Freescale Hit Two-Billionth Sensor and announce new accelerometer
Building on its strength in automotive sensors, Freescale has experienced strong market acceptance across the breadth of its sensors portfolio, including its increasingly popular devices for the growing industrial and medical markets. Customers have incorporated Freescale sensors in more than 150 unique sensing applications each year for the last five years.
Freescale's new FXLN83xxQ accelerometer underscores the company's industrial sensing momentum. Designed to capture acceleration information often missed by less accurate sensors commonly deployed in consumer products such as smartphones and exercise activity monitors, the new device enables intelligent algorithms to better perform fault prognostication for predictive maintenance and condition monitoring applications.
"Information from sensor data is driving efficiency gains and fostering compelling new business models across the industrial and medical markets," said Babak Taheri, vice president and general manager for Freescale's sensors solutions division. "Freescale's systems and applications teams have worked closely with customers to couple our broad sensor portfolio with our extensive array of microcontrollers to address these new applications and opportunities. The resulting solutions help systems designers collect and leverage sensor data to drive analytics and intelligence for next-generation industrial and medical applications."
Housed in a compact 3 x 3 mm package, the new FXLN83xxQ accelerometer features the highest bandwidth in its class (2.7 kHz) and is one of the first 3-axis devices to feature an operating temperature range of -40 to 105 degrees Celsius. With an analogue output, the device is universally compatible across a wide range of ADC-enabled MCUs. In addition, the FXLN83xxQ features exceptionally low power consumption for battery-operated applications, exposed leads for rapid solder joint inspection, and ten years guaranteed product availability via Freescale's product longevity program.
