Supplier of high performance sensor solutions, ams, has announced a new series of magnetic position sensors with increased safety and diagnostic capabilities to help automotive OEMs achieve the highest in ISO26262 ASIL system safety-level compliance. The AS5270A/B devices are suitable for many automotive applications including brake and gas pedals, throttle valve and tumble flaps, steering wheel position, chassis ride-height, Exhaust Gas Recircul...

Worldwide supplier of high performance sensor solutions, ams, has released the AS5900, a current-to-digital converter for use in Computed Tomography (CT) scanners which offers ultra-low noise, very high resolution and linearity. The analogue performance of the AS5900 will enable new CT scanners to produce sharper, more detailed images. Medical CT scanners equipped with the AS5900 will feature an improved X-ray detector module, and will help ...

Supplier of high performance sensor solutions, ams, has introduced an integrated colour point sensor IC, which marks a breakthrough in the product category, providing improved accuracy while cutting bill-of-materials and production costs for manufacturers of handheld colour analysis instruments. The new AS7261 JENCOLOR XYZ sensor is a complete platform for colour sensing, which eases design-in and simplifies production processes for manufact...

AS3435 active noise cancellation IC from ams provides more than 28dB of noise attenuation and very low harmonic distortion in on-ear head-phones. The ams noise-cancelling technology is an integral component in the FIIL Diva Pro high-end headphones which recently won a CES 2017 Innovation Award.

ams AG has announced the launch of a technology which enables noise-cancelling headsets with a four-pole 3.5mm jack to operate for the first time without a dedicated battery power supply. The new Accessory Communications Interface (ACI) invented by ams uses the microphone (MIC) wire – one of four wires in a standard 3.5mm audio cable – to carry power and bidirectional data with a rate of up to 16 Mbit/sec, as well as digital audi...

ams announces the completion of the transaction to acquire 100% of the shares in Heptagon and the related capital increase of 11,011,281 new shares from authorised capital excluding subscription rights. ams announced on 24 October 2016 that the company had signed an agreement to acquire Heptagon, the worldwide leader in high performance optical packaging and micro-optics.

Improved speed and precision together with low power consumption are enhancements made to ams’s time-to-digital converter (TDC) offering. The new TDC-GPX2 also features standard low-voltage differential signalling (LVDS) and serial peripheral (SPI) interfaces, and a new, smaller 9mm x 9mm QFN64 package.

ams AG launched the world’s first series of cost-effective multispectral sensor-on-chip solutions, opening the way for a new generation of spectral analyzers for consumer and industrial applications. Offered in a small 4.5 x 4.4mm land grid array package, the ultra-low power AS7262 visible range sensor and AS7263 NIR sensor each provide six calibrated spectral channels.

ams has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Incus Laboratories. The acquisition of Incus strengthens ams’ position in the market for Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) solutions where ams claims to be the leading supplier of analogue ANC to headphone and earphone OEMs.

The availability of ams' High Performance Analogue Low Noise CMOS process (A30) has been announced. The A30 process is realised as an optical shrink by a factor of 0.9 from ams’ advanced 0.35μm High-Voltage CMOS process family.

ams AG announced the AS7221, a white-tunable smart lighting manager. Lighting manufacturers designing with the AS7221 can now quickly integrate high-precision CCT, or 'Kelvin-tuning', capabilities into their IoT smart lighting offerings. The versatile architecture, which includes an I2C extension interface, positions the AS7221 to deliver Internet of Awareness IoT sensor hub platform capabilities for sensing functions such as air quality, tempera...

electronica 2016 saw AMS launch its new ENS210, a single-die sensor IC which can provide pre-calibrated measurements of relative humidity and ambient temperature.

A member of the ams group, Cambridge CMOS Sensors, has announced that Chinese wearable device manufacturer HiCling is using its ultra-low power gas sensors to enable the new Cling VOC smart fitness wristband to measure indoor air quality and alcohol in breath. The CCS801 gas sensor integrated in the Cling VOC wristband can detect low levels of VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) typically found indoors.

  Offering OEMs design flexibility and the ability to provide a better display viewing experience, ams has announced what it claims to be the smallest ever optical sensor module that delivers a combination of colour (RGB), ambient light and proximity sensing.

ams has closed the transaction to acquire 100% of the shares in the colour and spectral sensing systems specialist MAZeT GmbH for an undisclosed amount in cash. The strategic acquisition extends ams’ market leadership in advanced optical sensors and strengthens ams’ position in emerging optical sensing applications.

ams has introduced a new version of its industry benchmark Process Design Kit (PDK). This PDK features ams’ 180nm CMOS technology, which is now to be manufactured in ams’ 200mm fabrication facility in Austria. The new PDK provides product developers with a plug-and-play tool set with improved analogue features and device performance as well as highly accurate simulation models.

  ams has introduced new proximity sensing and proximity/ambient light sensing modules which enable android smartphone manufacturers to reduce the sensor aperture in the display’s cover glass to its smallest diameter.

  Combining low power consumption and high accuracy in a 1.6x1mm package, the AS6200 digital temperature sensor has been announced by ams. The device's typically consumes just 6µA at a measurement rate of 4S/s and its digital measurement outputs are accurate to ±0.4°C.

ams has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Cambridge CMOS Sensors Ltd (CCMOSS), a specialist in micro hotplate structures for gas sensing and infrared applications, in an all-cash transaction.

  Expanding its automotive safety compliant sensor portfolio, ams has announced its first magnetic position sensors fully developed using the automotive industry’s programme for ISO26262 safety compliance.