Cypress MicroSystems Offers Metering Industry's First Cost-Effective, Feature-Rich Family of Single-Chip, Single-Phase, Electric-Metering ICs.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LYNNWOOD, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 2003 CY8C775X Devices Integrate Active, Reactive, and Apparent-Power Measurement Analog Front End, M8 MCU (1) (MicroController Unit) A computer on a single chip. See microcontroller. (2) (Multipoint Control Unit) A device that is used to moderate a videoconference of three or more end points (users at computers or groups of users , Real-Time Clock A real-time clock (RTC) is a computer clock (most often in the form of an integrated circuit) that keeps track of the current time. Although the term often refers to the devices in personal computers, servers and embedded systems, RTCs are present in almost any electronic , 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. , IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iec.ch) An organization that sets international electrical and electronics standards founded in 1906. It is made up of national committees from over 60 countries. IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission 1107 Optical Port, and Interfaces for Three Display Options 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., 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). Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CY), today announced a new family of PSoC Energy Meter ICs and accompanying reference design that streamlines the development of single-phase energy meters. The Energy Meter Design Kit offers an extremely cost-effective and low power solution for engineers building IEC 61036-compliant systems that measure residential or business electricity usage. The PSoC product family is based on Cypress's reconfigurable mixed signal array with an on-board controller. PSoC devices offer an integrated mix of analog and digital logic, memory and processing circuitry in one small package. When used in a power metering application, PSoC dramatically reduces the number of system components, which significantly decreases bill of material costs and improves reliability. The inherent flexibility provided through PSoC's programmability allows energy meter manufacturers to easily configure their PSoC metering IC with unique features to differentiate their devices in the marketplace, thus enhancing market value. In contrast, traditional microcontroller-based reference designs require additional expensive fixed-function analog front-end (AFE (Apple File Exchange) An earlier Macintosh utility that converted data files between Mac and PC formats. It also included a file translator between IBM's DCA format and MacWrite. ) chips to perform functions such as signal amplification, filtering, analog-to-digital conversion, LCD control, and real-time clock generation. Standard solutions offer little or no variation in the feature set for the end manufacturer. "The new PSoC Energy Meter IC family is the world's lowest cost single-phase energy meter for both basic and feature rich energy meters," said John McDonald, vice president of marketing for Cypress MicroSystems. "The new family enables power meter companies to easily configure meters for pre-pay options, tariff options, various user controls, and a clean, low-power interface to RF automatic meter reading Automatic meter reading, or AMR, is the technology of automatically collecting data from water meter or energy metering devices (water, gas, electric) and transferring that data to a central database for billing and/or analyzing. (AMR (1) (Adaptive Multi-Rate) A variable rate speech codec selected by the 3GPP for the 3G evolution of the GSM cellphone system (WCDMA). Using the Algebraic CELP (ACELP) compression technology, AMR provides toll quality sound at transmission rates from 4.75 to 12. ) chips. The integration PSoC provides in a Class 1 energy meter for around two dollars is significant advantage to a mature market with volumes in the tens of millions of units that competes on cost." About the PSoC Family The PSoC device family integrates programmable blocks of analog and digital logic, a fast 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. and MAC, 8 to 16 Kbytes of flash memory and 256 bytes of SRAM See static RAM. SRAM - static random-access memory . PSoC ICs provide designers with a flexible architecture that can be configured for a broad range of embedded applications and dynamically reconfigured to extend the capabilities and value of their product. The PSoC platform typically reduces customer development time by 33% and lowers bill of material costs by an average of $5 by significantly reducing the number of chips required for systems typically utilizing a traditional microcontroller and discrete digital and analog components. Pricing and Availability Cypress MicroSystems' energy meter source code is available now for free at http://www.cypressmicro.com listed under reference designs. However, detail performance information, calibration methods, and customization options are only available through a Cypress representative. The first family of PSoC Energy Meter ICs (CY8C775X) is priced below $2.50 for power meter applications (10 KU units). The company also offers a PSoC Power Meter design kit (CY3220PWRMTR-RD), which includes a reference board and documentation, for $199 to select customers. Customers may purchase the Basic PSoC Pro-Class Development Kit, including a full speed emulator (PSoC ICE-4000), for $399. Photo A high-resolution photo of the PSoC power meter reference board can be downloaded at www.cypress.com/support/link.cfm?mr=powermeter. About Cypress MicroSystems Headquartered in Lynnwood, Wash., Cypress MicroSystems develops and markets Programmable System on Chip (PSoC) devices -- high-performance, field-programmable ICs for high-volume embedded control functions in consumer, industrial, office automation, telecom and automotive applications. Established as a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE: CY) in the fourth quarter of 1999, Cypress MicroSystems' 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. More information about Cypress MicroSystems and its products is accessible online at www.cypressmicro.com. About Cypress Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (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 Bluetooth, 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. , 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 programmable microcontrollers. More information about Cypress is accessible online at www.cypress.com. Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. "Connectivity From Last Mile to First Mile" and "Cypress Connects" are trademarks of Cypress. "Programmable System on Chip," PSoC and PSoC Designer are trademarks of Cypress MicroSystems. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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