Test & Measurement


New 2D Hall-effect speed and direction sensor ICs for motor and magnetic encoder applications

Allegro MicroSystems Europe has released a new family of 2D Hall-Effect Latch ICs featuring both planar and vertical Hall elements. The APS12625 and APS12626 sensor ICs offer reduced system size and BOM cost along with an increase in perfo

Allegro | 15-02-2018

New platform to track and identify abnormal power quality events

Electrotek Concepts offers its new PQView 4 software that gives utilities a platform to identify and track abnormal power quality events. The software enables an advanced approach to fault detection and characterisation of power quality irr

Electrotek Concepts | 15-02-2018

Low-power, waterproof MEMS sensor delivers accurate pressure and temp reads

Mouser is now stocking the ICP-10100 MEMS capacitive barometric pressure sensor from InvenSense, a TDK Group company. The ICP-10100 achieves the industry’s lowest pressure noise and power consumption and ensures excellent temperature stabil

Mouser Electronics | 14-02-2018

Pressure sensors meet demands of high volume medical devices and commercial appliance applications

The Honeywell MPR Series, available now from RS Components, is a tiny piezoresistive silicon pressure sensor enabling a digital output for reading pressure over the defined full-scale temperature range and pressure span. It is calibrated an

RS Components | 14-02-2018

Capacitive touch meets compact size in new LED sensor series

Visual Communications Company (VCC) has recently launched the CSM Series surface mount capacitive touch LED sensor, which claims to have the smallest footprint in the industry. The CSM Series Capacitive Touch Sensor Displays are unique

VCC | 14-02-2018

Higher line productivity and lower costs with automatic testing for next-generation mobile devices

Anritsu Corporation has released three new software packages to expand the measurement standards supported by the Universal Wireless Test Set MT8870A, offering fast and fully automatic testing in accordance with the IEEE 802.11ax test speci

Anritsu | 07-02-2018

Ratiometric linear hall effect sensor for accurate position sensing in many application

The DRV5055 device, from Texas Instruments, is a linear Hall effect sensor that reacts proportionally to magnetic flux density. The device can be used for precise position sensing in a broad range of applications. The device operates fr

Texas Instruments | 02-02-2018

Compact, battery-powered test set for testing professional A/V and home theatre installations

Saelig Company is offering the Teledyne LeCroy quantumdata 280 HDMI/HDBaseT Video Generator (Tx) and Analyzer (Rx) - a small compact, battery-powered test set suitable for professional A/V integrators and home theatre installers. This test

Saelig | 02-02-2018

New high-performance optical sensor head for modular optical test platform

The AQ2200-232 is a new high-performance optical sensor head which joins Yokogawa's existing family of optical power meters modules in their modular optical test platform. The sensor head is used together with the dual-port AQ2200-202 i

Yokogawa | 01-02-2018

Configurable LVDT platform designed for harsh-environments

Available now at Aerco, Honeywell’s new Aerospace Linear Variable Differential Transformers (LVDT) in Single Channel, Dual Parallel and Dual Tandem Series. The LVDT is designed for next-gen harsh-environment aircraft applications, providin

Aerco | 30-01-2018

Gas sensor evaluation kit designed to be simple and cost-efficient

The new Sensirion Evaluation Kit SEK-SGP30a, available now from RS Components, is designed for simple and cost-efficient evaluation of the company's SGP30 multi-pixel gas sensor. The long-term stable multi-pixel gas sensor, enables accu

RS Components | 29-01-2018

HVC module provides very fast recognition speed

Omron’s HVC-P2 multi-function sensor module is now available through TTI Europe. The product provides a maximum recognition speed that is 10 times faster than previous HVC system sensors from the company. The module features their OKAO visi

TTI Europe | 26-01-2018

Waterproof barometric pressure and temperature sensor ICs ideal for sports, navigation and drone applications

TDK Invensense ICP-10100 High Accuracy, Low Power, Waterproof Barometric Pressure and Temperature Sensor IC, available now from Mouser, are based on MEMS Capacitive Technology. This technology delivers ultra-low noise at very low power, ena

Mouser Electronics | 25-01-2018

Inspect metal components faster with new inverted metallurgical microscope

Olympus’ new GX53 inverted metallurgical microscope features MIX observation for clear imaging of structures and surface features, an LED light source for true-to-life images with consistent colour temperature, and coded hardware enabling f

Olympus | 25-01-2018

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