Cypress MicroSystems Named EDN 2001 Innovation of the Year Winner.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BOTHELL, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2002 Programmable System on Chip (PSoC) Offering Dynamically Reconfigurable Digital, Analog Elements Honored as Outstanding 8/16-Bit Processor Cypress MicroSystems Cypress MicroSystems (CMS) markets high-performance, field Programmable System-on-a-Chip (PSoC) integrated M8 micro-based solutions. CMS is based in Lynnwood, near Seattle, Washington and was established as a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation in the fourth quarter of , Inc. (CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. ), a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Cypress Semiconductor is a semiconductor design and manufacturing company. It began operations in 1982 and listed publicly in 1986. Two years later, the company shifted over to the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol, (NYSE: CY). (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CY), has been selected from a field of hundreds of candidates as a winner in the EDN 2001 Innovation of the Year awards competition. This exclusive awards program, sponsored by EDN Worldwide magazine, is dedicated to honoring outstanding engineering products in the electronics industry. CMS received the award for its Programmable System on Chip (PSoC(TM)) microcontroller technology. The EDN 2001 Innovation of the Year awards were presented in sixteen major categories of products and technologies that were introduced and commercially marketed from January 1, 2001 through December 31, 2001. The PSoC microcontroller was selected in the 8/16-Bit Processors category. Winners of the 2001 Innovation of the Year awards were chosen by EDN's readers through an online ballot on the EDN Access web site (www.ednmag.com). Winning products were announced at EDN's black-tie Innovation/Innovator Awards Dinner on March 12, 2002 at the Pan Pacific Hotel in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and will appear in the March 21, 2002 issue of EDN and on EDN Access. About the PSoC Family The first family of PSoC microcontrollers integrates an 8-bit CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. , 8 to 16 KBytes of flash memory, SRAM See static RAM. SRAM - static random-access memory , and programmable arrays of analog and digital system functions (known as PSoC blocks) in low-cost, small-footprint packages. By selecting a PSoC microcontroller with the chosen combination of memory, PSoC blocks and pins, designers have a device that can be configured to any application and reduces costs by eliminating external chips and simplifying system design. Using PSoC Designer(TM), a GUI-based, integrated development environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment , application designers can select the PSoC blocks that best fit their application -- and then generate functions that can dynamically reconfigure themselves. This combination of flexibility and control reduces development time and costs, while providing maximum adaptability throughout the design process. About EDN Magazine EDN, the premier design magazine of the electronics industry, is published by Reed Business Information Reed Business Information is a large business publisher in the United States, United Kingdom, continental Europe, Australia and Asia. It is a division of Reed Elsevier. In 2005, Reed Business Information started the Quill Awards, a literary award broadcast on NBC. . Headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts The City of Newton in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, is an important residential suburb of Boston, which abuts it on the east. According to the 2000 census, the population of the Newton was 83,829, making it the tenth largest city in the state. , EDN serves the vital information needs of design engineers and engineering managers worldwide. The EDN Worldwide franchise includes EDN, EDN Europe, EDN Asia, EDN China, EDN Japan, and EDN Access, the only full-content, EOEM publication web site. About Cypress MicroSystems Cypress MicroSystems designs, develops, manufactures and markets high-performance, field programmable integrated micro-based solutions for high-volume embedded control functions in computer, communications, consumer and control applications. Established as a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE:CY) in the fourth quarter of 1999, Cypress MicroSystems's stockholders are its employees and Cypress Semiconductor. The close association with Cypress Semiconductor allows access to their process and design technology, and field sales and applications forces. Cypress MicroSystems is based near Seattle in Bothell, Washington. More information about Cypress MicroSystems and its products can be accessed through its Web site at www.cypressmicro.com. About Cypress Cypress Semiconductor (NYSE:CY) is "Driving the Communications Revolution" with high-performance integrated circuits for network infrastructure and access equipment. Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, the company designs and manufactures solutions targeted across wireless and wireline communications. Cypress supports a wide range of industry standards, such as SONET (OC-48, OC-192 and OC-768), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), InfiniBand and Gigabit Ethernet. The company's communications product lines include programmable high-speed physical layer devices (PHYs), wirespeed network search engines (NSEs) and network coprocessors (NCPs), and datapath switching elements (DSEs). Cypress is also the industry's leader in communications timing solutions, networking-optimized communications memories and personal connectivity solutions, such as 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. and Bluetooth. Cypress is a leader in pure optical and optoelectronic technologies designed to push network transmissions to higher performance levels and to satisfy the increasing demand for network bandwidth. With a focus on emerging communications applications, Cypress aims to become the preferred silicon supplier for network infrastructure solutions and for every network data stream to pass through at least one Cypress IC. Cypress employs 4,000 people worldwide. Its shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol CY. More information about Cypress is accessible on the Web at http://www.cypress.com. "Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995: Statements herein that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" involving risks and uncertainties, including by not limited to: the effect of global economic conditions, shifts in supply and demand, market acceptance, the impact of competitive products and pricing, product development, commercialization and technological difficulties, and capacity and supply constraints. Please refer to Cypress's Securities and Exchange Commission filings for a discussion of such risks. Note to Editors: "Driving the Communications Revolution" is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor. PSoC, PSoC Designer, and Device Editor are trademarks of Cypress MicroSystems. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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