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AMS Acquires Sensor Company

Christoph Hammerschmidt, EE Times Europe

12/8/2014 03:05 PM EST 

MUNICH — Extending its commitment to the sensor market, analog chipmaker ams, of Unterpremstaetten, Austria, now has announced the acquisition of acam-messelectronic, a vendor of highly accurate time-based measurement technology and related sensor solutions. The move is another step towards ams's goal toward "shaping the world with sensors," the company said in a statement.

Acam-messelectronic develops sensor interface solutions based on the company's proprietary time-to-digital converter (TDC) technology. This technology offers resolutions in the picosecond range and enables its users to achieve significant advantages in sophisticated sensor-based applications. The technology is used to extend the approach of time-based measurements to determine other measurands such as rotational speed, capacity, or resistance at very high speed and precision. Solutions based on acam's technology also excel through very low energy consumption, ams says. Acam products are used in industrial and infrastructure controls as well as in medical and automotive technology. In addition, the technology enables excellent performance in measurement solutions based on the principles of time-of-flight and ultrasound.

Headquartered in Stutensee, near Karlsruhe, Germany, privately owned acam-messelectronics has a headcount of 25 and achieves sales in the high single-digit million euro range and offers "an attractive profitability," as ams puts it. After the completion of the transaction, which is expected by the end of next week, ams plans to integrate acam's activities in existing and future markets into its own business and consolidate the company's figures; the Stutensee campus will be continued.

— Christoph Hammerschmidt covers automotive and and test & measurement for EE Times Europe.

ams just keeps making nice moves.  They would be in my IoT fund if I had one.

MUrata would be too.

Megachips would be too.

Nordic would be too.