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Industry’s fastest QDR SRAM (18 January 2011)
Cypress’ QDR and DDR SRAMs at 36Mbit and 18Mbit densities are the latest in its 65nm SRAM family.
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New development platform (07 June 2010)
Programmable System-on-Chip architecture with ARM Cortex-M3 Processor.
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Wireless transmission of data (20 April 2010)
Cypress has introduced the first truly programmable solution for data communication over power lines.
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Evolution in embedded: system-level programmability (20 October 2009)
In this article, Jim Davis explores the embedded design challenges engineers face on a day-to-day basis and, in a pragmatic manner, discuss how these challenges can be overcome with true system-level programmability.
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PSoCs create more control (14 September 2009)
Cypress claims to have made a leap forward with its new range of programmable SoCs
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Top five selection criteria for industrial wireless technologies (22 July 2009)
Jim Davis looks at five of the top variables to compare existing wireless solutions and their adequacy in an industrial environment.
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Aiming for the bright lights (18 May 2009)
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Put a SoC in it (14 April 2009)
Single-chip solution for controlling and driving high-power LEDs.
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Fastest PC-to-handset file transfer (20 March 2009)
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Single-chip touchscreen (26 August 2008)
This TrueTouch touchscreen can interpret up to 10 inputs from all areas of the screen simultaneously.
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Dual Baseband design for global talking (25 July 2008)
When contemplating world travel, mobile handsets make MP3 players, navigation devices, and cameras redundant; but the phone is redundant when it does not work in the destination country
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Camcorder is touch-sensitive (20 May 2008)
Cypress Semiconductor supplies CapSense interface for the controls on JVC’s latest Everio model.
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Helping LED designers maintain colour (30 April 2008)
Cypress Semiconductor has announced enhancements for its EZ-Color design solution for intelligent colour and white LED lighting systems.
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How to select NAND flash (08 February 2008)
Portable media players and GPS are examples of denser mass storage requirments to satisfy more multimedia.
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Warming up to skate (25 January 2008)
Sounds odd, but if an ice skate’s blades are warm, the friction between ice and blade is reduced, improving skating.
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Share HD video via existing networks (01 November 2007)
Networking the home is perhaps the next great consumer technology challenge, but wireless home networks are not adequate for HD (high definition) video
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Adding pins to processors (01 June 2007)
In an embedded design, using port expander devices to increase design flexibility avoids the problem of running out of pins on a processor just short of reaching completion
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Multitasking multimedia in modern handsets (01 March 2007)
As consumer expectations drive the handset from purely a communication device to a multimedia hub, the need for it to support different types of media concurrently is vital
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Cypress UPEK JPEG Reference design authenticates HDD (01 December 2006)
Cypress Semiconductor (www.cypress.com) and UPEK (www.upek.com), provider of biometic fingerprint security, have co-operated to produce a reference design to protect data on external HDDs (hard disk drives). By protecting the HDD, no data can pass between the PC and drive until a fingerprint match has been authenticated, increasing the security level.
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Capacitive makes sense in gaming (01 December 2006)
Capacitive sensing is commonly used in PC touchpads and portable media players for users to play games. Mobile phone manufacturers are also capitalising on its popularity.
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Creating memories for all to share (01 October 2006)
Several companies are claiming breakthroughs in memory technology, reports CAROLINE HAYES, from a new version of NAND for multimedia-rich devices, to new business groups.
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HD transition and standards (01 September 2006)
The switch to digital broadcasting provides broadcasters the freedom to either transmit one HD channel (during primetime) or multiple SD (Standard Definition) channels (during non-primetime) in the same bandwidth.
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