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Digital, Triaxial Acceleration Sensor



Digital, Triaxial Acceleration SensorThe BMA150 is an LGA packaged triaxial, programmable low-g acceleration sensor with digital output. Offering many smart functional features and operation across a wide temperature range, the BMA150 is aimed for consumer and industrial market applications. Providing measurement of acceleration across 3 perpendicular axes, the dedicated motion sensing circuitry in the BMA150 enables power efficient interrupt driven software. The differential capacitance principle implemented in Bosch Sensortec's accelerometers provides a robust and lowest power sensing solution to the market.

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The base of the micromachining technology has proven its capability in more than 1 billion Bosch accelerometers, pressure sensors, and gyroscopes so far. The modular ASIC design and device flexibility allows engineers to react quickly to their changing customer needs and optimization over time.

Key Features
  • Switchable g-range and bandwidth
  • Low-power consumption
  • SPI (3-wire/4-wire) and I2C interfaces
  • Programmable interrupt feature for mobile wake-up or free-fall detection
  • Ultra-low-power self-wake-up mode
  • Self-test capability
  • LGA package (3 mm x 3 mm x 0.9 mm)
RoHS Compliant
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The BMA150 senses tilt, motion, shock and vibration in cell phones, handhelds, computer peripherals, man-machine interfaces, virtual reality features and game controllers.

Target Applications
  • Advanced power management for mobile devices
  • HDD protection
  • Drop detection for warranty logging
  • Menu scrolling, tip-tap function
  • Step-counting
  • Display profile switching (portrait/landscape)
  • Detection
  • Gaming
The BMA150 package and interface have been defined to match a multitude of hardware requirements. Since the sensor has a flat, small footprint package it is attractive for mobile applications. The sensor can be programmed to optimize functionality, performance and power consumption in customer specific applications.

Technical Data
Sensitivity axes x/y/z Resolution 10bit → 4mg (±2g range)
Measurement range ±2g, ±4g, ±8g
(switchable via SPI/I2C)
Sensitivity (calibrated) 2g:  256LSB/g
4g:  128LSB/g
8g:  64LSB/g
Nonlinearity ±0.5% FS Axes mixing 2%
Zero-g offset (calibrated) ±60mg Zero-g offset temp. drift 1mg/K
Noise 0.5mg/√Hz Digital input / output SPI & I2C, Interrupt pin
Bandwidth 25Hz … 1500Hz
(switchable via SPI/I2C)
Supply voltage 2.4 … 3.6V, 1.62 … 3.6V
IO
Current consumption 200µA Idle current 1µA
Wake-up time 1ms Temperature range -40°C … +85°C
The BMA150 provides a digital 10bit output signal in SPI or I2C format. Via serial interface command the full measurement range can be chosen to ±2g, ±4g or ±8g. A second-order filter with a pole-frequency of 1500Hz is included to provide preconditioning of the measured acceleration signal. The maximum data conversion rate is 3KHz.

Ordering Information
Manufacturer Part Number Digi-Key Part Number Package Type
BMA150 828-1003-1-ND Cut Tape
828-1003-2-ND Tape & Reel
828-1003-6-ND Digi-Reel®

Demo Boards and Kits
Manufacturer Part Number Digi-Key Part Number Description
BMA150-SHUTL 828-1009-ND BMA150 Daughtercard for DEV KIT
BMA150-TRIBOX 828-1013-ND Tribox Demo Board with USB