Phones can have laser time-of-flight auto-focus

AMS is claiming operation through smudged and dirty glass for a miniature time-of-flight auto-focus sensor intended for phones. “TMF8801 maintains high accuracy through use of its on-chip histogram processing”, according to the firm – which includes automated dirt and smudge detection and compensation – and the circuit “enables dark and sunlight environment distance measurement within ...

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Robust IR thermometer works from 0 to 1,000°C

RS Components has added a 0 to 1,000°C non-contact infra-red thermometer to its RS Pro range. “Maintenance engineers often ask RS for a small temperature sensor that can fit into tight spaces, and that shows the measured temperature in situ, so they do not have to return to the control room to check it,” said ...

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First silicon for Flex Logix validation chip

Flex Logix says it has received working first  silicon of its validation chip for the EFLX 4K eFPGA IP cores running on GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) 12nm Leading-Performance (12LP) FinFET platform and newly announced 12LP+ solution. A validation chip consisting of 4 EFLX cores (2 DSP and 2 Logic, for a total of 14K LUT4s and 80 ...

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CSEM puts CMOS radar mmWave IP on GloFo 22nm.

CSEM, the Swiss non-profit R&D body, is developing ultra-low power Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), CMOS radar mmWave IP and embedded machine-learning accelerators on GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 22nm FD-SOI process. The combination of GF’s 22nm FD-SOI and CSEM’s “IcyTRX” dual mode Bluetooth Low Energy and Bluetooth classic RF is expected to achieve 50% lower power and 50% lower ...

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Power supplies for medical applications

XP Power has released two series of external power supplies that are intended for modern medical applications, including safety approvals for home-based healthcare, and IT applications where energy efficiency and international safety approvals are critical. Typical efficiencies for ALM150 models reach 93%, and 92% for the ALM200 models. All of the new PSUs meet Energy ...

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