Cypress, MNIT Bangalore to build new PSoC laboratory

BANGALORE, INDIA: Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology (NMIT) of Bangalore have agreed to build a joint PSoC programmable system-on-chip laboratory in the department of Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) of NMIT.

The agreement was signed at NMIT on by Balaji Thirumalai, Director of Strategic Marketing and Corporate Business Development and Dr. H.C. Nagaraj, Principal of NMIT, Bangalore.

As part of the agreement, Cypress will provide hands-on training to the faculty and students of NMIT, Bangalore, in addition to free hardware kits and software tools. NMIT, Bangalore will provide the facilities for the laboratory.

This Laboratory will expose the students to the PSoC platform, a flexible family of devices with programmable analogue and digital blocks integrated with a microcontroller. With its unique architecture, PSoC provides an unrivaled learning platform for embedded design students. The lab will also be used for training the local engineering community

A two semester course on PSoC is also being planned at NMIT. The course material will be developed by the faculty of NMIT in collaboration with Cypress. The course will include both theory and practical labs. The emphasis will be on allowing the students to use PSoC in innovative applications and in their academic projects. The course will also provide the academic community an excellent opportunity to engage in more industrial projects.

"This new laboratory adds a new facet to our curriculum here at NMIT, Bangalore" said Dr. Nagaraj. "The PSoC platform provides a rich environment for our students to learn practical, real-world engineering skills, which will help them immediately in their chosen careers. We look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with Cypress."

"We have a long history in Bangalore, and we are pleased to partner with a leader in education in this area," said Thirumalai. "The engineers and professionals that use this new lab will learn the power and flexibility of the PSoC platform, and we expect many of them will want to use PSoC in real-world designs."

"This agreement is exactly what the Cypress University Alliance is about-partnering with the world's leading universities and students to establish PSoC as the premier embedded design learning platform," said Patrick Kane, director of the Cypress University Alliance. "We are proud to add NMIT, Bangalore to the growing list of world-class universities using PSoC."