February 14, 2012 Cypress Semiconductor Corp's single-chip Gen4 TrueTouch controllers will now support the new Windows 8 operating system from Microsoft Corp. Windows 8 is designed to provide a rich, touch-centric experience for users of tablets, laptops and desktop PCs. The TrueTouch Controllers offer the industry’s best noise immunity, fastest refresh rate, lowest power and highest accuracy. Cypress has worked with Microsoft to ensure compatibility with Windows 8, and is now part of Microsoft’s on-boarding program to prepare for the official release of Windows 8. Read more

January 12, 2012 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has introduced a new Gen4 TrueTouch controller targeted at the rapidly growing tablet and ultrabook market. The new CY8CTMA1036 device has 65 sense-I/Os, enabling it to deliver flawless touchscreen performance for screens up to 12 inches. Like the smaller-screen Gen4 devices, it offers industry-best performance in all categories, including the world's best signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and unparalleled performance in the presence of all noise sources—the biggest challenge faced by touchscreen designs. Read more

January 10, 2012 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has attained USB-IF certification of the company's two SuperSpeed USB Peripheral Controllers: EZ-USB FX3 (CYUSB3014) and West Bridge Benicia (CYWB0263BB). Both of these peripheral controllers are in full production now. Read more

December 15, 2011 Cypress Semiconductor Corp’s Version 2.0 of the company’s PSoC Creator Design Environment for the PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families is now available for free download for all users. Among the hundreds of feature enhancements, PSoC Creator 2.0 introduces support for the production PSoC 5 ARM architecture and devices as well as enabling customers to interoperate with the popular and powerful Keil µVision 4 integrated development environment (IDE). Read more

December 6, 2011 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has released the company's new CY8CKIT-025 Development Kit for its PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip architectures. The new kit highlights PSoC's 8- to 20-Bit Delta-Sigma ADC with an internal voltage reference of +- 0.1%, a sampling rate of up to 384 ksps, and up to 18-bit effective number of bits (ENOB) performance. Read more

November 11, 2011 Cypress Semiconductor Corp’s CY8CTMA884 family of single-chip TrueTouch controllers for large touchscreens enables large-screen sensor-on-lens technology with direct lamination to the LCD. The technology allows manufacturers to deposit the conductive Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) sensor lines directly onto the cover glass. It only requires one panel, so tablets can be made much thinner, with less material costs and fewer manufacturing steps. Read more

October 18, 2011 Cypress Semiconductor announced the PSoC 3 CapSense Plus capacitive touch-sensing solution for buttons, sliders, touchpads, and proximity sensing. Claimed to be the industry's best capacitive-sensing solution that can also perform general system control functions, the new product combines two premier Cypress product offerings, the PSoC 3 programmable system-on-chip and the CapSense capacitive touch control technology. Read more

October 7, 2011 Cypress Semiconductor's CY8CMBR2016 chip enables designers to implement capacitive matrix button systems of up to 4x4 buttons without having to write firmware or learn new software tools. The capacitive touch-sensing controller leverages Cypress's SmartSense auto-tuning algorithm, which completely eliminates the requirement for system tuning and is the only solution that offers run-time environmental compensation. Read more

September 26, 2011 Cypress Semiconductor Corp., has introduced the company’s new Gen4 family of TrueTouch touchscreen controllers. Gen4 which is claimed to deliver industry-best performance in all categories, including the world’s best Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and unparalleled performance in the presence of all noise sources - the biggest challenge faced by touchscreen designs. Read more

September 19, 2011 Cypress Semiconductor Corp., has introduced the company’s next-generation 2.4-GHz WirelessUSB Radio-on-a-Chip. The new WirelessUSB NL gives manufacturers Cypress's robust performance along with low power consumption for wireless keyboards, mice, remote controls and other Human Interface Devices (HIDs). The new devices are offered in 4 x 4 mm QFN packages, in bare die, and in wafer form, enabling low-cost chip-on-board manufacturing. Read more

July 29, 2011 Cypress Semiconductor Corp., has introduced 128-Mbit, 64-Mbit and 32-Mbit MoBL (More Battery Life) Asynchronous SRAMs with 32-bit bus widths. The new devices add to Cypress's industry-leading SRAM portfolio, which include high-performance synchronous, asynchronous and micropower devices. The new MoBL SRAMs cater to applications in telecommunications, computers, peripherals, and consumer, medical and military domains to enhance system performance in concert with 32-bit DSPs, FPGAs and processors. Read more

July 27, 2011 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and United Microelectronics Corporation have produced working silicon on a new, 65-nm SONOS (Silicon Oxide Nitride Oxide Silicon) technology for embedded Flash memory. UMC will manufacture next-generation PSoC programmable system-on-chip products for Cypress on the new process, along with nvSRAMs and other products. Read more

June 7, 2011 Clarion Co., Ltd. has selected Cypress Semiconductor’s CapSense touch-sensing solution to drive the touch panel featured in the dashboard of the Suzuki MR Wagon. The touch panel houses the main audio control and is used for volume control and channel selection. Read more

May 16, 2011 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has unveiled a new feature for its TrueTouch touchscreen controllers that enables manufacturers of handsets, cameras, GPS systems and other mobile systems to offer the benefits of capacitive touchscreens at resistive touchscreen costs. Read more

April 21, 2011 Cypress Semiconductor's TrueTouch touchscreen solution is supporting the Android 3.0, Honeycomb, platform. Several Honeycomb-based tablets with TrueTouch are already in the pre-production stage and many more handsets running earlier versions of Android are currently in production. Read more

March 18, 2011 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. is planning to release five new CapSense Design Guides which will be complete reference manuals detailing the CapSense technology as well as how to implement it into a variety of end products. Read more

March 16, 2011 Cypress Semiconductor has announced the new CY8CKIT-030 development kit for its PSoC 3 programmable system-on-chip architecture, along with a new version of its PSoC Creator software tool. The new dev kit is designed for fast and easy development of designs using the integrated 20-bit Delta Sigma ADC, which delivers better than 18-bit effective number of bits (ENOB) performance. Read more

March 10, 2011 Fujitsu Limited has selected the TrueTouch touchscreen solution from Cypress Semiconductor Corp. to implement the touchscreen in the new docomo PRIME series F-01C mobile phone. The flexible TrueTouch solution, based on the PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture, delivered the most responsive and accurate touchscreen solution for Fujitsu, which docomo PRIME series users rated as very important in a recent customer satisfaction survey. Read more

March 8, 2011 Cypress Semiconductor Corp., has introduced a new clock buffer family that claims to offer the industry's lowest additive RMS phase jitter. The CY2Dx15xx family features additive RMS phase jitter as low as 60fs while delivering propagation delays as low as 480 ps. Read more

February 28, 2011 ON Semiconductor has completed the acquisition of the CMOS Image Sensor Business Unit (ISBU) from Cypress Semiconductor in an all cash transaction for approximately $31.4 million, subject to adjustment under the purchase agreement. The purchase price was approximately 1x annual sales for the division. Read more

February 14, 2011 Cypress Semiconductor Corp., has unveiled a new feature for the company’s TrueTouch touchscreen controllers that enables touchscreens in handsets, cameras, GPS systems and other mobile systems to function seamlessly while connected to noisy chargers. Low-cost, third-party and after-market battery chargers emit large levels of common-mode noise that adversely affects touchscreen performance, often resulting in inaccurate touch readings or phantom touches. Read more

January 28, 2011 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has announced availability of a new, high-performance single-chip TrueTouch solution for large multitouch touchscreens up to 11.6 inches. The new CY8CTMA884 family offers 60 sensing I/O channels with support for up to 884 nodes on the screen, more than any other single-chip solution. Read more

January 27, 2011 ON Semiconductor and Cypress Semiconductor Corp., have signed a definitive agreement which will see ON Semiconductor acquire the CMOS Image Sensor Business Unit (ISBU) from Cypress in an all cash transaction for approximately $31.4 million. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the first quarter of 2011, subject to customary closing conditions. Read more

January 6, 2011 The new ICONIA tablet from Acer Inc. is to feature Cypress Semiconductor's TrueTouch solution for large multitouch touchscreens.  ICONIA, which claims to be the industry's first 10-finger touchscreen based on a multi-chip solution for large-size screens, is equipped with two multitouch all-point displays that provide users with responsive, intuitive navigation and an enhanced content consumption experience. Read more

January 6, 2011 Cypress Semiconductor Corp., is unveiling two new families of its leading TrueTouch touchscreen controllers that are targeted at stylus-enabled capacitive touchscreen devices. The CY8CTMA340-XXX-03 and CY8CTMA340-XXX-11 families deliver the industry’s only solution for thin (as small as 1 mm) stylus use on capacitive touchscreens. Read more

January 5, 2011 Cypress Semiconductor Corp., is expanding the company’s manufacturing capacity expansion for its rapidly growing TrueTouch touchscreen controllers. Cypress's Fab 4 in Bloomington, Minnesota and Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Cypress's primary foundry partner, will triple 2011 capacity for the S8 manufacturing process compared with 2010 levels. Read more

December 31, 2010 As 2011 looms on the horizon why don't you while away the rest of 2010 by checking out the most popular analog and mixed-signal technical articles of 2010 that appeared in EE Times Europe Analog. Read more

December 30, 2010 Before you ease yourself into 2011 maybe you should take a little while to reflect on the ten most popular technical articles of 2010. Read more

December 20, 2010 A CMOS image sensor from Cypress Semiconductor Corp’s Image Sensor Business Unit has been designed into the state-of-the-art, 35 mm ALEXA digital motion picture camera from ARRI (Arnold & Richter Cine Technik GmbH), headquartered in Germany. Read more

December 9, 2010 HTC has selected Cypress Semiconductor Corp's TrueTouch solution to implement the touchscreens in the company's new HTC 7 Surround and HTC 7 Mozart mobile phones. Both of the new smartphones are based on the Windows Phone 7 Series introduced by Microsoft. Read more

December 9, 2010 Epson has selected the CapSense capacitive touch solution from Cypress Semiconductor Corp., to implement buttons and LED controls in the company’s new multi-function printers. Read more

November 29, 2010 Cypress Semiconductor Corp., and Micrium, Inc. have announced that Micrium's uC/OS-III RTOS (Real-Time Operating System) is supporting Cypress's PSoC 5 development platform. The programmable analog and digital peripherals in PSoC 5, along with the high performance 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 processor, position PSoC 5 for demanding applications such as industrial, medical, automotive, and consumer equipment. PSoC 5 devices offer industry-leading integrated analog resources and powerful, PLD-based Universal Digital Blocks for implementing standard and custom digital peripherals. Read more

November 18, 2010 Microsoft's new Arc Touch Mouse is applying the Cypress CapSense solution for the touch scroll strip that lets users navigate documents and Web pages without using the on-screen scroll bar. Read more

November 18, 2010 Cypress Semiconductor Corp., has passed the 750 million unit mark in shipments of its PSoC programmable system-on-chip which is the world’s only programmable analog and digital embedded design platform that combines analog and digital peripheral controllers with memory on a single piece of silicon, maximizing designers’ flexibility. Read more

November 17, 2010 Cypress Semiconductor Corp., is unveiling the ARM Cortex M3/ PSoC 5 Design Challenge, a contest to find the most innovative and useful designs from the millions of possibilities available to designers using the Cypress PSoC 5 architecture powered by the ARM Cortex-M3 processor. Read more

November 11, 2010 Cypress Semiconductor Corp., is making two extensions to the company's VITA family of image sensors — the 2.3-megapixel VITA 2000 and the 5.3-megapixel VITA 5000.  The devices are ideal for machine vision, high-end security, 2D barcode and intelligent traffic applications. Read more

September 8, 2010 Cypress Semiconductor Corp., is now offering both its CapSense capacitive touch controllers and TrueTouch touchscreen controllers in Wafer-Level Chip-Scale Packages (WLCSPs). Read more

September 3, 2010 Cypress Semiconductor Corp., has unveiled new features for the company's PSoC Creator Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families. PSoC Creator now supports enhanced low-power design techniques, new LCD design capabilities and faster, easier CapSense capacitive sensing design.  Read more

July 13, 2010 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Future Electronics have introduced a low-cost development board to demonstrate the ease-of-use of Cypress's new PSoC 3 architecture. The  Future Electronics PSoC 3 Development Board shows how developers can use  the flexible PSoC 3 architecture and the PSoC Creator Integrated  Development Environment (IDE) to streamline designs. Read more

July 1, 2010 Cypress Semiconductor's new scalable platform combines programmable precision analog and digital logic with high performance 32-bit processor Read more

June 7, 2010 A new scalable development platform for the PSoC 5 system-on-chip architecture, which combines programmable precision analog and digital logic with a high performance 32-bit processor, has been introduced by Cypress Semiconductor Corp. Read more

May 18, 2010 Cypress Semiconductor Corp., has announced automotive qualification of the company’s TrueTouch touchscreen and LIN capable CapSense touch-sensing controllers. Read more

May 4, 2010 A new online community for designers to share design tips, ask questions and find in-depth information on a wide range of Cypress products, including the PSoC programmable system-on-chip, has been unveiled by Cypress Semiconductor Corp. Read more

April 21, 2010 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. is to offer support for hover detection for its capacitive touchscreen technology. Read more

April 19, 2010 Cypress Semiconductor Corp., has introduced a new family in its PSoC 3 architecture which is optimized for applications requiring programmable digital peripherals. Read more

April 13, 2010 Cypress Semiconductor announced CyClockWizard 1.0, a software tool for the selection and customization of it's programmable timing solutions. The tool includes a parametric search engine that allows customers to quickly identify the right product for their system needs. The free tool also integrates custom configuration and field programming of supported Cypress timing solutions. Read more

April 6, 2010 Cypress Semiconductor Corp., has introduced a new development platform for Apple iPhone and iPod accessories based on its new PSoC 3 architecture. Read more

March 30, 2010 Cypress Semiconductor Corp., has unveiled a new online product selection tool for the company’s new PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 architectures. Read more

March 29, 2010 Cypress Semiconductor Corp., has introduced new AC-DC digital power controllers for LED lighting which offer a cost-effective solution for both non-dimmable and dimmable LED lighting, delivering high efficiency while meeting EnergyStar requirements. Read more

March 22, 2010 Cypress Semiconductor Corp., has introduced what the company claims is the world's first truly programmable solution for data communication over existing power lines. Read more

March 15, 2010 Cypress Semiconductor announced several new online training modules and videos about its PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip architectures and the PSoC Creator integrated development environment (IDE). Read more