austriamicrosystems today expanded its magnetic rotary encoder portfolio with the AS5245, a fail-safe magnetic rotary encoder IC specifically designed to address stringent automotive requirements like reliability, accuracy and safety.

austriamicrosystems has expanded its interface product portfolio with the AS1716, a sensor designed for interfacing to Piezo Electronic capacitive sensors. “Piezo Electronic sensors have many advantages over other sensor types. They are self generating and need no external excitation and they are compact and have excellent linearity” said Bruce Ulrich, Marketing Director Consumer & Communications at austriamicrosystems. “In ...

austriamicrosystems has announced the AS5165, a contactless magnetic angle position sensor for accurate angular measurement over a full 360°. The new high-resolution magnetic rotary sensor offers best-in-class protection features for reliable operation in harsh automotive environments and includes a SENT J2716 interface for simple transmission of high-resolution sensor information.

austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high performance analog ICs announced that Audi / Volkswagen has selected the AS8221 FlexRay transceiver for use in their Electronic Control Units (ECUs). The AS8221 fully conforms to the FlexRay Electrical Physical Layer Specification V2.1 Rev B and is targeted for use in ECUs connected to the permanent battery supply where the transceiver manages the ECU power-up via ...

austriamicrosystems today confirmed that the first-instance verdict in the patent infringement lawsuit against Melexis N.V. / SA and its German subsidiary Melexis GmbH before the District Court (Landgericht) in Duesseldorf (Germany) regarding magnetic field encoder products and European Patent EP 0 916 074 B1 remains valid. At the same time, austriamicrosystems expects to ultimately prevail against the first-instance decision by the Federal Paten...

austriamicrosystems Full Service Foundry business unit announced today a further expansion of its non-volatile memory portfolio for its 0.35µm process family. The entire EEPROM IP block portfolio now includes 14 non-volatile memories (EEPROM and/or Flash) starting with small blocks offering 20x8 bit and 64x8 bit memory size, ideally used for trimming purposes ranging to larger size memories with up to 12,5kx32 bit size used for program and/or fi...

austriamicrosystems announced the AS5013, a contactless magnetic encoder IC that monitors the displacement of a magnet incorporated in a knob relative to its center position and provides x and y position information via an I²C interface. The AS5013 Hall-sensor IC is used in the EasyPoint module, which consists of a mechanical stack incorporating a navigation knob, a magnet and the AS5013 magnetic encoder IC. Its simple construction and conta...

austriamicrosystems today announced that it has launched the EasyPoint blog, to discuss solutions, issues and trends for joystick modules for many different products such as Mobile Phones, Game Consoles, Remote Controls, Portable Navigation Devices and Digital Still Cameras.

austriamicrosystems today announced that they have jointly developed the first in a range of reference solutions for product authentication in embedded consumer applications. Leveraging the AS399x UHF RFID Reader IC, and the UCODE G2iL series, the reference design delivers the industry’s lowest power consumption, lowest solution cost, lowest complexity and highest level of integration – a combination unmatched anywhere in the world.

austriamicrosystems has introduced the AS8223, the industry’s first monolithic FlexRay Standard V2.1 Rev B compliant Active Star Device. The AS8223 manages communication traffic among four FlexRay branches of the network, expandable to more branches through an Interstar interface.

austriamicrosystems' Full Service Foundry business unit today released its further expanded fast and cost-efficient ASIC prototyping service, known as Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) or shuttle run, with an even more extensive schedule in 2011. The service, which combines several designs from different customers onto one wafer offers significant cost advantages for foundry customers as the costs for wafer and masks are shared among a number of differen...

austriamicrosystems has introduced the AS1310, an ultra low quiescent current hysteretic step-up DC-DC converter optimized for light loads (60mA) and the highest efficiency -- up to 92 %. With 1 µA the AS1310 step-up converter also features the industry’s lowest quiescent current, operates over a wide 0.7 V to 3.6 V battery supply, and provides output voltages between 1.8 V and 3.3 V. Even at loads as light as 100 µA, efficiency...

austriamicrosystems (SIX: AMS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs, has announced the AS3696, a new 4-channel LED driver IC that ensures the brightest and most brilliant video images. Designed for edge lighting in LCD televisions, the AS3696 is the first to include a special control mechanism for 3D effects and extends austriamicrosystems’ portfolio of LED BLU (backlight unit) drivers for the next generati...

austriamicrosystems announces the AS540x product family of 3-dimensional Hall encoders. The new 3D Hall element provides absolute and highest resolution with angular or linear output data. This new flexibility enables new solutions with improved performance for industrial and automotive applications. The AS540x Hall sensor series was developed in cooperation with Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Germany - license holder of the ...

austriamicrosystems has announced that Nordic ID’s new multifunctional handheld computer -- called the Nordic ID Morphic -- utilizes austriamicrosystems’ AS3991 UHF RFID chip. The Nordic ID Morphic is a uniquely small sized and multifunctional handheld mobile computer with UHF RFID reading capability, something completely new for the RFID market. The Nordic ID Morphic also features WLAN, GPRS, Bluetooth communications, telephone funct...

austriamicrosystems has announced that Nordic ID’s new multifunctional handheld computer -- called the Nordic ID Morphic -- utilizes austriamicrosystems’ AS3991 UHF RFID chip. The Nordic ID Morphic is a uniquely small sized and multifunctional handheld mobile computer with UHF RFID reading capability, something completely new for the RFID market. The Nordic ID Morphic also features WLAN, GPRS, Bluetooth communications, telephone functionality...

austriamicrosystems has introduced the AS5510 linear Hall sensor IC, featuring the industry’s smallest size and 10-bit digital output resolution. Housed in a tiny 1.46 x 1.1 mm chip scale package, the AS5510 includes an I²C 2-wire serial interface for switching between four different sensitivity ranges and for simple transmission of data to a microcontroller.

austriamicrosystems Full Service Foundry business unit today introduced its “More Than Silicon” initiative, a comprehensive service and technology package that goes beyond industry standard foundry services. Foundry customers instantly benefit from access to leading edge technology add-ons, advanced packaging services and dedicated support engineers to enable first-time-right designs.

austriamicrosystems introduced the AS3933, a 3-channel low-frequency wake-up receiver that enables battery powered systems to add remote wakeup capability. In addition, with best-in-class sensitivity of 80 µVrms, both range and BOM cost can be optimized while the lowest current consumption of 2.7 µA extends battery life.

austriamicrosystems has announced two new LED driver ICs that ensure the brightest and most brilliant video images. With the AS3695A -- a 16-channel white LED driver for direct lighting -- and the AS3695C -- a 16-channel white LED controller for edge lighting -- austriamicrosystems extends its portfolio of LED BLU (backlight unit) drivers and controllers for the latest generation of LCD TVs.