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Monday, January 09, 2012

#MEMS: "3D Chip for Inertial Navigation"

By combining an accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer in a single 3-D chip stack, Invensense Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) has created the world's first nine-axis inertial navigation unit (INU).



Invensense's single-chip INU is for consumer devices from smartphones to touchscreen-tablets to gaming-controllers to wearable motion-tracking modules.
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