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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

"MEMS: Digital mic shrunk to 1 mm"


Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) tapped the scalability of CMOS processing this week when the world's smallest digital microphone was shrunk even smaller—down to a single millimeter square. Akustica heralded its $2 digital microphone as the sibling of the world's smallest analog mic, which it announced earlier this year—both cast on a die 1 mm square.
Text: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212002063
Audio: http://homepage.mac.com/guitarmedia/interviews/Akustica-08-11-12.mp3