To take full advantage of the resolver's potential, you have to compensate for error sources. Simulating resolver and cable functions go a long way toward helping you achieve this goal.

Adding an integrated magnetic concentrator to Hall effect sensors enables high-accuracy 360? rotary position sensing. The Triaxis Hall technology, based on integrated magnetic concentrators (IMCs), enables the development of small, cost-effective, high-accuracy, noncontact rotary position sensors. Melexis' MLX90316 is the first member of the Triaxis family and is intended to solve long-standing challenges in 360? position sensing.

Linking RFID with production tools in one of its semiconductor wafer fabrication plants allows IBM to track the production of each wafer, for more efficient fabrication and improved factory scheduling.

New software tools now make it possible to integrate sensor technology with an overall information framework. This eliminates worries about integration headaches or cumbersome architecture revisions.

A PIR sensor can tell you when to reach for the candy bowl.

Teenagers share horror tales about it. Otherwise competent adults break into cold sweats at the mere thought of doing it. Some people will do anything—go anywhere—to avoid it. Admit it: You've driven around the block rather than attempt to parallel park in a tight spot.

Given Imaging (www.givenimaging.com) has introduced a new PillCam, the swallowable diagnostic device that takes photos as it passes through a patient's system; the device has received FDA approval and is available immediately. New CMOS sensors from Micron Technology (www.micron.com), embedded in the PillCam, feature a higher frame rate than the original PillCam SB design. With one sensor at either end, and a frame rate 7 × that of the SB version, the new PillCam ESO (for esophagus) transmits 14 pictures/s to a receiver worn by the patient. The added capabilities will let medical professionals diagnose throat disease and related ailments in the esophageal passage.

An auditory phenomenon discovered by UC Berkeley physicist Richard Packard could lead to superfluid gyroscopes that operate at a relatively toasty 2 kelvin rather than the near-zero kelvin required by liquid helium-3.

TR Electronic (www.trelectronic.com) has begun distribution, sales, and service of the complete range of Di-Soric position sensors in North America under an agreement reached between the companies in early January 2005.

By analyzing high-resolution digital photos, GM ensures that its automobile tooling equipment is operating correctly.