Cypress Presents Live Webinar on August 22 Introducing Code-Free Embedded Design With Monitoring and Tuning Capability.

Free Webinar Hosted With EE Times Will Demo New PSoC Express[TM] 3.0 Software With Example CapSense[TM] Touch Sensing Design

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) today announced that it will host a free online seminar that explores visual embedded design with Cypress's breakthrough PSoC Express[TM] 3.0 design tool. The 60-minute webinar entitled "Code-Free Embedded System Design with PSoC Express," will be presented in conjunction with CMP Media's Electronic Engineering Times on Wednesday, August 22 at 9:00 a.m. PDT.

Cypress's PSoC Express visual embedded system design tool includes dozens of pre-coded modules that allow designers to drag-and-drop functions into a design that would take days to create in another environment. PSoC Express 3.0 introduces a new user interface and monitoring and tuning tools that make performance optimization much easier and faster. The webinar presenters will demonstrate how quick and easy it is to complete a sample CapSense[TM] touch sensitive interface design with PSoC Express 3.0. Interested parties can find additional information and register at: http://seminar2.techonline.com/registration/wcIndex.cgi?sessionID= cypress_aug2207 (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.).

About PSoC Express

PSoC Express is the first easy-to-use development tool that allows system engineers to develop microcontroller-based designs without any Assembly language or C programming. By operating at a higher level of abstraction and not requiring firmware development, PSoC Express enables new designs to be created, simulated and programmed to the targeted PSoC([R]) mixed-signal array in hours or days instead of in weeks or months. With built-in support for portability, seamless multi-processing, design visualization and a rich content library, designs can be created faster and with higher reliability using PSoC Express.

With PSoC Express, designers work within their areas of application expertise, defining a custom solution by choosing input and output devices from a catalog, and then logically linking them to define system behavior. For example, a user can select temperature sensors, voltage inputs, fans, LEDs, and then define temperature regions for fan operation, voltage monitor thresholds and "sequence-on" logic. Within PSoC Express the designer is able to verify designs through simulation, then generate and download the device-programming file. The tool allows users to target the design to any of Cypress's PSoC devices with appropriate resources. It also creates customized project documentation including a datasheet with register map, interface schematics, and bill of materials. Without writing any microcontroller code, designers implement reliable, custom applications faster than they can write the requirements. Learn more about PSoC Express at http://www.cypress.com/getexpress.

PSoC -- Because Change Happens

PSoC devices employ a highly configurable system-on-chip architecture for embedded control design, offering a flash-based equivalent of a field-programmable ASIC without lead-time or NRE penalties. PSoC devices integrate configurable analog and digital circuits, controlled by an on-chip microcontroller, providing both enhanced design revision capability and component count savings. They include up to 32 Kbytes of Flash memory, 2 Kbytes of SRAM, an 8x8 multiplier with 32-bit accumulator, power and sleep monitoring circuits, and hardware I2C communications.

The flexible PSoC resources allow designers to future-proof their products by enabling firmware-based changes during design, validation, production, and in the field. PSoC's flexible routing allows nearly any function to be mapped to nearly any output pin. The unique PSoC flexibility shortens design cycle time and allows for late-breaking feature enhancements. All PSoC devices are also dynamically reconfigurable, enabling designers to morph internal resources on-the-fly, utilizing fewer components to perform multiple tasks.

Easy to use development tools enable designers to select configurable library elements for analog functions such as amplifiers, ADCs, DACs, filters and comparators and digital functions such as timers, counters, PWMs, SPI and UARTs. The PSoC family's analog features include rail-to-rail inputs, programmable gain amplifiers and up to 14-bit ADCs with exceptionally low noise, input leakage and voltage offset.

A single PSoC device can integrate as many as 100 peripheral functions saving customers design time, board space and power consumption while improving system quality. Customers can save from 5 cents to as much as $10 in system costs. Learn more about PSoC products at www.cypress.com/psoc and receive free online training at www.cypress.com/psoctraining.

About Cypress

Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the PSoC[R] Programmable System-on-Chip[TM], USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity solutions ranging from its WirelessUSB[TM] radio system-on-chip, to West Bridge[TM] and EZ-USB[R] FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar power. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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