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Monday, July 07, 2008

"MEMS: microphone measures two millimeters square"


What is touted as the world's smallest analog microphone fits into a package as much as four times smaller than existing analog microphones, according to developer Akustica Inc. (Pittsburgh). The 2-by-2 millimeter chip houses a 1-by-1 millimeter MEMS microphone die that the company announced last year. The newly packaged chip can be mounted alone or in arrays of two or more for sophisicated acoustic processing.
Text: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208802897