A microphone includes a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device responsive to sound waves or vibrations having an output coupled to a first node; a programmable gain amplifier or source follower having an input coupled to a second node, and an output f...

A semiconductor device (1) is described. In accordance with a first example of the invention the semiconductor device includes an electronic switch (T 1 ) that is configured to switch a load current path between a supply terminal (SUP) having a supply volt...

Disclosed is a power converter circuit, a power supply system, a power converter unit, and a method for operating a power converter circuit. The power converter circuit comprises: output terminals (11, 12); a plurality of converter units (2) each comprisin...

Disclosed is an on-board power supply system and a protection method for protecting an on-board power supply system. The system comprises: a first power supply terminal (1) and a second power supply terminal (2) configured to have a battery (11) and/or a g...

A charge balancing circuit, comprising: a first inductive storage element; and a switch arrangement with a first and a second terminal, at least one control input for receiving at least one control signal, and a plurality of cell terminals. The cell termin...

A tire monitoring system and associated method is disclosed. The tire monitoring system includes a plurality of tire sensor modules configured to transmit tire data in a wireless fashion at a predetermined time interval. The system also includes a vehicle ...

A method is provided for actuating a switch (SW; T1) regulating the current uptake in one of at least two parallel switch transformer stages (3, 3_1, 3_n) of a multiphase DC voltage transformer, which has an output terminal for connecting a load and produc...

A method in which tire pressure time series are recorded using a pressure measurement instrument and transmitted at varying frequencies to a receiver. The frequency at which pressure measurements are transmitted is dependent on the detected rate of variati...

The control circuit only initiates a pressure measurement when the pressure or temperature analog signal from a sensor falls outside set threshold values. The threshold values are set from previously observed analog signals. Sampling of the values takes pl...