Toolbox Dec 1, 2006 By: Melanie Martella

New Products

Innovative Sensor Technology IST AG, Wattwil, Switzerland, offers the FemtoCap 2 ? 4 mm, SMT-compatible humidity sensor. The capacitive humidity sensor has a linear transfer function, a base capacitance of 180 pF, and a basic slope of 0.3 pF/%RH.

Bosch Sensortec, Reutlingen, Germany, offers the SMD500 micromachined pressure sensor designed for consumer electronics. The piezoresistive sensor has a monocrystalline membrane and is supplied in a ceramic housing in a 5 3 5 3 1.6 mm LCC package.

The ADIS16250 from Analog Devices Inc., Norwood, MA, is a MEMS gyroscope that lets you scale the sensitivity from ?80?/s to ?320?/s and has programmable features accessible via SPI. Gyroscope output is precalibrated. Programmable features include sample rate, filter response, self test, rate alarms, and power management modes.

Handy New Products

Second-Generation Wireless IC

Handy New Products

Toolbox May 1, 2006 By: Melanie Martella

Keithley Instruments Inc., Cleveland, OH, offers the Model 2910 RF vector signal generator for RF design, development, and manufacturing.

The DLP-TILT from Saelig Co. Inc., Pittsford, NY, is a USB-powered intelligent board with a 2-axis, ?2 g accelerometer for motion sensing and control. It can be used for tilt sensing for up to ?60? from center in both X and Y axes with position reported in 8- or 10-bit resolution from the microcontroller's ADC. It can also be used for vibration analysis for frequencies up to 3000 Hz, AC signal analysis, and as a pointing device. (585-385-1750, info@saelig.com, www.saelig.com