LEDs & Light Sources
Cypress Intelligent Lighting Solutions Now Offer Easy, Fast Design Support for Cree XLamp® LEDs
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) is greatly simplifying design of RGB-based white lighting LED systems with Cree XLamp® LEDs. Using Cypress's PSoC Designer™ 5.0 visual design software and the CY3265C-RGB evaluation kit, designers can simply input the selected XLamp device; select bin…
Lighting designers no longer need to be experts in LED binning and temperature specifications. Instead they can focus on desired lighting effects, bringing solutions to market more quickly and efficiently.
Cypress's intelligent lighting solutions simplify white lighting designs by giving users the ability to select white light temperatures points on a gamut in PSoC Designer 5.0 software. Cypress has integrated the XLamp device specifications and temperature characteristics into the content library of PSoC Designer 5.0 software, which supports Cypress's EZ-Color™ LED controllers. With other LED controllers, engineers must input specific device binning and temperature performance data. Cypress has introduced the CY3265C-RGB evaluation kit enabling designers to begin simplified system design with XLamp LEDs.
"We are pleased to support Cree's XLamp portfolio with our intelligent lighting solutions," said Curt Davis, vice president of Cypress's PowerPSoC™ Business Unit, which includes Intelligent Lighting Solutions. "Cree has earned a leadership position in bringing LED lighting to the mainstream, and our intelligent lighting solutions can simplify general illumination designs with the XLamp offerings."
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The CY3265C-RGB evaluation kit provides the firmware to support XLamp LEDs. The kit comes with a daughter card featuring XLamp LEDs, and includes a MiniProg, a 5v LCD display, a USB cable, a CD with PSoC Designer 5.0, Gerber files and schematics. The kit is available on the Cypress Online Store at www.cypress.com and from authorized distributors.
