Cypress University Alliance Program Launches $160,000 Global Design Competition For Students Designing With Cypress Products.Details, Design Resources and Product Requests Available at www.cypress.com/cuap 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. -- 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 launched a $160,000 global design competition that enables students who design with Cypress technology to compete regionally for Cypress innovation awards of up to $20,000 in cash and ultimately win the T.J. Rodgers Trophy, named after Cypress's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "The Cypress Innovator Design Challenge encourages students to stretch their imaginations as they develop new ways to use Cypress technology," said Patrick Kane Patrick Kane (born November 19, 1988 in Buffalo, New York) is an American ice hockey player. He is currently playing for the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks. He went to St. Martin of Tours school. , director of Cypress's University Alliance Program. Babak Hedayati, senior vice president of marketing at Cypress, added that many students will gain valuable industry expertise by designing with Cypress's ubiquitous PSoC([R]) Programmable System-on-Chip[TM]. "Many of the world's most-popular consumer products, including MP3 players, cell phones, laptop computers and appliances use the PSoC Innovation Platform[TM]," Hedayati said. "You can also find PSoC in fitness equipment, soda dispensers, baby strollers, automotive navigation systems and many other applications. The design opportunities that PSoC enables students are nearly limitless." Cypress Innovator Design Challenge contest entries will be solicited from six regions: (1) North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , (2) Europe and the Middle East, (3) China, (4) Japan and Korea, (5) India, and (6) Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. and ROW (rest of world). Each region will have a first-place prize of $10,000, a second-place prize of $2,500, and a $1,000 third-place prize. The professors of the first-place prize winners in each region will also receive a $10,000 award. In addition, all first-prize winners will compete for the inaugural T.J. Rodgers Innovation trophy and an additional $10,000 cash prize. Kane said the most commercially viable designs of those submitted will be analyzed by Cypress's investment team for possible seed funding Seed funding is investing capital to begin a new project, so that it has enough funds to sustain itself for a period of development until it reaches either a state where it is able to continue funding itself, or has created something in value so that it is worthy of future rounds . Members of the winning teams also will be guaranteed an interview with Cypress for possible internships, co-ops, or full-time employment. Cypress is also awarding the top 100 Innovator Design Challenge proposals worldwide with a CY3210 PSoC evaluation kit and a copy of the "Designer's Guide to Cypress PSoC," written by Robert Ashby. Additionally, all completed project submissions will be screened for possible publication on the Cypress University Alliance website as a success story, application note or reference design. For more information or to submit a proposal for Cypress's Innovator Design Challenge, please visit Cypress's new University Alliance Website at www.cypress.com/cuap. About Cypress Cypress solutions perform: consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar. Leveraging proprietary silicon processes, Cypress's product portfolio includes a broad selection of wired and wireless USB devices, CMOS image sensors, timing solutions, specialty memories, high-bandwidth synchronous and micropower memory products, optical solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors CY. Visit us at www.cypress.com. Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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