SAN JOSE, USA: Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced that its PSoC-based CapSense capacitive touch-sensing solution has been selected to power the controls of a new microwave oven from Midea, a leading home appliance manufacturer in China.
The CapSense solution delivers reliable operation for 13 buttons and one slider, employing the industry’s most robust RF noise-immunity and a specialized, adaptive algorithm to filter noise from disruptive microwave radiation.
CapSense’s flexible PSoC architecture enabled Midea’s designers to implement LED control and I2C communication with the same CapSense device -- a capability called CapSense Plus.
Midea’s new TW025LC7-BR microwave also functions as a barbeque and steam-cooker. The appliance’s steam-cooking method minimizes the loss of nutrients. The microwave is easy-to-clean, energy efficient and durable, leveraging the proven water-resistance of CapSense controls. The touch-sensing controls also add to the appliance’s smart looks and efficient operation.
“As the established leader in touch-sensing, Cypress’s capacitive sensing methods are several generations ahead of competing products,” said Gokul Krishnan, Director of Marketing for the User Interface Business Unit at Cypress.
“This technical advantage is manifested in features such as robust immunity to water and radiation and the ability to integrate additional functions. This makes CapSense the ideal solution for leading white goods manufacturers such as Midea.”
“CapSense enabled us to achieve the reliable performance and stylish design we wanted for our new microwave,” said Yao Long, project manager at Midea. “Additionally, Cypress helped speed our time to market with easy-to-use tools, testing firmware and outstanding design support.”
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Rajeev Mehtani is senior vice president, India Operations, Cypress
BANGALORE, INDIA: Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced the appointment of Rajeev Mehtani as Senior Vice President of India Operations. In his new role, Mehtani, who has over 23 years of experience in the industry, will be responsible for managing and growing India operations.
Mehtani joins Cypress from NXP Semiconductors where he was the vice president and country manager for India. He previously held a wide variety of positions at NXP and Philips Semiconductors, including design engineering, corporate marketing and managing business units.
"I am truly excited to be a part of Cypress India,” said Mehtani. “Cypress is unique in that we have much more than R&D in India. A significant portion of global business management, as well as corporate and strategic marketing operations are based in India, offering an opportunity to impact the strategic direction of the company. In addition, our broad programmable product offering is well positioned to serve the growing Indian product design market, and we look forward to intensifying our sales efforts in India."
"Rajeev brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience in all areas of development and business unit management,” said Paul Keswick, executive vice president of New Product Development at Cypress. “India is extremely important to the future growth and success of Cypress, and we are excited to have attracted a top industry talent for this position.”
Mehtani joins Cypress from NXP Semiconductors where he was the vice president and country manager for India. He previously held a wide variety of positions at NXP and Philips Semiconductors, including design engineering, corporate marketing and managing business units."I am truly excited to be a part of Cypress India,” said Mehtani. “Cypress is unique in that we have much more than R&D in India. A significant portion of global business management, as well as corporate and strategic marketing operations are based in India, offering an opportunity to impact the strategic direction of the company. In addition, our broad programmable product offering is well positioned to serve the growing Indian product design market, and we look forward to intensifying our sales efforts in India."
"Rajeev brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience in all areas of development and business unit management,” said Paul Keswick, executive vice president of New Product Development at Cypress. “India is extremely important to the future growth and success of Cypress, and we are excited to have attracted a top industry talent for this position.”
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Cypress' solutions library offers over 150 design elements
SAN JOSE, USA: Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced that its online solutions library now offers more than 150 design elements addressing a wide range of applications and functions. Users have now performed over 20,000 downloads of design elements from the site.
The Cypress Solutions Library website is a free resource of IP that can be easily replicated for quick, effective design with Cypress’s flexible, programmable PSoC architecture, as well as for designs using Cypress’s USB and CyFi low-power RF technologies. The library can be accessed from the “Solutions” tab on the Cypress company website or directly at www.cypress.com/solutions.
The Cypress Solutions Library website’s IP elements provide complete solutions for specific functions, including capacitive sensing, I2C, battery charging, motor control and both wired and wireless connectivity. IP is available in the library for applications including consumer electronics, automotive, white goods and others.
IP elements come in various types: technical documents, software and/or firmware and complete designs that include documentation, software/firmware, schematics, layout files and videos of the solutions in action.
“We’re very pleased to see the enthusiastic response to this resource from our user base,” said Nelson Chow, Solution Center director for Cypress. “Designers are using this library to implement designs more quickly and easily. We are continuously posting new design elements to add more value to the site.”
The Cypress Solutions Library website is a free resource of IP that can be easily replicated for quick, effective design with Cypress’s flexible, programmable PSoC architecture, as well as for designs using Cypress’s USB and CyFi low-power RF technologies. The library can be accessed from the “Solutions” tab on the Cypress company website or directly at www.cypress.com/solutions.
The Cypress Solutions Library website’s IP elements provide complete solutions for specific functions, including capacitive sensing, I2C, battery charging, motor control and both wired and wireless connectivity. IP is available in the library for applications including consumer electronics, automotive, white goods and others.
IP elements come in various types: technical documents, software and/or firmware and complete designs that include documentation, software/firmware, schematics, layout files and videos of the solutions in action.
“We’re very pleased to see the enthusiastic response to this resource from our user base,” said Nelson Chow, Solution Center director for Cypress. “Designers are using this library to implement designs more quickly and easily. We are continuously posting new design elements to add more value to the site.”
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Belarus National Technical University awarded for remarkable PSoC deployment
SAN JOSE, USA: A team from Belarus National Technical University (BNTU) was presented with the Second Annual Professor E.I. Tochitsky Fellowship Award.
Under the leadership of Prof. Igor E. Zuikov, the groups from the Department for Advanced Device Development implemented a massive deployment of the Cypress PSoC programmable system-on-chip platform, including multiple PSoC-based seminars and diploma works. The award was presented at a ceremony in Minsk, Belarus.
“PSoC has been a wonderful teaching and design platform for us," said Professor Zuikov. “We are looking forward to continuing work with the platform, including next-generation devices.”
Leading principals of BG Partners—Professor Alexander P. Ryjov, Dr. Irina E. Tochitskaya, and Entrepreneur-In-Residence Paul Molchanov (Winner of the 2007 Cypress PSoC Challenge)—presented the Award to BNTU. “We clearly recognize the enormous potential of BNTU as an excellent PSoC design center,” said Dr. Victor V. Boksha, Managing Director of BG Partners.
“We expect the BNTU team will further develop under the capable guidance of Professors Zuikov and Piotr G. Krivicky. We think that BNTU will augment the outstanding PSoC design capabilities we already have in Kiev and Cairo. We look forward to working together to fully realize in Belarus the immense potential for PSoC-based solutions.”
“We are very happy to have the sophisticated Belarus National Technical University team as part of the Cypress family,” said Patrick Kane, director of the Cypress University Alliance. “They are without a doubt one of the most dynamic and imaginative groups embracing the PSoC platform.”
BG Partners Group, Cypress Semiconductor University Alliance, and Professor E.I. Tochitsky’s family established the Fellowship in 2007 to recognize and support a best Student-Professor Entrepreneurial Effort.
The fellowship was founded in memory of Prof. Eduard Ivanovich Tochitsky (1935–2007) -- a remarkable business and technology leader. The fellowship is instituted to support young entrepreneurial talent from Belarus –- Prof. Tochitsky's motherland.
Best works from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Egypt, Kuwait, and Greece also will be considered. The 2007 Award went to Professor Victor F. Zavortony’s group (Ukraine National Technical University) – the Winner of the 2008 Cypress PSoC Challenge. There are three main components of the Fellowship: the opportunity to work with BG Partners to create a business plan for an innovative product; an interview with Cypress concerning a potential internship; and a student financial award.
Under the leadership of Prof. Igor E. Zuikov, the groups from the Department for Advanced Device Development implemented a massive deployment of the Cypress PSoC programmable system-on-chip platform, including multiple PSoC-based seminars and diploma works. The award was presented at a ceremony in Minsk, Belarus.
“PSoC has been a wonderful teaching and design platform for us," said Professor Zuikov. “We are looking forward to continuing work with the platform, including next-generation devices.”
Leading principals of BG Partners—Professor Alexander P. Ryjov, Dr. Irina E. Tochitskaya, and Entrepreneur-In-Residence Paul Molchanov (Winner of the 2007 Cypress PSoC Challenge)—presented the Award to BNTU. “We clearly recognize the enormous potential of BNTU as an excellent PSoC design center,” said Dr. Victor V. Boksha, Managing Director of BG Partners.
“We expect the BNTU team will further develop under the capable guidance of Professors Zuikov and Piotr G. Krivicky. We think that BNTU will augment the outstanding PSoC design capabilities we already have in Kiev and Cairo. We look forward to working together to fully realize in Belarus the immense potential for PSoC-based solutions.”
“We are very happy to have the sophisticated Belarus National Technical University team as part of the Cypress family,” said Patrick Kane, director of the Cypress University Alliance. “They are without a doubt one of the most dynamic and imaginative groups embracing the PSoC platform.”
BG Partners Group, Cypress Semiconductor University Alliance, and Professor E.I. Tochitsky’s family established the Fellowship in 2007 to recognize and support a best Student-Professor Entrepreneurial Effort.
The fellowship was founded in memory of Prof. Eduard Ivanovich Tochitsky (1935–2007) -- a remarkable business and technology leader. The fellowship is instituted to support young entrepreneurial talent from Belarus –- Prof. Tochitsky's motherland.
Best works from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Egypt, Kuwait, and Greece also will be considered. The 2007 Award went to Professor Victor F. Zavortony’s group (Ukraine National Technical University) – the Winner of the 2008 Cypress PSoC Challenge. There are three main components of the Fellowship: the opportunity to work with BG Partners to create a business plan for an innovative product; an interview with Cypress concerning a potential internship; and a student financial award.
Monday, June 8, 2009
New Cypress PSoC devices enhance design flexibility
SAN JOSE, USA: Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today introduced two new PSoCs with enhanced analog and digital performance.
The CY8C21x45 and CY8C22xxx PSoC devices give engineers more design flexibility through greater configurability and better performance of digital resources for implementing PWMs, timers, communication interfaces such as I2C and SPI, and more.
Leveraging a dedicated dual-channel CapSense capacitive touch-sensing interface, a capability called CapSense Plus allows a single new PSoC device to implement multiple buttons and slider interfaces while managing functions such as motor control, intelligent sensing, LED control and more. The new chips target a broad range of applications across white goods, communications, industrial, automotive, consumer electronics and other markets.
The PSoC architecture integrates programmable analog and digital blocks with a microcontroller, a unique combination that offers designers unmatched integration and flexibility. The enhanced digital resources on the CY8C21x45 and CY8C22xxx devices offer a hardware real-time clock and PWM deadband and single/multi shot support, saving CPU horsepower and engineering development time.
The new devices include a faster, dedicated Successive-Approximation Register (SAR) Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) with sample and hold capability delivering sampling rates up to 150 ksps. These new devices also allow every I/O to be analog or digital with easy accessibility, enabling customers to integrate system peripherals.
The integration offered by the CapSense Plus capability is ideal for white goods and other applications.
“The improved analog and digital performance in these new devices further extends PSoC’s unmatched integration and flexibility,” said Matt Branda, marketing director for Cypress’s PSoC products. “With the tremendous growth experienced by PSoC, Cypress is moving quickly to extend the performance of the architecture to address a much wider array of markets and applications.”
Additional features
* Two-channel dedicated peripherals to implement up to 37 CapSense touch-sensing buttons with support for additional functions.
* Shift function register support.
* Variable length Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) from 8-bit to approximately 16-bit.
* I2C hardware address matching.
* Hardware Real-Time Clock.
* Dual analog bus for SAR ADC.
Cypress offers multiple kits to streamline design with the new PSoC devices. The CY3280-22x45 Universal CapSense Controller Kit offers a development board with ports for CapSense expansion modules, including the CY3280-CPM1 CapSense Plus Module.
The CPM1 board has a potentiometer, LED display and other I/Os for interaction with the core processor on the CY3280 kits—showcasing the additional functions that can be integrated with CapSense Plus. The CY3250-22x45 Pod kit allows a designer to use pods and feet to place the new PSoC devices onto development boards and perform in-development-system debugging.
The CY8C21x45 and CY8C22xxx PSoC devices are now in production. They are available in multiple configurations, and come in 44-pin TQFP and 28-pin SOIC packages. The CY3280-22x45 Universal CapSense Controller Kit is priced at US$199, the CY3280-CPM1 CapSense Plus Module is US$99, and the CY3250-22x45 Pod kit is available for US$299. The kits are all currently available from the Cypress eShop.
The CY8C21x45 and CY8C22xxx PSoC devices give engineers more design flexibility through greater configurability and better performance of digital resources for implementing PWMs, timers, communication interfaces such as I2C and SPI, and more. Leveraging a dedicated dual-channel CapSense capacitive touch-sensing interface, a capability called CapSense Plus allows a single new PSoC device to implement multiple buttons and slider interfaces while managing functions such as motor control, intelligent sensing, LED control and more. The new chips target a broad range of applications across white goods, communications, industrial, automotive, consumer electronics and other markets.
The PSoC architecture integrates programmable analog and digital blocks with a microcontroller, a unique combination that offers designers unmatched integration and flexibility. The enhanced digital resources on the CY8C21x45 and CY8C22xxx devices offer a hardware real-time clock and PWM deadband and single/multi shot support, saving CPU horsepower and engineering development time.
The new devices include a faster, dedicated Successive-Approximation Register (SAR) Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) with sample and hold capability delivering sampling rates up to 150 ksps. These new devices also allow every I/O to be analog or digital with easy accessibility, enabling customers to integrate system peripherals.
The integration offered by the CapSense Plus capability is ideal for white goods and other applications.
“The improved analog and digital performance in these new devices further extends PSoC’s unmatched integration and flexibility,” said Matt Branda, marketing director for Cypress’s PSoC products. “With the tremendous growth experienced by PSoC, Cypress is moving quickly to extend the performance of the architecture to address a much wider array of markets and applications.”
Additional features
* Two-channel dedicated peripherals to implement up to 37 CapSense touch-sensing buttons with support for additional functions.
* Shift function register support.
* Variable length Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) from 8-bit to approximately 16-bit.
* I2C hardware address matching.
* Hardware Real-Time Clock.
* Dual analog bus for SAR ADC.
Cypress offers multiple kits to streamline design with the new PSoC devices. The CY3280-22x45 Universal CapSense Controller Kit offers a development board with ports for CapSense expansion modules, including the CY3280-CPM1 CapSense Plus Module.
The CPM1 board has a potentiometer, LED display and other I/Os for interaction with the core processor on the CY3280 kits—showcasing the additional functions that can be integrated with CapSense Plus. The CY3250-22x45 Pod kit allows a designer to use pods and feet to place the new PSoC devices onto development boards and perform in-development-system debugging.
The CY8C21x45 and CY8C22xxx PSoC devices are now in production. They are available in multiple configurations, and come in 44-pin TQFP and 28-pin SOIC packages. The CY3280-22x45 Universal CapSense Controller Kit is priced at US$199, the CY3280-CPM1 CapSense Plus Module is US$99, and the CY3250-22x45 Pod kit is available for US$299. The kits are all currently available from the Cypress eShop.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Cypress PSoC and CyFi solution enables smart connectivity for remote controls
SAN JOSE, USA: Cypress Semiconductor Corp. announced that PURE, the UK’s leading radio manufacturer, has employed Cypress’s CyFi low-power wireless powered by a PSoC programmable system-on-chip to implement communication in the remote control for the EVOKE Flow and AVANTI Flow digital audio systems.
The CyFi wireless solution overcomes infrared’s line-of-sight requirement, enabling the full-featured remote controls to access the audio systems from another room. The EVOKE Flow also leverages the versatile Cypress CapSense solution to implement the touch-sensing controls on its front panel.
The CyFi solution's ultra-low-power consumption prolongs battery life. Its industry-leading interference immunity allows remote controls to operate uninterrupted in the home environment, where the 2.4GHz spectrum is crowded with signals from Wi-Fi, microwaves, cordless phones and other devices.
The CyFi solution is enhanced by the flexible and easy-to-use PSoC programmable system-on-chip, which reduces the complexity of quantifying a sensor’s signal by integrating the amplification, filtering, and ADC stages into a single device.
The award-winning EVOKE Flow portable radio and AVANTI Flow tabletop digital audio system offer users a rich choice of audio content from sources such as internet radio using the built in Wi-Fi connection, DAB or FM broadcasts, or even music on a home Wi-Fi network.
“Top-quality digital audio systems such as PURE’s Flow products demand a feature-rich remote control with high reliability and low-power consumption for years of battery life,” said Martin Harrison, Director of Hardware Development at PURE. “We chose the CyFi solution for its ease of integration and flexibility. The versatility of PSoC to control multiple functions helped us to reduce our BOM costs while also providing our products with a very marketable USP (unique selling point).”
“The PSoC and CyFi wireless solution delivers robust connectivity and flexibility to the remote for PURE’s award-winning products,” said Matt Branda, marketing director for PSoC at Cypress. “Cypress’s solution provides the innovative features and performance required by next-generation remote controls.”
CyFi Low-Power Wireless
The CyFi solution uses Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) modulation to encode data and allow the CyFi receiver to recover the signal when faced with interference. The solution intelligently selects a clear channel from the 80 narrow, 1 MHz channels at the transceiver’s disposal. No other 2.4-GHz solution combines DSSS modulation with this level of frequency agility.
The solution can also increase power amplification to overcome interference. This dynamic adaptability to the operating environment also lends to optimizing power consumption. In noise-free environments the CyFi solution communicates at 1 Mbps to minimize transfer time and leverage the ultra-low-power sleep current of 0.8 uA.
The solution automatically drops to a slower, more robust 250 kbps data rate when it detects interference, and it can increase power amplification to reduce retransmissions and return to sleep-mode faster.
The CyFi protocol stack has the smallest memory footprint of any comparable wireless solution at 5.5K in Flash, leaving room for additional system functionality in the controlling PSoC device. Designers can use the compact protocol stack to build a complete wireless star-topology network with fewer peripherals and greater functionality.
The protocol stack has a network capacity of up to 255 nodes per hub, all with asynchronous, bi-directional communication.
The CyFi wireless solution overcomes infrared’s line-of-sight requirement, enabling the full-featured remote controls to access the audio systems from another room. The EVOKE Flow also leverages the versatile Cypress CapSense solution to implement the touch-sensing controls on its front panel.The CyFi solution's ultra-low-power consumption prolongs battery life. Its industry-leading interference immunity allows remote controls to operate uninterrupted in the home environment, where the 2.4GHz spectrum is crowded with signals from Wi-Fi, microwaves, cordless phones and other devices.
The CyFi solution is enhanced by the flexible and easy-to-use PSoC programmable system-on-chip, which reduces the complexity of quantifying a sensor’s signal by integrating the amplification, filtering, and ADC stages into a single device.
The award-winning EVOKE Flow portable radio and AVANTI Flow tabletop digital audio system offer users a rich choice of audio content from sources such as internet radio using the built in Wi-Fi connection, DAB or FM broadcasts, or even music on a home Wi-Fi network.
“Top-quality digital audio systems such as PURE’s Flow products demand a feature-rich remote control with high reliability and low-power consumption for years of battery life,” said Martin Harrison, Director of Hardware Development at PURE. “We chose the CyFi solution for its ease of integration and flexibility. The versatility of PSoC to control multiple functions helped us to reduce our BOM costs while also providing our products with a very marketable USP (unique selling point).”
“The PSoC and CyFi wireless solution delivers robust connectivity and flexibility to the remote for PURE’s award-winning products,” said Matt Branda, marketing director for PSoC at Cypress. “Cypress’s solution provides the innovative features and performance required by next-generation remote controls.”
CyFi Low-Power Wireless
The CyFi solution uses Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) modulation to encode data and allow the CyFi receiver to recover the signal when faced with interference. The solution intelligently selects a clear channel from the 80 narrow, 1 MHz channels at the transceiver’s disposal. No other 2.4-GHz solution combines DSSS modulation with this level of frequency agility.
The solution can also increase power amplification to overcome interference. This dynamic adaptability to the operating environment also lends to optimizing power consumption. In noise-free environments the CyFi solution communicates at 1 Mbps to minimize transfer time and leverage the ultra-low-power sleep current of 0.8 uA.
The solution automatically drops to a slower, more robust 250 kbps data rate when it detects interference, and it can increase power amplification to reduce retransmissions and return to sleep-mode faster.
The CyFi protocol stack has the smallest memory footprint of any comparable wireless solution at 5.5K in Flash, leaving room for additional system functionality in the controlling PSoC device. Designers can use the compact protocol stack to build a complete wireless star-topology network with fewer peripherals and greater functionality.
The protocol stack has a network capacity of up to 255 nodes per hub, all with asynchronous, bi-directional communication.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Cypress, Sona College of Technology to set up new PSoC laboratory
SALEM, INDIA: Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Sona College of Technology (Sona Tech) of Salem, Tamil Nadu, India recently have agreed to set up a joint PSoC programmable system-on-chip laboratory at Sona Tech.
The agreement was signed at Sona Tech by Pashupathy Gopalan, Vice President of Strategic Marketing and Corporate Business Development at Cypress and A. Dhirajlal, Secretary of Sona Tech.
As part of the agreement, Cypress will provide hands-on training sessions for the faculty and students of Sona Tech, in addition to free hardware and software tools. Sona Tech will provide the facilities for the laboratory.
The laboratory will expose the students to the PSoC platform, a flexible family of devices with programmable analogue and digital blocks integrated with an MCU. With its unique architecture, PSoC provides an unrivaled learning platform for embedded design students. The lab will also be made available for training activities held by Cypress and Sona Tech to train other universities and companies.
Sona Tech will incorporate PSoC solutions in the microcontroller/microprocessor, digital design, and analog design curriculum and research projects. Sona Tech will also encourage students to participate in PSoC design contests held by Cypress.
“This new PSoC laboratory, which Cypress is graciously collaborating with us on, demonstrates Sona Tech’s commitment to bring established and emerging technologies to our engineering students,” said Dhirajlal. “The PSoC platform offers a powerful development environment to learn practical design skills that our students will bring with them into their careers.”
“This agreement helps Cypress continue to build its presence with the growing, talented foundation of engineers in India,” said Gopalan. “This new lab will familiarize Sona Tech students with the flexibility and integration delivered by the PSoC platform. We are confident that the ease-of-use and versatility of PSoC will lead many new designers to leverage the technology as customers.”
“The Cypress University Alliance is focused on expanding knowledge of the PSoC embedded design platform with students and faculty at the world’s leading universities,” said Patrick Kane, director of the Cypress University Alliance. “Sona Tech is an outstanding addition to the list of world-class universities using PSoC.”
Sona College of Technology
Sona College of Technology is synonymous with academic excellence, adorning the steel city, Salem, in Tamil Nadu. Affiliated to Anna University and approved by AICTE, the college offers quality education and technical competencies on the strong foundation of values, ideals and rich culture to the students across the country and beyond.
Located in arcadian environs at the heart of the city, the college is equipped with world class infrastructure and highly qualified and experienced faculty members. An active Placement Training and Welfare Cell is functioning with full enthusiasm with the aim of placing the students in top-notch companies.
‘Out Look’, has ranked Sona Tech in 27th position among the top 35 Self Financing Engineering Colleges in India and Anna University has ranked this renowned institution in 10th position among 242 Engineering Colleges in Tamil Nadu. The Sona College of Technology website is www.sonatech.ac.in/.
PSoC: Because change happens
PSoC devices employ a highly configurable system-on-chip architecture for embedded control design. PSoC devices integrate configurable analog and digital circuits, controlled by an on-chip microcontroller, providing both enhanced design revision capability and component count savings.
They include up to 32 Kbytes of Flash memory, 2 Kbytes of SRAM, an 8x8 multiplier with 32-bit accumulator, power and sleep monitoring circuits, and hardware I2C communications.
The flexible PSoC resources allow designers to future-proof their products by enabling firmware-based changes during design, validation, production, and in the field. The unique PSoC flexibility shortens design cycle time and allows for late-breaking feature enhancements. All PSoC devices are also dynamically reconfigurable, enabling designers to morph internal resources on-the-fly, utilizing fewer components to perform a given task.
A single PSoC device can integrate as many as 100 peripheral functions, saving customers design time, board space and power consumption while improving system quality. Customers can save as much as $10 in system costs.
Cypress's University Alliance Program is a multifaceted program empowering electronics engineering and computer science students to develop the skill sets needed to perform in today's marketplace. The program mounts regional design competitions, offers academic workshops, and maintains a university alliance website (www.cypress.com/cua) which provides access to myriad free design resources, evaluation boards and online courses.
The agreement was signed at Sona Tech by Pashupathy Gopalan, Vice President of Strategic Marketing and Corporate Business Development at Cypress and A. Dhirajlal, Secretary of Sona Tech. As part of the agreement, Cypress will provide hands-on training sessions for the faculty and students of Sona Tech, in addition to free hardware and software tools. Sona Tech will provide the facilities for the laboratory.
The laboratory will expose the students to the PSoC platform, a flexible family of devices with programmable analogue and digital blocks integrated with an MCU. With its unique architecture, PSoC provides an unrivaled learning platform for embedded design students. The lab will also be made available for training activities held by Cypress and Sona Tech to train other universities and companies.
Sona Tech will incorporate PSoC solutions in the microcontroller/microprocessor, digital design, and analog design curriculum and research projects. Sona Tech will also encourage students to participate in PSoC design contests held by Cypress.
“This new PSoC laboratory, which Cypress is graciously collaborating with us on, demonstrates Sona Tech’s commitment to bring established and emerging technologies to our engineering students,” said Dhirajlal. “The PSoC platform offers a powerful development environment to learn practical design skills that our students will bring with them into their careers.”
“This agreement helps Cypress continue to build its presence with the growing, talented foundation of engineers in India,” said Gopalan. “This new lab will familiarize Sona Tech students with the flexibility and integration delivered by the PSoC platform. We are confident that the ease-of-use and versatility of PSoC will lead many new designers to leverage the technology as customers.”
“The Cypress University Alliance is focused on expanding knowledge of the PSoC embedded design platform with students and faculty at the world’s leading universities,” said Patrick Kane, director of the Cypress University Alliance. “Sona Tech is an outstanding addition to the list of world-class universities using PSoC.”
Sona College of Technology
Sona College of Technology is synonymous with academic excellence, adorning the steel city, Salem, in Tamil Nadu. Affiliated to Anna University and approved by AICTE, the college offers quality education and technical competencies on the strong foundation of values, ideals and rich culture to the students across the country and beyond.
Located in arcadian environs at the heart of the city, the college is equipped with world class infrastructure and highly qualified and experienced faculty members. An active Placement Training and Welfare Cell is functioning with full enthusiasm with the aim of placing the students in top-notch companies.
‘Out Look’, has ranked Sona Tech in 27th position among the top 35 Self Financing Engineering Colleges in India and Anna University has ranked this renowned institution in 10th position among 242 Engineering Colleges in Tamil Nadu. The Sona College of Technology website is www.sonatech.ac.in/.
PSoC: Because change happens
PSoC devices employ a highly configurable system-on-chip architecture for embedded control design. PSoC devices integrate configurable analog and digital circuits, controlled by an on-chip microcontroller, providing both enhanced design revision capability and component count savings.
They include up to 32 Kbytes of Flash memory, 2 Kbytes of SRAM, an 8x8 multiplier with 32-bit accumulator, power and sleep monitoring circuits, and hardware I2C communications.
The flexible PSoC resources allow designers to future-proof their products by enabling firmware-based changes during design, validation, production, and in the field. The unique PSoC flexibility shortens design cycle time and allows for late-breaking feature enhancements. All PSoC devices are also dynamically reconfigurable, enabling designers to morph internal resources on-the-fly, utilizing fewer components to perform a given task.
A single PSoC device can integrate as many as 100 peripheral functions, saving customers design time, board space and power consumption while improving system quality. Customers can save as much as $10 in system costs.
Cypress's University Alliance Program is a multifaceted program empowering electronics engineering and computer science students to develop the skill sets needed to perform in today's marketplace. The program mounts regional design competitions, offers academic workshops, and maintains a university alliance website (www.cypress.com/cua) which provides access to myriad free design resources, evaluation boards and online courses.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Acer selects Cypress's PSoC CapSense for media console in Aspire notebook PCs
SAN JOSE, USA: Cypress Semiconductor Corp. announced that Acer has selected its PSoC CapSense touch sensing solution for its striking new Aspire 4935G/4937G notebook computers in Asia and Aspire 8935/5935 notebooks in the Americas.
Acer was able to use a single CapSense device in a tiny 32-QFN package to control the complete suite of media functions available on the new laptops. No competitive solutions were able to accommodate all the necessary functions in a single chip.
The programmable CapSense architecture enabled Acer to create the innovative media consoles and then customize them for separate markets and models using the same CapSense device. This saved design time and reduced inventory requirements.
The single device manages seven buttons, a five-segment slider and 14 LEDs, all in a tiny 32-QFN package, allowing Acer to optimize board-space usage. The CapSense solution also allows designers to make last-minute changes, add features and control additional functions beyond the capacitive touch interface — capabilities that are not available from other capacitive sensing products.
“This is another important design win with a premier notebook provider,” said Dhwani Vyas, vice president of Cypress’s User Interface Business Unit. “Acer selected CapSense last year, and with this year’s more aggressive design objectives, CapSense again was the best solution. We continue to gain momentum as the user interface of choice for new computer models.”
“We are pleased that Cypress was able to integrate our aggressive feature list in a single chip with a very small package,” said Johnny Shyy, Director of Notebook Product Management, for Acer. “One of the factors that differentiate the Aspire notebooks from the competition is the intuitive and stylish user interface. Cypress’s CapSense solution is a major part of this success.”
CapSense
Cypress's CapSense Touch-Sensing solution has replaced 2.5 billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the industry touch-sensing leader.
The CapSense portfolio, the industry's broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not required. CapSense proximity sensing, with its industry leading detection range up to 25 cm, provides power savings by activating an interface only when needed while further enhancing industrial designs by only exposing interfaces when necessary.
Based on the PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture and the PSoC Designer Embedded-System Design Tool, users complete CapSense designs quickly and easily using pre-configured and verified "user modules" and real-time sensor tuning and monitoring.
Acer was able to use a single CapSense device in a tiny 32-QFN package to control the complete suite of media functions available on the new laptops. No competitive solutions were able to accommodate all the necessary functions in a single chip.The programmable CapSense architecture enabled Acer to create the innovative media consoles and then customize them for separate markets and models using the same CapSense device. This saved design time and reduced inventory requirements.
The single device manages seven buttons, a five-segment slider and 14 LEDs, all in a tiny 32-QFN package, allowing Acer to optimize board-space usage. The CapSense solution also allows designers to make last-minute changes, add features and control additional functions beyond the capacitive touch interface — capabilities that are not available from other capacitive sensing products.
“This is another important design win with a premier notebook provider,” said Dhwani Vyas, vice president of Cypress’s User Interface Business Unit. “Acer selected CapSense last year, and with this year’s more aggressive design objectives, CapSense again was the best solution. We continue to gain momentum as the user interface of choice for new computer models.”
“We are pleased that Cypress was able to integrate our aggressive feature list in a single chip with a very small package,” said Johnny Shyy, Director of Notebook Product Management, for Acer. “One of the factors that differentiate the Aspire notebooks from the competition is the intuitive and stylish user interface. Cypress’s CapSense solution is a major part of this success.”
CapSense
Cypress's CapSense Touch-Sensing solution has replaced 2.5 billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the industry touch-sensing leader.
The CapSense portfolio, the industry's broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not required. CapSense proximity sensing, with its industry leading detection range up to 25 cm, provides power savings by activating an interface only when needed while further enhancing industrial designs by only exposing interfaces when necessary.
Based on the PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture and the PSoC Designer Embedded-System Design Tool, users complete CapSense designs quickly and easily using pre-configured and verified "user modules" and real-time sensor tuning and monitoring.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
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."
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."
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