Products of the Week: April 22, 2024

April 22, 2024

Here's this week's selection of some of the most interesting new products that have been launched of late.

The LSM6DSV32X 6-axis inertial module has an accelerometer full-scale range of 32g and 4000 degrees-per-second (dps) gyroscope.

Inertial Module for Intensive Movement Analysis Enables Longer Battery Runtime

The LSM6DSV32X 6-axis IMU from STMicroelectronics has a large accelerometer full-scale range of 32 g with a 4,000 degrees-per-second gyroscope to measure intensive movements and impacts, which includes freefall height estimation. The sensor enables extra features and longer battery runtime in consumer wearables, asset trackers, and impact and fall alarms for workers. Based on ST’s machine-learning core (MLC) with AI algorithms culminating from decision trees, it uses the MLC for context sensing and a finite state machine (FSM) for motion tracking.

Significantly reducing latency with increased efficiency, the LSM6DSV32X reduces the power budget for functions such as gym-activity recognition to below 6 µA, and uses ST’s Sensor Fusion Low-Power algorithm to perform 3D orientation tracking at 30 µA. By supporting adaptive self-configuration, the module can reconfigure sensor settings in real-time to continuously optimize performance and power. It also integrates ST’s Qvar electrostatic charge-variation sensing for advanced user-interface functions such as touching, swiping, and tapping, with an analog hub for acquisition and processing of external analog signals.

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Microwaves & RF

Alix is Editor-at-Large for Microwaves & RF.

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the U.S. military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications, most recently as Editor-in-Chief of Power Systems Design.

Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.