Sensors
GM Develops Mobile Technology That Watches Road Ahead
New technology being developed by General Motors researchers could alert drivers of potentially dangerous driving situations in advance by using small, portable devices to create a wireless safety net.
Challenges of Functional Safety in the Automotive and Industrial Markets
Real-time control of safety-critical applications has been a longtime challenge for engineers. Application functions are becoming more complex and industry standards require more sophisticated functional safety concepts in both the automotive and industrial markets. Freescale has introduced its SafeAssure program to help system manufacturers more easily achieve compliance with the upcoming International Standards Organization (ISO) 26262 and exis...
Ford Develops Car-to-Car and Car-to-Infrastructure Communications Features For Safety Research Project
Ford has demonstrated its latest advanced vehicle communication technologies at the simTD (Safe Intelligent Mobility – Testfield Germany) field operational test near Frankfurt, the first large-scale testing operation of car-to-car and car-to infrastructure communication on German roads.
Sensirion launches first digital temperature sensor
Following the successful market launch of the SHT2x family of humidity and temperature sensors, Sensirion is now launching a sensor designed exclusively for temperature measurement. The new STS21 temperature sensor is based on the same chip as the SHT2x family and is housed in a tiny DFN package measuring only 3x3 mm. This makes the sensor ideal for use in applications where only very limited space is available.
TI delivers fully integrated ultrasonic signal conditioner for automotive parking distance applications
Texas Instruments Incorporated today introduced a fully integrated, programmable solution for driving ultrasonic transducers in automotive park distance, blind-spot detection or similar object detection applications. With its highly configurable burst generator, low-noise amplifier and 12-bit successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC), the PGA450-Q1 provides for processing the echo signals and calculating the distan...
Broadcom, Freescale and OmniVision Enable World's First Ethernet-Based 360-Degree Surround View Parking Assistance System
Broadcom Corporation, Freescale Semiconductor and OmniVision Technologies, Inc today announced a jointly developed 360-degree surround view parking assistance system — the world's first Ethernet-based parking assistance solution.
STMicroelectronics and Mobileye to Develop Third-Generation System-on-Chip Family for Vision-Based Driver Assistance Systems
STMicroelectronics today announced that the two companies are co-developing the next generation of their System-on-Chip processor for the vision-based driver-assistance segment of the automotive market.
Plessey EPIC sensor samples now available
Plessey Semiconductors announced today that commercial samples of its award winning Electric Potential Integrated Circuit (EPIC) sensors are now available. The first products are optimised for use as an ECG sensor and provide a resolution as good as or better than conventional electrodes. The EPIC sensors offer several advantages that save money and speed up taking readings.
Hamamatsu New High Sensitivity Single Element Thermopile Sensor for Infrared Detection
Hamamatsu Photonics have developed a brand new series of thermopile infrared detectors, to meet the demand for low cost sensors with high S/N for gas analysis applications. The T11262-01 is a high sensitivity thermopile sensor with a D* of 1.3x108. The sensor is housed within a compact TO-18 package with a high transmittance window in the 3-5µm band. The T11262-01 also benefits from a low element resistance and low temperature coefficient of ele...
Reliance Electric Develops and Sells a New Surface Defect Detecting System 'MSC9000' for Coil Centers and the Converting Industry
Reliance Electric is pleased to announce that it has developed the MSC9000 that has a new concept of a surface defect detecting system for the steel plate industry. Sales of the product will begin in October. This new product reflects both the control technology that the company has created from its own line drive applications as well as the techniques for user operation that the company has learned from design applications.