SAN JOSE, Calif., October 17, 2005 - Silicon Valley Technology Center (SVTC), a business unit of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY), today announced that its managing director, Bert Bruggeman, will discuss the benefits of R&D foundry services at the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility's "Prototype to Product" workshop. The event will be held at the Cypress Auditorium (CISX 101) in the Paul Allen Center for Integrated Systems, at Stanford University on Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 9:45 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).

Bruggeman's presentation, "Taking Novel Silicon Ideas from Lab to Fab," will highlight methodologies for taking silicon-based products from proof-of-concept to manufacturing while simultaneously implementing strategies to avoid costly capital expenditures. Bruggeman will also discuss the benefits of executing R&D process development projects in a shared R&D environment.

For more information on the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility's "Prototype to Product" workshop, please visit: http://snf.stanford.edu/Labmembers/P2PDay.html.

About Cypress
Cypress solutions are at the heart of any system that is built to perform: consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar power. Leveraging a strong commitment to customer service and performance-based process and manufacturing expertise, Cypress's product portfolio includes a broad selection of wired and wireless USB devices, CMOS image sensors, timing solutions, network search engines, specialty memories, high-bandwidth synchronous and micropower memory products, optical solutions, and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. Cypress stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CY. More information about the company is available online at www.cypress.com.

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LYNNWOOD, Wash., July 9, 2004 - Cypress MicroSystems Inc., a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY), today announced that it will host a one-hour web seminar on the process of designing a switch capacitor filter using the company's popular PSoC(TM) configurable mixed signal array device, which is capable of implementing up to four Universal Filter Blocks. The seminar, entitled "Designing PSoC Switch Capacitor Filters" will be broadcast live on July 13 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time.

Filters are essential to the operation of electronic circuits, however many microcontroller programmers find it to be a difficult and complex subject.   Cypress MicroSystems technology expert Dave Van Ess will address fundamental filter basics and guide participants through the process of a designing a filter to meet their specific requirements.

NetSeminar Registration
To register for this net seminar, visit the Cypress website at: http://www.cypress.com/support/link.cfm?ev=capacitorseminar. If you are unable to attend this live event, the seminar will be available in archive for six months.

About the Presenter:
David Van Ess is a Principal Applications Engineer at Cypress MicroSystems.  In his current position Mr." Van Ess provides application support, designs User Modules, teaches advanced analog training classes, and writes PSoC application notes.  Mr. Van Ess graduated with a BSEE degree from the University of California, Berkeley.   He is experienced in analog, digital, software and system design as well as digital signal processing. Mr. Van Ess has six U.S. Patents for medical systems, signal processing, and digital block enhancements.

About the PSoC Family
A true system-on-a-chip, PSoC devices are configurable mixed signal arrays that integrate the microchip and related peripheral circuits typically found in an embedded design. Utilizing easy-to-use development tools, designers select configurable, pre-characterized library elements to provide analog functions such as amplifiers, ADS, DACs, filters and comparators and digital functions such as timers, counters, PWMs, SPI and UARTs.   PSoC analog performance includes rail-to-rail inputs, programmable gain, 14-bit ADCs, and analog modulator.

In addition to these configurable analog and digital blocks, PSoC devices include a fast 8-bit microcontroller, up to 32KB of Flash memory, 2KBof SRAM, an 8x8 multiplier with 32-bit accumulator, power and sleep monitoring circuits, a precision real time clock and hardware I2C communications.

All PSoC devices are dynamically reconfigurable, enabling designers to create new system functions on-the-fly. Re-using the same silicon for different functions on different clock cycles, designers can achieve more than 120 percent utilization of the die in many cases. In the automotive PSoC LIN bus reference design, the same transistors are re-used four times to support the different LIN communication modes; in doing so, these transistors consume less than 10 percent of PSoC hardware resources and less than 10 percent of the PSoC MCU cycles.

To further shorten design cycles, the PSoC family includes pre-programmed, specialized versions for lighting, energy, motor control, communications, automotive and battery applications. Each family member comes with a reference design and extensive application notes to speed application development.

About Cypress MicroSystems
Headquartered in Lynnwood, Wash., Cypress MicroSystems develops and markets Programmable System-on-Chip (PSoC) devices - high-performance, field-programmable mixed signal integration products for high-volume embedded control functions in consumer, industrial, office automation, telecom and automotive applications. Established as a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE: CY), Cypress MicroSystems' stockholders are its employees and Cypress Semiconductor. The close association with Cypress Semiconductor allows access to their process and design technology, and field sales and applications forces. More information about Cypress MicroSystems and its products-as well as access to over 100 PSoC applications notes-is available online at www.cypress.com.

About Cypress
Cypress Semiconductor Corp." (NYSE: CY) is Connecting From Last Mile to First Mile(TM) with high-performance solutions for personal, network access, enterprise, metro switch and core communications-system applications. Cypress Connects(TM) using wireless, wireline, digital and optical transmission standards, including USB, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet and DWDM. Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, Cypress makes industry-leading physical layer devices, framers and network search engines, along with a broad portfolio of high-bandwidth memories, timing technology solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. More information about Cypress is accessible online at www.cypress.com. 

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SAN JOSE, Calif., September 3, 2010 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that the University of New Hampshire (UNH) College of Engineering and Physical Sciences is offering a new course highlighting the PSoC® programmable system-on-chip. The course, open to interested students and the community at large (for continuing education credits) is part of the Far View Distance Learning Program at UNH, allowing students to take the course remotely. More information and registration for the course is available at
http://e-learn.unh.edu/coursesF10.html.

The course is entitled: ECE 994 - Vital Electronics: Networked Computing Using Programmable Systems-On-Chip. It is offered on Wednesday evenings from 5:15 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern time. It will use PSOC as the building block for the next-generation, networked embedded systems. The course will focus on sensing, controlling, and communicating challenges, as well as innovation, economics, validation, robustness, and the application domain. It will also use case studies, including sensorized laboratories; critical infrastructure monitoring and protection; and global design methodology for in-situ hardware development.

“We’re pleased to offer this important course to our students and interested community members,” said Professor Andrzej Rucinski, the course architect and instructor. “I believe the principles covered in this course are essential to those involved in designing next-generation embedded systems. The PSoC architecture is a perfect platform for this subject matter.”

“It's gratifying to see more and more prestigious universities around the world adopt PSoC as an integral part of their curricula,” said Patrick Kane, director of Cypress’s University Alliance. “Professor Rucinski has developed a course that will be of great benefit to both current students and to practicing engineers who want to stay ahead of the curve in embedded design.”

About UNH Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Durham Campus of UNH offers fully accredited undergraduate, Masters and PhD. degree programs. The department also leads research in embedded systems, software engineering, electromagnetics, biomedical engineering, wireless communication systems, control systems, alternative energy, image and signal processing, mixed-signal VLSI and ubiquitous computing.  The department’s mission is to providing an excellent educational experience for students and to make available the accumulative expertise, knowledge and experience of the ECE faculty to industry and government.  More information is available at http://www.ece.unh.edu/index.htm.

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.

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The course is entitled: ECE 960 - Computer Architecture: Sensorized, Controllable, and Reconfigurable Generalized Networked Computing. The first class is on January 26, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. EST and continues on Monday and Wednesday evenings from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. EST . The course will focus on the development of a vital electronics subsystem called GNAT (Global Network Academic Testbed). There are laboratories in the course on in-situ hardware development of PSoC-based vital electronics embedded GNATs. The class will also cover parallel and pipeline processing; associative and stack computers; microprogramming; virtual memory, application-centric computing, cyber-physical systems, ”Internet of Things;” and other current topics.

“We’re pleased to offer this important course to our students and community members,” said Professor Andrzej Rucinski, the course architect and professor. “I believe the principles covered in this course are essential in designing and understanding GNATs. The PSoC architecture is a perfect platform for this subject matter.”

“It's gratifying to see an increasing number of universities around the world continue to adopt PSoC as an integral part of their curricula,” said Patrick Kane, director of Cypress’s University Alliance. “Professor Rucinski has developed a course that will be of great benefit to both current students and to practicing engineers who want to stay ahead of the curve in embedded design.”
More information and registration for the course is available at http://www.unh.edu/grad-catalog/gi.cfm?thisid=132&headingid=132

About UNH Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Durham Campus of UNH offers fully accredited undergraduate, Masters and PhD. degree programs. The department also leads research in embedded systems, software engineering, electromagnetics, biomedical engineering, wireless communication systems, control systems, alternative energy, image and signal processing, mixed-signal VLSI and ubiquitous computing.  The department’s mission is to providing an excellent educational experience for students and to make available the accumulative expertise, knowledge and experience of the ECE faculty to industry and government.  More information is available at http://www.ece.unh.edu/index.htm.

About the Cypress University Alliance
Cypress's University Alliance Program (www.cypress.com/cua) is a multifaceted program empowering electronics engineering and computer science students to develop the skill sets needed to perform in today's marketplace. The program mounts regional design competitions, and offers academic workshops. The university alliance website provides access to myriad free design resources, evaluation boards and online courses.

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.

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SAN JOSE, Calif., June 23, 2004-Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE:CY) today announced that it will host a one-hour net seminar entitled "A Scalable and Cost-Optimized Search Subsystem for IPv4 and IPv6." The live seminar will be held on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 at 9:00 a.m. PST.

Developing an optimal search subsystem frequently requires taking advantage of the best of TCAM-based and algorithmic search engines.  Jag Bolaria, senior analyst at The Linley Group, will begin this live net seminar with an introduction of search-system market trends and analysis. Following Mr. Bolaria's presentation, Cypress's Dr. Pankaj Gupta will discuss the technical and business motivations for combining fundamentally different technologies into one search subsystem. Dr. Gupta will explain the requirements of forwarding lookups vs. policy lookups, the pros and cons of ternary content-addressable memory (TCAM) and algorithmic search solutions and highlight the specific challenges encountered when migrating from IPV4 to IPV6. He will also cover system software considerations.

Finally, Karl Etzel, product manager for Cypress's Data Communications division, will discuss how Cypress's search engine portfolio enables system architects to optimize the search subsystem for a range of applications, along with performance results for IPv4 and IPv6. Mr. Etzel will also compare cost, power, reliability and scalability of a TCAM-only implementation for several application scenarios.

About the speakers
Jag Bolaria is a senior analyst at The Linley Group. During more than 20 years in the communication and PC semiconductor industries, he defined and launched products that have generated billion-dollar revenues. He has spoken at several industry conferences and has written articles for EDN and other trade publications. His extensive industry experience includes senior roles in both marketing and engineering at Intel and other companies.

Dr. Pankaj Gupta, Principal Architect for Cypress's Data Communications Division, is the recipient of the Arthur Samuel award for the best Ph.D. dissertation in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University in 2000-2001. His interests lie in networking at Layer 3 and above, with focus on the architecture and design of linecards and fabrics in high-performance switches and routers. Extensions of his previous work on lookup and classification are currently used extensively throughout the industry. Dr. Gupta has previously worked for Cisco Systems, and was the cofounder and CTO of Sahasra Networks before its acquisition by Cypress Semiconductor in early 2002.

Karl Etzel is the Product Manager for the Sahasra 50000 NSE in Cypress's Data Communications Division. Mr. Etzel has been at Cypress for three years, where his responsibilities have included product definition and rollout for specialty memories and network search engines. Prior to joining Cypress, Mr. Etzel was an R&D program manager in the U.S. Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program. He holds a BSME from the University of Notre Dame and an MSME from the University of California at Irvine.

Win a Palm Tungsten E or Apple Mini iPOD
By registering, each participant will be entered into a drawing that will be held at the end of the net seminar.  Two participants will be selected to win their choice of either a Palm Tungsten E or an Apple Mini iPOD.

NetSeminar Registration
To register for this net seminar, please log in and register at http://cmpnetseminars.com/TSG/?K=ON24&Q=86 .

Cypress's Network Search Engines
The Ayama 10000 family of NSEs maintains the Cypress lead in the commercial TCAM market by extending the density and speed of the NSE70000 family: density options of 4-Mbit, 9-Mbit and 18-Mbit with speeds up to 266 MSPS.  In addition, the Ayama 10000 family addresses system's power and latency concerns with differentiated features such as Mini-Key(TM) power management and Soft Priority(TM) table management. 

Building on the Ayama 10000 family, the Ayama 20000 NSE is a high-performance TCAM-based network search engine that seamlessly connects to the Network Processing Forum (NPF) approved LA-1 interface-based commercial NPUs." The Ayama 20000 NSE is available in 9-Mbit and 18-Mbit densities; at 266-million searches per second (MSPS) it is the highest-performance LA-1 based NSE in the market.

In addition to TCAM-based solutions, Cypress is the only vendor to also offer an Algorithmic SRAM-based forwarding search engine.  The Sahasra(TM) 50000 NSE is a family of algorithmic search engines optimized for large forwarding tables in applications such as virtual router forwarding (VRF) and virtual private network (VPNs) that need greater than one-million table entries. The Sahasra NSE family can achieve 250 MSPS, at a fraction of the power and cost of existing TCAM-based search solutions.

Cypress's comprehensive NSE portfolio has been adopted by leading router, L2/3 switche, CMTS, DSLAM and storage area network manufacturers.

Cypress is a member of the Intel Communications Alliance and is also an active member and contributor to the NPF.  More information on the Intel Communications Alliance can be found at http://www.intel.com/design/network/ica/index.htm and information on the NPF can be found at www.npforum.org.

About Cypress
Cypress Semiconductor Corp." (NYSE: CY) is Connecting From Last Mile to First Mile(TM) with high-performance solutions for personal, network access, enterprise, metro switch and core communications-system applications. Cypress Connects(TM) using wireless, wireline, digital and optical transmission standards, including USB, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet and DWDM. Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, Cypress makes industry-leading physical layer devices, framers and network search engines, along with a broad portfolio of high-bandwidth memories, timing technology solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. More information about Cypress is accessible online at www.cypress.com. 

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Cypress PR

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 26, 2004 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) today announced that its Timing Technology Division will host a one-hour web seminar on handling jitter in high-speed clock design. The seminar, entitled "Don't Let Jitter Steal Your System's Performance" will be broadcast live on April 29^th at 11:00 a.m. (PDT).

Like a thief in the night, jitter can easily rob an operating system's timing budget of margin and create gaps in system performance.  Presented by Cypress timing technology experts; Trung Tran and Earnest Buterbaugh, the seminar will shed light on jitter - what it means to a system and the best ways to limit its impact on your system design. 

NetSeminar Registration
To register for this net seminar, visit the Cypress website at http://www.cypress.com/support/link.cfm?ev=jitterseminar .

If you are unable to attend this live event, the seminar will be available in archive for six months.

About the Presenters:
Earnest Buterbaugh is a principal field applications engineer at Cypress." In his current position, Mr. Buterbaugh is responsible for technical support in the development and implementation of customer applications and company products.  Mr. Buterbaugh received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and is a published author. His most recent publication is the highly acclaimed book: Perfect Timing: A Design Guide for Clock Generation and Distribution.

Trung Tran is currently a product applications department manager for the Timing Technology Division at Cypress. Mr. Tran serves as a task group chair for the FBDIMM and as an alternate to the board of directors for JEDEC. In addition to graduating top in his class in electrical engineering at the United States Air Force Academy, Tran also received multiple commendations for technical innovation. During his tenure in the USAF, Tran served as the project lead on the National Security Agency's first family of reprogrammable crypto chips.

About Cypress
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) is Connecting From Last Mile to First Mile(TM) with high-performance solutions for personal, network access, enterprise, metro switch and core communications-system applications. Cypress Connects(TM) using wireless, wireline, digital and optical transmission standards, including USB, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet and DWDM. Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, Cypress makes industry-leading physical layer devices, framers and network search engines, along with a broad portfolio of high-bandwidth memories, timing technology solutions, and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. More information about Cypress is accessible online at www.cypress.com. 

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San Jose, Calif., April 26, 2011- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) and BG Partners today announced that teams from Moscow State University (Physics Department, Precision Sensors Labs) and from Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (Electronics and EE Department) are the winners of the fourth annual Professor E.I. Tochitsky Fellowship Award.

The winners of the fellowship were honored for their entrepreneurial designs using Cypress’s flagship PSoC^® Programmable System on Chip. There are three main components of the award: an interview with Cypress concerning a potential internship; the opportunity to work with BG Partners to create a business plan for an innovative product; and a student financial award.

“We’re very happy with the large scale PSoC deployment in Russia under the leadership of Professor Alexander P.Ryjov, Managing Director of BG Partners,” said Patrick Kane, director of the Cypress University Alliance. “For example, Professor Kharitonov's group from Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics has developed a series of original PSoC labs, and integrated Cypress's hardware kits and software tools into their curriculum. This is a great example of how Cypress’s University Program is expanding globally as PSoC continues to grow worldwide.”

BG Partners Group, Cypress University Alliance, and Professor E.I. Tochitsky’s family established the fellowship in 2007 to recognize and support outstanding student-professor entrepreneurial efforts. Founded in memory of Professor Eduard Ivanovich Tochitsky (1935-2007), a business and technology leader, the fellowship is open to talent from Belarus, the Middle East, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Norway, and Singapore. 

“Several of our companies use PSoC as a critical part of their product’s development,” said Dr. Victor V. Boksha, CEO & Managing Director of BG Partners. “Russia is strategically important for BG Partners as it is intensely focused on modernizing quickly, which would be impossible without the development of new digital hardware. The flexible, digital PSoC platform with analog interfaces will significantly accelerate the upgrade of our legacy systems at minimal cost. We see that now is the time to accelerate building Russian technology brands for international markets to leverage the creativity and innovation capabilities Russian people are famous for.”

SVTC Technologies also joined the fellowship in support and recognition of the innovative talent within the university technology programs. SVTC CEO Bert Bruggeman said, “A lot of opportunity exists for the continued evolution of exciting new technologies and products from Russia. We are excited to work with partners in a variety of regions within Russia and to have the opportunity to help globalize a business model that makes new technology commercialization an effective, affordable and successful venture”.

About BG Partners

BG Partners is recognized as one of the top venture capital groups focusing on the Middle East and US. It stresses the need and the potential for the next-generation of clean green-tech and medical applications based on semiconductor platforms. BG Partners is headquartered in Silicon Valley (California) and has partners world-wide.

About SVTC

SVTC Technologies provides development and commercialization services for innovative semiconductor process-based technologies and products, cost-effectively and in an IP-secure manner.  Through facilities in San Jose, California and Austin, Texas, SVTC serves customers in rapidly growing markets such as MEMS, microfluidics, high voltage, and TSV that are used in a wide array of industries such as life science, semiconductor fabrication, aerospace and defense, consumer-mobility and clean energy. SVTC offers a suite of leading-edge equipment and services, including full-scale 8-inch and 12-inch process capabilities, advanced CMOS and non-CMOS equipment, analytical services, development support tools and commercialization services.  SVTC is ISO9001, ISO 13485 and ITAR registered.  SVTC's investors include Oak Hill Capital Partners, Tallwood Venture Capital and the company's management and employees.  SVTC is an equal opportunity employer.  More information can be found at www.svtc.com.

About the Cypress University Alliance

Cypress's University Alliance Program (www.cypress.com/cua) is a multifaceted program empowering electronics engineering and computer science students to develop the skill sets needed to perform in today's marketplace. The program mounts regional design competitions, and offers academic workshops. The university alliance website provides access to myriad free design resources, evaluation boards and online courses.

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.

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San Jose, Calif., April 15, 2011- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY), today announced an agreement with the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) in Pilani, India, under which Cypress will extend support for the institute through 2014. Cypress will donate new PSoC® 3 and PSoC 5 development kits and software to the PSoC lab, at BITS, Pilani. 

In addition to donating PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 development kits, Cypress will also donate PSoC Creator™ software.  Cypress and BITS, Pilani first opened the PSoC lab in 2009 with donations from Cypress of PSoC 1 kits and PSoC designer™ software. In addition to the Pilani campus, Cypress has set up PSoC labs at the BITS, Hyderabad and BITS, Goa campuses.

The lab exposes students to the PSoC platform, a flexible family of devices with programmable analog and digital blocks integrated with a microcontroller. At least once a year, Cypress will conduct hands-on PSoC training sessions with faculty and students. Many experiments in the analog and digital communication labs are designed around the PSoC platform, which is tightly integrated into the curriculum and student learning. With many students engaged in wireless, medical and remote sensing projects, PSoC plays a pivotal role in providing them with hands-on experience creating solutions for embedded systems. For more information about BITS, Pilani, visit http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/.

 “Our main goal is to excite students about new technologies and consequently increase the number of talented engineers from India,” said Karthikeyan Mahalingam, India Manager of Cypress University Alliance. “The PSoC lab offers this, allowing students to innovate and work on high-tech projects with the right training.”

“The lab will add an extra dimension to the student learning experience,” said Dr.S.Gurunarayan, Dean, Admissions & Faculty Division II of BITS, Pilani.  “We’re hoping it will result in a unique learning platform where students receive hands-on experience in developing applications which they can apply to solving real-world challenges.”

About BITS, Pilani
The Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, focuses on high quality education and research in the fields of Science and Technology. The objective of this campus is to prepare young students to act as leaders for the promotion of the economic and industrial growth of the country and to play a creative role in society. For more information, visit http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/ or email: sguru@bits-pilani.ac.in

About the Cypress University Alliance
Cypress's University Alliance Program (www.cypress.com/cua) is a multifaceted program empowering electronics engineering and computer science students to develop the skill sets needed to perform in today's marketplace. The program mounts regional design competitions, and offers academic workshops. The university alliance website provides access to myriad free design resources, evaluation boards and online courses.

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.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks and TrueTouch is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 14, 2011 – Cypress Envirosystems, a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq:CY), today announced its lead role with John Picard in the upcoming Sustainable Hospitals Conference. The Conference, presented in cooperation with the San Diego chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), will take place May 4-6 in San Diego.  The conference will bring together healthcare executives from across the US and Europe to discuss the challenges in existing healthcare facilities and the opportunities to improve patient experience, reduce energy use and save money.

Cypress Envirosystems and John Picard were invited to shape the content and lead the discussion at the Conference.  “This is the fourth Sustainable Hospitals conference, and each time we seek out innovators that are driving change in the industry,” said Steve Eck, the meeting organizer.  “We’re pleased with the excitement that Cypress Envirosystems and John Picard are generating.”

Harry Sim, the CEO of Cypress Envirosystems, said “Sustainable Hospitals is a fantastic forum to share ideas and discuss the options healthcare facilities have to improve operations.”  Sim will highlight hospitals that have used non-invasive retrofit solutions to modernize their facilities without disrupting patients and staff.  He has also invited Walt Dubois, a utilities manager for Catholic Healthcare West, who will share a case study on the benefits realized with the Wireless Pneumatic Thermostat, a non-invasive HVAC retrofit solution, at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix.

John Picard will serve as the keynote speaker and master of ceremonies of this event.  Picard is well known for the work he did during the Clinton Administration on the Greening of the White House project, which was instrumental in the formation of the USGBC.  Picard has implemented groundbreaking sustainable practices in a wide range of industries and has most recently advised the United Kingdom’s National Health Service on sustainable strategies for their network.  Doug Kot, the Executive Director of the USGBC San Diego chapter, said “John Picard is a driving force in the adoption of sustainable technologies; I am excited to know that he is now applying his considerable influence toward the sustainable transformation of healthcare facilities.  Perhaps most important for the conference, John has a natural ability to get people excited about sustainability and to inspire change."

The conference will showcase the first LEED gold certified community clinic in the US, with a site visit to La Maestra Community Health Center.  Other speakers will include representatives from Northwestern Memorial Hospital, The Children’s Hospital of Aurora, Colorado, Harley Ellis Devereaux, Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Ashen and Allen, Inova Health Systems, and Seattle Children’s Hospital.

About the Cypress Envirosystems Wireless Pneumatic Thermostat (WPT)
Cypress Envirosystems’ patent pending WPT solution retrofits existing pneumatic thermostats to deliver direct digital control (DDC) functionality in minutes. Compared with the cost to implement conventional DDC retrofit, the WPT costs 80% less, pays back in 18 months or shorter, and can be installed in under 20 minutes with minimal disruption of occupants.  It enables remote temperature sensing and control of setpoints, programmable zone control and night setback, automatic self-calibration, BACnet integration with existing automation systems, and communication with utility Demand Response programs.   Sensor data gathered by the WPT is used for retro and ongoing commissioning to save energy and reduce maintenance costs.  The WPT was first introduced in 2008, and is now used in over 150 sites across North America including Fortune 500 office buildings, hospitals, universities, K-12 schools, and government buildings.   Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara County Government, Western Michigan University, and the LA Chamber of Commerce are among the many customers.

About Cypress Envirosystems, Inc.
Cypress Envirosystems is a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor (Nasdaq: CY). Its mission is to save energy and improve productivity in existing plants and buildings, using state-of-the-art non-invasive and wireless technologies to minimize disruption and cost, delivering payback of 18 months or less. Visit Cypress Envirosystems at www.CypressEnvirosystems.com.

About John Picard
John Picard, Founder and CEO of John Picard and Associates, is one of the preeminent environmental consultants in North America. Since his start as a residential and commercial builder in the 1980's, John has pioneered a philosophy of natural systems and sustainable design in his work as a green building engineer, corporate strategist and thought leader. Over the past 20 years John was involved with the founding of the US Green Building Council, became the original member of Interface's Dream Team, and has helped dozens of corporate clients globally.

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.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, and PSoC are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductors Corp. Cypress Envirosystems and the Cypress Envirosystems logo are trademarks of Cypress Systems Corporation.  All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 3, 2010 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today announced that its PSoC® 3 FirstTouch™ Kit is included in the kit of parts for the 2010 FIRST Robotics Competition. Cypress has provided over 1,900 customized kits to FIRST for use in building the competitive robots. The student teams are expected to use the kits in the control units of the robots, hooked up through a USB connection to the robot’s netbook computer.

The Cypress PSoC 3 architecture has unique programmable analog and digital peripherals that enable capabilities such as motor control, intelligent power supply and battery management, human interfaces such as CapSense® touch sensing, LCD segment display, graphics control, as well as audio/voice processing, communication protocols, and much more. It is accompanied by the new PSoC Creator™ Integrated Development Environment, which introduces a unique schematic-based design capture along with fully tested, pre-packaged analog and digital peripherals easily customizable through user-intuitive wizards and APIs to meet specific design requirements. PSoC Creator enables engineers to design the way they think and dramatically shorten time-to-market. More information, including data sheets, application notes, online training, development kits, free PSoC Creator downloads and device samples, is available at www.cypress.com/go/psoc.

The PSoC 3 FirstTouch Starter Kit (CY8CKIT-003) helps designers get acquainted with the new PSoC 3 architecture. It includes an array of sensors, I/O’s, projects, and software in addition to Serial Wire Debugging (SWD), an accelerometer, a thermistor, proximity sensing, CapSense, a 12-pin wireless module header, and 28 general purpose I/O pins. Customers can find more information and order the kit for US$49 at http://www.cypress.com/?rID=38235.

“We are excited to participate in this outstanding program,” said Patrick Kane, Cypress’s director of University Relations. “The PSoC platform is absolutely ideal for students because its flexibility and programmability offer the opportunity to quickly implement and test new ideas. We look forward to some amazing robots from the talented and imaginative participants.”

In addition to the FirstTouch kits, students have the options to buy the Cypress Carrier and Enclosure am-0564 from AndyMark, Inc., which helps to protect the FirstTouch kit and also provides easy-to-use screw terminals for connecting the board with other parts of the robot. This helps to avoid timely soldering and breadboarding for the contestants. It is available at http://andymark.biz/am-0564.html. The Cypress Carrier and Enclosure am-0564 are built by eStop Robotics LLC of Aldan, Pennsylvania (www.estoprobotics.com).

PSoC -- Because Change Happens
PSoC devices employ a highly configurable system-on-chip architecture for embedded control design, offering a flash-based equivalent of a field-programmable ASIC without lead-time or NRE penalties. PSoC devices integrate configurable analog and digital circuits, controlled by an on-chip microcontroller, providing both enhanced design revision capability and component count savings. A single PSoC device can integrate as many as 100 peripheral functions saving customers design time, board space and power consumption while improving system quality and reducing system cost.

The new PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 architectures include high-precision programmable analog capability (up to 20-bit resolution for an Analog to Digital Converter) and expanded programmable digital resources integrated with powerful, industry-standard MCU cores and ample memory and communications peripherals. PSoC 3 devices are based on a high-performance 8-bit 8051 processor, while PSoC 5 devices include a powerful 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 processor. The products provide designers with a seamless, programmable design platform, enabling easy migration from 8 to 32 bits. The robust features of these new solutions dramatically expand the applications and markets that PSoC can address, including automotive, portable medical, industrial and many more. The PSoC 1 family is based on a cost-optimized 8-bit M8C core. 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.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, CapSense, PowerPSoC and West Bridge are registered trademarks, and FirstTouch, PSoC Creator and TrueTouch are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

San Jose, Calif., January 11, 2011- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY), today announced the release of over 20 new videos that demonstrate the unique functionality of the PSoC Creator™ IDE. The tutorials, which are about one minute in length, cover a range of topics selected to help designers quickly become familiar and productive with the tool. Videos such as Configuring a Component, Creating a Design in One Minute and Using the Component Catalog showcase PSoC Creator’s ease of use and functionality. 

To watch the videos, visit www.cypress.com/go/community, click on the “Videos” tab and search for “Creator.”

PSoC Creator Integrated Development Environment (IDE) was designed for the PSoC® 3 and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families. The unique design software enables engineers to design the way they think, using schematic-based design capture along with certified, pre-packaged peripherals to keep system creation independent of the target PSoC device. Users simply lay out the design just as they would on paper or a whiteboard, and let the tool auto-select it into the correct PSoC configuration. With PSoC Creator, customers create designs according to application requirements, not the limitations of the target device. More information and free downloads of PSoC Creator are available at www.cypress.com/go/psoccreator.

The Cypress Developer Community™ was created for designers to share design tips, ask questions and find in-depth information on a wide range of Cypress products. In addition to the video library, the website includes forums on a range of applications, as well as product forums including USB controllers, memory, clocks and buffers. The community also offers blog entries from Cypress technical experts, and Cypress’s University Alliance. 

“PSoC Creator offers tremendous functionality in an intuitive and easy to use format,” said Mark Saunders, Senior Product Marketing Manager. “We’re pleased that these videos give community members a quick and interesting way to become familiar with the tool and pick up helpful tips.” 

Interact with PSoC by entering the ARM® Cortex™M3/ PSoC 5 Design Challenge! Visit www.cypress.com/go/challenge to get started today.

About PSoC 3 and PSoC 5
The new PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 architectures include high-precision programmable analog capability (up to 20-bit resolution for an Analog to Digital Converter) and expanded programmable digital resources integrated with powerful, industry-standard MCU cores and ample memory and communications peripherals. The PSoC 3 devices are based on a new, high-performance 8-bit 8051 processor, while the PSoC 5 devices include a powerful 32-bit ARM Cortex™-M3 processor. The new products provide designers with a seamless, programmable design platform, enabling easy migration from 8 to 32 bits. The robust features of these new solutions dramatically expand the applications and markets that PSoC can address, including automotive, portable medical, industrial and many more. 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.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks and Cypress Developer Community, PSoC Creator and TrueTouch are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., December 1, 2010 – Cypress Envirosystems, a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq:CY), today announced its selection by Sustainability Roundtable Inc (SR Inc) as a Sustaining Level Service Leader.  SR Inc has created the Sustainable Corporate Real Estate Roundtable (SCRER), which conducts year-round research programs to develop management best practices for sustainable energy and resource savings that are validated by top industry leaders.  In its capacity as a Sustaining Level Service Leader, Cypress Envirosystems will contribute its expertise to SR Inc’s full-time research and consulting team, which advises SCRER Member executives—these executives are responsible for making more than one billion square feet of real estate more sustainable.  SR Inc will release three new management best practice research reports and introduce Cypress Envirosystems to SCRER members at the second annual Summit on Sustainable Corporate Real Estate on December 2 in Washington, D.C.

Sustainability Roundtable Inc (www.sustainround.com) is the leader in shared-cost research and consulting on best practices in sustainable business.  SR Inc’s SCRER business service brings together top property owners and corporate users to share best practices and methodologies on sustainability.  Member companies include Adobe, Autodesk, Equity Office, Harvard University, IBM, ING Real Estate, McKesson, Oracle, the U.S. GSA and other leading organizations seeking solutions for sustainably managing their property portfolios.  “Our members are leading the way by identifying the best sustainable solutions for real estate and sharing them to accelerate the adoption of what has been proven to work,” said James F. Boyle, President and CEO of Sustainability Roundtable Inc.  “Cypress Envirosystems is an established, reputable and deeply expert provider and we are pleased SCRER Member companies are interested in considering its compelling solutions.”

“We’re pleased and proud to be selected by the Sustainability Roundtable,” said Harry Sim, CEO of Cypress Envirosystems.  “To be chosen to work with Sustainability Roundtable’s industry-leading service is a terrific opportunity for our organization.” 

Cypress Envirosystems’ Wireless Pneumatic Thermostat is one of the leading retrofit solutions for modernizing existing Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) pneumatic systems.  In addition, its Wireless Steam Trap Monitor is a key solution for reducing energy loss in steam systems.

About the Cypress Envirosystems Wireless Pneumatic Thermostat (WPT)
Cypress Envirosystems’ patent pending WPT solution retrofits existing pneumatic thermostats to deliver direct digital control (DDC) functionality in minutes. Compared with the cost to implement conventional DDC retrofit, the WPT costs 80% less, pays back in 18 months or shorter, and can be installed in under 20 minutes with minimal disruption of occupants.  It enables remote temperature sensing and control of setpoints, programmable zone control and night setback, automatic self-calibration, BACnet integration with existing automation systems, and communication with utility Demand Response programs.  Sensor data gathered by the WPT is used for retro and ongoing commissioning to save energy and reduce maintenance costs.  The WPT was first introduced in 2008, and is now used in over 150 sites across North America including Fortune 500 office buildings, hospitals, universities, K-12 schools, and government buildings.   Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara County Government, Western Michigan University, and the LA Chamber of Commerce are among the many customers.

About Cypress Envirosystems, Inc.
Cypress Envirosystems is a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor (Nasdaq: CY). Its mission is to save energy and improve productivity in existing plants and buildings, using state-of-the-art non-invasive and wireless technologies to minimize disruption and cost, delivering payback of 18 months or less. Visit Cypress Envirosystems at www.CypressEnvirosystems.com.

About Sustainability Roundtable, Inc.
Sustainability Roundtable Inc (SR Inc) is private, mission driven, research and consulting company based in Cambridge, MA. SR Inc's mission is to accelerate the development and adoption of best practices in more sustainable business. Through SR Inc's flagship Sustainable Corporate Real Estate Roundtable (SCRER) service, SR Inc advises a growing number of the companies leading the global move to more sustainable real estate.

SR Inc provides Member companies with year-round, unmetered, consulting related to SR Inc's shared research and conferencing on management best practices in greater sustainability. Through SR Inc's Sustainable Corporate Real Estate Roundtable (SCRER), SR Inc. provides SCRER Members with shared research and consulting that help define management best practices capable of driving greater sustainability through-out existing corporate real estate portfolios.

Charter Members in SR Inc's Sustainable Corporate Real Estate Roundtable (SCRER) include Adobe Systems Inc., Autodesk, BC Hydro, BNY Mellon, Brandywine Realty Trust, Brookfield Properties, Gensler, Harvard University, IBM, ING Clarion, J.P. Morgan, Kronos, McKesson, Mintz Levin, National Grid, National Institutes of Health, Normandy Real Estate Partners, Oracle, UGL Unicco, Unum, USAA Real Estate Company, U. S. General Services Administration and Visa Inc.

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.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, and PSoC are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductors Corp. Cypress Envirosystems and the Cypress Envirosystems logo are trademarks of Cypress Systems Corporation.  All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

San Jose, Calif., November 29, 2010- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced its sponsorship of the 2010 International Conference on Field Programmable Technology in Beijing, China. The conference will take place at Tsinghua University from December 8-10, 2010 with demonstrations, workshops, and a design competition on the agenda. Cypress will feature its flagship PSoC®, Programmable System-on-Chip Technology.

On December 7, Cypress will host a workshop entitled “Cypress Programmable System on Chip Tutorial.” The workshop, led by Patrick Kane, Cypress’s director of university relations, will cover getting started with PSoC, the breakthrough PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 architectures, and the PSoC Creator design environment.

“We’re excited to become more involved with the programmable technology conference this year,” said Kane. “Programmable technologies are increasingly becoming a key part of engineering education. The PSoC technology is a perfect vehicle for students to learn about programmability in embedded applications.”

The conference will feature notable speakers such as National Instruments CEO Dr. James Truchard, Professor Shaojun Wei of Tsinghua University, Dr. Ivo Bolsens CTO of Xilinx, and Professor Stephen Brown of Altera Corporation. The theme of this year’s design competition is general purpose computing on FPGAs. Teams in the competition will develop hardware that can compete against opponents in a game of Reversi (also known as Othello).

Those interested in registering for the PSoC workshop can e-mail their contact information to Cypress at rwei@cypress.com

About the Cypress University Alliance
Cypress's University Alliance Program (www.cypress.com/cua) is a multifaceted program empowering electronics engineering and computer science students to develop the skill sets needed to perform in today's marketplace. The program mounts regional design competitions, and offers academic workshops. The university alliance website provides access to myriad free design resources, evaluation boards and online courses.

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.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks and TrueTouch is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., November 23, 2010 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that over 20,000 users have registered for the Cypress Developer Community™, an online forum for sharing design tips, videos, and blogs on the company’s PSoC® platform and other technologies. Available at www.cypress.com/go/community, the design community now offers nine individual support forums, organized by product type. In six months since its launch, the increasingly interactive site has grown its content to include 12 blogs, written by Cypress technical experts; 60 videos; and tweets from the company’s Twitter account.

Cypress continues to give away a free iPad each month to a randomly drawn new registrant on the site, which is open to customers, employees, and distribution partners of Cypress.

The Cypress Developer Community’s forums focus primarily on the company’s flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip devices. Design engineers also can post questions and comments in sections dedicated to device programming, solutions to design problems, and the programmable analog and digital resources and applications for each of the architectures. Additional product forums address USB controllers, memory, clocks and buffers, along with a range of applications and Cypress’s University Alliance (www.cypress.com/?id=1163).

“We’re pleased to see the design community’s response to the Cypress Developer Community,” said Chris Seams, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Cypress. “It’s a testament to the site’s utility as an interactive design forum. As more users join the community, it increasingly becomes a place where designers can get information from the most trusted and credible source—other engineers working with Cypress products. In addition, Cypress gets more and more usable feedback that we can turn into actionable items to improve our offerings.”

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.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks and Cypress Developer Community, PSoC Creator and TrueTouch are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

“Including an accelerometer in the PSoC 5 FirstTouch Kit is an important way to demonstrate the analog capabilities of the architecture,” said Gahan Richardson, vice president of Cypress’s PSoC products.  “The Kionix KXSC7 offered us the best combination of low power consumption, ease-of-use and cost.”

“Our KXCS7 sensor complements the powerful combination of ARM and Cypress in the PSoC 5 architecture,” said Kenny Salky, Vice President, Sales, for Kionix. “The collaboration has resulted in a powerful development platform for engineers who design embedded systems for a wide range of applications within the consumer electronics, automotive, health care, and industrial sectors.” 

In addition to its low-power feature, the KXSC7 series of high-performance accelerometers offers several preset internal low-pass filters with an option for user-definable bandwidth if required for the application.  These sensors offer a high signal-to-noise ratio with excellent performance over temperature. The sensitivity is factory programmable, allowing customization for applications requiring from ±2g to ±6g in range, and they accept supply voltages between 1.8V and 3.6V. 

PSoC 5 devices offer unique programmable analog and digital peripherals, along with the high performance 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 processor. They include industry-leading integrated analog resources and powerful, PLD-based Universal Digital Blocks for implementing standard and custom digital peripherals.  PSoC 5 kits, samples and the powerful PSoC Creator™ IDE are available today at www.cypress.com/go/psoc5.

The PSoC 5 FirstTouch™ Starter Kit helps designers get acquainted with the new PSoC 5 architecture.  It includes software and example projects that take advantage of the kit’s onboard sensors including the Kionix accelerometer, a thermistor, proximity sensing, and CapSense.  The kit enables easy development via 28 general-purpose I/O pins, a 12-pin wireless module header, and Serial Wire Debugging (SWD). It also includes the PSoC Creator IDE.

Availability

The CY8CKIT-014 PSoC 5 FirstTouchTM Starter Kit, priced at $49.00, is available at www.cypress.com/go/psoc5 or by contacting salesna@kionix.com.

About Kionix, Inc.

Kionix, Inc., located in Ithaca, New York, USA, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ROHM Co., Ltd. of Japan. The Company pioneered high-aspect ratio silicon micromachining based on research originally conducted at Cornell University and today enjoys a global reputation for MEMS product design, process engineering, and quality manufacturing. Consumer electronics leaders worldwide utilize Kionix's products, development tools, and application support to enable motion-based gaming, user-interface functionality in mobile handsets, personal navigation, and hard disk drop protection in mobile products.  Kionix’s MEMS products are further diversified into the automotive, industrial, and health care sectors. Kionix offers one of the industry’s broadest families of MEMS devices that incorporate tri-axis accelerometers and gyroscopes along with the mixed-signal-interface integrated circuits that provide algorithm processing of sensor data. Kionix is ISO9001:2000 and TS16949 registered. For more information on Kionix visit http://www.kionix.com. For additional information on ROHM visit http://www.rohm.com.

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.

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 3, 2010 — Cypress Envirosystems, a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY), announced today that the California Smart Grid Center (CSGC), has successfully completed the demonstration testing of Cypress Envirosystems’ Wireless Pneumatic Thermostat (WPT) solution.  The CSGC is funded by the California Energy Commission and is the unbiased proving ground for Smart Grid technologies in California.  

The test confirmed the WPT’s significant reduction in cost, time and disruption to retrofit legacy buildings and thereby enable them for Smart Grid Auto-Demand Response connectivity.   The patent-pending hybrid pneumatic and digital technology employed by the WPT opens up the potential for millions of legacy buildings to participate in peak load reduction and energy efficiency strategies that were previously impractical due to long investment payback and disruption to building occupants.

Approximately 6,000 sq-ft of office space at Sacramento State University was selected for the demonstration test.   Prior to the retrofit, the offices used non-communicating pneumatic thermostats for control of heating and cooling.  These legacy thermostats were not capable of remote temperature setpoint control and could not interface with the Smart Grid for Auto-Demand Response.  Retrofitting them to modern communicating digital thermostats using conventional technology would have been extremely costly, with a payback period of five years or longer.  It would also require opening up walls and ceilings, with significant disruption to building occupants.

For the demonstration test, the CSGC used the innovative Wireless Pneumatic Thermostat system, which costs approximately 80% less than conventional technology.  The installation at Sacramento State University was completed in about two hours during working hours, with virtually no disruption to occupants.  If conventional technology were used, it would have taken several days and required clean-up of asbestos and other hazardous materials exposed during the work.

Once installed, the thermostats enabled remote control and monitoring of zone setpoint, temperature, and branch pressure (heating or cooling demand) via an operator station.  The system can also interface with existing automation systems using BACnet, and has a built-in interface compliant with the OpenADR protocol developed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, which allows communication with utilities for Auto-Demand Response.   This interface allows buildings to automatically curtail electricity use during periods of high demand (by increasing the setpoint temperature for thermostats, for example).

“For the Smart Grid to reach its full potential, we will need smart buildings to talk to it.  Developing low cost and non-disruptive ways to make existing buildings ‘smart’ is a very important problem to address,” said Emir Jose Macari, Dean of the College of Engineering and founding Director of the California Smart Grid Center at Sacramento State.  “The Cypress Envirosystems’ WPT system was installed in record time and has performed flawlessly for the three months of the demonstration test. I am impressed with the system’s performance but above all because of the non-invasive nature of the devices and the installation.”

Similar large-scale retrofits using the WPT, involving over one-million sq-ft, have confirmed each WPT can shed up to 1kW of peak load, and reduce 15-30% of HVAC energy use.   The low installed cost enables very attractive payback periods of 18 months or less.    To further reduce the upfront cost, the WPT also qualifies for utility incentives in many states, including PG&E, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas and Electric in California.  

“Most commercial buildings built before 1995 uses pneumatic control systems.  This equates to about 70% of the existing commercial building space, or over 60 billion sq-ft, which cannot be easily connected to the Smart Grid.  We designed the WPT specifically to address this problem and also to deliver energy savings.” said Harry Sim, CEO of Cypress Envirosystems.  “The validation and endorsement from the California Smart Grid Center is a major milestone for the WPT, and will significantly enhance our ability to bid and win Smart Grid projects, especially involving stimulus funding participants.   We sincerely thank the CSGC for the valuable service they provide to the community.”

About the Cypress Envirosystems Wireless Pneumatic Thermostat
Cypress Envirosystems’ patent pending WPT solution retrofits existing pneumatic thermostats to deliver direct digital control (DDC) functionality in minutes. Compared with the cost to implement conventional DDC retrofit, the WPT costs 80% less, pays back in 18 months or shorter, and can be installed in under 20 minutes with minimal disruption of occupants.  It enables remote temperature sensing and control of setpoints, programmable zone control and night setback, automatic self-calibration, BACnet integration with existing automation systems, and communication with utility Demand Response programs.   Sensor data gathered by the WPT is used for retro and ongoing commissioning to save energy and reduce maintenance costs.     The WPT was first introduced in 2008, and is now used in over 100 sites across North America including Fortune 500 office buildings, hospitals, universities, K-12 schools, and government buildings.   Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara County Government, Western Michigan University, and the LA Chamber of Commerce are among the many customers.

About Cypress Envirosystems, Inc.
Cypress Envirosystems is a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor (NASDAQ: CY). Its mission is to save energy and improve productivity in older plants and buildings, using state-of-the-art non-invasive and wireless technologies to minimize disruption and cost, delivering payback of 18 months or less. Visit Cypress Envirosystems at www.CypressEnvirosystems.com.

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, Cypress Systems, the Cypress Systems logo, PSoC, West Bridge and EZ-USB are registered trademarks and CyFi is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

BANGALORE, India May 27, 2010 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) and the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani - K.K. Birla Goa Campus (BPKKBGC) signed a memorandum of understanding for collaborative research and funded lab development based on the PSoC® 3 programmable system-on-chip. The MoU was signed by Professor K.E. Raman, Director, BPKKBGC and Patrick Kane, Director of Cypress University Alliance.

Patrick Kane visited the campus where he inaugurated a state-of-the-art PSoC 3 lab—the first of its kind in India. The lab will expose students to the PSoC platform, a flexible family of devices with programmable analog and digital blocks integrated with a microcontroller. With its unique architecture, PSoC provides an unrivaled learning platform for embedded design students and will enable them to create projects and solutions for embedded systems.

“Our focus is to excite students about new technologies and hence grow the pool of budding, talented engineers from India. The PSoC lab will allow students to innovate and work on high-tech projects,” said Patrick Kane. He and his team interacted extensively with both students and faculty at BPKKBGC. They also conducted a workshop for the Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Group.

“The lab has added an extra dimension to the student learning experience and has resulted in a unique learning platform where students now receive real-world, hands-on experience in developing applications,” said Professor Raman.

Students from BPKKBGC have implemented a number of projects using PSoC 1 technology. Some of these include a BLDC motor driver, a pH meter, an accelerometer based tilt sensor, a PWM driven hexapod etc. These projects are currently being developed using the new PSoC 3 platform, which uses an 8051 core as well a programmable analog and digital modules. 

Students have also been involved in research based projects such as study of battery charging algorithms using the PSoC. They have also assisted Cypress in development of the Power Line Communication solution. A PSoC 3 manual by BITS Goa is also in the pipeline.

About the BITS, Pilani - K.K. Birla Goa Campus
The Birla Institute of Technology and Science - BITS Pilani was in 1964. The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) reaccredited BITS with 3.71 CGPA out of 4 and awarded “A” grade “Very Good” status. In 2009, BITS Pilani ranked alongside top universities like IITs in surveys by publications such as India Today, Outlook, LiveMint, etc. BITS offer degrees in various disciplines at its Pilani, Dubai, Goa and Hyderabad campuses. BITS Pilani has done pioneering work in industry university collaborations in terms of Practice School and Work Integrated Learning Programs.

About the Cypress University Alliance
Cypress's University Alliance Program is a multifaceted program empowering electronics engineering and computer science students to develop the skill sets needed to perform in today's marketplace. The program mounts regional design competitions, offers academic workshops, and maintains a university alliance website (www.cypress.com/cua) which provides access to myriad free design resources, evaluation boards and online courses.

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.

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Non-GAAP¹ consolidated gross margin for the third quarter was 51.9%, up 7.7 percentage points from the previous quarter, and the highest reported since 2004. The increase was due mainly to higher factory absorption, increased wafer starts from our foundry partners and a favorable product mix. Excluding Emerging Technologies³, our Core Semiconductor⁴ non-GAAP gross margin was 53.7%, up 7.8 percentage points sequentially.

On a GAAP basis, third-quarter consolidated gross margin was 47.3%, up 10.6 percentage points from the previous quarter. Our Core Semiconductor⁴ gross margin on a GAAP basis was 49.1%.

 
THIRD-QUARTER 2009 HIGHLIGHTS 

The announcement of this year's inductees was made yesterday evening at SVEC's annual open house event, held at the Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) trade association headquarters in San Jose.  Other inductees include Dr. Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse; Mr. Kenneth Levy, chairman of KLA-Tencor Corp.; Dr. Dan Maydan, president emeritus of Applied Materials, Inc.; and Dr. David Patterson, professor of computer science at U.C. Berkeley.

  "T.J. Rodgers single-handedly developed VMOS technology as a student and has been a particularly articulate advocate of Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial economy who still keeps technically current, despite his position," said Dr. Sam David Haddad, a consulting professor of engineering at Stanford University and chairman of the SVEC Hall of Fame and Awards Committee.  "It is fitting that he should be elected by the SVEC board to join this elite group of industry pioneers."

T.J. Rodgers graduated from Dartmouth College with undergraduate degrees in chemistry and physics in 1970.  He later earned his masters and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he invented and patented VMOS technology.  Rodgers established Cypress in 1982 as a supplier of memory and logic chips.  Since then the company's technology portfolio has vastly expanded under his leadership to include a wide array of silicon-based technologies for consumer, computing and mobile devices; data and wireless networks; and energy and automotive applications.  Cypress also has established four subsidiary businesses which are developing MRAMs, solar cells, programmable mixed signal arrays and optical devices, respectively.  In addition to running Cypress, Rodgers has become a voice for capitalism and free markets over the years, speaking on such topics as the elimination of corporate subsidies, the preservation of stock options and outsourcing.  He is also an ardent supporter of local philanthropies, including the Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, for which his company has won the Corporate Food Bowl Challenge over each of the past twelve years.

Since 1990, the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame has been recognizing the accomplishments of engineers in Silicon Valley who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and have made significant contributions to the community.  The 48 inductees that have been named to the Hall of Fame make up a "Who's-Who" of technology industry pioneers, including HP founders William Hewlett and David Packard; Intel Corp. founders Robert N. Noyce and Gordon E. Moore; and Apple Computer founder Steve Wozniak.

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About SVEC

Founded in 1989, the Silicon Valley Engineering Council is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to coordinating activities and assisting communications among engineering societies throughout Silicon Valley.  Through its efforts, the SVEC sponsors educational activities and promotes the career development of engineers and other technical professionals and serves to increase the public's understanding of the impact of engineering and science in enhancing the quality of life.

About Cypress

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE: CY) is Connecting from Last Mile to First Mile(TM) with high-performance solutions for personal, network access, enterprise, metro switch, and core communications-system applications." Cypress Connects(TM) using wireless, wireline, digital, and optical transmission standards, including USB, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet, and DWDM. Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, Cypress makes industry-leading physical layer devices, framers, and network search engines, along with a broad portfolio of high-bandwidth memories, timing technology solutions, and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. More information about Cypress is accessible online at www.cypress.com. 

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Soft errors are caused by alpha particles, terrestrial cosmic rays and thermal neutrons that spontaneously flip bits of stored data in a memory or logic chip, resulting in system crashes and network failure. At various altitudes and rates, cosmic rays can corrupt data within a chip, leading to overall electronic malfunctions. Awareness of soft errors can play a substantial role in memory chip invention and production.

The SER problem first gained widespread attention as a memory data issue in the late 1970s, when DRAMs began to show signs of random failures. As process technologies have continued to shrink, the critical charge required to cause a soft error has stayed relatively constant while the charge collection area in memory cells has decreased much faster. As a result, more mitigation techniques are required to ensure acceptable soft error rate levels, particularly in large systems, where the use of memory devices is steadily increasing. The first to market with 90nm-scale devices, Cypress has taken the lead in collecting and testing data about this random phenomenon, locating the sources of SER and creating effective solutions to diminish the wide-ranging problem. Solutions proposed in the book include manufacturing process changes, circuit hardening, design redundancies and system-level modifications.

About the Authors

James. F. Ziegler holds bachelors, masters and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Yale University. Mr. Ziegler worked at IBM for more than 30 years before joining the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, where he currently teaches science to electrical engineers. His 1979 paper suggesting that cosmic rays were a substantial contributor to electronic reliability has become the benchmark in the analysis of system reliability of terrestrial electronics. Dr. Ziegler is a fellow of the IEEE and the American Physical Society. He is the author or editor of 18 scientific books and a myriad of technical articles. He holds 16 U.S. patents.

Helmut Puchner earned his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria. He joined Cypress in 2002 where he now leads a team responsible for transistor development, device reliability, simulation, and compact modeling. His research on SER over the past seven years has resulted in promising soft error mitigation techniques for CMOS technologies. Dr. Puchner is a senior member of the IEEE and has published more than 40 papers and holds 17 U.S. patents.

Distribution and Availability

"SER-History, Trends, and Challenges: A Guide for Designing with Memory ICs" is available today and priced starting at $25 per book. To purchase your copy, click on "Online Store." Other books published by Cypress include "Perfect Timing: A Design Guide for Clock Generation and Distribution" and "The VHDL Programmable Logic Textbook."

About Cypress

Cypress Semiconductor Corp." (NYSE: CY) is Connecting from Last Mile to First Mile(TM) with high-performance solutions for personal, network access, enterprise, metro switch and core communications-system applications. Cypress Connects(TM) using wireless, wireline, digital, and optical transmission standards, including USB, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet and DWDM. Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, Cypress makes industry-leading physical layer devices, framers and network search engines, along with a broad portfolio of high-bandwidth memories, timing technology solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. More information about Cypress is accessible online at http://www.cypress.com.

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SAN DIEGO, Calif., March 26, 2009 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) today announced a new embedded design course offered by the UCSD Extension. The course, open to interested students and practicing engineers with a basic knowledge of C programming and electronics, has no prerequisite coursework. It is part of a broader program at UCSD to offer computer science and engineering students experience programming systems with real-life interfaces using platforms such as Cypress’s PSoC® programmable system-on-chip devices.

“Practical Embedded Design with PSoC” is a lab-based embedded design course focused on learning through a progression of exercises. Students will start with a simple design demonstrating basic I/O control, and progress through designs such as chip-level communication, data acquisition, touch-sensing and USB. The final design will demonstrate wireless control of a remote analog data acquisition and/or accelerometer position sensor using Cypress’s PSoC-based CyFi™ low-power RF solution. Registration for the course is available at www.cypress.com/go/pr/UCSDPSoC.

“We are excited to offer this important course that reaches out to practicing engineers to provide hands-on experience in creating embedded designs,” said Dr. Rajesh Gupta, professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD. “The course bridges the gap between computer science and electrical engineering, and is an important part of the emerging curriculum in training computer engineering talent in future.”

The course will be taught by Dr. Choon Kim, Senior Development Engineer at the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2) at UCSD, with prior experience at QUALCOMM Inc. Students in the course will use the Cypress CY3214-PSoCEvalUSB evaluation board, which includes both USB and capacitive touch sense development and debugging support. It also offers an LCD module, potentiometer, joystick, LEDs, an enunciator, and plenty of “bread-boarding” space for custom projects. The PSoCEvalUSB board also features an on-chip debugger. Included in the kit is a MiniProg programming unit (CY3210-MiniProg1) that programs PSoC devices directly on the evaluation board.

“The Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego is the fastest rising among the nation's top 15 engineering schools, and the largest engineering school in the University of California system. We are pleased to be a part of this new course,” said Patrick Kane, Cypress’s director of University Relations. “PSoC is the perfect platform to bridge the digital world with the analog world, and this course takes advantage of those qualities. We look forward to continued and more extensive collaborations with UCSD in this area.”

About UC San Diego Extension
As the professional education and public service division of UC San Diego, Extension is focused on being a major catalyst for the continued economic, intellectual, and cultural growth of the San Diego and Baja California region. Core offerings include professional education and training, cultural enrichment, and regional economic solutions. More information is available at http://extension.ucsd.edu.

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 PSoC® programmable system-on-chip, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity technologies ranging from its CyFi™ Low-Power RF solution, to West Bridge® and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, and industrial. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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SAN JOSE, Calif., June 17, 2008 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today announced that its PSoC® technology will be featured in a paper to be presented by noted authors Dr. Alex N. Doboli and Dr. Edward H. Currie at the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Conference and Exposition. The paper will be presented in room 316 of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 23 from 12:30 to 2:00 pm. 

Doboli and Currie, along with Cypress's Patrick Kane and David Van Ess, will present "New and Innovative Educational Material for Teaching Mixed-Domain Embedded Systems to Undergraduate/Graduate Students."  Their presentation will discuss development of innovative, mixed-signal system design coursework, including teaching materials and methodologies for the co-design of performance-optimized modules for signal sensing, control, actuation, and communication in embedded systems.  Auburn University Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Victor T. Nelson, will moderate the discussion. 

"Traditionally, undergraduate students have been exposed to mixed-signal, embedded systems in the form of discrete microprocessors and microcontrollers, analog to digital converters, and a range of other components," said Doboli. "The Cypress Programmable System-on-Chip architecture, with associated text and lab books and a comprehensive development environment, now make it possible for students to gain in-depth exposure to mixed-signal embedded design, including theory and hands-on experience, within a single semester and at minimal expense."

Doboli and Currie recently co-authored "Introduction to Mixed-Signal, Embedded Design."  The textbook, which focuses on the PSoC® architecture, is written for upper division undergraduate and first-year graduate curricula and focuses on defining the characteristics of embedded design, embedded mixed-signal architectures, and top-down design. It also presents optimized implementations of these designs. The textbook, and a companion laboratory manual co-authored by Van Ess, will be available from the Cypress University Alliance at booth 217 in the Main Exhibit Hall during the exposition and are also available online at cypress.com/buyonline.

"PSoC's architecture offers broad support for both analog and digital blocks," said Currie." "With its ability to customize these blocks for specific mixed-signal, embedded designs, this architecture provides students a unique opportunity to design and implement sophisticated embedded applications."

Cypress University Alliance
The Cypress University Alliance is a multifaceted program that helps put electrical engineering and computer science students on a fast track to career success. The program includes a global design competition, comprehensive curricula and a university alliance website providing access to a myriad of free design resources, evaluation boards and online courses. It also includes product donations for lab projects. Cypress's Innovator Design Challenge is a multi-discipline engineering design contest open to all undergraduate and graduate engineering students currently enrolled at an accredited university. The contest's goal is to challenge students to stretch their imaginations as they develop new and novel ways to utilize Cypress technologies such as the PSoC mixed-signal array. For more information, visit the Cypress University Alliance program at www.cypress.com/cua.

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 PSoC® mixed-signal array, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity solutions ranging from its WirelessUSB™ radio system-on-chip, to West Bridge™ and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar power. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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SAN JOSE, Calif., March 28, 2008 - "Introduction to Mixed-Signal, Embedded Design," a new textbook written by Dr. Alex N. Doboli and Dr. Edward H. Currie is now available. The textbook, which focuses on PSoC® mixed-signal array design, is written for upper division undergraduate and first-year graduate curricula and focuses on defining the characteristics of embedded design, embedded mixed-signal architectures, and top-down design. It also presents optimized implementations of these designs. The textbook is available at cypress.com/buyonline.

The textbook discusses topics including the hardware and software used to implement analog and digital interfaces, various filter structures, amplifiers and other signal-conditioning circuits, pulse-width modulators, timers, and data structures for handling multiple similar peripheral devices."

The authors selected the PSoC architecture to illustrate many of the text's key points based largely on the device's capability to deliver a broad range of components typical of a mixed-signal embedded system.  The practical exercises contained in the companion laboratory manual, which was co-authored by Cypress Staff Applications Engineer Dave Van Ess, are also based on PSoC.  PSoC's integrated microcontroller, highly configurable analog/digital peripherals and full set of development tools make it an ideal learning tool for developing mixed-signal embedded design skills.

"Alex Doboli and Edward Currie are two of academia's premier authorities on mixed-signal and embedded systems," said Patrick Kane, director of Cypress's University Alliance Program. "Their tireless work on this effort and decision to use PSoC as the text's primary learning platform will ensure students receive an unparalleled learning experience."

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 PSoC® mixed-signal array, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity solutions ranging from its WirelessUSB™ radio system-on-chip, to West Bridge™ and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar power. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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SAN JOSE, Calif., December 12, 2007 - Your mother always said "don't play with your food," but the employees at Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) are doing just that. For the 17th straight year, Cypress is hosting its annual canned food sculpture contest, part of the Corporate Food Bowl Challenge benefiting the Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. The event will be held on Friday, December 14 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at 198 Champion Court in San Jose. The goal is to raise more than one million pounds in food donations.

On hand to judge the innovative and often humorous life-sized food structures built by Cypress employees are Former NFL/Pro Bowl defensive back Eric Wright and linebacker Keena Turner, former Olympic figure skating champion, Peggy Fleming, and singer-songwriter Manuel Romero, a finalist in the inaugural season of NBC's reality television series "America's Got Talent."

Featuring a half dozen artistic displays made from thousands of pounds of canned and packaged foods, Cypress's canned food sculpture contest draws awareness to the Second Harvest Food Bank's efforts to feed local families during the holidays. Several departments within Cypress compete against each other to construct the most unique sculpture using nonperishable foods collected during the food drive.  Each sculpture is judged on a number of criteria including complexity, clarity, creativity, use of food, presentation of theme and percent of food content. Some sculptures feature live performers and mechanically moving elements to help accentuate the themes.

Previous winners of the Cypress contest have included a Las Vegas casino, a chess board with a remote controlled rook, a three-hole playable miniature golf course, a fire engine with siren and flashing lights, a World War II battle at sea, a twelve foot tall pirate's ship, a smoke-breathing dragon, a steam train and the Golden Gate Bridge. Last year's winner, the casino, along with the 2005-winning chess sculpture and the 2003-winner "pirate ship" were also awarded the Second Harvest Food Bank's Rodin Award for most artistic sculpture.

Cypress is looking to claim its 17th consecutive Corporate Food Bowl Challenge trophy for donating the most pounds of food per employee during the food bank's annual Holiday Food Drive.
The Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties is the main provider of food, information, and supportive services to hungry children, adults and elderly people in both counties. One of the nation's largest community food banks, it serves as a clearinghouse for donated and purchased food through partnerships with nonprofit agencies, the food industry, government, volunteers, corporations and individuals.

About Eric Wright
Eric Wright was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the second round of the 1981 NFL Draft. A cornerback from the University of Missouri, Wright played in 10 NFL seasons and spent his entire career with the 49ers. In his best season, 1983, Wright intercepted seven passes for 164 yards and two touchdowns. He was a four-time Super Bowl winner with the 49ers and appeared twice in the NFL Pro Bowl.

About Keena Turner
Keena Turner was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the second round of the 1980 NFL Draft. A linebacker from Purdue University, Turner played in 11 NFL seasons-all with the 49ers. Turner was named to the 1983 NFL ProBowl team and retired from the 49ers with four Super Bowl rings.

About Peggy Fleming
Peggy Fleming won the Olympic Gold Medal in the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, France. She has appeared in a number of television specials, including her Sun Valley Special which won two Emmy awards. In 1980, she was the first skater invited to perform at the White House. She also performed during the 1986 unveiling of the restored Statue of Liberty. Fleming was also an honored athlete who carried the Olympic flame into the 2002 Opening Ceremonies in Salt Lake City, Utah. Fleming is a breast cancer survivor and has made a number of guest appearances on talk shows to promote breast cancer awareness.  

About Manuel Romero
Manuel Romero is a singer-songwriter from Milpitas, Calif., who was a semifinalist on the inaugural season of NBC's reality television series "America's Got Talent," which aired in the summer of 2007. In 2002, Romero received the International Trebby Award for best popular album and song of the year along with Grammy nominations for Best Album and Best New Artist. He has released four albums to date.

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 PSoC® Programmable System-on-Chip™, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity solutions ranging from its WirelessUSB™ radio system-on-chip, to West Bridge™ and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar power. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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The presentation will be held at San Jose State University's Engineering Building Auditorium, Room 189 on Thursday, November 15th at 12:00 p.m. The public is invited. For more information, please visit www.engr.sjsu.edu/about/svls.

Having become the first semiconductor industry CEO to make a bet on solar technology just three years ago, Dr." Rodgers has led Cypress's solar subsidiary, SunPower, through one of the tech industry's most successful IPOs in November 2005, raising $145.6 million. SunPower raised an additional $197.4 million in a secondary offering. Rodgers has also led Cypress's transformation to focus on proprietary, programmable products, a move that helped the company break $1 billion in revenue in 2006.

Rodgers is a former chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and sits on the board of directors of high-technology companies, including Silicon Light Machines (light-switching ICs), Bloom Energy (fuel cells), Provina (advanced, net-based home winemaking) and SunPower Corp.. He is also a member of the board of Dartmouth College, his alma mater. Rodgers was a Sloan scholar at Dartmouth, where he graduated as Salutatorian with a double major in physics and chemistry. He attended Stanford University on a Hertz fellowship, earning a master's degree (1973) and a Ph.D. (1975) in electrical engineering. At Stanford, Rodgers invented, developed, and patented VMOS technology, which he sold for cash and royalties to American Microsystems Inc. (AMI). He managed the MOS memory design group at AMI from 1975 to 1980 before moving to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), where he ran AMD's static RAM product group from 1979-1982.
 
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 PSoC® Programmable System-on-Chip™, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks, image sensors and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity solutions ranging from its WirelessUSB™ radio system-on-chip, to West Bridge™ and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar power. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. - September 28, 2007 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today announced that it is hosting a PSoC® academic workshop at the Milwaukee School of Engineering in Milwaukee, Wis., beginning at 1:00 PM. CDT in the Alumni Partnership Center.
 
The academic workshop will include an introduction to PSoC and a hands-on lab session highlighting the practical application of PSoC in teaching the concepts of Programmable System-on-Chip design. An introduction to Cypress's PSoC Express visual embedded development software and PSoC FirstTouch Starter Kit will highlight the workshop. Professors will use a PSoC Express demonstration kit to visually implement an array of applications, and keep the kit free of charge for use in developing coursework that teaches analog, digital and microcontroller concepts as well as developing designs quickly and confidently.

Interested academics can register by visiting http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB226Y2ZK8GJK or by calling Carey Patrick at 408-544-1089." Attendance is limited.

The Cypress University Alliance is also participating in the 2007 Frontiers in Education Conference in Milwaukee from October 10-13, 2007. Cypress will be demonstrating its PSoC Express™ visual embedded development software and PSoC® FirstTouch™ Starter Kit at Booth 13 in the Regency Ballroom of the Hilton Milwaukee City Center. 

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 PSoC® Programmable System-on-Chip™, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity solutions ranging from its WirelessUSB™ radio system-on-chip, to West Bridge™ and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar power. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. - June 28, 2007 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today announced that it has donated six 90-watt solar panels supplied by its subsidiary, SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR), to power MIT's First-Step Coral reef rehabilitation project in the Sagay Marine Reserve in the Philippines. The solar panels are powering an innovative coral reef rehabilitation process called BioRock™ which is capable of increasing coral growth rates by up to five times and improving coral survival by over 20 times during bleaching (higher than normal water temperature) events.

"Sixty percent of animal proteins come from the reefs," said MIT First Step Coral Team Leader Gerardo Jose la O'. "The destruction of the reefs could lead to depletion of marine resources, which is particularly bad news to a region where many people depend on the sea for food."

"It is critically important that the energy sources we use to power our BioRock structures are both renewable and highly efficient," said la O'. "With SunPower solar panels, we were able to locate the energy source close to our structures, minimize challenges in project site selection and reduce system cost."

The First Step Coral project was funded with a grant from MIT after the team won the grand prize at the institution's 5th Ideas Competition in May 2006. The project was launched at the Sagay Marine Reserve in July 2006 and the SunPower panels were installed earlier this year. The team has three working models at the Reserve, each powered by renewable energy sources including solar panels, wind turbines and tidal turbines. The Philippines was selected for the project since it has some of the most productive and most diverse coral reefs in the world. However, 95 percent of them are in poor condition due to sediment from a long history of erosion from deforested islands and heavy fishing using destructive methods. More information on the project can be found at http://web.mit.edu/gjlao/www/coral/.

"Cypress's participation in MIT's First-Step Coral project is an excellent example of the synergies that can be achieved when industry and academia work cooperatively to improve the environment," said Patrick Kane, director of Cypress's University Alliance Program." "We look forward to continuing our partnership with MIT on this critical initiative."

BioRock uses cylindrical or dome-shaped structures made from steel rebar and electrically connected to a power source and a BioRock anode.  Low voltage DC current is passed through the submerged BioRock structures to electrochemically deposit a calcium rich layer on the BioRock cathode and stimulate the existing coral polyps to regenerate. Dr. Thomas J. Goreau, president of the Global Coral Reef Alliance and member of the MIT team, pioneered BioRock.  Goreau is a dedicated activist on environmental and global ecology issues. His research continues to focus on the effects of global warming and pollution on coral reefs and development of BioRock technologies in the interest of coral preservation and coral reef restoration. More information on BioRock can be found at http://www.biorock.net/.

About SunPower
SunPower Corp." (NASDAQ: SPWR) designs, manufactures and markets high-performance solar electric technology worldwide.  SunPower's high-efficiency solar cells and panels generate up to 50 percent more power per unit area than conventional solar technologies and have a uniquely attractive, all-black appearance.  SunPower's PowerLight subsidiary is a leading global provider of large-scale solar power systems, with over 100 megawatts installed.  For more information on SunPower please visit the SunPower website at www.sunpowercorp.com.  SunPower is a majority-owned subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY).

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 PSoC® Programmable System-on-Chip™, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity solutions ranging from its WirelessUSB™ radio system-on-chip, to West Bridge™ and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar power. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. - March 5, 2007 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today announced that it is hosting a Professor's Workshop at San Jose State University as part of its University Alliance program. The two-day workshop will introduce Cypress's Programmable System-on-Chip™ (PSoC®) solution and demonstrate how PSoC can enhance the engineering learning experience.

The event will be held Thursday and Friday, March 29-30, beginning at 8:30 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on March 29 in Room 288 of the Engineering Building at San Jose State University, One Washington Square, San Jose.  Professors and Teaching Assistants can register online at http://zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB225ZVS4T5QJ or by calling Carey Patrick at 408-544-1089.

The workshop is timed to allow Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) attendees to conveniently participate in the workshop prior to the start of the conference." ESC will be held from April 1-5 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose.

The workshop will include an introduction to PSoC and three hands-on lab sessions highlighting the practical application of PSoC in teaching the concepts of pulse wave modulation, analog-to-digital conversion and dynamic reconfiguration. An introduction to Cypress's PSoC Express™ visual embedded development software is also part of the workshop. Professors will use a PSoC Express demonstration kit to visually implement an array of applications, and keep the kit free of charge for use in developing coursework that teaches analog, digital and microcontroller concepts as well as developing designs quickly and confidently.

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 PSoC® Programmable System-on-Chip™, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity solutions ranging from its WirelessUSB™ radio system-on-chip, to West Bridge™ and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar power. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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The 1,960 square foot lab, located in Building 2 at Cypress's San Jose headquarters, marks the culmination of a relationship that began seven years ago between CAAAE President Debra Watkins, and T.J. Rodgers, the founder, president and CEO of Cypress.

"Long before Jesse Jackson chastised Silicon Valley companies for not being diverse enough, the visionary T.J. Rodgers embraced a math, science and technology program, named after Dr. George Washington Carver, that encouraged African American students in grades K-12 to pursue careers in those fields," said Watkins, who helped organize the project.

Re-named the Dr. Frank S. Greene Scholars Program (GSP) after an African American Silicon Valley scientist and venture capitalist, this long-term mentoring program has a 100 percent success rate of graduating students who go on to college. To date, Cypress has donated more than $100,000 to this program. Former GSP participants are currently attending Pomona College, the University of California at Davis, Morehouse College, Harvey Mudd College and UCLA.

"There are many companies in Silicon Valley that purport to be committed to diversity, but Cypress is literally putting its money where its mouth is," said Watkins. "I know of no other company here that is giving African American students cubicles to call their own with laptops and a laser printer on their premises. The students and their parents are beyond excited! This investment will enhance the academic achievement of the scholars as well as countless other students who will flock to the lab from each of the CAAAE's six regions around the state of California," Watkins said.

In addition to housing the computer lab, the space is also the brand new headquarters for the CAAAE. Founded five years ago by Watkins and other educators of prominence from throughout California, it has nearly 1,000 members state-wide and runs one of the most highly-regarded professional development institutes in the country in partnership with Stanford University's School of Education.

"Partnership between education and industry is incredibly important to the future of our industry," said Rodgers. "The CAAAE has a perfect track record at mentoring students that have gone on to college and successful careers and Cypress is pleased to be a part of their success."

The media is invited to attend the grand opening event at Cypress, which will feature Dr. Rodgers, CAAAE board members, the 2006-2007 Greene Scholars, their parents and community leaders.

About CAAAE:
The California Alliance of African American Educators' mission is to provide programs and services to students, families, and teachers in order to create culturally conscious African American students who are life-long learners and critical thinkers. To learn more about the CAAAE, visit www.caaae.org.

 
About Cypress:
Cypress solutions perform: consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar. Leveraging proprietary silicon processes, Cypress's product portfolio includes a broad selection of wired and wireless USB devices, CMOS image sensors, timing solutions, specialty memories, high-bandwidth synchronous and micropower memory products, optical solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit us at www.cypress.com.

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SAN JOSE, Calif., September 25, 2006 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today launched a new, multifaceted University Alliance Program that helps put electrical engineering and computer science students on a Fast Track to career success. The program includes a global design competition and a new university alliance website (www.cypress.com/cua) providing access to a myriad of free design resources, evaluation boards and online courses." It also includes product donations for lab projects and an enhanced rotation program that exposes students to multiple job functions in just six months.

"Cypress is in a unique position to help students develop industry expertise that is valuable to companies globally," said Babak Hedayati, senior vice president of Marketing at Cypress. "Our easy-to-use and easy-to-access programmable system-on-chip products, such as PSoC®,  can be used as Innovation Platforms™ for students to develop their analog and digital expertise. This popular platform is used by thousands of customers worldwide to implement new products such as MP3 players, cell phones, laptop computers and appliances."

The Cypress University Alliance Program is being spearheaded by new-hire Patrick Kane, a seasoned industry veteran who has joined Cypress to drive the program worldwide. Kane joined Cypress from Xilinx where he had previously headed up that company's university outreach effort.

"Cypress's University Alliance Program helps students overtake the ordinary career,' by providing access to a wide array of design resources, educational materials and products, and by placing new-hires on a rotation program to help them maximize their opportunities for success," Kane said. "This experience enables them to develop skills that can help them quickly become productive in fast-paced electrical engineering and computer science careers."

One key component of Cypress's Fast Track University Alliance Program is a new website, www.cypress.com/cuap, that includes discussion boards, feature stories about Cypress's work with universities, software downloads and a host of other educational and design resources." The site also provides information about how professors can apply for product donations and discounts of up to 50 percent off retail pricing on select Cypress devices and development kits. Another key website feature is the technical support knowledge base that enables 24-hour access to articles addressing many common design questions.

Cypress's Innovator Design Challenge, a competition for students who design with Cypress products. This global contest will enable students to compete for significant cash prizes and an opportunity to have their projects considered for seed funding. More information about this program will be announced next week.

Cypress's enhanced New College Graduate Rotation Program is a structured six-month curriculum that provides product marketing engineers with hands-on experience in applications engineering, worldwide marketing and sales. Application engineers rotate through applications engineering, product marketing, business development, design engineering and field applications engineering. The rotation program for product, test and design engineers includes applications engineering, fab experience and marketing. In addition to giving new-hires exposure to different professional disciplines, the rotation program increases the employees' technical and marketing knowledge, helps develop career skills, and provides important relationship building and on-the-job training.

One of the schools where Cypress's university program has made a difference is Mississippi State University, where engineering student interns and graduates have received hands-on lab training with Cypress products, and have played a significant role at the company's nearby design center. "It's extremely rewarding to see that our students have been well-received and have done well at Cypress," said MSU's recently retired engineering professor Donald Trotter, who started the VLSI program at MSU and ran it for nearly 25 years. "The fact that so many (of our students) have come out of Cypress's Design Center in Starkville, Miss., and gone on to have very successful careers at Cypress is very pleasing."

More information about Cypress's Fast Track University Alliance Program and how schools can engage with Cypress is available at the program website: www.cypress.com/cuap.

About Cypress
Cypress solutions perform: consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar." Leveraging proprietary silicon processes, Cypress's product portfolio includes a broad selection of wired and wireless USB devices, CMOS image sensors, timing solutions, specialty memories, high-bandwidth synchronous and micropower memory products, optical solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit us at www.cypress.com.

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SUNNYVALE, Calif., October 18, 2005 - SunPower Corp., a Silicon Valley-based subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY), today announced that a team of students from the University of Colorado, won the 2005 Solar Decathlon, by building a house powered entirely by SunPower's high-performance solar panels.  In addition to the grand prize, Colorado also won three of 10 Solar Decathlon contests.  A team from Virginia Tech, which also built a house powered by SunPower solar panels, won the two major design awards in the competition: architecture and dwelling. 

The Solar Decathlon, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, was held October 7-16, 2005 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The competition challenged teams of university students to design, build and operate the most attractive, effective and energy-efficient solar-powered home.  The University of Colorado and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (also known as Virginia Tech) each selected SunPower's high efficiency solar panels for two key reasons: superior power performance and aesthetics.

SunPower solar panels generate up to 50 percent more power per square foot than conventional solar panels.  SunPower solar panels also operate exceptionally well during low light conditions, highly valuable to the schools during the extended rain and clouds in Washington D.C. throughout the Solar Decathlon.  From a design perspective, SunPower's panels provide a uniformly black appearance that is particularly attractive to architects and homeowners.

The University of Colorado, also champion of the first Solar Decathlon in 2002, strategically designed and operated their solar home to achieve the winning spot.  Using their high-efficiency SunPower solar panels, the Colorado team operated a home with a full set of appliances, heating and cooling equipment and even charged a solar car that drove more miles than any other team.

"Our rooftop PV system is made of 34, 200-watt SunPower panels, the highest efficiency solar panels we could find," said Jeff Lyng, student project manager at the University of Colorado. "Besides great performance, we found that SunPower's panels were also the most beautifully designed, blending into our building's roof."

The Virginia Tech team came in fourth overall and first in both the architecture and dwelling contests. An event judge said about the home, "Everything about this house is wonderful. It took my breath away."

Virginia Tech placed a high priority on architectural design and attractive ways to integrate solar power into its home. "We initially chose SunPower solar panels due to their unique, all-black design," explained Bob Schubert, faculty advisor to the Virginia Tech team. "We quickly learned that we would extend our competitive advantage by taking advantage of SunPower's high-power output."
 

"SunPower congratulates the University of Colorado and Virginia Tech teams for their success at the Solar Decathlon," said Tom Werner, SunPower's CEO. "We are pleased that SunPower's high-efficiency solar panels performed so well for the teams during such a long stretch of bad weather. The Solar Decathlon proves solar power can meet our residential energy needs while also being an attractive element in home design."

In this year's Solar Decathlon, teams from 18 universities across the United States, Canada and Spain competed to build and operate the best designed and most energy-efficient solar-powered home. The Solar Decathlon centered on energy: all the ways in which consumers use energy in their daily lives - at work, at home and at play.
 

For more information on the Solar Decathlon, please visit http://www.solardecathlon.org.

For more information about SunPower's solar panels, please visit the SunPower website at http://www.sunpowercorp.com/html/Products/Solar/modules.html.

About SunPower
SunPower-a Silicon Valley-based majority-owned subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY)-designs and manufactures high-efficiency silicon solar cells and solar panels based on an all-back-contact cell design.  SunPower's solar cells and panels generate up to 50 percent more power per square foot than conventional solar technologies and have a uniquely attractive, all-black appearance.  For more information on SunPower or solar technology, please visit the SunPower website at http://www.sunpowercorp.com.

About Cypress
Cypress solutions are at the heart of any system that is built to perform: consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar power. Leveraging a strong commitment to customer service and performance-based process and manufacturing expertise, Cypress's product portfolio includes a broad selection of wired and wireless USB devices, CMOS image sensors, timing solutions, network search engines, specialty memories, high-bandwidth synchronous and micropower memory products, optical solutions, and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. Cypress stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CY. More information about the company is available online at www.cypress.com.

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SunPower is a registered trademark of SunPower Corp. Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

"What distinguishes the 100 Best Corporate Citizens from their peers is a commitment to higher standards," said Marjorie Kelly, editor of Business Ethics Magazine.  "This list represents the top 10 percent of Russell 1000 firms when it comes to corporate social responsibility - those that perform to a higher standard in serving a variety of stakeholders with excellence and integrity."

The 100 Best Corporate Citizens survey is based on a database maintained by KLD Research & Analytics, a Boston-based social research firm. All companies listed on the Russell 1000 Index - the 1,000 largest publicly-traded companies in the United States - are considered for the survey. Rankings are based on quantitative measures of corporate service to key stakeholders including customers, shareholders, the community and environment groups.  The KLD data is then analyzed by researchers at Boston College, and companies receive rankings in eight different categories: total return to stockholders, contributions to the community, governance, diversity, employee satisfaction, environmental responsibility, human rights and product quality.  Each company then receives an overall score based on their scores in the eight different issue areas.

"Cypress's commitment to financial and operational excellence, embedded in our core values, has enabled us to deliver value over time to our investors and other groups," said T.J. Rodgers, Cypress president and CEO. "But it is our commitment to people - particularly to our employees and our customers - that truly distinguishes Cypress and has consistently enabled it to gain recognition from the business community."

Cypress and its founder T.J. Rodgers, have been hailed for an exemplary track record of corporate citizenship since the company was established in 1984. The management team at Cypress has received numerous awards for excellence in financial management including an Encore Award from Stanford University Business School; three Bronze Awards and two Silver Awards from the Wall Street Transcript; and a Kachina Award from the market-research company In-Stat Inc. 

In service to the community, Cypress has funded the development of a mobile maternal care clinic and established a spinal unit at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.  The company has also won the Santa Clara Valley's Second Harvest Food Bank Corporate Food Bowl Challenge for 13 consecutive years.  In 2004, Cypress donated 835,286 pounds of food, or 834 pounds per employee.

Cypress also continues to aggressively implement operational and manufacturing strategies that are good for both the environment and Cypress stakeholders. Its subsidiary SunPower, designs and manufactures the world's most efficient solar power cells, making cost-effective residential solar power possible. At Cypress's San Jose, Calif., campus, a two-year initiative is underway to reduce power consumption - a project that has already reduced electrical consumption by 55 percent and natural gas consumption by 85 percent at one of the campus' five buildings. Photovoltaic arrays are installed on two of the five buildings, generating a combined peak of 260 kW of AC power.  The company also plans to offer lead-free packaging for all of its parts this year. To date, Cypress has shipped more than 50 million lead-free devices.

About Cypress
Cypress solutions are at the heart of any system that is built to perform: consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar power. Leveraging a strong commitment to customer service and performance-based process and manufacturing expertise, Cypress's product portfolio includes a broad selection of wired and wireless USB devices, CMOS image sensors, timing solutions, network search engines, specialty memories, high-bandwidth synchronous and micropower memory products, optical solutions, and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. Cypress stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CY. More information about the company is available online at www.cypress.com.
 

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Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., October 26, 2004 - SunPower Corp., a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY), announced today that its founder and president, Dr. Richard Swanson, will be presenting at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOEs) Solar Energy Technologies Program Review Meeting, being held this week at the Denver Marriott Tech Center Hotel in Denver, Colo.  Dr. Swanson's invited plenary presentation, "A Vision for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells," will be on Wednesday, October 27 at 9:30 a.m.

The DOE's program review meeting is held annually to review and report on all research and development activities.  A wide variety of technologies are discussed, ranging from photovoltaics, concentrating solar power, and solar heating and lighting. 

Dr. Swanson is a reknowned expert in the photovoltaic arena.  While a professor at Stanford University, Swanson's team developed a unique silicon solar concentrator cell with funding from the Electric Power Research Institute and the U.S. Department of Energy.  The cell features rear-mounted electrical connections that make the solar cell's entire front surface available to sunlight and subsequently more efficient.  The technology earned R&D Magazine's R&D 100 Award in 1994.  Dr. Swanson earned both his bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering from Ohio State University and his Ph.D from Stanford University, before establishing SunPower.

SunPower's new A-300 solar cell features a unique, all-back-contact design that maximizes working cell area, hides unsightly wires and simplifies automated production. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently measured the A-300's power efficiency at an industry-best 21.5 percent; where competing production cells typically measure in the 12- to 15-percent range.  The cell's low voltage-temperature coefficient, exceptional low-light performance and high sensitivity to light across the entire solar spectrum enable the A-300 to convert virtually every accessible photon into useable electricity, maximizing annual energy production.

About SunPower

SunPower-a majority-owned subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY)-designs and manufactures high-performance silicon solar cells based on an interdigitated all-back-contact design. The company's initial products were put to use in a variety of high-performance applications, including the NASA-sponsored AeroVironment airplane, "Helios," that flew to a record altitude of 96,863 feet on August 13, 2001.  SunPower manufactures its high -performance A-300 solar cells in a new facility outside of Manila, the Philippines.  The company currently operates a 25 MW production line there, and is planning to ramp production to more than 100 MW.  For more information on SunPower or solar technology, please visit the SunPower website at http://www.sunpowercorp.com.

About Cypress

Cypress Semiconductor Corp." (NYSE: CY) is Connecting from Last Mile to First Mile(TM) with high-performance solutions for personal, network access, enterprise, metro switch and core communications-system applications. Cypress Connects(TM) using wireless, wireline, digital, and optical transmission standards, including USB, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet and DWDM. Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, Cypress makes industry-leading physical layer devices, framers, and network search engines, along with a broad portfolio of high-bandwidth memories, timing technology solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. More information about Cypress is accessible online at http://www.cypress.com. 

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SunPower is a registered trademark of SunPower Corp.  Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. "Connecting from Last Mile to First Mile," and "Cypress Connects" are trademarks of Cypress. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., October 21, 2004-Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE:CY) today announced that it will host a one-hour net seminar entitled "Dual-Port Memories as Interconnect Components." The live seminar will be held on Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 9:00 a.m. PST.

Dual-port RAMs are an increasingly important piece of glue-ware in enterprise and even core switching/routing equipment. Due to its simple memory interface, lack of a complex protocol, and a wide variety of options, the dual-port buffer is one of the most popular chip-to-chip interconnects available today. This net seminar explores specific applications; explains the requirements and parameters of chip-to-chip interconnect; and highlights the benefits of using dual-port buffers to connect one processing element to another.

About the Speaker

Daniel Barry is a specialty memories product manager for Cypress's Data Communications Division. During his tenure at Cypress, Mr. Barry has held technical marketing and engineering roles in the system interconnect and communications product groups. Prior to joining Cypress, Mr. Barry was a field applications engineer at Memec Unique. He holds a B.E. in Electrical and Microelectronics and MSc.Eng. from the University College, Cork, Ireland.

About Cypress

Cypress Semiconductor Corp." (NYSE: CY) is Connecting From Last Mile to First Mile(TM) with high-performance solutions for personal, network access, enterprise, metro switch and core communications-system applications. Cypress Connects(TM) using wireless, wireline, digital and optical transmission standards, including USB, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet and DWDM. Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, Cypress makes industry-leading physical layer devices, framers and network search engines, along with a broad portfolio of high-bandwidth memories, timing technology solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. More information about Cypress is accessible online at www.cypress.com. 

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Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation.  "Connecting From Last Mile to First Mile" and "Cypress Connects" are trademarks of Cypress. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Sept. 28, 2004 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp (NYSE:CY) today announced commercial sampling of the LUPA-4000-M CMOS image sensor from recently acquired FillFactory NV.  Developed to address the specific imaging needs of the professional and industrial market place, the LUPA-4000-M's target applications include machine vision, instrumentation, surveillance, biometric identification and medical imaging.

The LUPA-4000-M includes three unique features: a fully synchronous or pipelined snapshot shutter, making it possible to read one image while the next is being captured and to capture moving objects without distortion; a multiple windowing feature that enables the user to read out only regions of interest of the image and as such increasing the effective frame rate; and a multiple slope capability that allows the user to capture scenes with a high contrast ratio without saturating the bright areas while maintaining good contrast  in the dark parts. The LUPA-4000-M is formatted as 2k x 2k pixels 4M pixels with 12 x 12 mm² pixel size, featuring a full frame rate of 15 images-per-second and a 10-bit parallel digital output. The LUPA-4000-M is offered only as a monochrome device at this time.

"The LUPA-4000-M takes full advantage of the advantages CMOS image sensors have over CCDs: namely, high speed, dynamic range and windowing capability," said Lou Hermans, Senior Marketing Director for FillFactory. "These are all features you need for security, and machine vision and the other applications for which the LUPA-4000 was designed. Our relationship with Cypress-a pioneer and world leader in CMOS technology-will help us migrate our technology into a much broader range of markets."

FillFactory is a good strategic fit for Cypress on two fronts: key end markets and manufacturing. The CMOS image sensors will effectively double sales into the cell phone market, where Cypress is a leading supplier of low-power memories.   They will expand Cypress's market in digital still cameras, where it currently sells a broad array of timing solutions.  In the automotive market, where Cypress sells configurable microcontrollers and memories, the image sensors will augment the market.  The CMOS manufacturing process used to make image sensors is similar to that used to manufacture memories, which make FillFactory a great fit with Cypress's core manufacturing capabilities.

Price and Availability
Samples of the LUPA-4000-M are available now for $960 in a PGA package; full production is expected in Q1/2005. An evaluation kit for the LUPA-4000M will be available Q1/2005, and will be priced around $5,000. The datasheet and schematics  for the LUPA-4000-M can be obtained by sending an e-mail to info@fillfactory.com.

About FillFactory
FillFactory develops, produces and markets innovative, high-performance CMOS image sensors, based on patented technologies and know-how built up over more than 15 years." FillFactory NV was established in December 1999 as a spin-off of IMEC, the Interuniversity MicroElectronics Center. All relevant IMEC patents were assigned to FillFactory. FillFactory's staff includes former IMEC employees, many with years of experience in CMOS image sensor development; that has resulted in innovative approaches, scientific publishing credits and patents. Cypress Semiconductor Corp. acquired FillFactory in August, 2004.

About Cypress
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) is Connecting from Last Mile to First Mile(TM) with high-performance solutions for personal network access, enterprise, metro switch and core communications-system applications. Cypress Connects(TM) using wireless, wireline, digital and optical transmission standards, including USB, Fibre channel, SONET/DSH, Gigabit Ethernet and DWDM. Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, Cypress makes industry-leading physical layer devices, framers, and network search engines, along with a broad portfolio of high-bandwidth memories, timing technology solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. More information about Cypress is accessible online at www.cypress.com.

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Thursday, June 3, 2004
4:05 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Grand Hyatt Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 28, 2004 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp (NYSE: CY) today announced that Elie Ayache, director of marketing for Cypress's Timing Technology Division, will present a paper on PCI-Express at the Via Technology Forum (VTF) on June 3 from 4:05 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. in the Hall 1 Ballroom at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan. 

During the High Definition Computing track, Mr. Ayache will discuss PCI-Express signaling and compliance requirements.   During the presentation, he will highlight PCI-Express measurement equipment available today as well as some of the methodology used to determine compliance. He will also review the role a serial reference clock (SRC) plays in compliance and what a system designer should consider to minimize problems in a PCI-Express system.

Mr. Ayache has worked at Cypress for the last three years, having previously held marketing and engineering positions at International Microcircuits and Silicon Systems. He holds several patents for clock management and "green PC" applications. Mr. Ayache earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering (BSEE) from Santa Clara University.

The VIA Technology Forum (VTF) 2004 consists of two one-day events: one in Taipei on Thursday, June 3rd, and one in Beijing on Tuesday, June 8.  The program includes keynote presentations given by senior executives of VIA, industry experts and high level representatives of industry partners, followed by a series of Specialist Technology Tracks in which VIA and its partners will deliver in-depth market, technological innovation and product information seminars.

About Cypress

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE: CY) is Connecting From Last Mile to First Mile(TM) with high-performance solutions for personal, network access, enterprise, metro switch and core communications-system applications. Cypress Connects(TM) using wireless, wireline, digital and optical transmission standards, including USB, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet and DWDM. Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, Cypress makes industry-leading physical layer devices, framers and network search engines, along with a broad portfolio of high-bandwidth memories, timing technology solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. More information about Cypress is accessible online at www.cypress.com. 

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Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. "Connecting From Last Mile to First Mile" and "Cypress Connects" are trademarks of Cypress. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 10, 2004 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today announced that David Zimpfer, director of its Automotive Business Unit, will speak on "Trends and Demand in Automotive Electronics" at the Globalpress Electronics Summit 2004 at the Monterey Plaza Hotel in Monterey, Calif., on Wednesday, February 11, 2004. Zimpfer will address such topics as tire pressure monitoring; telematics and entertainment; drive-by-wire; 42V electronics systems; and power train electronics.

David Zimpfer was appointed director of the Automotive Business Unit at Cypress Semiconductor Corp. in January 2002. Mr. Zimpfer manages a team of product engineers, marketing, and sales professionals that are dedicated to developing products and services for the automotive market. Mr. Zimpfer holds two degrees, a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) and Master's (M.P.H.) degree, from the University of California, Berkeley.

About Cypress

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) is Connecting from Last Mile to First Mile(TM) with high-performance solutions for personal, network access, enterprise, metro switch, and core communications-system applications. Cypress Connects(TM) using wireless, wireline, digital, and optical transmission standards, including USB, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet, and DWDM. Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, Cypress makes industry-leading physical layer devices, framers, and network search engines, along with a broad portfolio of high-bandwidth memories, timing technology solutions, and configurable mixed-signal arrays. More information about Cypress is accessible online at www.cypress.com.

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