Date: 21st Jun 2011
Melexis offers programmable linear hall
sensors in SMD package
Melexis has made available its new programmable linear
Hall ICs in surface-mount package (SMD) supporting the trend
for improved manufacturability of sensor assemblies and
modules.
Vincent Hiligsmann, Product Line Manager in charge of the
Hall Sensors at Melexis comments: "Our market surveys
and initial feedback are clear: there are many industrial
and automotive applications which were waiting for a state-of-the-art,
high-accuracy and cost-effective programmable linear Hall
sensor in surface-mount package but without any allowable
premium for a Melexis Triaxis solution. The third generation
of Melexis programmable linear Hall sensor ICs addresses
those needs and brings the wished answer."
The MLX90288 featuring ratiometric analog output and the
MLX90291 featuring 125 Hz PWM output, both parts in an SOIC-8
SMD package with identical pinout. Finally the MLX90292
is released to the market targeting high reliability applications,
available in a dual die redundant TSSOP-16 package. This
third sensor, the MLX90292, reports a digital telegram using
the fast and safe 2-wire PSI-5 protocol, which includes
a temperature output next to the magnetic flux density.
It features also 2 kHz PWM mode.
All three devices are readily available in sample and production
quantities together with the appropriate PTC-04 programming
tools.
In the coming months, the family will be extended by three
more programmable products: the MLX91207 featuring analog
output with best in class bandwidth for current sensing
applications in an optimized SOIC-8 package, the MLX90290
in a TSOT-3L package (analog output) and the MLX90293 with
the emerging SENT output protocol.
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