Hackaday

Time-of-Flight Sensors: How Do They Work?

If you need to measure a distance, it is tempting to reach for the ubiquitous ultrasonic module like an HC-SR04. These work well, and they are reasonably easy to use. However, they aren’t without ...
EDN

Time-to-Digital Converter for Ultrasonic Sensing Measurement of Water, Gas, Heat Flow Metering Applications using Time-of-Flight

The TDC7200 is a Time to Digital Converter (TDC) for ultrasonic sensing measurements such as water flow meter, gas flow meter, and heat flow meter. When paired with the TDC1000 (ultrasonic ...
Hackaday

Reconstructing 3D Objects With A Tiny Distance Sensor

There are a whole bunch of different ways to create 3D scans of objects these days. Researchers at the [UW Graphics Lab] have demonstrated how to use a small, cheap time-of-flight sensor to generate ...
Electronics Weekly

Optical time-of-flight sensor covers 48 x 32 pixels and 1cm to 11m

Osram has created an optical time-of-flight sensor with a 48 x 32 pixel receiving array that builds up a 1,536 point depth map as wide as 80° and at ranges from 10mm to 11m. “It is designed to detect ...
EDN

iToF sensor provides on-chip depth processing

An indirect time-of-flight sensor, the AF0130 from onsemi offers long-distance measurements and 3D imaging of fast-moving objects. It features a depth processing ASIC beneath its pixel area, which ...
Investing

GlobalFoundries, Egis partner on new time-of-flight sensor tech

MALTA, N.Y. - Semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries (NASDAQ:GFS), an $18.4 billion market cap company and prominent player in the semiconductor industry, announced a collaboration with Egis ...