Sensor Chips Reference Materials

Description: Explore how throttle body sensors enable precise airflow control, improving fuel efficiency, engine response, and performance across engine-driven systems. ...

Description: Understand how sensors detect and measure signals while actuators respond with actions, highlighting their distinct roles in electronics, robotics, automotive, and industrial systems. ...

Description: Ever wondered how magnetic sensors work? An important part of the answer lies in tiny components called switches and latches. Hall-effect switches and latches are fundamental non-contact sensor types ...

Description: Discover innovative uses for motion-activated sensors, from automated lighting and home security to industrial monitoring and interactive retail displays, driving efficiency and engagement. ...

Description: Brushless DC Motors and their usage ...

Description: Development of Bluetooth LE Audio ...

Description: The rise of USB-C in automotive applications ...

Description: Let's examine how Common Mutual Authentication safeguards the eSIM ecosystem. ...

Description: Here we describe the setup and operating procedure for an example project based on the AIROC CYW20829 Bluetooth MCU that uses four devices (one advertiser, three scanners) and the PAwR feature to set ...

Description: This post introduces readers to the NewSpace industry, outlines Low Earth Orbit (LEO) applications, and overviews the benefits of our rad tolerant memories. ...

Description: In recent years, the world sensor market has been developing stably, and companies all over the world are racing to accelerate the development and industrialization of sensors. Eastern Europe, Asia ...

Description: Automatic baseline offset correction (ABOC) and forced compensation scheme (FCS). ...

Description: This document provides information on the environmental and mechanical implementation of Infineon's XENSIVTM PAS CO2 sensor. It also highlights recommended application scenarios for the sensor. ...

Description: Target application: demand control ventilation ...

Description: This application note presents a possible gas measurement setup to potential customers who would like to evaluate the performance of the XENSIV™ PAS CO2. ...

Description: This application note describes different methods to achieve low power consumption with the XENSIVTM PAS CO2 for different applications like battery-driven applications ...

Description: Counterfeit products have a negative impact on brands: not only do they affect revenue, but they also damage brand image with poor user experiences. ...

Description: Across all markets, from renewable energy and motor drives to electric vehicles, electronic devices are challenged to be smaller, more efficient, and less expensive. This increases the complexity of ...

Description: The first computer link using optical fibers was commissioned four decades ago to safeguard communications from electromagnetic interference at the Cheyenne Mountain strategic command center. Since ...

Description: A pressure sensor that could take the heat. Our client was in search of a pressure sensor with elevated temperature performance capabilities for an automatic transmission application. They required a ...

Description: The processing of Silicon wafers to produce XMR (AMR / GMR / TMR) sensors involves a good deal of chemistry and physics. ...

Description: The new area of silicon photonics is being driven by us. We walk around with supercomputers in our pockets. We consume streaming media. We participate in social networks. We benefit from personalized ...

Description: In 2006, cars carried an average of 40 sensors. Currently, this figure sits at around 90, and the self-driving car in 2025 might have double that number. ...

Description: Magnetic materials - based magnetic field sensors are used in a wide range of applications in the marketplace. ...

Description: Low-power, high-accuracy pressure sensing for battery-powered and wearable devices ...

Description: Thermal management in modern electronics, whether the newest smart phone or the largest industrial machine, has become vitally important as two industry trends take hold. The first is the desire for ...

Description: Ratiometricity is a common approach for measuring analog-sensor signals for the purpose of conditioning and standardizing the signal for proper operation with an industrial control system. In the ...

Description: Besides driver state monitoring, capturing 3D data inside a car facilitates entirely new human machine interface (HMI) concepts. ...

Description: A magnetic 3D sensor is well suitable for a detection of the position of the gear stick. The "State-of-the-art" solution with up to 6 single hall switches can be replaced by one 3D sensor. ...

Description: Capacitive sensing is becoming a popular technology to replace optical detection methods and mechanical designs for applications like proximity/gesture detection, material analysis, and liquid level ...

Description: Various methods have been used to determine the level height in liquid tanks or containers. Recently, capacitive sensing has gained popularity due to the accuracy and resolution of the measurements as ...

Description: Today, the jitter specification, TJ, is used in more and more systems, at the same time the jitter requirements get lower and lower. Clock generators or jitter cleaners like the CDCM6208 meet those ...

Description: The new 3D magnetic sensor TLV493D-A1B6 offers accurate three-dimensional sensing with extremely low power consumption in a small six-pin package. With magnetic field detection in the x, y, and z ...

Description: Sensors play a key role in enabling modern electronics to more intelligently act within their environment. A cell phone, for example, uses sensors to detect when a user is holding the device to his or ...

Description: Being able to determine a device's position and movement is becoming a standard feature in many portable systems. Systems such as cell phones and tablets use the 6-axis data from accelerometers and ...

Description: Current-shunt-monitor (CSM) ICs have been a mainstay in industrial applications for many years. Designed for either unidirectional or bidirectional current monitoring, CSMs offer excellent performance ...

Description: This article describes the signal conditioning required to interface an analog pressure sensor to a digital processing unit for further processing. Design considerations and specific steps are shown ...

Description: Humidity sensing technology is critical to a wide range of applications, and despite its pervasive necessity and application across many industries, relative humidity measurement is among the more ...

Description: In the emerging "Internet of Things" era, the traditional approach to humidity measurement using large-footprint legacy discrete circuits or bulky humidity sensing modules is no longer suitable to ...

Description: This application note focuses on the concepts and fundamentals of current sensing circuits. It introduces current sensing resistors, current sensing techniques and describes three typical high-side ...

Description: Gestures represent a fundamental and universal form of nonverbal communication. Whether you are pointing to select an object out of a group, waving to say hello or curling your fingers to beckon ...

Description: Touchless lavatory applications such as toilet flushers, automatic faucets, soap dispensers and towel dispensers are becoming increasingly common. Key design issues to consider include: flushers and ...

Description: This Silicon Labs in-depth white paper examines how through advancements in human interface (HI) technology and design, infrared proximity sensors are poised to usher in the next user interface ...

Description: What defines good human interface design, and how can system designers implement a smarter, friendlier and more intuitive solution? This in-depth Silicon Labs white paper examines these questions and ...