While for some of us it’s a distant memory, every serious electronics hobbyist must at some point make the leap from working with through-hole components to Surface Mount Devices (SMD). At first ...

Melexis claims to have produced the world’s first surface-mount device (SMD) designed specifically for temperature monitoring of critical components in electric vehicle (EV) powertrain applications.

The MLX90292 is a CMOS Hall sensor with embedded microcontroller. With its specific architecture and the help of a dedicated firmware, the magnetic flux density perpendicular to the chip surface can ...