Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq:CY) , the market leader in
capacitive touch-sensing, today announced that Ezetap, a leading
provider of Mobile Point-of-Sale (MPOS) solutions, is using Cypress’s CapSense®
Express™ controllers in the world’s first capacitive-touch-based
PIN-pad in its new MPOS device. The CY8CMBR2016 matrix keypad solution
provides the Ezetap
MPOS device with a durable user interface, helping it to pass all of
the stringent EMVCo and Payment Card Industry (PCI) global
certifications required for PIN entry devices. Ezetap Chairman Sanjay
Swamy is demonstrating the MPOS device at the Money2020
conference in Las Vegas from October 8-10, 2013.
Consumer electronics and home appliances have rapidly been transitioning
from mechanical buttons to capacitive touch controls. However, the
payments industry has been slow to move from traditional, expensive
mechanical keypads—which are made secure through additional physical and
logical barriers around the keypad—given the tight security required
when customers enter their debit or credit card PIN. The EMV and PCI
certifications are extremely strict due to the need to protect customer
PINs against a broad range of attacks, while ensuring compatibility
across a range of payment cards. Devices must pass more than 5,000
protocol, firmware and security tests—typically taking about two years.
With the reliable, easy-to-use CapSense Express Mechanical Button
Replacement (MBR) solution, Ezetap was able to go from concept, to
certification, to manufacturing in less than a year. More information is
available at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.
“We set out to design a groundbreaking MPOS device with a top-quality
capacitive touch keypad, so we went to Cypress to leverage their
industry-leading technology,” said Bhaktha Keshavachar, Co-Founder and
CTO of Ezetap. “The support we received from the Cypress team went a
long way in helping us bring this exciting new product to market in
breakthrough time. It has been introduced in India by Citibank, American
Express and State Bank of India, and it will soon be deployed globally
as well.”
“We are pleased Ezetap selected our CapSense Express keypad solution for
their innovative mobile POS device,” said Dirk Franklin, business unit
director for Cypress’s CapSense solutions. “This design demonstrates the
ability of our CapSense Express controllers to enable rapid replacement
of mechanical buttons with sleek, reliable capacitive buttons. The
solution delivers fast design cycles with a complete ecosystem: from
design feasibility, to prototyping, to final design and then volume
production.”
Controllers in the CapSense Express MBR family leverage Cypress’s
SmartSense™ auto-tuning algorithm, which completely eliminates the
requirement for manual system tuning and is the only solution that
maintains optimal button performance during run-time.
“I have been designing PIN Entry Devices for almost 20 years, and the
Ezetap design with CapSense is truly a revolution in PIN Entry Devices,”
said Scott Spiker, CEO of Cipherithm, a consulting firm that specializes
in the design of secure PIN pads. “This Ezetap device delivers superior
security and reliability at an affordable price-point.”
The CapSense Express Mechanical Button Replacement (MBR) family includes
the CY8CMBR2016 matrix keypad solution, the CY8CMBR2x10 ten-button
controllers and the CY8CMBR2044 four-button hardware configurable
device. This family offers the industry’s lowest power consumption with
supply current in run mode of 15 uA per button and a 100 nA Deep-Sleep
mode. The devices operate over a 1.71V to 5.5V range, making them ideal
for a wide range of regulated and unregulated battery applications, and
enabling them to operate from a single coin cell battery. The family
delivers robust sensing in noisy environments using Cypress’s patented
CapSense Sigma Delta (CSD) sensing method, ensuring superior immunity to
conducted and radiated noise. These devices also feature an integrated
voltage regulator to address power supply noise, as well as filters for
any spurious noise.
The MBR family’s SmartSense auto-tuning dynamically optimizes the
capacitive baseline and detection threshold for each button. The
algorithm adjusts for the optimal capacitance sensing range at power-up
and during run-time as environmental conditions change, including noise,
temperature, and humidity. Eliminating the need to tune is a significant
advantage for large and small manufacturers alike, as it saves
engineering time and yield loss that can occur with even slight
variations in manufacturing tolerances. This savings is greatly
multiplied for customers with a global factory footprint and
multi-sourced supply chain. SmartSense auto-tuning can eliminate the
need for additional test steps required by competing solutions to
address manufacturing variations in PCBs and overlays.
About Ezetap
Ezetap is a mobile-based payments service provider for emerging markets
based in Bangalore, India. The company was co-founded in 2011 by CEO
Abhijit Bose, CTO Bhaktha Kesavachar, and mobile payments pioneer Sanjay
Swamy, who serves as the company’s Chairman. The Ezetap solution is
PCI-DSS, PCI-PTS, EMV and PA-DSS compliant and has been certified by
leading financial institutions. Ezetap is funded by top-tier investors
including the Social Capital Partnership—led by ex-Facebook executive
Chamath Palihapitiya—and Angelprime, one of India’s leading
incubators. More information can be obtained by visiting www.ezetap.com
or emailing info@ezetap.com.
About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions
that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system
value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® 1, PSoC
3, PSoC 4, and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families. Cypress is
the world leader in capacitive user interface solutions including
CapSense touch sensing, TrueTouch® touchscreens, and trackpad
solutions for notebook PCs and peripherals. Cypress is a world leader in
USB controllers, which enhance connectivity and performance in a wide
range of consumer and industrial products. Cypress is also the world
leader in SRAM and nonvolatile RAM memories. Cypress serves numerous
major markets, including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data
communications, automotive, industrial, and military. Cypress trades on
the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit
Cypress online at www.cypress.com.
Cypress, the Cypress logo, CapSense, PSoC, and TrueTouch are registered
trademarks and CapSense Express and SmartSense are trademarks of Cypress
Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.
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