January 29, 2013 – Mouser Electronics, Inc. announces immediate availability of the award-winning AS3935 Franklin Lightning Sensor™ from ams (formerly austriamicrosystems). A recipient of the Hearst Electronic Products' 2012 Product of the Year Award, the Franklin Lightning Sensor™ IC is a programmable, fully integrated lightning sensor that detects the presence and approach of potentially hazardous lightning activity in the vicinity and provides an estimation of the distance to the head of the storm.
The AS3935 Franklin Lightning Sensor™ IC's embedded lightning algorithm checks the incoming signal pattern to reject the potential man-made disturbers. It can also provide information on the noise level and inform the external unit (e.g. microcontroller) in case of high noise conditions, with the noise floor generator and noise floor evaluation blocks. An AS3935 Demo Kit is also available as a fully operational handheld lightning sensor which is able to estimate the distance to the head of upcoming storms. Lightning events will trigger the AS3935 demo kit and will be shown on the LCD. The demo kit also comes with a handheld Lightning Emulator Board in order to emulate the presence of a storm. A far strike, mid strike, and close strike can be emulated as well as a disturber and noise. To learn more, visit http://www.mouser.com/new/ams/ams-AS3935/.
Electronic Products 37th Annual Product of the Year Awards for 2012 were announced in the January 2013 issue of the magazine. The editors evaluated thousands of products launched in 2012 to select the winners. The winning products were selected on the basis of innovative design, significant advancement in technology or application, and substantial achievement in price and performance, according to Hearst Electronics Group.
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About ams
ams develops and manufactures high-performance analog semiconductors that solve its customers' most challenging problems with innovative solutions. ams' products are aimed at applications which require extreme precision, accuracy, dynamic range, sensitivity, and ultra-low power consumption. ams' product range includes sensors, sensor interfaces, power management ICs and wireless ICs for customers in the consumer, industrial, medical, mobile communications and automotive markets. With headquarters in Austria, ams employs over 1,200 people globally and serves more than 6,500 customers worldwide. ams is the new name of austriamicrosystems, following the 2011 acquisition of optical sensor company TAOS Inc. ams is listed on the SIX Swiss stock exchange (ticker symbol: AMS).
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