Cypress Ships Long Range 2.4 GHz Radio System on a Chip; WirelessUSB LR Solution Offers up to 50 Meter Range for Commercial and Industrial Wireless Applications.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2004 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) today announced its WirelessUSB(TM) LR device (CYWUSB6935), a low-cost 2.4 GHz radio system-on-a-chip solution delivering up to 50 meters or more of wireless connectivity for commercial and industrial applications. The WirelessUSB LR solution extends the value of Cypress's successful WirelessUSB product family into longer-range commercial and industrial multipoint-to-point applications, including building and home automation, industrial control, utility metering, transportation, paging systems and presentation equipment. Priced starting below $3.00 in volume quantities, it provides an alternative to complex and costly wireless networking See wireless network. solutions like Zigbee and Bluetooth, enabling broad market adoption of wireless systems. "Cypress's WirelessUSB LR chip provides a fast path to wireless connectivity in many wired applications," said Norm Taffe, managing director of the Wireless Business Unit in Cypress's Personal Communications Division. "In industrial automation, for example, WirelessUSB LR radically changes the cost structure for installation and maintenance while providing tremendous flexibility for system configuration." "Many industrial and commercial wireless applications utilize low-frequency solutions that provide limited channel availability and bandwidth, and only regional coverage," said Scott Smyser, senior analyst -- Frequency Control, RF and Wireless, at iSuppli Corp. "WirelessUSB LR provides a 2.4-GHz solution to overcome these issues, economically connecting wireless devices at long ranges." WirelessUSB LR devices employ Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS (Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum) See spread spectrum. ) technology to avoid signal interference from other technologies in the 2.4 GHz band like 802.11b, Bluetooth, and wireless emissions from both cordless phones and microwave ovens and features -95 dBm receive sensitivity ensuring a strong omnidirectional In all directions. For example, an omnidirectional antenna can transmit or receive signals in all directions. Contrast with directional. See RF. signal at 50 meters and beyond. Featuring a highly integrated radio transceiver plus digital baseband, they are single-chip solutions that enable designers to significantly decrease development time, component count and system cost. The devices are also noted for their very low standby power Standby power, also called Vampire power, refers to the electric power consumed by electronic appliances in a standby mode. A very common "electricity vampire" is a power adaptor built on a plug with no power switch. consumption. They have a standby current of approximately 0.25-microamp and up to 0 dBm output power which translates into years of battery life for a typical sensor/actuator. In addition, WirelessUSB LR devices feature a data transmission rate of up to 62.5 kbps with an average latency of below 10 milliseconds. Pricing and Availability Cypress's WirelessUSB LR solution is offered in three configurations. A 48-pin QFN-packaged device, priced starting at $2.93 in 50,000-unit quantities, is in production for commercial applications today. An industrial-temperature-tested version of the product is available for sampling today, and priced starting at $3.93 in volume quantities. The device is also offered in a 28-pin SOIC (Small Outline IC) A small-dimension, plastic, rectangular, surface mount chip package that uses gull-wing pins extending outward. See gull-wing lead, SOJ and chip package. package starting at $3.70 in volume quantities. Both industrial devices will be available in production by mid-year. Photo A high-resolution photo of Cypress's WirelessUSB LR solution can be downloaded from http://www.cypress.com/support/link.cfm?mr=wusblr. 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 reconfigurable 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. "Connecting from Last Mile to First Mile," "WirelessUSB" and "Cypress Connects" are trademarks of Cypress. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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