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Cyan launches entry-level MCU targeted at high volume, low cost appliations
Nuremberg, Germany - 26th February 2008. Cambridge based fabless semiconductor company Cyan announces the launch of the eCOG1XE01A6, an entry-level subset of Cyan’s eCOG1X microcontroller (MCU) family. The eCOG1XE01A6 is complementary to Cyan’s existing products. For example, in support of RF-Solved™ which provides a user with a customisable ISM band solution ideal for use in the intelligent sensors and automatic meter reading markets, the eCOG1XE01A6 is priced for use in the high volume and cost sensitive slave nodes.
The eCOG1XE01A6 offers a 64Kbyte Flash memory and retains the most commonly used peripheral blocks of the eCOG1X family. An internal Harvard architecture with 8Kbytes of Static RAM delivers high performance. The chip is fully supported by CyanIDE®, a free, class leading Integrated Development Environment which includes automated peripheral configuration and an unrestricted ANSI C Compiler. The eCOG1XE01A6 incorporates a number of power saving features including a highly flexible peripheral clock set up and sleep mode.
Paul Chaplin, VP of Sales EMEA comments: “The eCOG1XE01A6 is a new low cost addition to our MCU product portfolio. The market for intelligent sensors and automatic meter reading applications is very active. RF-Solved as a ready to go solution can now deliver its benefits of propagation through obstacles such as buildings based on a low cost node powered by the eCOG1XE01A6.”
The eCOG1XE01A6 is available in a 68-pin QFN package, comprehensively supported by a low cost development board and high speed programming adaptor, along with a new release of CyanIDE (version 1.4.4). The unit selling price for the eCOG1XE01A6 is $3.00 in volume.
About Cyan
Based in Cambridge in the UK, Cyan Holdings plc is a fabless semiconductor company specialising in the development of applications solutions collectively known as Cy-Solved™ which are built upon the company's low powered, configurable eCOG1kG and eCOG1X microcontroller chips.
Cy-Solved incorporates ready to go solutions, software stacks, applications examples, modular software based on easy to use APIs, evaluation boards and production hardware modules from partners, all pulled together through Cyan's free integrated development environment CyanIDE®. Cy-Solved can be incorporated as-is into an application but also supports an ability to be easily customised - either way, giving users a head start on the road to market. Currently available Cy-Solved applications include RF-Solved™, USB-Solved™, Ethernet-Solved™ and Motor Control-Solved™.
The Company was founded in 2002 and listed on AIM in 2005 Cyan Holdings plc operates through the brand 'Cyan'.
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