ITHACA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kionix, Inc., a leading supplier of MEMS inertial sensors and software solutions, today announced that its innovative KMX61G Micro-Amp Magnetic Gyro has won the 2013 Best of Sensors Innovation Award. This award, presented at the 2013 Sensors Expo & Conference, recognizes the most exciting new sensor technologies available today based on the distinctiveness of the solution, possible applications, and overall potential impact.

Kionix’s KMX61G is a high performance accelerometer-magnetometer sensor with industry-leading sensor fusion software that delivers the world’s first highly accurate gyro emulation using as little as one-tenth the power of a traditional 9-axis solution. This dramatic power savings, combined with the KMX61G’s high-performance hardware and innovative software, allows Kionix to provide product developers with a wide range of new application possibilities.

Now this single 6-axis device can provide 9-axis accelerometer, magnetometer and gyro outputs with a power profile low enough to enable applications previously unreachable using traditional 9-axis solutions. These applications include wearable mobile devices for health, fitness and monitoring applications as well as smartphones and tablets.

Key Features of the KMX61G

• 5 µA standby, 550 µA full operating power consumption
• 3x3x0.9mm package size
• User-programmable ±2g/±4g/±8g full-scale accelerometer range
• ±1200µT total magnetometer measurement range
• 512-byte FIFO buffer with watermarking capability
• Embedded temperature sensor
• User-selectable ODR from 0.781Hz to 1.6KHz
• Magnetometer algorithms for auto-calibration and MI rejection
• Low-power motion wake-up
• Supply voltages between 1.8 and 3.3V
• Excellent bias stability over temperature. Bias errors resulting from assembly can be trimmed digitally by the user.
• Accelerometer, magnetometer and emulated gyro outputs with up to 14-bit resolution

About Kionix

Kionix, Inc., a global MEMS inertial sensor manufacturer based in Ithaca, NY, USA, offers high-performance, low-power accelerometers, gyroscopes, and 6-axis combination sensors plus comprehensive software libraries that support a full range of sensor combinations, operating systems and hardware platforms. Leading consumer, automotive, health and fitness and industrial companies worldwide use Kionix sensors and total system solutions to enable motion-based functionality in their products. Kionix is ISO 9001:2008 and TS 16949 certified. Kionix is a wholly owned subsidiary of ROHM Co., Ltd.

Kionix is a registered trademark of Kionix, Inc.