Competitive Comparison Details

Pitting other angular-rate sensors against the MicroGyro® isn’t exactly pretty—or fair. For example, the MicroGyro® solders directly to the PC board; some competing sensors require underfill, which adds assembly costs, field reliability risks, and warranty issues. Analog competitors yield different data at different temperatures—forcing customers to add complex compensation circuitry and software. The MicroGyro® provides pure 3.3V or 5.0V SPI digital output, fully compensated at all temps and specs.

But there’s more. Since the MicroGyro® senses in the plane of the circuit board, adding another axis simply requires adding another MicroGyro®. (Competing products require tricky daughterboard mounts.) The MicroGyro® can perform flawlessly up to 125C, so it can withstand under-hood installations when mounted directly into the ECU module—without the costly, complex cabling to the passenger compartment required by other products. With its patented Continuous Built-In Test (CBIT™) circuitry, the MicroGyro® always monitors its performance, providing a measure of safety and assurance unavailable in units that only self-test at start-up or commanded intervals—and must go off-line to do so.

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