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Cypress Ships 100 Millionth PSoC(R) Device; Growth Accelerating for Flexible Mixed Signal Arrays in Consumer, Mobile Handset, Computing and Industrial Applications
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—June 28, 2006—
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) today announced
that it has shipped over 100 million Programmable System-on-Chip(TM)
(PSoC(R)) mixed-signal array devices, demonstrating wide acceptance of
this high-performance, cost-effective, mixed-signal integration
platform. Cypress is currently shipping PSoC devices to more than
2,000 customers in Asia, Europe and the U.S. in applications as
diverse as consumer electronics, handsets, computing and networking
equipment, industrial systems, and automotive systems. Cypress
announced that it had surpassed the 50 million units shipped mark in
December 2005.
"In less than six months, we have gone from 50 million to 100
million PSoC devices shipped, doubling our entire total for the first
three years of production," said George Saul, vice president of
Cypress's PSoC business. "The PSoC architecture is universally
appealing due to its analog, digital, and IO flexibility, design
ease-of-use, and system-level cost reductions. We see customers
adopting PSoC as an architectural platform where they previously used
a microcontroller, ASIC, or a standard product. With each new customer
engagement, further design opportunities are generated as we develop a
loyal base of PSoC enthusiasts. We are in a position to see continued
strong growth both from a market perspective and from additional
manufacturing capacity that Cypress continues to bring on line."
"With 100 million PSoC devices shipped into different
applications, Cypress is validating a configurable and reconfigurable
design model involving processors and mixed logic and the seamless
visual software programming tools supporting it," said Max Baron,
principal analyst at market research firm In-Stat (Scottsdale,
Ariz.).
CapSense Solution Increases Demand
Cypress's new CapSense solution for capacitive interfaces is
generating significant demand for PSoC devices. A single CapSense
device can replace dozens of mechanical switches and controls with
simple, touch-sensitive controls. CapSense-based button and slider
controls are more reliable than their mechanical counterparts because
they are not prone to the environmental wear-and-tear that affects
exposed buttons and switches. CapSense solutions have been implemented
in numerous systems and applications, including mobile phones, white
goods and consumer electronics devices. Other areas of strong growth
for PSoC devices include fan motor control, battery charging
applications and LED control.
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 far greater than 100 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
"Programmable System-on-Chip" is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor
Corp. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Contact:
Cypress Public Relations
Don Parkman, 408-943-4885
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