Cypress and India's BITS Sign Agreement for PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 Lab

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has 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 Cypress donating 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.

“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.”

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