Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Analog Devices announces most compact, high-performance MEMS inertial measurement units

NORWOOD, USA: Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) is helping industrial and medical equipment manufacturers more easily implement motion capture and control features by adding two highly integrated precision MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical system) inertial sensors to its iSensor motion sensor product portfolio.

The new ADIS16334 and ADIS16375 IMUs (inertial measurement units) achieve the accuracy and ease-of-use required to quickly embed navigation, tracking, guidance, instrument control, platform stabilization and other six-degree-of-freedom sensing functions in equipment ranging from industrial process controls to precision medical instrumentation.

The ADIS16334 is 40 percent smaller than previous-generation IMUs and is optimized for high-density, space-limited applications, while the ADIS16375 is ADI’s highest performance IMU with 0.003 o/sec gyro stability.

“For many equipment designers, high-performance motion sensing was difficult to realize due to the relatively low level of integration and performance of commercial-grade inertial sensors,” said Bob Scannell, iSensor business development manager, MEMS/Sensors Group, Analog Devices.

“With today’s expansion of our iSensor IMU portfolio, ADI is helping designers more easily improve performance by providing the most compact high-performance IMUs available, while continuing to offer unmatched environmental ruggedness and simplicity of implementation, helping bring entirely new inertial applications such as surgical tool guidance to market in record time.”

Unlike most other industrial IMUs, these devices require no additional integration, test, or calibration. Only power and an industry standard SPI interface are needed to easily deliver accurate data out-of-the-box, even in the most challenging environments.

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