To facilitate the fast-growing electronics industry, the semiconductor companies and component manufacturers constantly improve their designs and announce new products and components that are smaller, more efficient and powerful than the exiting ones. This section covers all the latest electronic components introduced in the market to enable design engineers to be aware about the latest options and helping them to keep their designs up-to-date for competing in the ever-evolving market.
Quadrant from Interstitial Technology is a human-computer interface based on an array of distance sensors and is developed as an open hardware circuit board that acts as a USB controller to a host computer. The hardware consists of 4 time-of-flight sensors and is specifically designed to detect the position, velocity, and orientation of the user’s hand in…
Nordic Semiconductor has announced the new multisensor prototyping platform ‘Nordic Thingy:53’ that comes with multiprotocol short-range wireless connectivity and support for embedded machine learning (ML). This product is the ideal platform for building advanced wireless proofs-of-concept and prototypes with ML capabilities on the shortest development…
Microchip Technology Inc. has announced the new Precise Time Scale System which is a fully integrated system capable of providing timing accuracies and the core products integrated into this PTSS are SyncSystem 4380A Time Scale Edition, Time Scale Orchestrator, 5071A Cesium Clock Primary Frequency Standard, and MHM 2020 Active Hydrogen Maser. This…
u-blox has announced the new u-blox SAM-M10Q antenna module that features an integrated antenna and offers product developers the easiest pathway to integrate u-blox M10 GNSS technology into their devices. Offering a best-in-class low-power positioning solution, this module is suitable for industrial tracking and telematics, automation and…
Melexis has introduced the new Current Sensor Simulator that simplifies the design and implementation of current-sensing solutions using IMC-Hall technology and enables customers to make the right decisions about device and shield selection. This interactive tool significantly accelerates the design process, enabling engineers with limited magnetic…
Microchip Technology Inc. has announced the new maXTouch Knob-on-Display (KoD) family of touchscreen controllers that supports the detection and reporting of capacitive rotary encoders and mechanical switches on top of a touch panel. This new technology enables the mounting of the knob directly onto the display without an opening in the panel or…
STMicroelectronics has introduced the new FingerTip FTG2-SLP touchscreen controller that supports both synchronous and asynchronous display operations which gives the OEMs the ability to maintain seamless user interactions as the refresh rate changes dynamically. This new controller is also ideal for smartphones with flexible AMOLED displays that…
Melexis has revealed the new AEC-Q100/ISO 26262 compliant pico-resolver MLX90381 that combines the advantages of a small outline and reliable analog outputs providing sine and cosine signals. This 3D magnetic pico-resolver with Triaxis Hall technology can be used for absolute rotary position sensing and, leveraging its low latency and fast response,…
Infineon Technologies AG has announced its battery-powered Smart Alarm System (SAS) that achieves high accuracy and very low-power operation using sensor fusion based on artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML). This technology combined with low-power wake-on acoustic event detection provides remarkable performance and the compact design…
Allegro MicroSystems, Inc. has launched the new A33110 and A33115 magnetic position sensors that combine vertical Hall technology (VHT) with cutting-edge tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) technology in a single sensor package and are designed for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) applications which require high levels of accuracy…
Murata has announced the new MRD series of open-loop current sensors that integrates high-performance tunnel magneto-resistive (TMR) elements - enabling precision measurement with regard to both DC and AC currents up to 40A, along with maintaining stable characteristics across an extensive temperature range. With high accuracy current sensing…
Renesas Electronics Corporation has introduced a new HS4XXX family of relative humidity and temperature sensors along with the new ZSSC3281 sensor signal conditioning (SSC) IC designed for highly accurate amplification, digitization, and sensor-specific correction of sensor signals. The new HS4XXX family sensors provide…
