Agilent Technologies and Cypress Introduce LED-Based Optical Mouse Reference Design Kit.PALO ALTO, Calif. & SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Combination USB-PS/2 Solution Simplifies Development, Speeds Time-to-Market for Designers of Desktop and Notebook PCs Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :A) and Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY), the market leader in USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. , today introduced a combination Universal Serial Bus See USB. (hardware, standard) Universal Serial Bus - (USB) An external peripheral interface standard for communication between a computer and external peripherals over an inexpensive cable using biserial transmission. (USB)-PS/2 reference design kit for high-performance corded optical mice. The kit gives manufacturers the technical instructions and firmware needed to quickly implement a new optical mouse design. The optical mouse reference design is based on the Cypress CY7C63743A-PC microcontroller and the Agilent ADNS-3060 optical mouse sensor, which provide superior performance and tracking control compared with previous-generation, LED-based optical mice. "Agilent and Cypress have collaborated on several optical mouse reference design kits that address low-cost, wireless and performance market segments," said Ed Keane, navigation sensors business manager for Agilent's Sensor Solutions Division. "Our latest joint reference design provides manufacturers with a cost-effective, easy-to-use platform for accelerated development of high-performance corded optical mice." "Joining forces with Agilent has once again enabled the teaming of two best-of-breed technologies to create a robust solution for our OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers," said Trevor Davis, director of marketing for the Personal Communications Division at Cypress. "The kit includes everything a mouse manufacturer needs to rapidly create a new class of higher-performance, LED-based optical mice for desktop and notebook PCs." About Agilent's Optical Mouse Sensor The Agilent ADNS-3060 LED-based optical mouse sensor provides excellent tracking control and high-performance operation for corded optical mice. The sensor uses a self-adjusting frame rate that automatically matches to surface characteristics for optimum performance. In addition, the ADNS-3060 offers the following features: --3.3 volt operation --Power-down current consumption of 90 uA --Maximum clock frequency of 24 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. --Maximum speed of 40 inches-per-second at 6,400 frames-per-second --Resolution of up to 800 counts-per-inch (CPI (1) (Characters Per Inch) The measurement of the density of characters per inch on tape or paper. A printer's CPI button switches character pitch. (2) (Counts Per I ) About Cypress's CY7C63743A-PC Microcontroller The Cypress CY7C63743A-PC is an 8-bit RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. microcontroller with an integrated USB serial interface engine. High-performance, low-cost human interface peripherals such as optical mice can be implemented with a minimum of external components and firmware effort. Communication between the CY7C63743A-PC microcontroller and the ADNS-3060 sensor is accomplished through the integrated serial peripheral interface (communications, hardware) Serial Peripheral Interface - (SPI) A serial interface in which a master device supplies clock pulses to exchanges data serially with a slave over two data wires (Master-Slave and Slave-Master). . The combination USB-PS/2 microcontroller also offers these important features: --12 MHz internal CPU clock --256 bytes of RAM --8 Kbytes of EPROM EPROM in full erasable programmable read-only memory Form of computer memory that does not lose its content when the power supply is cut off and that can be erased and reused. --Built-in clock oscillator oscillator Mechanical or electronic device that produces a back-and-forth periodic motion. A pendulum is a simple mechanical oscillator that swings with a constant amplitude, requiring the addition of energy at each swing only to compensate for the energy lost because of air and timers --Programmable drive strength and pull-up resistors on each I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output line U.S. Pricing and Availability The joint optical mouse reference design kit includes a sample optical mouse with complete schematics, layout and firmware. It is priced at $199 and is available from Agilent as the ADNK-3061 Optical Mouse Reference Design Kit (www.agilent.com/view/opticalnavigation). The ADNK-3061 kit is also available through Cypress's sales offices and via the Web at www.cypress.com. About Cypress Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) is Connecting from Last Mile to First Mile(TM) with high-performance solutions for personal, network access, enterprise, metro switch and core communications-system applications. Cypress Connects(TM) using wireless, wireline, digital and optical transmission standards, including USB, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet and DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing . Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, Cypress makes industry-leading physical layer devices, framers and network search engines, along with a broad portfolio of high-bandwidth memories, timing technology solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. More information about Cypress is accessible online at www.cypress.com. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 28,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $7.2 billion in fiscal year 2004. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com. Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks and "Connecting From Last Mile to First Mile" and "Cypress Connects" are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. NOTE TO EDITORS: Please direct reader inquiries to Agilent Semiconductor Products Group at 1-800-235-0312, or e-mail us at semiconductorsupport@agilent.com. Further technology, corporate citizenship Corporate Citizenship The extent to which businesses are socially responsible in meeting legal, ethical and economic responsibilities placed on them by shareholders. The aim it to create higher standards of living and quality of life in the community in which it operates, while and executive news is available on the Agilent news site at www.agilent.com/go/news. |
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