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Bosch Sensortec says it has launched the world’s smallest MEMS accelerometers – the BMA530 and BMA580. BMA530 tracks activities with its step counter and is  suitable for wearables, and BMA580 targets hearables with voice activity detection. Compared to Bosch’s current generation accelerometer (BMA253), the BMA530 and BMA580 have a 76 percent smaller footprint and have been reduced in height from 0.95 mm ...

NXP Semiconductors has announced an extension to its 28nm RF cmos radar one-chip SoC family at CES in Las Vegas. The SAF86xx is the successor to the SAF8500 which is targeted at smart radar sensors. It supports a range of sensor outputs, including object, point cloud-, or range-FFT-level data for smart sensors in today’s architectures and streaming sensors in future ...

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TI has introduced a millimetre-wave radar sensor chip which it claims to be the industry’s first for satellite radar architectures, enabling higher levels of autonomy by improving sensor fusion and decision-making in ADAS. In satellite architectures, radar sensors output semi-processed data to a central processor for ADAS decision-making using sensor fusion algorithms, taking advantage of the 360-degree sensor coverage to ...

TI announced a 77GHz automotive radar for automated driving today at CES in Las Vegas. Called AWR2544 and made on 45 nm RFCMOS, it is aimed, for example, at vehicles with a radar at each corner that use ‘satellite’ rather than the more locally demanding ‘edge’ vehicle architecture, according to the company. With edge architecture, the radar will perform Doppler ...

Hamamatsu Photonics has launched a pair of linear CMOS image sensors with long thin pixels to increase sensitivity in spectrometers, without hampering resolution. “The elongated vertical pixel enables efficient light collection, even with shorter integration times,” according to the company. “Surpassing conventional CMOS in the VUV [vacuum ultra-violet, see graph] region, both sensors exhibit remarkable sensitivity from 140 to 1,000nm.” ...

Lem has introduced a pair of mains residual current monitors for electric vehicle charging that have both digital and analogue outputs. One monitors single-phase live and neutral (CDSR 0.07-TP, photo right), while the other monitors three phases and neutral (CDSR 0.07-NP, photo below). “Because electric vehicles use a high voltage battery, they are also a high-power energy source. This needs ...

MulticoreWare and Imagination have enabled GPU compute on TI’s TDA4VM processor, adding around 50 GFLOPS of extra compute and demonstrating improvement in the performance of common workloads used for ADAS systems (ADAS). The collaboration has achieved over 100x performance gains when running a stereo block matching (StereoBM) algorithm on the GPU rather than on the CPU on a high resolution ...

LG is to demonstrate a customisable cross-domain computer for automated driving and in-vehicle entertainment at CES – aimed at vehicles emerging in 2027. The single electronic module, designed as part of a collaboration with Magna, is intended to support multiple in-vehicle entertainment and information systems as well as automated driving at various ASILs (automotive safety integrity levels). “This scalable solution ...

Central Semiconductor has announced five 650V n-channel super-junction mosfets in TO-220FP packaging. They are: CDMSJ2204.7-650 (4.7A) CDMSJ2207.3-650 (7.3A) CDMSJ22010-650 (10A) CDMSJ22013.8-650 (13.8A) CDMSJ22029-650 (29A) “These super-junction mosfets extend efficiency for a variety of end applications,” according to Central marketing director Tom Donofrio. Additionally, “these pair well with Central’s fast rectifiers for power factor correction”.