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Smart Home
Microcontrollers and Wi-Fi® connectivity are transforming traditional devices, like doorbells and thermostats, into gateways that can alert consumers’ smart phones to activity and enable intelligent control home-automation systems. See how Cypress’ broad array of IoT solutions are helping manufacturers bring the most-advanced smart and connected products into people’s lives.
 INTERNET OF THINGS Everything ConnectedSmart-home gadgets allow users to control lights or monitor security systems using a smartphone, stream music to a speaker with Alexa, remotely unlock or lock the front door, and much more. But these gadgets are about much more than just convenience. Check out this video to learn more. |
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Cypress Solutions Solve Four Critical IoT Challenges
Cypress’ Touch, See, and Talk solutions are redefining the smart-home and changing the way people experience the IoT. Through sleek and elegant button-less interfaces, voice-controlled solutions, and visually engaging interactive displays, Cypress helps developers seamlessly integrate technology into everyday life. We also help developers design reliability, longevity, security, and ease-of-use into their IoT products, to create a truly differentiated user experience, as noted in the examples below:
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Easy Setup and Maintenance Our Wi-Fi/Bluetooth® combo chips for smart homes combine low-power Bluetooth Low Energy and best-in-class-Wi-Fi radios to connect anything to almost everything else. What's more, we can help make setup and maintenance even easier for your customers with our Cirrent Zip Key Wi-Fi onboarding and network intelligence tool. |
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Whole-Home Coverage One of the most-common frustrations with in-home Wi-Fi is lack of whole-home coverage. This can be the result of Wi-Fi access point location, building materials in the home, or radio interference. Cypress' Dual-band 2.4GHz/5GHz Wi-Fi Combo chips with beam-forming enable better whole-home coverage and efficient use of available bandwidth. |
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Long Battery Life Cypress' Wi-Fi + Bluetooth combos and PSoC 6 MCUs deliver extended battery life without sacrificing performance. PSoC 6 is built on an ultra-low power 40nm process and uses as little as 22-uA/MHz in active power mode and 4.5uA in deep sleep mode. |
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Secure Connections The PSoC 6 MCUs’ dual-core architecture provide a hardware-based root-of-trust, providing protection against unauthorized access to keys. In addition, hardware accelerated cryptography and true random-number generation is provided. |
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PSoC® 61 Secure MCUs
PSoC® 61 Secure MCUs PSoC is a scalable and reconfigurable platform architecture for a family of programmable embedded system controllers with Arm® Cortex® CPUs (single and multi-core). The PSoC 6 product family, based on an ultra-low-power 40-nm platform, is a combination of a dual-core microcontroller with low-power Flash technology and digital programmable logic, high-performance analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion, low-power comparators, and standard communication and timing peripherals. PSoC 61 devices provide high levels of security and include extensive support for programming, testing, debugging, and tracing both hardware and firmware.
CYW43012 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Combo Chip
Cypress’ CYW43012 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Combo chip is a 28-nm, ultra-low power device that integrates a single-stream, dual-band IEEE 802.11n compliant, IEEE 802.11ac friendly Wi-Fi sub-system, a Bluetooth 5.0-compliant Bluetooth sub-system, and an advanced coexistence engine for maximum combined performance. It offers best-in-class power consumption in active and power saving modes, and superior throughput and power consumption performance compared to 802.11n products when operating in 802.11ac networks.
PSoC® 64 Secure MCUs
PSoC 64 Secure MCUs combine IoT platform software, a root-of-trust with secure services, and the ultra-low power, hardware-based security capabilities of the PSoC 6 MCU architecture. By bringing these pieces together, PSoC 64 Secure MCUs provide a secure foundation for cloud-based applications. Combined with Cypress’ wireless connectivity devices, you get a total cloud application solution that gets you to market fast
PSoC® 6
PSoC 6 bridges the gap between expensive, power hungry application processors and low‑performance microcontrollers (MCUs). The ultra low power PSoC 6 MCU features an Arm® Cortex®‑M4 for high‑performance tasks, and an Arm® Cortex® M0+ for low-power tasks, and with security built-in, your IoT system is protected.
Fingerprint Solution
Cypress’ TrueTouch® Fingerprint Reader can be flexibly integrated into any mobile device’s industrial design or home button. The solution comes with a complete software stack, including FIDO components, that enables quick integration into any Android® mobile device. Extensive testing and usability tools are available to rapidly fine tune an OEM’s custom sensor, decreasing time-to-market.
Wi-Fi / Bluetooth Combos
Cypress's new CYW43012 Wi-Fi + Bluetooth combo is purpose built for IoT applications. The CYW43012 leverages 28nm ultra-low-power technology and enhanced low power modes to deliver up to 70% savings in receive current, close to 25% savings in transmit current, and up to 80% savings in low power modes.
PSoC® 6 MCU
PSoC 6 bridges the gap between expensive, power hungry application processors and low‑performance microcontrollers (MCUs). The ultra‑low‑power PSoC 6 MCU features an Arm® Cortex®‑M4 for high‑performance tasks, and an Arm® Cortex®‑M0+ for low-power tasks, and with security built-in, your IoT system is protected.
CYW43012 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Combo Chip
Cypress’ CYW43012 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Combo chip is a 28-nm, ultra-low power device that integrates a single-stream, dual-band IEEE 802.11n compliant, IEEE 802.11ac friendly Wi-Fi sub-system, a Bluetooth 5.0-compliant Bluetooth sub-system, and an advanced coexistence engine for maximum combined performance. It offers best-in-class power consumption in active and power saving modes, and superior throughput and power consumption performance compared to 802.11n products when operating in 802.11ac networks.
NOR Flash
Cypress offers the industry's broadest portfolio of high-performance Serial and Parallel NOR Flash Memories. These devices feature MirrorBit technology, the world’s most-advanced NOR Flash offering, which stores two bits per cell, enabling the highest densities.
CYW43012 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Combo Chip
Cypress’ CYW43012 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Combo chip is a 28-nm, ultra-low power device that integrates a single-stream, dual-band IEEE 802.11n compliant, IEEE 802.11ac friendly Wi-Fi sub-system, a Bluetooth 5.0-compliant Bluetooth sub-system, and an advanced coexistence engine for maximum combined performance. It offers best-in-class power consumption in active and power saving modes, and superior throughput and power consumption performance compared to 802.11n products when operating in 802.11ac networks.
NOR Flash
Cypress offers the industry's broadest portfolio of high-performance Serial and Parallel NOR Flash Memories. These devices feature MirrorBit technology, the world’s most-advanced NOR Flash offering, which stores two bits per cell, enabling the highest densities.
CapSense® Touch-Sensing
CapSense capacitive touch-sensing technology measure changes in the capacitance between a plate (the sensor) and its environment to detect the presence of a finger on or near a touch surface. CapSense capacitive-sensing can be used for applications that require touch buttons, sliders, wheels, trackpads, and touchscreens. It provides advanced features such as proximity sensing, hover and glove touch, liquid tolerance, and liquid-level sensing.
Wi-Fi Chips
Cypress' Wi-Fi portfolio includes IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n WLAN System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions with 1x1 SISO for up to 150 Mbps PHY data rates. These solutions can be coupled with external MCUs from popular vendors or Linux on applications processors to implement a complete Wi-Fi system. Cypress supports Wi-Fi customers through its global network of IoT partners using production-ready, fully-certified modules.
CCCG 2 USB Power Delivery
Cypress’ EZ-PD™ CCG2 provides a complete solution for passive Electronically Marked Cable Assembly (EMCA) cables, active EMCA cables, USB Type-C Notebooks, Power Adapters, Monitors, Docks and Cable Adapters (dongles). The device supports Upstream Facing Port (UFP), Downstream Facing Port (DFP), and Dual Role Port (DRP). It complies with the latest USB Type-C and PD standards, and has USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) certification for USB Type-C™
NOR Flash
Cypress offers the industry's broadest portfolio of high-performance Serial and Parallel NOR Flash Memories. These devices feature MirrorBit technology, the world’s most-advanced NOR Flash offering, which stores two bits per cell, enabling the highest densities.
Bluetooth Wireless
Cypress' CYW20819, is a best-in-class Bluetooth 5 single-chip solution targeted at Bluetooth Mesh, audio, voice, wearables, mice, keyboards, gaming consoles, remote controls, home automation, and a wide range of other Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The CYW20819 fully implements the Bluetooth Mesh 1.0 specification, and employs the highest level of integration to eliminate external components, allowing device makers to reduce product footprints and slash costs.
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