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Cypress to Demonstrate PSoC 3 Solutions at 2010 FIRST Robotics Competition Finals

8th April 2010

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Cypress Semiconductor announced that it will be displaying its PSoC® 3 Solutions at the Finals of the 2010 FIRST Robotics Competition April 15 and 16 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. Through its University Alliance Program (www.cypress.com/cua), Cypress has provided over 1,900 customized kits to FIRST for use in building the competitive robots. The student teams have used the kits in the control units of the robots, hooked up through a USB connection to the robot’s netbook computer. More information on the competition is available at www.usfirst.org/frc.

The Cypress PSoC 3 architecture has unique programmable analog and digital peripherals that enable capabilities such as motor control, intelligent power supply and battery management, human interfaces such as CapSense® touch sensing, LCD segment display, graphics control, as well as audio/voice processing, communication protocols, and much more. It is accompanied by the new PSoC Creator™ Integrated Development Environment, which introduces a unique schematic-based design capture along with fully tested, pre-packaged analog and digital peripherals easily customizable through user-intuitive wizards and APIs to meet specific design requirements. PSoC Creator enables engineers to design the way they think and dramatically shorten time-to-market. More information, including data sheets, application notes, online training, development kits, free PSoC Creator downloads and device samples, is available at www.cypress.com/go/psoc.

The PSoC 3 FirstTouch Starter Kit (CY8CKIT-003) helps designers get acquainted with the new PSoC 3 architecture. It includes an array of sensors, I/O’s, projects, and software in addition to Serial Wire Debugging (SWD), an accelerometer, a thermistor, proximity sensing, CapSense, a 12-pin wireless module header, and 28 general purpose I/O pins. Customers can find more information and order the kit for US$49 at http://www.cypress.com/?rID=38235.

“The FIRST Competition is a great showplace for the creativity and enthusiasm of the student teams,” said Patrick Kane, Cypress’s director of University Relations. “We’re proud to be participating and excited to see some of the innovative robots on display and to speak with the participants about their experiences.”