Cypress PSoC Programmable System-on-Chip, Countdown to Shipment of the 1 Billionth Product!

Cypress Korea (Country Manager Young-do Lim, www.cypress.com ) announced that its rapidly growing PSoC programmable system-on-chip shipments are approaching the 1 billionth.

PSoC, the world's only programmable analog and digital embedded design platform, combines analog and digital peripheral controllers with memory on a single piece of silicon while maximizing the flexibility of designers.

To commemorate this, Cypress has placed an active counter on its website ( www.cypress.com ). Website visitors can guess the exact date and time when Cypress will reach the milestone of shipping 1 billion PSoC products. The winner will receive a new NOOK™ Color eReader featuring a Cypress PSoC-based TrueTouch® touchscreen controller.

The rapid growth of PSoC is among the fastest in the history of embedded systems and continues to accelerate. Cypress began shipping commercial products in 2002 and shipped its 100 millionth product in 2006. Furthermore, it surpassed 250 million units in 2007, 500 million units in 2009, and 750 million units in the fourth quarter of last year, 2010.

Cypress is truly pleased to have reached this milestone. “PSoC played a central role in Cypress’s transformation as a programmable solution provider and served as the foundation for change for the entire Cypress organization. The shipment of one billion products highlights the outstanding performance of the design, manufacturing, marketing, and sales teams,” said Christopher Seams, Vice President of Sales & Marketing at Cypress.

The programmable analog and digital resources of PSoC’s unique architecture, integrated with microcontrollers, offer system designers many significant advantages, including rapid time-to-market, the ability to respond to changes, reduced components resulting from integration, power savings, and reduced inventory, and vendor integration. All of these advantages are key elements in PSoC’s growth story. The PSoC architecture is also the core of other products offered by Cypress, such as TrueTouch™ touchscreen solutions, CapSense™ touch-sensing, and PowerPSoC™ controllers for LEDs.

The PSoC 3 and 32-bit ARM Cortex™-M3-based PSoC 5 families, which provide excellent integration and flexibility in 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit applications, dramatically expand the applications and markets that PSoC products can meet, such as industrial, automotive, and medical products.

Among the numerous PSoC customers worldwide are market-leading companies such as Samsung, LG, HP, Cisco, Motorola, IBM, Honeywell, Lenovo, Haier, Acer, HTC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Nintendo, Sharp, Suzuki, Philips, BMW, and Gaggia.

PSoC devices are at the center of a very wide range of applications, including home appliances, mobile phone/smartphone set-top box platforms, electric toothbrushes, air purifiers, electric bicycles, high-definition televisions, digital cameras, hobby remote-controlled helicopters, computer mice, printers and other PC peripherals, health and fitness equipment, automotive sound systems, satellite radios, engine control units, medical devices, lighting, electric baby strollers, oscilloscopes, MP3 players, etc.

For more detailed information regarding PSoC products, please refer to the website www.cypress.com/psoc .

Cypress is a provider of high-performance mixed-signal programmable solutions that deliver rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value to customers. The products supplied by Cypress include the PSoC® Programmable System-on-Chip™ product family and derivative products such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, and CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is also a global leader in USB controllers, including high-performance West Bridge® solutions that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia mobile phones. Furthermore, Cypress is a leading provider in the fields of high-performance memory and programmable timing devices. Cypress supplies products to a diverse range of markets, including consumer, mobile, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and military sectors. http://www.cypress.com