Cypress partners with ARM for next-generation embedded platform solutions

SAN JOSE, USA & CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND: ARM and Cypress Semiconductor Corp. announced that Cypress has licensed a broad range of intellectual property (IP) from ARM for use in next-generation programmable platforms. Cypress has licensed the ARM Cortex-M3 and ARM9 family processors, along with more than 75 other IP elements.

Cypress is a leader in programmable solutions, with more than 25 years of providing a broad programmable offering. Cypress employs a SONOS manufacturing process that delivers high-performance, and excellent mixed-signal integration.

Cypress’s flagship PSoC programmable system-on-chip platform integrates an MCU core, programmable analog and digital blocks, and memory on a single chip. Cypress also offers programmable controllers for touch sensing and touchscreens, programmable clocks, and programmable LED controllers.

“Our ongoing relationship with Cypress and their adoption of the ARM Cortex architecture is a highly visible demonstration of the growing momentum behind ARM Cortex processor-based solutions,” said Eric Schorn, VP marketing, Processor Division, ARM.

“The combination of the Cortex-M3 processor’s ultra low-power, high-performance credentials with the flexibility of Cypress’s embedded platform technology provides system designers with the ideal solution for a wide variety of applications, including, automotive and industrial control systems, white goods, electronic toys and medical instrumentation.”

“This partnership with ARM expands the potential range of programmable solutions we can make available to customers with the twin benefits of high performance and industry-standard architectures,” said Norm Taffe, executive vice president of Cypress’s Consumer and Computation Division. “In addition, our customers now gain access to the broad ARM ecosystem of support around the processors.”