Creating capacitive touch-sensitive buttons is easy these days; many microcontrollers have cap-sense hardware built-in. This will work for simple on/off control, but what if you want a linear, ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fairchild (NASDAQ: FCS), a leading supplier of high-performance semiconductor solutions, today launched the FIS1100 6-axis MEMS Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), the ...

Melexis, the Belgian fabless IC company, is targeting white goods, consumer electronics, and smart-metering applications with the MLX90392 three-axis magnetic field sensor, which can operate from a ...

In the November 2013 Spin Cycle, we discussed the difficulties of achieving fast and accurate position control. In this blog, we’re going to show you, step by step, how to achieve optimal dual-axis ...

Renesas is claiming “total stray field immunity” for a automotive-grade magnet-free inductive rotation position sensor that works up to what the company describes as “600,000rpm (electrical)”. “We are ...