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Global design competition leverages Cypress’s PSoC 4 SoC

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SAN JOSE, USA: Cypress Semiconductor Corp, announced the final stage for the PSoC 4 Smarter Life Design Challenge, a global design competition promoting the use of SoC to develop intelligent, forward-looking systems for homes, offices and cars.

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Hosted on the award-winning element14 community, the design challenge leverages the easy-to-use PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit, enabling embedded engineers and hobbyists to create unique designs with the flexibility of the PSoC 4 programmable SoC.

Cypress and element14 selected 15 Road Test winners based on their design abstracts, and each of the winners have received a free Pioneer kit plus a $500 voucher to element14's retail sites to buy the additional materials needed to build their design.

"The Smarter Life Design Challenge encourages embedded designers to look at new ways to bring smarter sensing and computing technology to everyday applications," said John Weil, senior director of PSoC marketing and applications for Cypress. "Challenge finalists are building intelligence into everything from wheelchairs to personal security systems to coffee makers. We look forward to seeing these truly innovative systems in action."

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"Despite the prevalence of computers, most of our daily environments and the things within them fail to utilize computing power to intercept problems or improve performance," said Dianne Kibbey, global head of community, element14. "We're incredibly excited to see what the participants in the Smarter Life Design Challenge create, as we believe the builds could have real-world implications that make people's lives easier."

The PSoC 4 architecture combines Cypress's best-in-class PSoC analog and digital fabric and industry-leading CapSense capacitive touch technology with ARM's power-efficient Cortex-M0 core.

The truly scalable, cost-efficient architecture delivers PSoC's trademark flexibility, analog performance and integration, along with access to dozens of free PSoC Components.

The PSoC 4 Pioneer Kit is an easy-to-use and inexpensive development platform enabling unique designs with the flexibility of PSoC. The kit is also highly expandable with Arduino shields and Digilent Pmod compatible headers, and it has hundreds of example projects to help developers start designs in the free PSoC Creator IDE

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