Cypress Introduces Portable USB 2.0 Full-Speed Flash Drive Reference Design
Enables Low-Cost Mass Storage and Data Transfer Between PCs
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 1, 2002--Cypress
Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY - News) -- the leader in USB technology -- today
announced its Flash Drive reference design (CY4616) for the portable
flash memory market, supporting any PC or device with a standard USB
port and mass storage class capability. The CY4616 is a small mobile
storage device that can be used to replace a floppy disk drive for
portable storage.
"By entering into another emerging market -- the portable flash
drive market -- Cypress extends its leadership in USB," said Jeff
Chang, product marketing manager for Cypress's Personal Communications
Division. "Already the largest in the industry, Cypress's USB product
portfolio continues to expand to meet its customer's aggressive
demands for data storage and portability."
The CY4616 offers complete hardware and software design materials;
a drive capacity up to 128 MB; write protect functionality; and
Windows and Macintosh Operating Systems (OS) driver support. These
features provide true "plug-and-play" capability for the PC market,
enabling data storage and transfer between PCs.
The Flash Drive reference design is the first step in a two-phase
project. This first phase design offers a PCB, USB microchip,
connector and 128-MB flash memory in a 2-inch by 7/8-inch enclosure.
Phase two will include a larger storage capacity, higher performance
and more functionality.
Pricing and Availability
Cypress's Flash Drive reference design kit is available now and
priced at $199 per kit through Cypress distributors.
Photo
A high-resolution photo of the Flash Drive reference design is
available at http://www.cypress.com/pub/cy4616.jpg
About Cypress
Cypress Semiconductor 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, OC-192 and
OC-768), 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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Contact:
Cypress Semiconductor
Agnes Toan, 408/545-6909
ATN@cypress.com
