Cypress Signs Up for Avnet X-Fest

Cypress Semiconductor is to partner with Avnet for the X-Fest global series of free technical seminars to be held in 37 locations around the world from October 2009 through to February 2010.

 

Cypress will demonstrate its newly announced PSoC(r) 3 programmable system-on-chip architecture.

In addition to the demonstrations, Cypress will be participating in three technical sessions at the X-Fest events:

° Interfacing to an Analogue World
Attendees will see real-world examples of multiple sensor input signal conditioning, and see the important effects that filtering and amplification can have on low level signals. It will also explore the design considerations around analog resolution, sampling speeds and converter topologies.

 

° Designing Products for the Human Experience
This session will teach engineers how to design intuitive, reliable Human-Machine Interfaces with CapSense(r) touch-sensing, low-cost custom segment LCDs, and low-cost USB connections to a host PC. Attendees will also learn how to save power and cost through clever design techniques employed on the new Xilinx Spartan-6 LX16 platform designed by Avnet.

 

° Powering Xilinx Virtex(r)-6 and Spartan(r)-6

This session will explain the key requirements of powering the Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGAs., as well as various techniques in designing a very low power Spartan-6 based system.  In addition to seeing the design trade-offs involved in using linear regulators, switchers and integrated modules, attendees will learn new techniques for managing the overall power system, improving energy efficiency, and measuring power consumption in real time using PSoC 3 precision analog capabilities.

 

"We're excited to be working with Avnet to present our new PSoC solutions to engineers around the world," said Geoff Charubin, vice president of Worldwide Distribution for Cypress. "X-Fest attendees understand the importance of programmability, so this provides a great venue to showcase the flexibility, performance and integration of these new architectures."

 

For more details go to www.cypress.com/go/xfest