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Magnetic joint venture

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austriamicrosystems and Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits enter cooperation to develop Magnetic Encoder ICs

austriamicrosystems and Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) have announced a cooperation agreement, where both members plan to develop a new generation of magnetic motion sensing integrated circuits, which will be based on Fraunhofer’s patented HallinOne magnetic sensor technology.  During this cooperation program, austriamicrosystems and Fraunhofer IIS will develop a family of magnetic encoder products specifically targeted for applications within the industrial, medical and automotive markets. austriamicrosystems will offer these products as a part of its comprehensive magnetic encoder IC portfolio.

The core of this new magnetic encoder product family is Fraunhofer’s proprietary HallinOne sensor technology. This sensor technology allows measuring of magnetic fields in horizontal and vertical dimensions, providing magnitude and direction of the magnetic field at any measured point. The HallinOne sensor can be implemented in a standard CMOS process, and can be seamlessly integrated with signal processing on a single die.

“We are very pleased to engage in this cooperation with austriamicrosystems who has an established track record in design and manufacturing of linear and rotary magnetic encoders on the market”, said Josef Sauerer, Head of IC Development for Analog Systems at Fraunhofer Institute IIS. “For us, this joint program offers an ideal platform which enables us to offer our innovative magnetic sensing technology to the marketplace.”

“This cooperation with Fraunhofer Institute allows us to further expand our comprehensive magnetic encoder product portfolio”, said Matjaz Novak, Marketing Director at austriamicrosystems. “With the HallinOne sensor based products, we want to offer to market new innovative and cost efficient solutions for a variety of motion sensing applications.”

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