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Electronica: ASIL D vehicle battery safety monitor and pyrotechnic trigger

Steve Bush — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:35:53 +0000

NXP is aiming at ASIL D safety approval with a vehicle battery junction box controller IC, intended to fire the pyrotechnic disconnect switch during a serious fault, as well as ...

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5V CO2 sensor uses photoacoustic spectroscopy

Steve Bush — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:14:02 +0000

Infineon has announced a 5V version of its compact (13.8 x 14 x 7.5mm) CO2 sensor. “The sensor is based on the photoacoustic spectroscopy principle, where CO2 molecules within ...

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1MHz 80-800A core-less current sensors in TSSOP and SOIC

Steve Bush — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:55:45 +0000

Allegro MicroSystems had introduced 1MHz bandwidth current sensors that can measure hundreds of amps – the first fruit of its acquisition of Crocus Technologies. The technology is tunneling magnetoresistance, and ...

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Stretchy gel sensor measures biomarkers on dry skin

Steve Bush — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 16:15:54 +0000

Health-related chemicals can be detected on dry skin, according to the National University of Singapore (NUS), which developed a stretchable ‘ionic-electronic bilayer hydrogel’ sensor with the Singapore Agency for Science, ...

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Embedded inertial navigation system

Steve Bush — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 10:50:14 +0000

HBK has launches what it describes as a “tactical-grade” embedded inertial navigation system in a 38 x 24 x 8.6mm 8.3g package – 18% thinner and 20% lighter than its ...

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SmallSat 2024: Hyperspectral imager

Steve Bush — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 09:28:14 +0000

At the Small Satellite Conference in Utah, Imec announced a hyperspectral sensor with an on-chip line-based filter covering 450 – 900nm in 96 bands. It had equidistantly divided spectral bands ...

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ROHM claims smallest CMOS op amp

David Manners — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 05:01:30 +0000

ROHM has developed an ultra-compact 1.8V – 5V, rail-to-rail CMOS op amp – the TLR377GYZ, optimised for amplifying signals from sensors such as temperature, pressure, flow rate, used in smartphones, ...

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Laser distance sensors include Ethernet and RS-485

Steve Bush — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:55:20 +0000

Panasonic has produced a range of micron-accurate industrial distance measuring sensors. Unlike its earlier similar sensors, digital output devices in the new HL-G2 series include interfaces for both Ethernet and ...

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Hall sensors latch at symmetical ± flux thresholds

Steve Bush — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:57:49 +0000

The AH3712 is a latching Hall-effect magnetic sensor, protected for automotive electrical conditions, in a choice of SC59, SOT23 or SIP-3 packaging. The single output is switched ‘on’ with a ...

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How smart sensors can offload microcontrollers

EW Staff — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:46:40 +0000

Nature provides the model for integrating sensors for a distributed edge AI system, say Bartosz Boryna and Zuzana Jirankova. The horseshoe crab (limulus polyphemus) is recognised by scientists as an ...

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