Cypress Semiconductor has introduced a new 1-Mbit Serial non-volatile Static Random Access Memory (nvSRAM) family and new 4-Mbit and 8-Mbit nvSRAMs with an integrated real-time clock (RTC). Cypress’s nvSRAMs are manufactured on its S8™ 0.13-micron SONOS (Silicon Oxide Nitride Oxide Silicon) embedded non-volatile memory technology, enabling greater densities and improved access times and performance. nvSRAMs are ideal solutions for applicatio...

Cypress Semiconductor has announced a free, online seminar that presents the basics of the USB3.0 specification. The 60-minute webinar, entitled “Fundamentals of USB3.0,” will be presented in conjunction with EE Times on Thursday, October 8 at 9:00 a.m. PDT. Online registration is available at http://www.techonline.com/learning/webinar/220200080.

AGIGA Tech Inc., a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp., today introduced what it says is the market’s highest-density, high-speed non-volatile RAM system. The AGIGARAM non-volatile system’s (NVS) new CAPRI family delivers densities between 256 megabytes (2048 megabits) and 2 gigabytes (16 gigabits). The easy-to-use, turnkey family leverages a DDR2 SDRAM interface to deliver speeds up to 800 MHz with peak transfer rates equivalent to DR...

Arrow Asia Pac Ltd., a business unit of Arrow Electronics, Inc., announced that it will partner with Cypress Semiconductor Corp. to deliver a series of seminars on Cypress’s new PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 programmable architectures in China. The seminars will be held in three cities, including in Nanjing on October 21, in Beijing on October 23, and in Shenzhen on October 28. Arrow and Cypress will introduce Cypress’s newest programmable embedded syste...

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced that it will partner with Avnet, Inc. for the X-Fest global series of free technical seminars to be held in 37 locations around the world from October 2009 through February 2010. Interested parties can get more information and register for a local event at www.cypress.com/go/xfest.

Cypress Semiconductor has announced that WAC Lighting, a leading manufacturer and designer of track, recessed, undercabinet, decorative and monorail lighting, has selected Cypress’s EZ-Color high-brightness LED (HBLED) controllers to control the LEDs in its new color-changing tape light system. Based on Cypress’s flexible PSoC programmable system-on-chip, the EZ-Color solution enabled WAC Lighting designers to quickly introduce the energy-eff...

Cypress Semiconductor has announced that WAC Lighting, a leading manufacturer and designer of track, recessed, undercabinet, decorative and monorail lighting, has selected Cypress’s EZ-Color high-brightness LED (HBLED) controllers to control the LEDs in its new color-changing tape light system. Based on Cypress’s flexible PSoC programmable system-on-chip, the EZ-Color solution enabled WAC Lighting designers to quickly introduce the energy-eff...

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced it has expanded its automotive-grade portfolio with two USB devices—the EZ-USB-HX2LP 4-port high-speed USB hub and the EZ-Host full-speed USB host. The AEC-Q100 auto-qualified devices are ideal for automotive applications such as navigation, infotainment, vehicle data recorders (VDRs) and data loggers.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. and Bhubaneswar Institute of Technology (BIT) announced a partnership to set up a Programmable System on Chip (PSoC) lab at Bhubaneswar. The agreement was signed at Cypress headquarters in San Jose, California, by BIT Chairman, Dr. Rabi Mahapatra and Cypress University Alliance Director, Patrick Kane.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. introduces the PSoC Creator Integrated Development Environment for the new PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families. The unique new design software enables engineers to design the way they think, using schematic-based design capture along with certified, pre-packaged peripherals to keep system creation independent of the target PSoC device.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced two new architectures in its PSoC programmable system-on-chip platform that dramatically increase performance and extend the world’s only programmable analog and digital embedded design platform delivering unmatched time-to-market, integration, and flexibility across 8-, 16-, and 32-bit applications.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today announced its founder, president and CEO T.J. Rodgers will present the keynote address at the 2009 Embedded Systems Conference in Boston on Wednesday, September 23 at 9:30 a.m. in Hall D of the Hynes Convention Center. The address will examine how true system-level programmability – the ability to use programmable resources to create, change and reuse designs quickly and efficiently in software – is enabling ...