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Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: Cypress Semiconductor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 December 2005
Mixed-signal arrays top 50 million
milestone
Cypress Semiconductor has now shipped more than 50 million PSoC mixed-signal array devices, demonstrating wide acceptance of this high-performance cost-effective mixed-signal integration platform.
Cypress Semiconductor has now shipped more than 50 million Programmable System-on-Chip (PSoC) 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 1000 customers in Asia, Europe and the USA in applications as diverse as consumer electronics, handsets, networking equipment, industrial systems, and automotive systems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"In just a little more than three full years of production, PSoC sales compare favourably with the industry's most successful embedded component offerings over their comparable phase of product life", said George Saul, Vice President of Cypress's PSoC business.
"The ubiquitous appeal of PSoC revolves around the design flexibility offered by its configurable mixed signal architecture".
"With a few keystrokes, customers change their mix of ADCs, DACs, PWMs, timers, counters and filters; modify their interface from SPI to I2C to USB; and make nearly unlimited IO assignments".
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"And they can modify the device any number of times and actually trigger device reconfiguration on-the-fly, in-system".
Max Baron, Principal Analyst for market research firm In-Stat, said: "PSoC's user-configurable, mixed-signal system architecture has shown strong growth due to its flexibility and software tools that can configure and integrate digital and analogue functions", The strong PSoC growth has recently been accelerated by worldwide demand for Cypress's new CapSense solution for capacitive touch interfaces.
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 LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company's hot new LG-KV5900 Cyon Slider mobile phones.
In response to the rapidly growing demand for CapSense and other PSoC products, Cypress has taken steps to increase manufacturing capacity.
In the third quarter of 2005, the company qualified PSoC production in its high-volume Fab 4 facility in Bloomington, Minnesota.
Cypress also recently announced plans to begin PSoC production at Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (GSMC) in Shanghai in the third quarter of 2006.
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