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Digital MEMS mic put on single chip

Posted: 03 Apr 2006  Print Version  Bookmark and Share Subscribe

Keywords: R. Colin Johnson  microphone  analog electret  microelectromechanical systems  MEMS 

[Summary of tips] Even the whizziest, most cutting-edge digital systems still use microphones that are based on 50-year-old analog electret technologies. The best candidate for a successor is microelectromechanical systems, but so far, analog MEMS microphones have been largely relegated to a single market: hearing aids.Now, all that will change ......
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