Rohm Group company Kionix recently announced the availability of an accelerometer ideal for high accuracy, low power motion sensing applications in the industrial equipment and consumer wearable markets. In recent years, as factories have begun to save labor costs and increase efficiency, the concept of predictive maintenance for detecting abnormalities before equipment malfunctions has gained broad […]
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What happens when the earth moves?
At Sensors Expo 2019, Satya Dixit from Applications and Systems Engineering at Rohm Semiconductor explains the capabilities and applications for an earthquake sensor module. The earthquake detection module (BP3901) has correctly detected 200 out of 205 previous cases of seismic events. Waveform differences between a seismic event and an external event such as a collision […]
How can a sensor company successfully integrate with an acquiring larger electronics company?
The acquisition of successful microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensor companies by larger and broader semiconductor manufacturers and even other larger sensor suppliers has occurred frequently within the past few years. While there are numerous post-acquisition steps that need to be taken to successfully integrate the two companies, a co-development project is technical way to demonstrate the […]
Combo Sensors Boast Low Power Consumption
While accelerometer-gyro combination or combo sensors have been around for a few years, the high power consumption of the gyro portion has limited their adoption rate. With a newly developed, proprietary technology, Kionix has dramatically lowered the power consumption of the gyroscope. The company’s KXG07 and the KXG08 combos can provide full high-speed operation of […]
User-Control for Accelerometer Power and Noise
Battery-powered applications of accelerometers require the lowest power consumption for increased battery life. However, getting the lowest noise is also important to obtain desired performance. For standard accelerometer products, manufacturers always have these values set at predetermined levels. Kionix Inc. now provides flexibility for users of its latest accelerometers, including the KX022 (2x2mm) and KX023 […]
Sensors + Sensor Fusion + Hub = Low-power Solution
Rather than connect sensors directly to an application (app) processor, a sensor hub provides a means to offload processing from the app processor to improve data processing and reduce power consumption. For its KMX61G Micro-Amp Magnetic Gyro, Kionix partnered with microcontroller supplier Atmel. Kionix’ KMX61G sensor fusion software runs on Atmel’s 32-bit AVR UC3 and […]
Tracking Motion in Portable Products -3
The large and rapidly growing smartphone, tablet, and health and fitness devices market can take advantage of advanced motion sensing technology. At the 2013 International CES, several companies announced new products to address these applications. With proprietary calibration and sensor fusion algorithms, Kionix KMX61G is a 6-axis device can provide 9-axis accelerometer, magnetometer (e-compass) and […]
Achieving Industry Milestones for Accelerometers
At the 2013 International CES, 3-axis microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometers were among the new devices that suppliers introduced to help electronics companies include new features in portable consumer electronics products. With the differentiation that MEMS technology can provide and the intense competition in the MEMS area, it is tough to achieve an industry leading milestone, […]
Kionix New Gyros Target Consumer Apps
With analysts’ expectations of a $1.04B market by 2014, it is no surprise that Kionix has applied its MEMS expertise to consumer gyroscopes. The company offers both digital and analog versions of its dual-axis KGY12 and tri-axis KGY13. The 16-bit digital outputs (I2C and SPI) have a measurement range of ±2048°/sec. Analog outputs are available […]
Cypress Semiconductor’s FirstTouch Starter Kit includes Kionix Accelerometer
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation selected the Kionix KXSC7 accelerometer for use in the new CY8CKIT-014 PSoC5 FirstTouch Starter Kit. The kit is based on the PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip architecture that uses the 32-bit ARM® Cortex-M3 processor. The KXSC7 series of Tri-axis, 2g-6, analog accelerometers have low-power consumption and several preset internal low-pass filters with an […]
