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Cypress Qualifies its PSoC Mixed-Signal Array for Automotive Applications; AEC Qualification Opens Wide Range of Applications for Flexible Controller
Several Demonstrations Scheduled for Electronica 2004 in Munich
November 9-12; Cypress to Discuss Automotive Segment Roadmap
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Nov. 2, 2004—
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) today announced that
Cypress's CY8C24xxx and CY8C27xxx families of Programmable
System-on-Chip(TM) (PSoC(TM)) mixed-signal arrays have met the
standards of the Automotive Electronics Council (AEC) -- made up of
leading automotive manufacturers -- for automotive applications
operating up to 125 degrees C. The AEC Component Technical Committee
is the standardization body for establishing standards for reliable,
high quality electronic components.
"We are very pleased that PSoC has met AEC's standards of
reliability in the demanding automotive environment," said George
Saul, CEO of Cypress MicroSystems. "Today's cars are extremely complex
electronic systems on wheels. PSoC's strength is its ability to
integrate analog and digital peripheral functions with a
microcontroller -- all on one chip. PSoC mixed signal integration
reduces component count and system cost and, most importantly,
improves system reliability. Cypress has already achieved a number of
PSoC automotive design wins in power train and body electronics, as
well as safety, security and infotainment systems. Using PSoC in
conjunction with Cypress's USB, WirelessUSB(TM), SRAM and CMOS image
sensor products, Cypress will roll out a new generation of
sophisticated automotive applications."
Cypress will demonstrate several PSoC automotive applications at
Electronica 2004 in Munich from November 9-12. Demonstrations will
include:
-- Electroluminescent Backlight Instrument Panel Reference Design
-- Digital Compass Reference Design
-- Capacitive Sensor Reference Design
-- A LIN 2.0 Evaluation Board
At Electronica, Cypress's automotive experts will discuss their
roadmap and plans for LIN and CAN bus support; using USB and
WirelessUSB for entertainment console applications; using CMOS image
sensors for lane tracking and obstacle detection; and using SunPower
solar cells in sunroofs. Look for Cypress in Hall A4 booth 207.
About the PSoC Family
A true system-on-a-chip, PSoC devices are configurable mixed
signal arrays that integrate the microcontroller and related
peripheral circuits typically found in an embedded design. This mixed
signal integration allows customers to significantly reduce the number
of components they have to use, greatly improving system quality and
reliability and drastically lowering bill of materials. Employing easy
to use development tools, designers select configurable,
pre-characterized library elements to provide analog functions such as
amplifiers, ADCs, DACs, filters and comparators and digital functions
such as timers, counters, PWMs, SPI and UARTs. PSoC analog performance
is instrumentation-quality -- including rail-to-rail inputs,
programmable gain, 14-bit ADCs and exceptionally low noise and input
leakage and voltage offset.
In addition to these configurable analog and digital blocks, PSoC
devices include a fast 8-bit microcontroller, up to 32KB of Flash
memory, 2KB of SRAM, an 8x8 multiplier with 32-bit accumulator, power
and sleep monitoring circuits, a precision real time clock and
hardware I2C communications. All PSoC family members are compatible
and users can seamlessly migrate their existing designs between
devices with minimal effort.
All PSoC devices are dynamically reconfigurable, enabling
designers to create new system functions on-the-fly. Re-configuring
the same silicon for different functions on different clock cycles,
designers can achieve more than 120 percent utilization of the die in
many cases. In the automotive PSoC LIN bus reference design, the same
transistors are re-configured four times to support the different LIN
communication modes; in doing so, these blocks consume less than 10
percent of PSoC hardware resources and less than 10 percent of the
PSoC MCU cycles.
About the AEC
The Automotive Electronics Council (AEC) was originally
established by Chrysler, Ford, and GM for the purpose of establishing
common part-qualification and quality-system standards. From its
inception, the AEC has consisted of two Committees: the Quality
Systems Committee and the Component Technical Committee. Today, the
committees are composed of representatives from the sustaining members
Delphi Corporation, Siemens VDO Corporation and Visteon Corporation,
and other associate members.
The AEC Component Technical Committee is the standardization body
for establishing standards for reliable, high quality electronic
components. Components meeting these specifications are suitable for
use in the harsh automotive environment without additional
component-level qualification testing. More information about the AEC
is accessible online at http://www.aecouncil.com/.
About Cypress:
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) is Connecting from Last Mile
to First Mile(TM) with high-performance solutions for personal,
network access, enterprise, metro switch and core
communications-system applications. Cypress Connects(TM) using
wireless, wireline, digital, and optical transmission standards,
including USB, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet and DWDM.
Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, Cypress makes
industry-leading physical layer devices, framers and network search
engines, along with a broad portfolio of high-bandwidth memories,
timing technology solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays.
More information about Cypress is accessible online at
http://www.cypress.com.
Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks of Cypress
Semiconductor Corporation. "Connecting from Last Mile to First Mile,"
and "Cypress Connects", Programmable System-on-Chip, PSoC and
WirelessUSB are trademarks of Cypress. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
Contact:
Cypress PR
John Donovan, 408-943-4885
JDI@cypress.com
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