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Audio In the audio domain, we have MEMS microphones and MEMS speakers. 

MEMS Applications:  MEMS technology has been incorporated into four product categories: 👉 Audio 👉 Sensors 👉 Switches 👉 Oscillators

Here we see the MEMS switch (on the right) and the associated driver circuitry (on the left), interconnected and housed in a QFN package. The driver circuitry allows a typical digital device, such as a microcontroller, to effectively control the switch because it does everything necessary to generate a ramped, high-voltage actuation signal that promotes effective and reliable switch operation.

The above graphic conveys the physical structure of micromachined cantilever switch beams. There are four switch beams and each one has five contacts. The switch beams are actuated by an applied voltage.

Typical mechanical devices will always have the disadvantage of being hopelessly bulky in comparison to the electronic components found in integrated circuits. If we modify the mechanical devices such that they are not only very small but also fully compatible with integrated-circuit manufacturing processes, we can, to a certain extent, have the “best of both worlds.”

MEMS - Microelectromechanical Systems MEMS refers to technology that allows mechanical structures to be miniaturized and thoroughly integrated with electrical circuitry, resulting in a single physical device that is actually more like a system, where “system” indicates that mechanical components and electrical components are working together to implement the desired functionality. Thus, it’s a micro (i.e., very small) electrical and mechanical system.

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16) What are inline functions? The ARM compilers support inline functions with the keyword __inline. These functions have a small definition and the function body is substituted in each call to the inline function. The argument passing and stack maintenance is skipped and it results in faster code execution, but it increases code size, particularly if the inline function is large or one inline function is used often.

Microchip Introduces New Line of Microcontrollers with Dual Core Functionality: The dsPIC33CH Family Usually, a monitoring system's job is to take measurements (speed, voltage, current, etc.), and then relay this information to a handler that determines if these measurements fall outside the expected range. In non-critical situations, this is not an issue—but if the monitoring system was, for example, monitoring a high-powered motor that could cause serious injury, then it would be idea if the monitoring process could be run independently.