Catalyst Semiconductor Launches Three New Families of Voltage Supervisors With Industry's Broadest Selection of Embedded Memory.CAT130xx, CAT140xx and CAT150xx Supervisors Offer Microwire, I(2)C and SPI (1) (Stateful Packet Inspection) See stateful inspection. (2) (Service Provider Interface) The programming interface for developing Windows drivers under WOSA. Serial Interface With 1-, 2-, 4-, 8- and 16-kbits of Embedded EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM) A rewritable memory chip that holds its content without power. Although EEPROMs spawned flash memory, EEPROMs are byte addressable at the write level, whereas flash chips must erase a block of bytes before rewriting. SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CATS), a supplier of analog, mixed-signal and non-volatile memory semiconductors, today launched three new families of voltage supervisors with the industry's broadest selection of embedded memory. The CAT130xx supervisor family offers 1-, 4-, 8- and 16-kbit embedded EEPROM with Microwire serial interface. The CAT140xx and CAT150xx provide 2-, 4-, 8- and 16-kbit embedded EEPROM with I2C I2C Inter-Integrated Circuit I2C Intelligent Interface Controller I2C Intelligent Controller and SPI serial interface protocols, respectively. The three new Catalyst voltage supervisor families offer seven reset threshold voltage options from 2.32V to 4.63V to support 2.5V, 3V, 3.3V and 5V systems. The reset function is available with either CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. active low or CMOS active high output options. "Catalyst is the first company to offer such an extensive range of embedded EEPROM memory and supervisor combinations," said Scott Brown, Vice President of Marketing for Catalyst Semiconductor. "Now designers have a choice of integrating a voltage supervisor with any serial EEPROM from 1-kbit density up to 16-kbits to achieve the exact solution needed for the specific application." Product Features -- Seven threshold voltage options: 4.63V, 4.38V, 4.00V, 3.08V, 2.93V, 2.63V, 2.32V -- Active high or low reset, valid reset guaranteed at Vcc = 1V -- Embedded memory selections/interface: CAT130xx: 1-, 4-, 8- and 16-kbit embedded EEPROM / Microwire CAT140xx: 2-, 4-, 8- and 16-kbit embedded EEPROM / I2C CAT150xx: 2-, 4-, 8- and 16-kbit embedded EEPROM / SPI -- Packaging: 8-pin SOIC Price and Availability The CAT130xx, CAT140xx and CAT150xx range in price from $0.25 to $0.33 each in 10,000 piece quantities. Samples are now available and projected lead-time for production quantities is currently 6 to 8 weeks ARO. About Catalyst Semiconductor Founded in 1985, Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. is headquartered in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. . The Company produces analog and mixed signal products in addition to an extensive range of non-volatile memories. The analog and mixed-signal product lines include Digitally Programmable Potentiometers [DPP DPP - Dining Philosophers Problem (tm)], white and color LED drivers, DC/DC converters, voltage supervisors, linear regulators and 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 expanders. The memory product lines consist of serial and parallel EEPROMs, Flash and NVRAM (Non-Volatile RAM) May refer to dynamic RAM (DRAM) and static RAM (SRAM) chips that are backed up by a battery or to non-volatile chips such as flash memory. See non-volatile memory, dynamic RAM, static RAM and solid state disk. . Catalyst devices are used in telecommunications, networking systems, computation, automotive, industrial and consumer markets. Typical applications include LCD displays, automotive instrumentation, optical networks, modems, wireless LANs, network cards, DIMM (Dual In-Line Memory Module) A printed circuit board that holds memory chips and plugs into a DIMM socket on the motherboard. See memory module. DIMM - Dual In-Line Memory Module modules, cellular telephones, digital satellite box receivers, set-top boxes and Internet routers. Catalyst's Quality Management System is ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001:2000 certified. All Catalyst products are available in "green" lead- and halogen-free versions with full RoHS compliance. For additional information about Catalyst Semiconductor, visit our website at: www.catsemi.com. Forward Looking Statements Statements in this press release, including but not limited to those describing Catalyst Semiconductor's voltage supervisor product availability and lead times are forward-looking statements and, as such, are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties can include factors such as interruptions in our manufacturing processes, delays in our vendors' manufacturing or delivery of raw materials and volatility in the technology market sector and/or semiconductor industry. Further information on these and other forward-looking statements may be reviewed in our SEC reports under "Certain Factors That May Affect the Company's Future Results of Operations." These SEC reports include, but are not limited to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2006 and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the first and second quarters of fiscal year 2007. Editor Notes: 1. Trademark notices: DPP is a trademark of Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. 2. I2C is a registered trademark of Philips Corporation. 3. Electronic images are available at: www.catsemi.com/editor. |
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