Cypress and Avnet Cilicon Net Seminar Tackles Soft Errors in Memory Devices; ``A Hard Look at Soft Errors'' Now Available Online.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)--Nov. 4, 2003 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), a leading semiconductor provider, and semiconductor distributor Avnet Cilicon, today launched "A Hard Look at Soft Errors," a free "view-on-demand" net seminar addressing bit errors in memory device manufacturing. "Soft errors" are caused by the bombardment of alpha particles Alpha particles Helium nuclei, which are abundant throughout the universe both as radioactive-decay products and as key participants in stellar fusion reactions. and cosmic rays cosmic rays, charged particles moving at nearly the speed of light reaching the earth from outer space. Primary cosmic rays consist mostly of protons (nuclei of hydrogen atoms), some alpha particles (helium nuclei), and lesser amounts of nuclei of carbon, nitrogen, during manufacturing, and are an increasing source of device failures as process linewidths shrink below 0.15 micron. This seminar explores the causes of soft errors and presents some steps being taken by memory manufacturers to counteract soft errors and minimize their effects. Participants are introduced to the concept of "Soft Error Rate," the metric used to quantify device susceptibility to these errors, and process and design improvement techniques are considered. The presentation also includes a comparison of soft error rates for 90-nm and 130-nm processes. It is presented by Ritesh Mastipuram an applications engineer in Cypress's Memory Products Division, who has been involved with Cypress's Soft Error Task Force, new product definition and system analysis for the past two years. The net seminar is available on-demand by visiting: http://webevents.broadcast.com/cmp/cypress/102903. About Cypress's Memory Products Cypress is a world-leading manufacturer of semiconductor memory devices used in a wide array of applications, including enterprise, storage and telecom networks, servers, base stations and wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. . The company's 72 Mbit synchronous SRAMs are the industry's first to be manufactured using a 90 nm (0.09-micron) process technology. Cypress is the industry's leading supplier of 18-, 36- and 72-Mbit QDR/DDR-based SRAMs and offers a full-range of low-power memory devices for wireless handsets. 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. About Avnet Cilicon Avnet Cilicon is the semiconductor distribution specialist division of Avnet Electronics Marketing in the Americas. Avnet Cilicon combines semiconductor expertise, technical excellence and deep market knowledge to enhance time-to-revenue for all supply-chain partners in the electronics arena. Avnet Cilicon's core competencies include materials management, technical support through Avnet Design Services, logistics support through Avnet IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. and customer-centric, dedicated sales channels. For additional information, visit Avnet Cilicon on the Web at http://www.avnetcilicon.com. Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. "Connecting From Last Mile to First Mile" and "Cypress Connects" are trademarks of Cypress. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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