Freescale MMA9550L, the new Xtrinsic family of autonomous sensors

Posted by Charbax – June 24, 2010

Imagine not needing a power button to turn on your phone, just pick it up. Imagine cheaper warranty as manufacturers will know when devices were damaged because of usage error such as fall or banging. Imagine new user interfaces that are much more relying on sensors as the new Freescale Xtrinsic sensors can measure stuff 2000 times per second (the bandwidth and architecture being better). Imagine also sensors combining their abilities through fusion, again, no need to wake up the main ARM processor of the device to do all kinds of things! Imagine the device knowing exactly how it is touched, how it is moved, how it is held, the touch is not anymore only on the screen! This means better battery usage, months maybe even years of seamless standby. The new Xtrinsic sensor only needs 12 micro amps of power to be turned on all the time!

  • Odin

    Hello.
    Excuse me for the ot, but I want to point out the upcoming availability (August) of the first (I think) Android Tegra 2 netbook on the market. It's by Toshiba: the AC100. Its price is 299 euro (399 with 3G).
    Is it possible that you'll can review it?

  • Geoffrey Allerton

    ColdFire processors are not ARM devices. Why post this here?

    Goffers

  • http://ARMdevices.net/ Charbax

    The ColdFire processors are meant to be used mostly in combination with devices that use ARM Processors. Just as I cover screen technologies and a bunch of other things that are not directly and exclusively ARM related. But mostly there is ARM in most complete devices out there.

  • http://ARMdevices.net/ Charbax

    I will try to review it as soon as possible.

  • Odin

    Thanks.

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  • MagnetMan

    Just give me a phone that can capacitively detect when I'm touching it on two edges (trivial), and then turn on the screen and unlock. Likewise, when I'm not touching it capacitively on two edges, pause for 3 seconds and go into low power mode. That way, when I pick up the phone, its ready to go.

    I should have been a hardware manufacturer.

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