Innovative MEMS Accelerometer Technology
The TopAxyz MEMS accelerometer product line from Thales provides a cutting-edge solution for a wide range of applications, from navigation to tactical grade. These accelerometers offer superior performance while ensuring significant power savings and reduced form factor, making them ideal for use in stringent environments. Thales' TopAxyz MEMS sensors are designed to meet the requirements of both civil and military applications, including airplanes, helicopters, UAVs, land vehicles, munitions, satellites, and naval vessels.
Quality and Compliance Standards
The 3-axis MEMS accelerometer by Thales complies with Aeronautic Development Standards (DO254), ensuring the highest level of quality and reliability for safety-critical applications. This certification guarantees that the MEMS accelerometer meets stringent aviation standards, making it a trusted choice for demanding aerospace operations.
Features and Benefits of Digital MEMS Sensors
Thales' digital MEMS sensors offer a range of features that make them ideal for high-demanding applications. These include a high-performance accelerometer with up to 100 g range, exceptional long-term stability for high-grade inertial systems, a SPI digital interface for simplified signal processing, configurable synchronization modes, and self-monitoring capabilities for detecting internal failures. Additionally, these sensors come equipped with internal temperature sensors for thermal compensation and store compensation parameters in internal memory, ensuring efficient operation and maintenance in critical systems.
Manufacturing Process and Technological Advancements
Thales employs specialized manufacturing processes to create the key components of their MEMS sensors, particularly focusing on the vacuum sealing of silicon sheets to enable the operation of vibrating structures with high-quality factors. This manufacturing process allows for the miniaturization of inertial sensors and the development of Micro Inertial Measurement Units (µIMUs), which offer high-performance in a compact form factor. Combined with advances in filtering and Inertial-GNSS hybridization techniques, these sensors deliver top-notch performance while maintaining a smaller size, reduced weight, and lower power consumption.
Applications in Aerospace Navigation
The TopAxyz MEMS accelerometers are suitable for integration into various systems that demand high performance and reliability, such as inertial navigation systems, flight control and guidance systems, platform stabilization, instruments on moving platforms, and remotely-operated airborne, land, and marine vehicles. These accelerometers are versatile and robust, making them a valuable asset for critical aerospace operations.
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