Cypress Releases USB Driver For Wind River's VxWorks Embedded Operating System

Driver Supports Cypress USB Host/Peripheral Controller To Enable Mobile, Personal Connectivity Via Cell Phones, MP3 Players and PDAs

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 10, 2002 – Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE: CY), the leader in USB technology, today announced the release of its VxWorks USB host driver supporting Cypress's SL811HS embedded host/peripheral controller. This driver will provide VxWorksâ developers with the ability to add USB host functionality to a variety of embedded system applications, such as cell phones, MP3 players, network appliances and PDAs.

"Cypress is excited to develop a USB driver on Wind River's VxWorks--a leading edge real-time operating system (RTOS) and embedded development platform--for their designers," said Jeff Chang, product marketing manager for Cypress's Personal Communications Division.  "This host controller driver release will enable developers to add USB host functionality to their embedded system designs running the VxWorks RTOS."

"We are happy to be associated with a premier USB technology leader like Cypress Semiconductor on this USB driver release," said Ted Hartnell, USB Product Marketing Manager for Wind River Systems Inc. "With today's aggressive development demands, VxWorks enables designers the resource for real-time updates and to meet their project deadlines, bringing their product to market as quickly as possible."

Wind River's VxWorks RTOS supports the Open Host Controller Interface (OHCI) and the Universal Host Controller Interface (UHCI) specifications for USB host controllers, which are typically implemented in a PC architecture and environment. Since Cypress's SL811HS is a memory-mapped device, the release of this new driver allows the VxWorks host stack to provide USB host support without realizing that there is a non-OHCI/UHCI type host controller. This driver enables engineers to bring their products to market more quickly.

About SL811HS

The SL811HS is Cypress's first-to-market USB embedded host controller, offering a dual-role port that can function as either a USB host or peripheral supporting both full- and low-speed USB devices.

About VxWorks

Wind River's VxWorks® RTOS is the fundamental run-time component of the Tornado II embedded development platform, and the most widely adopted RTOS in the embedded industry. VxWorks is flexible, scalable, reliable, and available on all popular CPU platforms.

Pricing and Availability

The VxWorks USB 2.0 driver and source code are free and available online now. Developers should contact there Wind River Sales person for information on licensing the VX works stack. To download the source code, visit the following URL (your USB host stack must be licensed by Wind River Systems): http://www.cypress.com/press/vxworks .

About Cypress

Cypress Semiconductor is "Driving the Communications Revolution"™ with high-performance integrated circuits for network infrastructure and access equipment. Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, the company designs and manufactures solutions targeted across wireless and wireline communications. Cypress supports a wide range of industry standards, such as SONET (OC-48, OC-192 and OC-768), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), InfiniBand™ and Gigabit Ethernet. The company's communications product lines include programmable high-speed physical layer devices (PHYs), wirespeed network search engines (NSEs) and network coprocessors (NCPs), and datapath switching elements (DSEs). Cypress is also the industry's leader in communications timing solutions, networking-optimized communications memories and personal connectivity solutions, such as USB and Bluetooth.

Cypress is a leader in pure optical and optoelectronic technologies designed to push network transmissions to higher performance levels and to satisfy the increasing demand for network bandwidth. With a focus on emerging communications applications, Cypress aims to become the preferred silicon supplier for network infrastructure solutions and for every network data stream to pass through at least one Cypress IC.

Cypress employs 4,000 people worldwide. Its shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CY. More information about Cypress is accessible on the Web at www.cypress.com .

About Wind River

Wind River is a worldwide leader in embedded software and services for creating connected smart devices. Wind River provides software development tools, real-time operating systems, and advanced connectivity software for use in products throughout the Internet, telecommunications and data communications, digital imaging, digital consumer electronics, networking, medical, computer peripherals, automotive, industrial automation and control, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is How Smart Things Think™. Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations worldwide.

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