Electronic Products has announced the finalists for the 2019 Product of the Year Awards. The annual awards, now in its 44th year, recognizes outstanding products that represent any or all of the following qualities: a significant advancement in a technology or its application, an exceptionally innovative design, a substantial achievement in price/performance, improvements in design performance, and the potential for new product designs/opportunities. EP editors evaluated nearly 150 products across 10 electronic component categories. Winners will be announced in EP’s January/February 2020 digital issue.
Atmosic Technologies, M3 Battery-Free Bluetooth 5 SoC
Atmosic Technologies claims that the M3 Bluetooth 5 SoC platform offers the industry’s first fully standard compliant and battery-free Bluetooth 5 solution with multi-source energy-harvesting technology. Designed to reduce battery dependence for IoT applications, Atmosic developed three technologies — Lowest Power Radio, On-demand Wake-Up, and Managed Energy Harvesting — all of which are integrated into the M3 Series Bluetooth 5 SoC platform.
With the addition of Atmosic’s Managed Energy Harvesting technology, which can harvest power from different sources, the M3 can deliver forever battery life or battery-free operation in connected devices. The energy-harvesting technology enables the M3 to harvest power from multiple sources: radio frequency, photovoltaic, thermal, and motion.
Boréas Technologies, BOS1901 piezoelectric driver
Boréas Technologies claimed the lowest-power piezoelectric driver IC for high-definition (HD) haptic feedback in wearables and other battery-powered consumer devices with the launch of its BOS1901. The challenge for device designers lies in balancing the performance requirements of such devices with the hefty power demands of haptic technologies.
The BOS1901 delivers 10× power savings over its nearest piezoelectric competitor as well as 4× to 20× power savings over other incumbent technologies (LRA, ERM). Housed in a 2.1 × 2.2 × 0.6-mm package and consuming one-tenth the power of its nearest piezoelectric competitor, the latest addition to the family, the BOS1901CW, is suited for resource-constrained devices such as buttonless smartphones, smartwatches, game controllers, and other battery-powered devices.
