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INVENSENSE INTRODUCES THE WORLD’S SMALLEST DUAL-AXIS GYROSCOPES FOR OPTICAL IMAGE STABILIZATION IN SMARTPHONES

Posted in: Coventor Blog, MEMS Products by Marketing | Comments Off Wednesday, November 30, 2011

INVENSENSE INTRODUCES THE WORLD’S SMALLEST DUAL-AXIS GYROSCOPES FOR OPTICAL IMAGE STABILIZATION IN SMARTPHONES

InvenSense, Inc., the leading provider of MotionProcessing™Solutions for consumer electronics, today announced the introduction of a family of dual-axis gyroscopes, IDG-2020 and IXZ-2020, that address the market needs for optical image stabilization (OIS) in smartphones. Smartphones are rapidly replacing digital still cameras (DSC) as the devices of choice for capturing images; however, their image quality has generally been worse than DSCs due to blurry images, especially those taken in low-light conditions. By incorporating OIS technology, the same method adopted by many digital still camera manufacturers, smartphone image quality can be dramatically enhanced.
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WiSpry’s New Antenna Tuner Enables Small Antennas to Deliver High Speed Connections across Worldwide Frequency Bands

Posted in: Coventor Blog, MEMS Products by Marketing | Comments Off Wednesday, November 2, 2011

WiSpry’s New Antenna Tuner Enables Small Antennas to Deliver High Speed Connections across Worldwide Frequency Bands

WiSpry, Inc., the leader in tunable radio frequency (RF) semiconductor products for the wireless industry, today introduced its WS2018 Antenna Tuner – the industry’s lowest current consumption antenna tuner. The single-chip design WS2018 sits in the RF signal chain between the antenna and the front-end module of a mobile phone and provides superior transmit and receive chain impedance optimization over the full 824 MHz – 2170 MHz Global mobile frequency range.

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MEMSIC Introduces World’s Smallest and Most Robust Digital Accelerometer With Features Never Before Available at This Price- Point

Posted in: Coventor Blog, MEMS Products by Marketing | Comments Off Friday, October 28, 2011

MEMSIC Introduces World’s Smallest and Most Robust Digital Accelerometer With Features Never Before Available at This Price- Point

MEMSIC Inc.a leading provider of MEMS devices and sensor- based systems has announced the availability of its MXC6226XC MEMS two-axis digital accelerometer, the world’s smallest, fully-integrated MEMS accelerometer. Based on MEMSIC’s patented MEMS thermal technology, it is manufactured using a standard 0.18um CMOS process and advanced wafer- level packaging (WLP). The resulting device demonstrates MEMSIC’s leadership in providing state-of-the-art motion sensing functions at a price- point never before available to designers of cost sensitive systems like cell phones, toys, games, cameras and appliances. The MXC6226XC accelerometer provides superior performance and functionality to designers who have previously not been able to consider motion sensing for their products. MEMSIC’s MXC6226XC enables designers to significantly enhance the value of their product. It also serves as a high value-added replacement to designs employing mechanical switches, which are much less reliable and less capable.
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SiTime Delivers Timing Industry’s Highest Performance Differential Oscillators

Posted in: Coventor Blog, MEMS Products by Marketing | Comments Off Monday, October 24, 2011

SiTime Delivers Timing Industry’s Highest Performance Differential Oscillators

SiTime Corporation, an analog semiconductor company, today introduced the timing industry’s highest performance differential oscillators with 10 PPM stability and only 500 femtoseconds of jitter, a unique combination that is only available from SiTime. The SiT9121 and SiT9122MEMS oscillators are targeted at high performance telecom, storage and networking applications such as core and edge routers, SATA / SAS / FibreChannel host bus adapters, cloud storage, servers, wireless base stations and 10G Ethernet switches. These devices can be configured exactly to the customer’s specification and shipped with the industry’s fastest lead times. In addition, each device has industry-standard footprints, enabling easy replacement of quartz differential oscillators without any design or layout changes.
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ST’s MEMS Microphone Smoothes the Way to Natural Voice Control in Smart Consumer Devices

Posted in: MEMS Products by Marketing | Comments Off Monday, October 24, 2011

STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and the leading supplier of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) for consumer and portable applications1, expanded its sensor portfolio with a new high-performance, low-power digital MEMS microphone. Housed inside an ultra-small 3x4x1 mm package, ST’s MP34DT01 top-port microphone delivers a best-in-class audio experience in mobile phones, tablets and other smart consumer devices.
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Compact Multi-Axis MEMS Vibration Monitor Provides Exceptional Low-Noise Performance and Embedded Analysis

Posted in: MEMS Products by Marketing | Comments Off Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) is continuing to help industrial equipment designers improve system performance and reduce maintenance costs through more efficient vibration detection and isolation with the introduction today of the MEMS-based ADIS16228 iSensor vibration monitor. The fully integrated vibration analysis system features an embedded programmable processor that provides directional sensing and spectral analysis to identify and classify individual sources of vibration. This enables the earliest possible detection, identification, and isolation of vibration sources from equipment and bearing wear that otherwise can lead to operating errors and costly equipment downtime. The noise performance of the ADIS16228 vibration monitor is specified at only 248 µg/ √Hz, across a dynamic range of ±18g, configurable to settings of 0 g to 1 g/5 g/10 g/20 g. By embedding these small vibration monitors, applications ranging from wind turbines to precision factory automation and assembly equipment will benefit from automatic vibration profiling. read more…

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