8 June 2006 -- Analog Devices has added to its iSensor family of intelligent sensors, a low power, programmable gyroscope that contains all of the embedded calibration, tuning, and control functionality required to detect the rate at which a system is rotating.
Effectively a single-component design, the ADIS16250 gyroscope builds on the ADIS1620x family of iSensor accelerometers that was announced in October 2005. The ADIS16250 is the first MEMS gyroscope to provide both digital range scaling and embedded programmability, eliminating a significant barrier to integrating gyroscopes into industrial systems.
The programmable features are accessible via an SPI standard interface.
The gyroscope output is pre-calibrated and indicates the rate at which the device is rotating. Depending on the application requirements, the user can digitally scale the sensitivity from +/– 80 degrees per second to +/– 320 degrees per second, with the device dynamic range scaling with it.
The ADIS16250 iSensor gyroscope is sampling now with full production scheduled August 2006. The device is packaged in an 11 mm x 11 mm x 5.8 mm laminate-based LGA (land grid array) package.
