Cypress Semiconductor announced that global automotive supplier Yazaki North America has implemented the company's dashboard solution to run advanced graphics in its dashboard for a leading U.S. automaker. The company chose Cypress based on its unique five chip products that can drive dual displays and have instant storage performance that meets automotive grade ASIL-B safety standards. The solution is based on Traveo MCU, two high-bandwidth HyperBus memories in MCP, an analog PMIC for safe electrical operation, and a PSoC MCU for system management support.
"Our customers need graphic-rich dashboards to enhance the user experience for drivers and help differentiate their high-end crossover and truck models," said Spencer Weidig, senior project manager at Yazaki. "A single specialty like Cypress Vendor cooperation to provide a cost-effective system solution for multiple core components and simplify the design process for this instrument cluster has become popular. The scalability of the solution helped us effectively address three different vehicle classes. "
"As a company with a wealth of automotive expertise and technical expertise, Cypress has been committed to maintaining industry leadership through high-performance, fail-safe automotive solutions," said Sven Natus, senior director of Cypress Automotive Business Unit. "We have a long-term view of cooperation with automotive suppliers such as Yazaki, who provide them with tailor-made solutions based on our extensive Traveo microcontroller portfolio and leverage our best-in-class fail-safe storage and data logging , Power management ICs and other technologies to increase convenience. "
