Cypress Announces ARM® Cortex™-M3/PSoC® 5 Design Challenge
November 10 2010 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq:CY) today announced the ARM®
Cortex™M3/ PSoC® 5 Design Challenge, a contest to find the most
innovative and useful designs from the millions of possibilities
available to designers using the Cypress PSoC 5 architecture
powered by the ARM Cortex-M3 processor. The contest, presented in
conjunction with EE Times and ARM, kicks off this week at the ARM
TechCon, with the Grand Prize to be awarded in May, 2011. A total
of over $10,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded throughout the
contest, including the $2,500 Grand Prize. More information,
including how to enter the contest and how to become a judge, as
well as lively interaction from participants and the engineering
community is available at www.cypress.com/go/challenge.
Judging of the contest entries will be done in three stages:
- Stage 1 - Designers will submit
schematic block diagrams and abstracts of their ideas. From these
entries, the top 100 will be selected, each of which will be
awarded a free PSoC 5 Developer Kit.
- Stage 2 - The first round winners will
then submit a video of their completed designs, along with a
project file created in Cypress’s PSoC Creator IDE. From this
group, four winners from the following categories will be selected
and awarded: $1,000: Best Analog Design, Best Digital Design, Best
PSoC Creator Component Design, and the Community Choice Design as
selected by popular vote of the over 20,000 members of the Cypress
Design Community.
- Stage 3 - The Grand Prize will be
selected from the four winning designs by an all-star panel of
judges, including Cypress President and CEO, T.J. Rodgers; ARM
Director of Enterprise and Embedded Solutions, Ian Ferguson; and
Brian Fuller, Chief Product Strategist for EE Times.
“The beauty of PSoC is that its flexibility offers literally
millions of possibilities, and we know that we can’t possibly
uncover all of them, even with some of the most talented engineers
in the business,” said Norm Taffe, executive vice president of
Cypress’s Consumer and Computation Division. “We look forward to
enabling our customers to leverage their creativity and explore
what PSoC has to offer.”
“PSoC’s uniquely flexible architecture is an outstanding
complement to the performance and low power of our Cortex-M3
processor core,” said Ferguson. “We look forward to a very
compelling set of design entries that showcase the strength of this
dynamic combination.”
“This will be a fantastic design contest, particularly because
the user community will have a strong voice in the outcome,” said
Fuller. “The landscape of design is changing rapidly with
collaboration across time zones and disciplines leading to very
rapid development cycles and incredible innovations. We’re looking
forward to being a part of this tremendous collaboration amongst
thousands of engineers.”
About PSoC 5
The PSoC 5 architecture integrates a 32-bit ARM Cortex™-M3 core
with high-precision programmable analog including 12-bit to 20-bit
ADCs, digital logic libraries full of dozens of drop-in
peripherals, best-in-class power management and rich connectivity
resources. The PSoC Creator IDE introduces a unique schematic-based
design methodology along with fully tested, pre-packaged analog and
digital peripherals easily customizable through user-intuitive
wizards and APIs to meet specific design requirements. More
information on the PSoC platform is available at
www.cypress.com/go/psoc.
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
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