New sensor interface for battery-operated systems
Energy Micro
LESENSE
Energy Micro has announced Lesense, a generic low-energy sensor interface, to its EFM32 microcontroller product range.
The Lesense function block enables autonomous monitoring of up to 16 external sensors in the microcontroller's sub-microamp deep-sleep mode.
Able to run independently of the EFM32's ARM Cortex-M3 core, Lesense can be used to create highly integrated, ultra-low-power sensor products.
Particularly suitable for battery-operated systems, the sensor interface is designed to operate with virtually any type of analogue sensor-control scheme, including capacitive, inductive and resistive types.
Lesense can be configured to support autonomous capacitive touch pad and slider-based products, as well as gas and water-metering products that rely on inductive rotation-sensors.
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