e-Power Technology

Smart Inductive Position Sensing

Whenever position encoders have to deal with unfavorable environments in which dust, oil and moisture can lead to contamination, the most robust sensing principle is required. Magnetic Hall encoders are a common cost effective and […]

Electromagnetics

At the Right Time, in the Right Place, for the Right Markets – Microelectronics Pioneer iC-Haus Celebrates 40th Anniversary

In the mid-1980s, semiconductors and integrated circuits in particular were conquering more and more areas of application in communications, data processing and industry. During this early growth phase, Dr. Heiner Flocke and Manfred Herz founded iC-Haus GmbH in Bodenheim near Mainz in 1984 as a manufacturer of iCs and microsystems. […]

e-Power Technology

Magnetic Encoder ICs flexibly rethought

iC-Haus presents its proven Hall sensor IC:  The iC-PVS combines a flexibly configurable Hall array front-end with a 56-bit low-power period counter and an integrated 6-bit interpolator. Battery-buffered, it can be used to implement multiturn […]

Electromagnetics

Quickstart for High-Resolution Safety Encoder Development

The new RZ4M from iC-Haus combines the optical twin-scan sensors of the iC-RZ Series with the downstream interpolator iC-MR3 on a single evalboard. Developers can now easily set up this high-resolution optical encoder solution in the lab and comfortably put this chip duo into operation. […]