Cypress Offers Complete Design Environment for the World"s Largest CPLDs

New Prototype Board Provides Industry Leading Value for PC Desktop Verification for Cypress's Delta39K(TM) and Other Programmable Devices

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 27, 2001-- Cypress Semiconductor (NYSE:CY - news) today announced immediate availability of a prototype development board for the company's Delta39K(TM) family of CPLDs and other programmable devices. The prototype board provides engineers with a cost-effective, PC-based system to evaluate real-world designs in actual hardware.

"Cypress's Delta39K CPLDs combine programmable logic with PLL, memory, manufacturing, and process expertise into a family of innovative programmable communications devices with the advantages that Cypress CPLDs are known for: high speed, predictable timing, ease of use, and non-volatility at leadership densities," said Geoff Charubin, director of marketing at Cypress's Data Communications Division. "The Delta39K devices are key pieces of the product portfolios the company presents to customers in the wide area networking, storage networking and wireless infrastructure markets. This prototype board makes the world's largest CPLDs available on a broad scale to system developers worldwide."

The Delta39K/Ultra37000 Prototype Board contains both a 100,000-gate Delta39K device and a 256-macrocell Ultra37000(TM) CPLD. Access to both of these devices in a chain provides the designer a number of options in prototyping.

The WarpISR Programming Kit (CY3620R61) enables users to program Ultra37000, Ultra37000V, Delta39K, and Programmable Serial Interface(TM) (PSI(TM)) programmable devices using the prototype board, ISR programming software, an UltraISR programming cable, and a PC. This and other development kits combine the board with Cypress's Warp(TM) development environment or In-System Reprogrammable(TM) (ISR(TM)) software to deliver to the user a complete design flow from design to silicon all on a desktop PC, at prices starting at $175.

"The WarpISR Programming Kit is an industry-leading value in hardware support of design verification and test," said Trevor Davis, software product marketing manager at Cypress. "This is consistent with our drive to provide designers with the highest level of support without compromising the flexibility of standardized design methods."

"Designers have access to the full suite of tools they need to take their design from software to silicon -- all from their desktop," said Jason Baumbach, data communications applications manager at Cypress. "In addition to manufacturing world-class device families, Cypress is committed to providing world-class software and development tools. This prototype board is one more example of the value Cypress offers its customers."

Availability and Pricing

Kits that contain the Delta39K/Ultra37000 prototype board are available now. Resale prices start at $175 for the CY3620R61 development kit.

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About Cypress

Cypress Semiconductor (NYSE:CY - news) is "Driving the Communications Revolution"(TM) with high-performance integrated circuits for network infrastructure and access equipment. Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, the company designs and manufactures solutions targeted across wireless and wireline communications. Cypress supports a wide range of industry standards, such as SONET (OC-48 and above), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), InfiniBand(TM) and Gigabit Ethernet. The company's communications product lines include programmable high-speed physical layer devices (PHYs), wirespeed network search engines (NSEs) and network coprocessors (NCPs), and datapath switching elements (DSEs). Cypress is also the industry's leader in communications timing solutions, networking-optimized communications memories and personal connectivity solutions, such as USB and Bluetooth.

Cypress is a leader in pure optical and optoelectronic technologies designed to push network transmissions to higher performance levels and to satisfy the increasing demand for network bandwidth. With a focus on emerging communications applications, Cypress aims to become the preferred silicon supplier for network infrastructure solutions and for every network data stream to pass through at least one Cypress IC.

Cypress employs 4,000 people worldwide. Its shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CY. More information about Cypress is accessible on the Web at www.cypress.com.

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Note to Editors: Delta39K, Ultra37000, Warp, In-System Reprogrammable, ISR, Programmable Serial Interface, PSI, and "Driving the Communications Revolution" are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor.

     Cypress Semiconductor
     Louie Yan, 408/943-2817
     LRY@cypress.com