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Cypress MicroSystems Introduces the Smallest, Most Highly Integrated PSoC Device
Extensive Analog and Digital Integration Benefits Consumer and
Industrial Applications -- for Less than $1.00
LYNNWOOD, Wash.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Dec. 16, 2004—
Cypress MicroSystems Inc., a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor
Corporation (NYSE:CY), today announced production shipments of its
smallest and most highly integrated Programmable System-on-Chip(TM)
(PSoC(TM)) mixed-signal array. In addition to four configurable analog
blocks and four configurable digital blocks, the CY8C21x34 devices
provide eight Kbytes of flash memory for program storage and 512 bytes
of SRAM for data, making it ideal for cost-sensitive consumer and
industrial control applications such as touch-sensitive control
panels, security sensors and control, smart temperature, pressure and
flow sensors, large sensor arrays, fan controllers and battery
chargers.
The new PSoC's built-in low-Ron 28:1 analog input multiplexer
greatly simplifies sensor-control designs. Each of the up to 28 pins
has a switch that, when selected, connects it to an analog bus. The
bus connects to a configurable analog array which, when combined with
on-chip digital resources, enables the creation of complex signal
processors.
"The CY8C21x34 offers users the expanded Flash program memory,
analog configurability and system integration that they need at a
price they can easily afford," said John McDonald, Vice President of
Marketing for Cypress MicroSystems. "This flexibility increases PSoC's
core value proposition -- and now the already low-priced PSoC solution
can further reduce component cost by replacing expensive off-chip
multiplexers."
The CY8C21x34's analog and digital blocks can be configured as
8-bit timers, counters and pulse-width modulators (PWMs). For example,
the new device can integrate a full-duplex UART, I2C, SPI, two 10-bit
ADCs, and a 28:1 low-Ron analog multiplexer in a single chip, while
competing devices require a multi-chip solution. This lowers the
overall device count, reduces board size and lowers BOM cost in
addition to improving system quality and reliability.
Pricing and Availability
The CY8C21x34, is available in 16 SOIC, 20/28 SSOP and 32 5x5 MLF.
It operates between 2.4V and 5.25V from -40 to 85 degrees C. The
product is in production and priced as low as $0.99/10,000 units.
Photo
A high-resolution photo of the CY8C21x family of devices is
available by emailing Cypress's public relations department at
KLS@cypress.com.
About the PSoC Family
A true system-on-a-chip, the PSoC device is a configurable mixed
signal array that integrates the microcontroller and related
peripheral circuits typically found in an embedded design. Employing
easy to use development tools, designers select configurable, well
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,
exceptionally low noise, input leakage and voltage offset,
programmable gain, and 14-bit ADCs.
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, and hardware I2C communications.
All PSoC devices are dynamically reconfigurable, enabling
designers to create new system functions on-the-fly. Re-configuring
the same silicon for different functions at different times, designers
can achieve more than 120 percent utilization of the die in many
cases. In the automotive PSoC LIN bus reference design, the same
digital blocks 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.
Software and Support
A CY8C21x34-specific service pack is downloadable free from the
Cypress Semiconductor website. This service pack is an enhancement to
the company's existing software development environment, PSoC Designer
4.2.
The software development environment, PSoC Designer 4.2 is a
full-featured, GUI-based design tool suite that enables the user to
configure their design in silicon with simple point and click options;
code the MCU in either C or assembly language; and debug the design
using sophisticated features such as event triggers and multiple break
points while single-stepping through the code in C or assembly or a
mix of the two. PSoC Designer 4.2 is free and can be downloaded at
http://www.cypress.com/support/link.cfm?sd=4.
The new CY3215-DK Professional Class Development Kit includes a
tiny full-speed in-circuit USB-based emulator with a large trace
buffer, which seamlessly integrates with PSoC Designer 4.2 and the
user's development board. The development kit includes everything
necessary to complete a design with the PSoC family of ICs. The kits
also contain all materials for the first four "Tele-training" classes
offered on line by Cypress. The tools are designed for ease of use, to
support all the advanced PSoC packages and to keep the cost of
development to a minimum while providing all the features found in
tools that cost $2,500 or more. The CY3215-DK is priced at $599
(suggested resale).
About Cypress MicroSystems
Headquartered in Lynnwood, Wash., Cypress MicroSystems develops
and markets the expanding Programmable System-on-Chip (PSoC) product
family -- high-performance, field-programmable mixed signal
integration products for high-volume embedded control functions in
consumer, industrial, office automation, telecom and automotive
applications. The close association with Cypress Semiconductor allows
access to their process and design technology, and field sales and
applications forces. More information about Cypress MicroSystems and
its successful line of PSoC products -- as well as access to over 150
PSoC applications notes -- is available online at www.cypress.com.
About Cypress
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (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 reprogrammable mixed-signal arrays.
More information about Cypress is accessible online at
www.cypress.com.
Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks of Cypress
Semiconductor Corporation. "Connectivity From Last Mile to First Mile"
and "Cypress Connects" are trademarks of Cypress. "Programmable
System-on-Chip," PSoC and PSoC Designer are trademarks of Cypress
MicroSystems. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
Contact:
Cypress Public Relations
Karen Suty, 408-545-6906
KLS@cypress.com
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