name: Cypress Semiconductor Vocabulary
description: Domain vocabulary covering the Cypress Semiconductor product lines (PSoC, AIROC/WICED,
  CapSense, TRAVEO, NOR Flash) and the Infineon ModusToolbox development ecosystem that succeeded
  Cypress' PSoC Creator and WICED Studio after Infineon's $9.4B April 2020 acquisition. Use this
  vocabulary when classifying repos, BSPs, configurators, middleware, and reference designs that
  carry Cypress-era product DNA inside Infineon's GitHub organization.
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created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'

corporate:
  - term: Cypress Semiconductor
    definition: US-headquartered semiconductor company founded 1982, acquired by Infineon in April 2020.
    relatedTo:
      - Infineon Technologies
      - Acquisition
  - term: Infineon Technologies
    definition: German semiconductor manufacturer; parent organization of the former Cypress business since 2020.
    relatedTo:
      - Cypress Semiconductor
  - term: Acquisition
    definition: Infineon's $9.4B all-cash acquisition of Cypress that closed 16 April 2020.
    relatedTo:
      - Cypress Semiconductor
      - Infineon Technologies

productFamilies:
  - term: PSoC
    definition: Programmable System-on-Chip — Cypress' flagship MCU family with configurable analog and digital fabric. Subfamilies include PSoC 4, PSoC 6, and PSoC Edge.
  - term: PSoC 4
    definition: Single-core Cortex-M0+ PSoC family targeting cost-sensitive HMI and sensing applications.
  - term: PSoC 6
    definition: Dual-core Cortex-M4 + Cortex-M0+ PSoC family targeting secure IoT endpoints.
  - term: PSoC Edge
    definition: ML-capable Cortex-M55 + Cortex-M33 PSoC family for edge AI workloads.
  - term: AIROC
    definition: Infineon brand for the Cypress-inherited wireless connectivity portfolio (formerly WICED), spanning Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and combo chips.
  - term: WICED
    definition: Legacy Cypress Wireless Internet Connectivity for Embedded Devices brand; superseded by AIROC.
  - term: CapSense
    definition: Cypress' capacitive touch sensing IP for buttons, sliders, touchpads, and proximity.
  - term: TRAVEO T2G
    definition: Automotive Cortex-M body, cluster, and gateway MCU family inherited from Cypress.
  - term: Semper
    definition: Cypress' high-reliability serial NOR Flash family carried into Infineon's memory portfolio.
  - term: HyperFlash
    definition: Cypress' high-bandwidth HyperBus serial NOR Flash family.
  - term: USB-C Power Delivery MCU
    definition: Cypress-originated EZ-PD controllers for USB Power Delivery applications.

developmentEcosystem:
  - term: ModusToolbox
    definition: Infineon's modern cross-platform embedded development ecosystem (tools, BSPs, HAL, PDL, middleware, configurators) — successor to PSoC Creator and WICED Studio.
  - term: PSoC Creator
    definition: Legacy Windows-only IDE for PSoC 3/4/5; in maintenance mode, replaced for PSoC 6 and newer by ModusToolbox.
  - term: WICED Studio
    definition: Legacy Cypress wireless SDK and IDE; deprecated, replaced by AIROC flows in ModusToolbox.
  - term: Board Support Package
    definition: ModusToolbox TARGET_* package providing BSP design.modus, default Device Configurator settings, and kit metadata.
  - term: HAL
    definition: PSoC Hardware Abstraction Layer (mtb-hal-cat1) — portable C peripheral API across PSoC, AIROC host, and TRAVEO T2G.
  - term: PDL
    definition: Peripheral Driver Library (mtb-pdl-cat1) — low-level register driver library underneath the HAL.
  - term: Configurator
    definition: GUI tool that generates C source for a ModusToolbox application personality (device, capsense, bluetooth, qspi, smartio, etc.).
  - term: Device Configurator
    definition: ModusToolbox tool for setting up clocks, peripherals, and pins, producing design.modus + cycfg_* sources.
  - term: CapSense Configurator
    definition: ModusToolbox tool for tuning CapSense widgets, producing cycfg_capsense.* sources.

ecosystem:
  - term: Infineon GitHub Organization
    definition: github.com/Infineon — 2,143 public repositories housing the modern Cypress + Infineon developer surface.
  - term: Legacy Cypress GitHub Organization
    definition: github.com/cypresssemiconductorco — historic Cypress org, now reduced to 4 placeholder/redirect repos plus amazon-freertos.
  - term: Infineon Developer Community
    definition: community.infineon.com — primary support forum hosting per-product subforums (ModusToolbox, AIROC Bluetooth, AIROC Wi-Fi, TRAVEO T2G, PSoC, etc.).
  - term: Infineon Developer Center / Software Tools
    definition: softwaretools.infineon.com — Infineon's hosted catalog of installable developer tools including the ModusToolbox Tools Package.