Development of Industry’s Smallest Differential-Output SAW Oscillators by EPSON TOYOCOM
Strive for High-speed communications with increased capacity making high frequency and low jitter two very important characteristics in clock sources that are used in LAN and SAN equipment that are connected to next generation high speed communications networks such as 8G Fiber Channel as well as 10Gb Ethernet. In order to ensure the stability of communications networks, LVDS (low voltage differential signaling), LV-PECL (low-voltage positive emitter-coupled logic), as well as other types of differential signaling are being used, requiring a reliable oscillators capable of providing stable operation over extended period of time. At the same time increase in volume of data that are handled by network equipment such as blade servers is fueling the need for higher packaging densities with lower device power consumption by network systems manufacturers. Based on these requirements, Epson Toyocom has developed a new series of differential-output SAW oscillators offering excellent stability plus high-frequency oscillation, from 100 MHz to 700 MHz. Read more
Development of Miniature Inertia Measurement Unit for Industrial Applications by Epson Toyocom
Epson Toyocom Corporation has started commercial development of a highly accurate and stable miniature inertial measurement unit (IMU) for use in industrial applications. IMU is a device capable of detecting and measuring inertial motion, made up of angular velocity on three axes and acceleration in three directions. The new IMU device comes with ±300 degrees per second triple gyroscopes on three axes and three ±3-G tri-axis accelerometers. Furthermore, the new IMU device comes with excellent angular rate characteristics and gyro bias instability of less than 6 degrees per hour, plus an angle random walk performance of less than 0.24 degrees per hr, making the new IMU’s instability and accuracy parameters, 25% and 12.5% respectively, better than currently available IMUs. Read more
Development of New Gyro-Sensors for Automotive Applications by Epson Toyocom
Epson Toyocom has made an announcement of development of a new series of gyro-sensors (angular rate sensors) with operating temperature as high has 125 degrees Celsius. The new XV-9000 series has been designed for automobile attitude sensing applications. The company has applied QMEMS technology to fabricate crystal sensing elements in an original hammerhead structure. The new series consists of four types of sensors which includes two types of yaw rate sensors, the XV-9100LV and XV-9100LP, with sensing range of +/- 100 deg/s, and two types of roll rate sensors, the XV-9300LV and XV-9300LP with a sensing range of +/- 300 deg/s. Read more
Release of High Sensitivity Gyro-Sensor by Epson Toyocom
Epson Toyocom has made an announcement on commercial development of its latest gyro-sensor XV-3700CB. The new XV-3700CB gyro-sensor has a high sensitivity featuring a wide detection range which has been optimized as an input device for motion user interfaces. Typically, sensing the motion of persons or objects with high accuracy requires the angular velocity to be sensed over a wide range, from a slow speed to a fast speed. Typical sensors are not able to simultaneously provide a wide sensing range and good stability as well as noise characteristics. However, the new gyro-sensor XV-3700CB retains the low noise level and outstanding bias stability thanks to QMEMS technology. Read more
Development of Extremely Compact Absolute Pressure Sensor by EPSON TOYOCOM
Epson Toyocom has announced the development of tiny absolute pressure sensor. The absolute pressure sensors are designed to measure pressure in relation to zero pressure. The new XP-6000CA sensor has a capability of detecting height changes in 3 cm increments through sensing changes in pressure. The XP-6000CA sensor incorporates the new QMEMS (Combination of Quartz and MEMS) pressure-sensing structure allowing it to squeeze into a tiny 7.0 x 5.0 x 2.0t mm package with a total pressure accuracy of +/- 30 Pa and high resolution of 0.3 Pa. Read more
