Partnerships

Kionix collaborates with many companies to create development tools and solutions that make it easier for our customers to incorporate Kionix accelerometers and gyroscopes into their designs. Below are descriptions of some of these tools and solutions.

Atmel

Kionix’s KXTF9 tri-axis accelerometer contributes advanced sensing algorithms, low power consumption, programmable offset and sensitivity, high shock survivability, and excellent temperature performance, all bundled in an ultra-small, 3x3x0.9mm LGA package, to Atmel’s AVR Studio® 5 Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Providing nine degrees of freedom, the Inertial Sensor Board Two (ATAVRSBIN2) allows customers to quickly develop sensor applications with easy-to-use drivers and ready-to-use sensor boards to significantly accelerate their ability to rapidly bring prototype designs to market.

About Atmel: A complete system solution provider focused on industrial, consumer, security, communications, computing and automotive markets including  microcontrollers, capacitive touch solutions, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components.

Texas Instruments

The new Bluetooth® low energy SensorTag from TI, featuring the Kionix KXTJ9 accelerometer, is designed to shorten the design time for Bluetooth app development from months to hours. The SensorTag kit is the first Bluetooth low energy development kit focusing on wireless sensor applications and it is the only development kit targeting smartphone app developers. More information on the TI SensorKit is available on our applications and examples page.

Kionix’s EZ430-C7 Evaluation Board has been developed for use with TI’s eZ430-F2013 MSP430 Development Board. This combination is ideally suited for the lowest-power, cost-sensitive application. This convenient USB form factor kit allows users to move quickly toward the creation of accelerometer-enabled functionality. The EZ430-C7 Evaluation Board holds Kionix’s KXSC7-2050 accelerometer and plugs directly into an MSP430 Development Board, TI part number eZ430-F2013 (not included). A CD containing sample firmware for reading acceleration and step-by-step instructions is included.

The KXR94 Development Kit, a stand-alone development platform, includes the TI MSP430F149 MCU. The KXR94 tri-axis accelerometer product delivers industry-leading sensor performance, both electrically and mechanically. The KXR94 Development Kit includes a KXR94-2050 accelerometer, TI’s MSP430F149 MCU, onboard battery, and memory. Both parts are available through Kionix at salesna@kionix.com.

About Texas Instruments: A global analog and digital semiconductor IC design and manufacturing company with analog technologies, as well as digital signal processing (DSP) and microcontroller (MCU) semiconductors.

Silicon Labs

The Kionix Accelerometer Application and Firmware Development Kit is based on a Silicon Labs microcontroller, and provides a simple environment to quickly begin the development of applications and firmware that incorporate Kionix accelerometers. The Development Kit provides a common interface to Kionix evaluation boards. The included software provides an easy-to-use interface for displaying and recording acceleration data. Plus, a graphical register map allows the user to see and change the contents of control registers. 

The Silicon Labs development board allows the use of a standard 8051 microcontroller core and a USB interface for PC development/evaluation environments. Additionally, the F340 Adapter Board provides a visual indication (through an LED array) of interrupts (motion and tap) and screen rotation output states for Kionix products that include those functionalities. 

About Silicon labs: High-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs that enable analog-to-digital communication for consumer products, including set-top boxes, televisions, and cell phones.

Cypress

With its low power consumption, low-pass filters, user-definable bandwith, high signal-to-noise ratio and excellent performance over temperature, Kionix’s KXSC7 tri-axis accelerometer helps enable the CY8CKIT-014 PSoC® 5 FirstTouchTM Starter Kit’s programmable system-on-chip architecture.  The PSoC 5 FirstTouch™ Starter Kit includes software and example projects that take advantage of the kit’s onboard sensors including the Kionix accelerometer, a thermistor, proximity sensing, and CapSense. The kit enables easy development via 28 general-purpose I/O pins, a 12-pin wireless module header, and Serial Wire Debugging (SWD). It also includes the PSoC Creator IDE.

The CY8CKIT-014 PSoC 5 FirstTouchTM Starter Kit, priced at $49.00, is available at www.cypress.com/go/psoc5 or by contacting salesna@kionix.com.

About Cypress Semiconductor: High-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value.