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A Powerful Yet Flexible Capacitance-to-Digital Converter from ams

A Powerful Yet Flexible Capacitance-to-Digital Converter from ams

A new CDC capable of measuring capacitance changes ranging from a few picofarads to hundreds of nanofarads.


News Dec 25, 2017 by Nick Davis
Texas Instruments PGA460 Signal Processor and Transducer SoC | Featured Product Spotlight

Texas Instruments PGA460 Signal Processor and Transducer SoC | Featured Product Spotlight

TI’s PGA460 is a highly integrated ultrasonic signal processor and transducer SoC that can be used for object detection and distance sensing in automotive, drone, IoT, and industrial applications, with the flexibility to be used in transformer-based or direct drive topologies for transducer excitation.


new products Dec 23, 2017 by Mouser
GPS Times, Atomic Clock Frequencies, and the Increasing Accuracy of GPS

GPS Times, Atomic Clock Frequencies, and the Increasing Accuracy of GPS

GPS as we know it requires the precision of atomic clocks. This article looks at the importance of timing for GPS and the clocks that provide it.


Choosing the Most Suitable MEMS Accelerometer for Your Application: Part 2

Choosing the Most Suitable MEMS Accelerometer for Your Application: Part 2

In part 2 of this article, we will focus on key specifications and features in the context of wearable devices, condition monitoring, and IoT applications.


High-Accuracy Temperature Sensing: New Digital Temperature Sensors from Sensirion

High-Accuracy Temperature Sensing: New Digital Temperature Sensors from Sensirion

Sensirion asserts that their new series of digital temperature sensors are more accurate, have increased intelligence, and are more reliable than their predecessors.


News Dec 21, 2017 by Nick Davis
Towards Low-Power Wearables: A New Biopotential and Bioimpedance Sensor from Maxim Integrated

Towards Low-Power Wearables: A New Biopotential and Bioimpedance Sensor from Maxim Integrated

Maxim Integrated offers their new low-power and high-performance IC for bio measurements.


News Dec 20, 2017 by Nick Davis
Teardown Tuesday: Samsung’s SmartThings Smart Home Hub and IoT Water Leak Sensor

Teardown Tuesday: Samsung’s SmartThings Smart Home Hub and IoT Water Leak Sensor

In this teardown, we open up Samsung's SmartThings Hub and a Water Leak Sensor to see what we can find.


News Dec 19, 2017 by Nick Davis
The FitByte: How to Make an ATtiny85 Powered Activity Tracking Wearable

The FitByte: How to Make an ATtiny85 Powered Activity Tracking Wearable

This is a protoype of a fitness wearable device designed to vibrate when it detects stagnation.


Projects Dec 13, 2017 by Demsey Kirkwood
What Is Digital Twinning? Bringing Industrial IoT Sensors and VR Together

What Is Digital Twinning? Bringing Industrial IoT Sensors and VR Together

Gartner predicts that 50% of large industrial companies will use digital twins by 2021. What are they and what do they do?


News Dec 12, 2017 by Chantelle Dubois
Choosing the Most Suitable MEMS Accelerometer for Your Application: Part 1

Choosing the Most Suitable MEMS Accelerometer for Your Application: Part 1

Part 1 of this two-part series discusses the key parameters and features a designer needs to be aware of and how they relate to inclination and stabilization applications, thus helping the designer choose the most suitable accelerometer.


Texas Instruments HDC2010 Temp and Humidity Sensor | New Product Brief

Texas Instruments HDC2010 Temp and Humidity Sensor | New Product Brief

TI’s HDC2010 is a highly accurate, 14-bit, low power temperature and humidity sensor in a compact WLCSP package.


new products Dec 10, 2017 by Mouser
What Can Hackers Learn from Your Device’s Emissions? How Side Channel Attacks Thwart Cybersecurity

What Can Hackers Learn from Your Device’s Emissions? How Side Channel Attacks Thwart Cybersecurity

Side channel attacks can be used in a variety of ways to take advantage of unintended acoustic, mechanical, and electromagnetic signals to recreate data.


News Dec 08, 2017 by Chantelle Dubois
Infineon DPS310 Digital Pressure Sensor | New Product Brief

Infineon DPS310 Digital Pressure Sensor | New Product Brief

Infineon’s DPS310 is a low-power digital pressure sensor for wearable and battery-powered devices that monitor activity, elevation, motion, and weather.


new products Dec 06, 2017 by Mouser
Designing for the IoT: Microcontroller-Free Smart-Passive-Sensors​ ​(SPS)​

Designing for the IoT: Microcontroller-Free Smart-Passive-Sensors​ ​(SPS)​

Designing for the IoT comes with a unique set of challenges that require unique hardware solutions to overcome. Learn how smart passive sensors (SPSs)—sensors that function without a battery and without a microcontroller—are an example of IoT-specific design.


Industry Articles Dec 05, 2017 by onsemi
The Calorimetric Principle at Work: New High-Performance MEMS Flow Sensor Modules from IDT

The Calorimetric Principle at Work: New High-Performance MEMS Flow Sensor Modules from IDT

IDT’s new flow sensors use the calorimetric principle and a special sensor coating to provide robustness and long-term reliability when measuring gases and liquids.


News Dec 04, 2017 by Nick Davis
Optimizing Smart Water Meters: A New Ultrasonic-Sensing Microcontroller from TI

Optimizing Smart Water Meters: A New Ultrasonic-Sensing Microcontroller from TI

In this article, we look at TI's new integrated ultrasonic-sensing MCU—the MSP430FR6047—that can deliver more accurate measurement for smart water meters.


News Nov 30, 2017 by Nick Davis
How to Check and Calibrate a Humidity Sensor

How to Check and Calibrate a Humidity Sensor

How accurate is your humidity sensor? Find out with this project.


Piezoresistive Sensing: A New Miniature MEMS Water-Resistant Digital Barometer from STMicro

Piezoresistive Sensing: A New Miniature MEMS Water-Resistant Digital Barometer from STMicro

STMicroelectronics showcases their new ultra-compact piezoresistive pressure sensor which functions as a digital barometer.


News Nov 27, 2017 by Nick Davis
A New Multi-Pixel Metal-Oxide Gas Sensor with an I2C Interface in a Small Package

A New Multi-Pixel Metal-Oxide Gas Sensor with an I2C Interface in a Small Package

Sensirion touts long-term stability and increased robustness from their new SGP metal-oxide gas sensor, which is aimed at indoor air quality applications.


News Nov 13, 2017 by Nick Davis
Honeywell RSC TruStability | New Product Brief

Honeywell RSC TruStability | New Product Brief

Honeywell RSC TruStability board mount pressure sensors are calibrated and temperature compensated, with a total error band as low as ±0.25% of their full-scale span and accuracy rated at ±0.1%.


new products Nov 11, 2017 by Mouser