Pin Out And Demo Boards For Magnetic Sensors

Inertial Aerosystems has introduced a range of low cost pin out and demo boards for its small magnetic sensors. Manufactured by Honeywell Aerospace, these products are designed to facilitate easy evaluation or prototyping at the design stage.

The five primary models / kits of demo/evaluation in this large range include:

HMC1041Z-eval has the 1 axis sensor placed on a compact circuit board and pinned to a narrow 8 pin DIP pattern. It removes the effort of hot air reflowing this LCC component to a prototype circuit board and brings out the interface pins for usage.

HMC1042L - HMC1041Z demo. This demo creates a 3 axis magnetic sensing prototype with support analogue circuitry. Board includes HMC1041Z and HMC1042L, 3 amplifier circuits, set / reset strap driver circuit. Included are 5 HMC1041Z and 5 HMC1042L samples.

HMC6042 - HMC1041Z demo. This demo for the 2 axis plus ASIC HMC6042 and the 1 axis HMC1041Z provides the sensors and supporting circuitry for 3 axis magnetic sensing prototypes. Included are 5 HMC6042 and 5 HMC1041Z samples.

HMC1043 demo. This demo creates a 3 axis magnetic sensing prototype with support analogue circuitry. The board includes, HMC1043, 3 amplifier circuits, set / reset strap driver circuit. Included are 5 HMC1043 samples.

HMC5843 Demo & 5843-eval. This demonstration board for the 3 axis compass provides the HMC5843 plus serial bus conversation circuits to convert the 12C data to USB interfacing for personal computers. Includes a 6 foot USB cable, software, user manual and 5 samples of the HMC5843. The 5843–eval is the same part on a pinout board for ease of prototyping HMC6343-Demo for the 3-axis compass provides the same facilities as the HMC5843-Demo but with the addition of Windows software

HMC6352-demo and HMC6353-eval. The demonstration board for the 2 axis compass includes a D9 male serial port for RS232 interfacing together with an I2C to RS232 converter, software and 6 ft RS232 cable and power supply. The HMC6352-eval is mounted on a wide 24 pin format (EEPROM) for ease of prototyping on solderless breadboards. Only 4 pins are used for power and I2C transfer.

All the magnetic sensors use the established Anisotropic Magnetorestive (AWR) technology has the advantage of being sensitive to low fields and having low hysteresis.