Oscium's new iMSO-104 oscilloscope powered by Cypress PSoC 3 devices,
Make using iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad easy with a mixed-signal scope!

Cypress Korea (Country Manager Young-do Lim, www.cypress.com ) announced that Oscium ( www.oscium.com ) has selected Cypress’s PSoC® 3 programmable system-on-chip for its new iMSO-104 mixed-signal oscilloscope for iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad.

The iMSO-104's PSoC 3 device seamlessly manages bidirectional communication between the oscilloscope and iOS devices via Apple's proprietary dock connector and processes incoming analog and digital signals.

Oscium's iMSO-104 is the first mixed-signal oscilloscope to utilize Apple's ubiquitous iOS devices and is the world's smallest and most portable oscilloscope. As such, it is an ideal solution for field sales and application engineers, as well as Apple product enthusiasts and students. It boasts a bandwidth of 5 MHz and a sampling rate of up to 12 MSPS (megasamples per second) while simultaneously analyzing up to one analog and four digital signals.

With the iMSO app (available for download on the Apple App Store), Apple's intuitive multi-touch user interface, and superior display and computing capabilities, the iMSO-104 delivers the easiest and most intuitive scope solution on the market. The price of iMSO-104 is US$279.99, and for more information, please refer to www.oscium.com .

Oscium engineers were able to quickly and easily interface with iOS devices using Cypress’s CY8CKIT-023 PSoC expansion board kit for iPhone and iPod accessories – plug-in boards for the Cypress CY8CKIT-001 PSoC development kit. This kit enables the design of innovative mobile accessories using the flexible PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture.

In addition, this kit utilizes Apple's iOS operating system and its SDK (Software Development Kit) to provide a two-way communication interface between apps and connected accessories. For information regarding the new kit and video demonstrations, please visit www.cypress.com/go/cy8ckit-023 , and for more information regarding Apple's (MFi) Made for iPod touch, iPhone and iPad program, please visit http://developer.apple.com/mfi .

Oscium's engineers chose Cypress's PSoC 3 platform because it offers a perfect combination of low power consumption, processing power, and flexible communication interfaces. We focused on creating test equipment that is more intuitive and comfortable to use. “We call this innovation for inventors, and PSoC 3 has enabled us to keep this promise,” said Bryan Lee, President of Oscium.

“Oscium is a prime example of how Apple’s iOS and MFi developer programs are opening up entirely new areas of opportunity for app developers and accessory manufacturers. This product also demonstrates the many advantages that allow PSoC to create the perfect solution for iOS-based ‘app-cessory’ products for designers,” said Lim Young-do, General Manager of Cypress Korea.

Cypress PSoC capable of responding to design changes
PSoC devices provide functionality equivalent to flash-based field-programmable ASICs without lead-time or NRE penalties, while being embedded