Cypress Semiconductor · Rate Limits

Cypress Semiconductor Rate Limits

Cypress' (now Infineon's) developer-facing surface is local: ModusToolbox tools, BSPs, HAL/PDL, AIROC, and CapSense libraries are compiled into firmware images that run on PSoC, AIROC, and TRAVEO silicon. There is no central HTTP API to throttle. Throughput is bounded by the underlying transport (UART, SPI, QSPI, USB, BLE, Wi-Fi) and the silicon's clock and sample rate, not by a vendor rate-limit policy. The only network-facing Infineon surfaces relevant to developers are the Infineon Developer Community forum and the GitHub-hosted documentation/release downloads, which inherit GitHub's standard rate limits rather than imposing a Cypress / Infineon policy.

Cypress Semiconductor Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Cypress Semiconductor on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 4 rate-limit definitions, measuring varies, bits-per-second, and requests.

The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined.

Tagged areas include Embedded Systems, Hardware, Infineon, and Rate Limiting.

4 Limits
Embedded SystemsHardwareInfineonRate Limiting

Limits

Per-Device Bus Throughput device
varies
see part datasheet (SPI/QSPI/I2C/UART/USB bus speed)
AIROC Wi-Fi Link Throughput device
bits-per-second
bounded by 802.11 PHY of CYW43xxx / CYW55xxx variant
AIROC Bluetooth Link Throughput device
bits-per-second
bounded by Bluetooth Core spec (LE 2M PHY ~2 Mbps PHY rate, application throughput lower)
GitHub Release Downloads developer
requests
inherits github.com rate limits (60/hr unauthenticated, 5000/hr authenticated)

Policies

Local SDK
ModusToolbox tools and embedded libraries are local; rate limiting is not applicable in the SaaS sense. Performance characteristics are documented per Cypress/Infineon part datasheet.
GitHub Hosting
Library distribution (mtb-pdl-cat1, mtb-hal-cat1, capsense, wifi-host-driver, btsdk-*, BSPs) is hosted on github.com/Infineon and subject to GitHub's platform rate limits, not an Infineon-specific policy.
Community Forum
community.infineon.com applies forum-standard anti-abuse throttling; no published per-account API rate-limit table because the forum is browse-and-post, not a developer API surface.

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