cypress Semiconductor, the market leader in USB, announced that in less than one year it has shipped over 20 million units of its new family of low-cost, high-speed USB controllers with the industry's lowest power consumption. The new EZ-USB LP(TM) (Low Power) controllers, introduced in April 2005, take advantage of Cypress's 0.13-micron C8(TM) process technology to reduce dynamic and standby power consumption by nearly 50 percent versus leading competitors.
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Cypress Delivers World's First Embedded USB Host/Peripheral Controller for Automotive ''Infotainment'' Applications
Cypress Semiconductor, the market leader in USB, introduced a version of its CY7C67300 EZ-Host(TM) embedded USB host/peripheral controller optimized for automotive applications. The device is compliant with AEC (Automotive Electronics Council) Q100 specifications, offering an operating temperature range from -40 degrees C to 85 degrees C. It is targeted at automotive "infotainment" applications including interfacing MP3 players, mobile handsets and GPS systems with in-vehicle radios and display systems. Cypress recently received certification for Automotive Industry Quality Standard ISO/TS 16949, a standard that ensures the highest levels of quality and reliability throughout the automotive supply chain.
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Cypress Rockets Past Half a Billion USB Controllers Shipped; USB Market Leader Delivers a Record 130 Million Units in 2005 to Eclipse 500 Million Mark; Already Approaching 600 Million
Cypress Semiconductor, the market leader in USB, announced that it has shipped over 500 million USB controllers. The controllers, which began shipping in 1997, are used in a wide array of USB host and peripheral consumer devices. Cypress offers the industry's most complete portfolio of USB devices, including low-, full-, and high-speed controllers, hosts, hubs, bridges and wireless solutions. Fueled by growing consumer demand in USB-enabled applications such as mice, keyboards, hubs, media and video players, mobile phones, mass storage (external hard disk drives & enclosures), set top boxes, photo printers and video capture peripherals, Cypress shipped over 130 million USB controllers in 2005, the most in its history, and is already approaching 600 million units shipped.
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New Cypress WirelessUSB(TM) LP Evaluation Kit Showcases Low-Power 2.4-GHz Wireless Radio System On Chip; Kit Provides User-Friendly Prototyping Tool for the WirelessUSB LP Radio System-on-Chip
Cypress Semiconductor announced the availability of an evaluation kit for its WirelessUSB(TM) LP 2.4-GHz radio system-on-chip, which is now in full production. The CY3630 Evaluation Kit (EVK) showcases the robust, low-power WirelessUSB LP radio, and includes a multiconfiguration microcontroller (MCU) socket, radio modules, LCD displays, a large prototyping area, and MCU programming software. The kit also includes four firmware tutorials as well as a wireless range demo that help users to quickly build familiarity with the features and performance of the radio.
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Cypress Introduces High-Speed, Small-Form-Factor Non-Volatile SRAM Family
Cypress Semiconductor introduced the first products in a family of non-volatile SRAMs (nvSRAMs) that internally store data when power is lost, with no battery required. The elimination of the external battery enables Cypress to deliver the RoHS-compliant, high-speed devices in smaller packages than alternative solutions. The nvSRAMs are ideal for any application requiring continuous high-speed writing of data and absolute non-volatile data security, such as RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) applications, copiers, PoS terminals, handheld meters, and consumer electronics products.
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Cypress Introduces World’s First Full-Featured, High-Speed USB Controller For Mobile Handsets
Cypress Semiconductor, the market leader in USB, introduced the world’s first 1.8-volt high-speed USB 2.0 programmable microcontroller. The new MoBL-USB FX2LP18™ controller delivers lightning-fast downloads of music files, photos and videos in mobile handsets. Without high-speed USB, it can take up to 30 to 40 seconds to download a typical music file; with the new Cypress solution, that same download takes about two to three seconds, depending on the cell phone architecture.
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Cypress Ships First Devices Made by China Foundry Partner, Grace Semiconductor, Several Months Ahead of Plan
The foundry will become a major supplier of Cypress's Programmable System-on-Chip(TM) (PSoC(R)) mixed-signal arrays, which integrate configurable analog and digital circuitry with an eight-bit microcontroller, and are used in applications as diverse as consumer electronics, handsets, computing and networking equipment, industrial systems, and automotive systems.
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Cypress Adds UTMI Interface Tri-State Mode to MoBL-USB™ TX2 Transceiver
Optimized for Intel’s XScale Technology
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY), the market leader in USB, announced that its high-speed MoBL-USB™ TX2 transceiver for mobile handsets now offers a mode that allows all input/output (I/O) pins on its UTMI (USB 2.0 Transceiver Macrocell Interface) interface to be tri-stated. The device, which is in full production, is optimized for Intel Corporation’s newest handheld applications processor family (codenamed Monahans) based on the third generation Intel XScale® architecture. The device is compliant with the UTMI standard, and has been tested in collaboration with Intel Corporation.
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Cypress Adds Next Generation, Low-Power USB 2.0 Hub Controller To High-Speed EZ-USB™ LP Family
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY), the market leader in USB, introduced its next generation of high-speed USB 2.0 hub controllers. The EZ-USB™ HX2LP controller, the newest member of the low-power EZ-USB LP family, is optimized for cost-sensitive applications including standalone hubs, monitors, docking stations, keyboards, motherboards and more.
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Cypress Unveils Revolutionary West Bridge™ Embedded Systems Architecture Enabling Rapid Data Transfer In A Variety Of Embedded Systems
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) introduced a new architecture for dedicated peripheral controllers that serve as functional bridges to rapidly evolving interface standards and provide high-performance, optimized data paths for a wide range of embedded applications. Cypress also announced the first product based on this new architecture, a peripheral controller designed to optimize data throughput in multimedia handsets. Devices in the new West Bridge™ family of peripheral controllers function as a companion chip to an embedded central processing unit (CPU) to free it from data-intensive operations. In the same way the North Bridge and South Bridge were introduced in the PC architecture to enable the main CPU to evolve independently from quickly changing memory and peripheral interfaces, embedded systems are evolving towards a similar architecture, where a West Bridge device manages the interfaces and offloads from the main CPU specific peripheral-to-peripheral traffic.
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Cypress Introduces Five New PSoC Development and Evaluation Kits
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) introduced five new development and evaluation kits for its fast-growing PSoC® mixed-signal arrays. The kits give designers easy-to-use tools to quickly and efficiently complete PSoC designs for a variety of applications.
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Cypress Introduces High-Performance, Highly-Integrated Laser Navigation Sensor
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) introduced a high precision and high performance laser navigation sensor as part of its OvationONS™ laser navigation sensor family. The CYONS1001G delivers unmatched speed and accuracy with low power consumption, using Cypress’s patent-pending OptiCheck™ technology. It targets applications including high-performance gaming, precision graphic design, and high accuracy position detection.
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