Kionix gyroscopes - designed to strike a balance between current consumption and noise performance with excellent bias stability over temperature
These 24-pin, low-power, low-noise, 3-axis angular-rate sensors provide 16-bit digital outputs accessed through I²C or SPI communication and flexible user-programmable full scale ranges of ±256, ±512, ±1024 and ±2048 º/sec. They contain a sensor and ASIC packaged in a 4x4x0.9mm Land Grid Array (LGA).
These gyroscopes feature an embedded temperature sensor that ensures fast 50ms start-up, user-definable sensor bandwidth from 10Hz to 160Hz, and an internal 1024 byte FIFO buffer. They can accept supply voltages between 2.6V and 3.3V and digital communication voltages between 1.8 and 3.3V.
MEMS gyroscopes are making consumer-electronics history with their rapidly-growing integration into a wide range of products. Their increased usage has sparked a renewed excitement in the consumer and automotive space for motion-enabled functionality. Their measurement of angular rate to maintain orientation has enabled applications for computer gaming, optical stabilization, body-motion dynamics, dead reckoning for location-based services, and electronic stability control. MEMS gyros are in virtual-reality headsets, computer pointing devices, game controllers, cameras and camcorders, aircraft, and automobiles, and the field is wide open for applications yet to be imagined.
