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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.
- Editor's comments:- I first came across Cypress Semiconductor in the mid
1980s when I was designing some high speed products. What attracted me at that
time was their range of fast FIFOs. (They haven't got much faster since then
I notice.
Just wider.)
So when it came to compiling the first draft directory of
companies to go into storagesearch.com in
1998 I
naturally added them in. For most of the past decade their products have been
something that appealed only to a fringe part of our readership. I know from my
emails that our readers include SSD designers too - not just CIOs at banks who
want to buy SSDs - and not just technology guys in search-engine companies
planning their storage architectures. The nice thing about the mouse site is
that we cover a wide spectrum from chip to datacenter.
Anyway - going
back to Cypress - I suspect they may become better known if the SSD market picks
up on some of their technologies.
And I was amazed to see that founder
T.J. Rodgers looks pretty much
the same as he did in the magazine articles back in the 1980s. If I was better
at arranging things I'd find some way of integrating his profile into my
Storage People page. I
just hope that Google is clever enough to make some kind of connection for me.
On
the SSD theme - Cypress makes a range of SSD controller SoCs - with USB
interfaces - and wear leveling - aimed at the mobile phone market.
See
also this related paper from Cypress:-
Ins and Outs of Wear Leveling in
NAND Flash (pdf) |
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| Can You Trust Your Flash
SSD's Specs? |
Editor:- I've noticed is that
the published specs of
flash SSDs change
a lot -from the time a product they are first announced, then when they're
being sampled, and later again when they are in volume production.
Sometimes
the headline numbers get better, sometimes they get worse. There are many good
reasons for this.
The product which you carefully qualified may
not be identical to the one that's going into your production line for a
variety of reasons...
And here's another thing to worry about...
The
enterprise flash SSDs which you benchmarked yourself - may surprise you by
running much slower when deployed in your own applications due to
common "halo" errors which are implicit in the set ups of many
performance test suites which were originally designed for HDDs. ...read the article | |
