Cypress MicroSystems and CMP Media Extend Entry Deadline to March 31 for ''$30,000 International PSoC Design Contest''.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LYNNWOOD, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2004 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). Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CY), and CMP CMP (cytidine monophosphate): see cytosine. (1) (CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, NY, www.cmp.com) Part of United Business Media, CMP is a leading integrated media company that offers a wide variety of publications and services in the information Media (CMP), a publisher of leading technical publications for design engineers worldwide, today extended the entry deadline for the "$30,000 International PSoC(TM) Design Contest" to March 31, 2004 for all participants who completed the registration process by December 15, 2003. The contest challenges engineers to create unique, real-world designs that utilize PSoC's broad range of on-chip reprogrammable analog and digital blocks. The sponsors will award cash prizes of US$30,000 in the following categories: -- One grand prize of $10,000 for the best entry overall; -- One $3,000 first place, $2,000 second place, and $1,000 third place prize in each of three geographic regions -- the Americas, Asia, and Europe; -- One $1,000 award for the best use of analog PSoC blocks; and -- One $1,000 award for the best use of dynamic reconfigurability. Information and registration forms are available online at www.cypress Cypress, city, United States Cypress (sī`prəs), city (1990 pop. 42,655), Orange co., S Calif. near Long Beach; inc. 1956. Forest Lawn–Cypress, a branch of the famous cemetery in Glendale, Calif. .com/ad/contest1. Designs are not limited to any category of application but must use existing commercially available components. Some possible application areas include residential/industrial metering, magnetic card or RF readers, LIN Bus/automotive controllers, motor controllers, home electronics/entertainment systems, medical monitoring equipment and wireless systems. Independent judges from the CMP editorial staff -- one from each geographic region -- will select the winning designs, which will be announced after May 1, 2004. Winning designs will be chosen based on originality o·rig·i·nal·i·ty n. pl. o·rig·i·nal·i·ties 1. The quality of being original. 2. The capacity to act or think independently. 3. Something original. Noun 1. , feasibility, manufacturability, and how extensively and well the implementation uses the PSoC device. Anyone living in a country or state where the contest is prohibited is not eligible to participate. About the PSoC Family Programmable System-on-Chip(TM) (PSoC) devices are high-performance, field-programmable, mixed-signal arrays for high-volume embedded-control functions in consumer, industrial, office automation, telecom and automotive applications. PSoC devices integrate programmable blocks of analog and digital logic, a fast 8-bit 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 , 16 kbytes of flash memory and 256 bytes of SRAM See static RAM. SRAM - static random-access memory and a multiply accumulator A hardware register used to hold the results or partial results of arithmetic and logical operations. (processor) accumulator - In a central processing unit, a register in which intermediate results are stored. (MAC). All PSoC devices are dynamically reconfigurable, enabling designers to create new system functions on-the-fly. Re-using the same silicon for different functions on different clock cycles, designers can achieve more than 120% utilization of the die in many cases. In the automotive PSoC LIN bus reference design, the same transistors are re-used four times to support the different LIN communication modes; in doing so, these transistors consume less than 10 percent of PSoC hardware resources and less than 10 percent of the PSoC MCU cycles. To further shorten design cycles, the PSoC family includes pre-programmed, specialized versions for lighting, energy, motor control, communications, automotive and battery applications. Each family member comes with a reference design and extensive application notes to speed application development. 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 Inserted into. See embedded system. control functions in consumer, industrial, office automation, telecom and automotive applications. Established as a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (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 -- as well as access to over 100 PSoC applications notes -- is available online 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 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 An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. , 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 reprogrammable mixed-signal arrays. 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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