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3 © 2022 Mighty Guides, Inc. 10409 Pacific Palisades Ave. Las Vegas, NV 89144-1221 516.737.0366 www.mightyguides.com Mouser Electronics, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is an authorized semiconductor and electronic component distributor focused on New Product Introductions from its leading manufacturer partners. Serving the global electronic design engineer and buyer community, the global distributor's website, mouser.com, is available in multiple languages and currencies and features more than 6.8 million products from over 1,200 manufacturer brands. Mouser offers 27 support locations worldwide to provide best-in-class customer service in local language, currency, and time zone. The distributor ships to over 650,000 customers in 223 countries/territories from its 1 million-square-foot, state-of- the-art distribution facilities in the Dallas, Texas metro area. For more information, visit www.mouser.com. Introduction All the best, David Rogelberg Editor, Mighty Guides, Inc. Sensors are everywhere. A sensor can be defined as any device that can detect a change in its environment and provide useful information in response. Sensors come in many different forms, leveraging different working principles to achieve a variety of use cases. Optical and electrical sensors are most prevalent, with popular use cases including temperature, optical (e.g., photodiodes), and position sensing. With the rise of intelligent, interconnected devices through the Internet of Things (IoT), all aspects of our lives and industry are becoming more reliant on sensor technology. Sensors lie at the heart of many of today's transformative technologies such as Machine Learning, Industry 4.0, smart homes, and electric vehicles. Yet, this increased reliance on sensors creates new challenges for designers. Attempting to understand and balance the electrical, mechanical, thermal, and sometimes optical characteristics of a sensor while achieving high performance for a given application has become a significant design challenge. This eBook explores the challenges that design engineers face when designing with sensors and integrating sensors into their systems. Read on to see how Vishay Intertechnology provides engineers with design, simulation, modeling, and prototyping tools to help address these challenges and ease the design process.