IDT ZMOD4410 Metal Oxide Gas Sensors are designed to detect Total Volatile Organic Compounds (TVOC) and monitor Indoor Air Quality (IAQ). The ZMOD4410 gas sensors consist of a signal conditioner that measures the Metal Oxide (MOx) conductivity, a function of gas concentration, and controls the sensor temperature. The sense element of the gas sensor consists […]
IDT launches ZMOD4410 Metal Oxide Gas Sensors Continue Reading
A research team from UC Berkeley Univercity (Daniel S. Drew, Nathan O. Lambert, Craig B. Schindler, and Kristofer S. J. Pister) has designed and build mini microbot that is capable of taking flight without any motor or moving part. This is all achieved using electrohydrodynamic thrust to provide lift, which is a technique to create air-flow
Berkeley’s Tiny Flying Ionocraft Can hover using No Moving Parts Continue Reading
Keysight 34465A & 34470A DMMs offer unprecedented levels of accuracy, speed and resolution. They can measure very low current down to a 1 μA range, enabling their use on very low power devices. The ability to auto-calibrate during the measurement allows the 34465A and 34470A to maintain a calibrated measurement while the instrument may be
Keysight 34465A Digital Multimeter, 6 ½ Digit, Truevolt DMM Continue Reading
With the increase of high integration programmable chips, FPGAs are getting more and more popular. FPGAs has been traditionally known to be generally complex, but a new line of FPGAs have been showing some promise and that is believed that will help increase their popularity. Tiny FPGAs are the next promising thing, they are low-cost
Catena 4710 – LoRaWAN based Feather-compatible FPGA board with RISC-V Core Continue Reading
Low-Power Oscillators SiTime Corporation’s general purpose low-power oscillators offer a perfect combination of low power consumption, excellent stability, small size, and fast start-up. Parts are also available in an SOT23 package which offers excellent board-level solder-joint reliability and enables low-cost, optical-only board-level inspection. Now system designers have lower frequency options based on programmable MEMS timing
SiTime presents a family of MEMS oscillators for mobile applications Continue Reading
Monolithic Power Systems has introduced a new synchronous, 4-switch integrated buck-boost converter, the MP8862. The converter can regulate the output voltage from a wide input voltage range of 2.8V to 22V with high efficiency. The converter supports an Iout of 2A. Vout ranges from a 1V minimum to a maximum of 20.47V with a 5mV resolution
The MLX90641 is a 16×12 pixel IR array housed in an industry standard 4-lead TO39 package and is able to accurately measure temperatures in the range of -40 °C to +300 °C. The factory-calibrated devices ensure an accuracy of 1 °C in typical measurement conditions. The high accuracy is further supported by a Noise Equivalent
MLX90641 – Far infrared thermal sensor array with 16x12px resolution Continue Reading
Kontron has launched the “SMARC-sAMX8X” module with low power I.MX8X series processor. The SMARC module runs Linux on a dual- or quad Cortex-A35 i.MX8X SoC with up to 3GB LP-DDR4, up to 64GB eMMC, dual GbE controllers, and PCIe. Kontron’s SMARC-sAMX8X delivers NXP’s mid-range i.MX8X SoC package in an 82 x 50mm SMARC 2.0 form factor,
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MEMS Microphone Basics MEMS microphones are constructed with a MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical System) component placed on a printed circuit board (PCB) and protected with a mechanical cover. A small hole is fabricated in the case to allow sound into the microphone and is either designated as top-ported if the hole is in the top cover or
Comparing MEMS and Electret Condenser Microphones Continue Reading
Next week, at SPIE BIOS and SPIE Photonics West 2019 in San Francisco, imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, presents an on-chip solution for Raman spectroscopy – based on a newly patented concept – providing high optical throughput and high spectral resolution. The solution could pave the way for
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