“Breakthrough packaging allowed us to add significant signal conditioning and processing intelligence around the sensor in roughly the same footprint as the sensor-core,” said John Hussey, vice president, High Speed Signal Processing group, Analog Devices. “This combination of advanced architectures and embedded intelligence through on-chip firmware dramatically improves sensor performance and enables a new level of integration for industrial systems customers. The ADIS16201 embeds detection, calibration, compensation and filtering functions in significantly less space than solutions consisting of discrete accelerometers and microcontrollers.”

Industrial heavy-machine manufacturers have relied on less accurate, more costly handheld devices containing multiple ICs to measure vibration in applications where the slightest motion could cause manufacturing defects. With Analog Devices’ ADIS16201 iSensor intelligent motion sensors, industrial design engineers can now embed sensor technology directly into their systems. This enables a more cost-effective, more accurate solution for real-time motion measurement, and allows a series of alerts to be programmed at pre-defined thresholds for acceptable movement and adjustment.