Product category: Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: Cypress Semiconductor | Subject: CYWUSB6953
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 24 May 2005
Spread-spectrum SoC adds programmable logic
Cypress Semiconductor has released the world's first 2.4GHz radio on a chip to incorporate a programmable mixed signal array
Cypress's new Programmable Radio-on-a-Chip (PRoC) includes two of the company's most noteworthy technologies - WirelessUSB and Programmable System-on-Chip (PSoC) - in one integrated device. It delivers the benefits of both WirelessUSB and PSoC into a variety of applications, including consumer electronics, home and industrial automation, human interface devices (HIDs), transportation, security and medical systems.
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WirelessUSB has seen dramatic growth, particularly in HID applications, thanks to its ease of use and installation, low cost, and outstanding interference immunity.
Systems with WirelessUSB also require a mixed-signal array or microcontroller for control functions and protocol implementations.
In order to provide complete wireless solutions in many applications, Cypress offers the industry's broadest line of USB microcontrollers and an extensive portfolio of PSoC mixed signal arrays.
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The new PRoC device is the first in a broad portfolio of devices that combine WirelessUSB technology with Cypress controller solutions.
PRoC offers access to a general-purpose mixed signal array with four programmable analogue and four programmable digital blocks, 8Kbyte of Flash program memory storage, 512byte of SRAM data storage, and a powerful direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) 2.4GHz radio system - all integrated in a compact, 48-pin QFN package.
It is designed to implement highly-integrated, space-saving, low-cost, wireless systems operating in the worldwide 2.4GHz ISM band.
'PRoC combines two great Cypress technologies to help make the vision of an 'unwired world' a reality for customers worldwide', said Christopher Norris, Vice President of Cypress's Consumer and Computation Division.
'It makes it fast, easy and cost-effective to implement WirelessUSB in a myriad of applications by using the powerful, flexible PSoC architecture'.
'No other supplier can put forth this combination of technologies to serve the wireless connectivity market'.
Cypress is sampling the CYWUSB6953 today in 48-pin QFN packages.
Full production quantities are expected to be available in Q3 2005.
Pricing is approximately $3.50 each depending on quantities.
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