Cypress Passes 750 Million Mark in Shipments of PSoC® Programmable System-on-Chip Devices
November 09 2010 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq:CY) today announced it has
eclipsed the 750 million unit mark in shipments of its fast-growing
PSoC® programmable system-on-chip. The world’s only programmable
analog and digital embedded design platform combines analog and
digital peripheral controllers with memory on a single piece of
silicon, maximizing designers’ flexibility.
The ramp of PSoC is among the fastest in the history of embedded
systems. Commercial-scale shipments began in 2002, and Cypress
shipped its 100-millionth unit in 2006. Cypress reached 250 million
units in 2007 and 500 million units in 2009.
PSoC’s unique architecture of programmable analog and digital
resources integrated with a microcontroller delivers a number of
important benefits to system designers, including time-to-market,
the ability to react to change, reduced components due to
integration, power savings, inventory reduction, and supplier
consolidation. All of these benefits are important factors in
PSoC’s growth story. The PSoC architecture is also at the core of
other Cypress offerings, such as the TrueTouch™ touchscreen
solution, CapSense™ touch-sensing and PowerPSoC™ controllers for
LED lighting.
Cypress recently introduced the PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 families,
which deliver unparalleled integration and flexibility across 8-,
16-, and 32-bit applications. These new products, which were named
by Design News magazine as finalists for this year’s Golden
Mousetrap Awards (see www.cypress.com/go/PSoCmousetrap),
dramatically expand the served available market for PSoC products
to applications such as industrial products, automotive, medical
and more.
Among the thousands of PSoC customers worldwide are market
leaders such as HP, Cisco, Motorola, IBM, Honeywell, Samsung, LG,
Lenovo, Haier, Acer, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Nintendo, Sharp, Philips,
and Gaggia. PSoC devices are at the heart of a dizzying variety of
applications, including home appliances; cell/smart phone set-top
box platforms; electric toothbrushes; air cleaners; e-bikes;
high-definition televisions; digital cameras; remote-control
hobbyist helicopters; computer mice, printers, and other PC
peripherals; health and fitness equipment; automobile sound
systems, satellite radios, and engine control units; medical
equipment; lighting applications; motorized baby strollers;
“intelligent” athletic shoes; and MP3 players.
“The ramp of PSoC is one of the great success stories in
embedded design as well as in Cypress’s history,” said Norm Taffe,
executive vice president of Cypress’s Consumer and Computation
Division. “The market has embraced the PSoC platform because it
offers customers simplicity, flexibility and time-to-market. We
look forward to passing the one billion unit mark next year as we
continue to accelerate our growth.”
More information about PSoC products is available at
www.cypress.com/psoc, and free online training is 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 flagship
PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as
PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting
applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for
touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers,
including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances
connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is
also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing
devices. Cypress serves numerous markets, including consumer,
mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive,
industrial, and military. Cypress trades on the Nasdaq Global
Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at
www.cypress.com.
Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West
Bridge are registered trademarks and PSoC Creator and TrueTouch are
trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are
property of their owners.
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