MEMS Inertial Measurement Units for Complex Motion Capture and Processing Industrial, healthcare, and military/aerospace designs are increasingly deploying MEMS inertial measurement units (IMUs) for highly precise control, automation, and positioning applications. High Performance, Industrial, and Tactical-Grade MEMS IMUs • Improve accuracy over alternative non-inertial sensing technologies • Reduce cost and size as compared to legacy sensing and measurement techniques, such as fiber optic gyroscopes (FOGs) • Improve reliability, or add redundancy • Enable new applications that previously were cost prohibitive Applications are diverse, but most exist within challenging environments that are often characterized by multiple interference or noise sources. Achieving highly accurate motion discernment within these often severe environments requires orders of magnitude better stability than available from consumer grade inertial sensors.

ADI is the industry leader in high performance MEMS inertial sensing technology. Our solutions combine sensor and signal conditioning/processing technologies, providing optimal system-ready motion sensors for industrial, healthcare, and military/aerospace applications, and more. Technology and Innovation Focused on Highly Precise Motion Sensing Most motion sensors can provide moderate levels of accuracy within a controlled environment, but very few technologies can provide high levels of accuracy under highly dynamic environmental conditions. ADI’s MEMS sensor core and integration technologies...

Analog Devices MEMS Inertial Measurement Unit Portfolio ADI MEMS IMUs are offered with 4 to 10 degrees of freedom, and all are interface compatible. With four-plus generations of performance and integration advancement, ADI technology is able to fully optimize each sensor’s individual and combined response to varied and complex motion, removing a level of risk from any subsequent system development. Millions of sensor units under the Analog Devices iSensor brand have been deployed worldwide in a range of applications, including agricultural machinery, surgical navigation, medical imaging, unmanned...

Design Resources and Tools EVAL-ADIS Evaluation System The EVAL-ADIS is an advanced real-time evaluation system for the ADIS16xxx product family. It supports application software that enables basic demonstration, individual register access, and high speed data capture for each supported device. Each application software package comes with an installation wizard and a simple USB driver package. All IMUs within the Sensor portfolio are supported via the PC-based evaluation setup, providing a common and easy-to-use analysis tool. All software packages associated with the EVAL-ADIS are compatible...