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4 days ago | planetanalog.com | Majeed Ahmad

Melexis, which entered the China market 20 years ago, has announced the next step in its China strategy. In March 2025, the sensor specialist opened a larger office in Shanghai to serve as a hub for sales, marketing, brand presence, technical support, and engineering activities. In early 2024, The Tessenderlo-Ham, Belgium-based sensor supplier established a partnership to outsource semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) locally in China.

1 week ago | planetanalog.com | Analog Bytes |Majeed Ahmad

A photo-spintronic conversion element combining optical, electronic, and magnetic elements can respond at an ultra-high speed of 20 picoseconds (20 × 10⁻¹² s) while using light with a wavelength of 800 nm. That’s more than 10x faster than conventional semiconductor-based photo detectors; TDK calls it the world’s first spin photo detector.

1 week ago | planetanalog.com | Majeed Ahmad

A new thermographic sensor featuring a 32×24 pixel infrared (IR) array facilitates direct temperature reporting without a dedicated MCU. It also improves signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), global shutter readout, and onboard temperature calculation at a competitive price point to better serve applications such as smart cooking, HVAC, fire hazard prevention, power electronics overheating detection, and hotspot localization.

2 weeks ago | planetanalog.com | Majeed Ahmad

A new MOSFET providing precise voltage and leakage current balancing is ready to serve supercapacitors ranging from 2.8 V to 3.3 V. ALD910030 uses virtually no power for cell balancing and facilitates precise monitoring and control of voltage and leakage current for each supercapacitor in a series-connected stack. Figure 1 The new SAB MOSFET provides more sophisticated power management capabilities to serve 3-V or higher supercapacitors.

2 weeks ago | planetanalog.com | Majeed Ahmad

A new software tool enables quicker integration of infrared sensors by optimizing product design’s evaluation, development, testing, and validation phases. More specifically, the tool streamlines image-processing capabilities such as noise reduction, shutterless mode, non-uniformity correction, edge enhancement, and tone mapping.