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Cypress Unveils PSoC(R) CapSense Website; www.cypress.com/CapSense Offers Abundant Resources for Implementing Capacitive Sensing Solutions
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—June 1, 2006—
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) has launched a
new website for its CapSense capacitive sensing solutions based on the
popular Programmable System-on-Chip(TM) (PSoC(R)) mixed-signal array.
The new site offers detailed information about the PSoC products that
support the CapSense solution, design tools and demonstration kits. It
also provides a plethora of design support materials, such as
downloadable software, application notes, technical articles, example
projects, and seminar and training dates. The CapSense website can be
viewed at www.cypress.com/CapSense.
PSoC CapSense replaces mechanical buttons, switches, sliders, and
proximity detectors in systems from cell phones and cars to notebooks,
PCs, white goods and industrial applications. A single chip can enable
reliable CapSense-based interfaces with a smart appearance and robust
operation while resulting in fast time to market as well as BOM and
cost reduction.
"Cypress's PSoC CapSense website is an ideal resource for a
designer looking to upgrade the interface for almost any product with
a sleek, sturdy capacitive touch sensing solution," said Steve Gerber,
marketing director of Cypress's PSoC Business Unit. "Consumer demand
for products with capacitive sensing interfaces is growing
tremendously and this website can help put designers on the fast track
to getting their differentiated products to market."
About CapSense
Capacitive sensing is fast becoming the solution of choice for
front-panel display and media control applications. Increased
durability, decreased bill of materials (BOM) and a clean, minimalist
appearance make this elegant interface attractive to a wide range of
designs. With Cypress's CapSense capacitive sensor interface, a finger
on the interface forms an electrical connection with embedded sensors,
which work with the PSoC device to translate data about the finger's
position into various system control functions. A single PSoC device
can replace dozens of mechanical switches and controls with simple,
touch-sensitive controls.
Cypress's CapSense solution offers system designers numerous
advantages in capacitive sensor products built around modules and
sub-assemblies, including increased flexibility, reduced board space
and lower cost. Because of the unique PSoC architecture, designers can
easily integrate multiple functions (e.g., LED drivers and LCD
displays), in addition to capacitive sensing. The PSoC CapSense
solution also delivers benefits such as easy serial communications
using either I2C, SPI, or USB interfaces, the ability to implement
both touchpad (x-y matrix) and linear slider applications with the
same device, and the ability to make quick design changes using the
flash-based PSoC architecture.
About the PSoC Family
PSoC devices are configurable mixed signal arrays that integrate a
fast 8-bit microcontroller with many peripheral functions typically
found in an embedded design. PSoC devices provide the advantages of an
ASIC without the ASIC NRE or turn-around time. A single PSoC device
can integrate as many as 100 peripheral functions with a
microcontroller, saving customers design time, board space and power
consumption. Customers can save from 5 cents to as much as $10 in
system costs. Easy to use development tools enable designers to select
configurable 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. The PSoC family's
analog features include rail-to-rail inputs, programmable gain
amplifiers and up to 14-bit ADCs with exceptionally low noise, input
leakage and voltage offset. PSoC devices include 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. Designers can
achieve more than 120 percent utilization of the die in many cases, by
reconfiguring the same silicon for different functions at different
times.
About Cypress
Cypress solutions perform: consumer, computation, data
communications, automotive, industrial, and solar. Leveraging
proprietary silicon processes, Cypress's product portfolio includes a
broad selection of wired and wireless USB devices, CMOS image sensors,
timing solutions, specialty memories, high-bandwidth synchronous and
micropower memory products, optical solutions and reconfigurable
mixed-signal arrays. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker
symbol CY. Visit us at www.cypress.com.
Cypress, the Cypress logo and PSoC are registered trademarks and
Programmable System-on-Chip is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor
Corp. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Contact:
Cypress Public Relations
Samer Bahou, 408-544-1081
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