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... BMA250 Digital, triaxial acceleration sensor Data sheet Bosch Sensortec BMA250 Data sheet Ordering code Package type Document revision Document release date Document number Technical reference code(s) Notes Rev. 1.0 © Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties ...
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... Advanced system power management for mobile applications General description The BMA250 is a triaxial, low-g acceleration sensor with digital output for consumer market applications. It allows measurements of acceleration in three perpendicular axes. An evaluation circuitry (ASIC) converts the output of a micromechanical acceleration-sensing structure (MEMS) that works according to the differential capacitance principle. ...
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... Package and interfaces of the BMA250 have been defined to match a multitude of hardware requirements. Since the sensor features an ultra-small footprint and a flat package it is ingeniously suited for mobile applications. The BMA250 offers a variable V optimize functionality, performance and power consumption in customer specific applications. In addition it features an on-chip interrupt controller enabling motion-based applications without use of a microcontroller ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Index of Contents ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet ............................................................................................................. 42 (EEPROM ) ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet ..................................................................................................... 73 ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Condition ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Condition ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Condition ...
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... Block diagram Figure 1 shows the basic building blocks of the BMA250: 4. Functional description Note: Default values for registers can be found in chapter 5. 4.1 Power management The BMA250 has two distinct power supply pins: • the main power supply for all internal analog and digital functional blocks; ...
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... PS pin is needed in order to ensure reliable protocol selection DDIO (see section 4.2 Operational modes). 4.2 Operational modes Depending on the configuration the BMA250 is able to operate in two different operational modes: General mode: The device is acting as a slave on a digital interface (SPI or I²C) and is controlled by the external bus master (e.g. μ ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet VDD ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet State low “ ...
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... Power modes The BMA250 has three different power modes. Besides normal mode, which represents the fully operational state of the device, there are two special energy saving modes: low-power mode and suspend mode. The possible transitions between the power modes are illustrated in figure 3: In normal mode, all parts of the electronic circuit are held powered-up and data acquisition is performed continuously ...
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... Table 6: Sleep phase duration settings The current consumption of the BMA250 can be calculated according to this formula: When making an estimation about the length of the wake-up phase has to be considered. Therefore, t w_up wake-up phase all analog modules are held powered-up, while during the sleep phase most analog modules are powered down ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Sleep phase ...
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... Note: Settings 00xxx result in a bandwidth of 7.81 Hz; settings 1xxxx result in a bandwidth of 1000 Hz recommended to actively use the range from ´01000b´ to ´01111b´ only in order to be compatible with future products. The BMA250 supports four different acceleration measurement ranges. A measurement range is selected by setting the (0x0F) range bits as follows: Range ...
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... Offset compensation Offsets in measured signals can have several causes but they are always unwanted and disturbing in many cases. Therefore, the BMA250 offers an advanced set of four digital offset compensation methods which are closely matched to each other. These are slow, fast, and manual compensation, and inline calibration ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Figure 4: Principle of offset compensation ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Table 11: Offset target settings ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet (0x36) ...
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... Non-volatile memory The entire memory of the BMA250 consists of three different kinds of registers: hard-wired, volatile, and non-volatile. Non-volatile memory is implemented as EEPROM. Part of it can be both read and written by the user. Access to non-volatile memory is only possible through (volatile) image registers ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Table 14: Interrupt mode selection ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Figure 5: Interrupt modes “ ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet acc(t ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Page 26 / not for publishing ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet 2nd tap ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Table 15: Selection of tap_dur ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Table 16: Meaning of (0x2B) tap_samp ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Table 17: Orientation mode settings ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Angle 333° ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Conditions ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet parameter ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Page 34 / not for publishing ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Page 35 / not for publishing ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet bit6 ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet , register (0x00) ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Description ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Description ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Description ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Bit 4 ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Bit 4 ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Description ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Description ´ ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Bit 4 ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Bit 4 ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Bit 4 ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Bit 4 ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Bit 4 ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Bit 4 ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Bit 5 ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Bit 4 ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Page 53 / not for publishing ...
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... Digital interfaces The BMA250 supports two serial digital interface protocols for communication as a slave with a host device (when operating in general mode): SPI and I²C. The active interface is selected by the state of the Pin#11 (PS) ‘protocol select’ pin: ´0´ (´1´) selects SPI (I²C). For details see section 4 ...
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... The following figure shows the definition of the SPI timings given in table 73: The SPI interface of the BMA250 is compatible with two modes, ´00´ and ´11´. The automatic selection between [CPOL = ´0´ and CPHA = ´0´] and [CPOL = ´1´ and CPHA = ´1´] is done based on the value of SCK after a falling edge of CSB ...
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... For single byte read as well as write operations, 16-bit protocols are used. The BMA250 also supports multiple-byte read operations. In SPI 4-wire configuration CSB (chip select low active), SCK (serial clock), SDI (serial data input), and SDO (serial data output) pins are used. The communication starts when the CSB is pulled low by the SPI master and stops when CSB is pulled high ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Data byte ...
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... Both lines are connected to V are pulled high when the bus is free. The I²C interface of the BMA250 is compatible with the I²C Specification UM10204 Rev. 03 (19 June 2007), available at http://www.nxp.com. The BMA250 supports I²C standard mode and fast mode, only 7-bit address mode is supported ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet t ...
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... In order to prevent the I²C slave of the device to lock-up the I²C bus, a watchdog timer (WDT) is implemented. The WDT observes internal I²C signals and resets the I²C interface if the bus is locked-up by the BMA250. The activity and the timer period of the WDT can be configured through the bits (0x34) i2c_wdt_en and (0x34) i2c_wdt_sel. ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Control byte ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Figure 19 Pin-out bottom view ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Figure 20: 4-wire SPI connection ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Figure 21: 3-wire SPI connection ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Figure 22: I²C connection , C is 100 nF ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Figure 23: Package outline dimensions ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Figure 24: Orientation of sensing axis ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Page 68 / not for publishing ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Symbol ...
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... Soldering guidelines The moisture sensitivity level of the BMA250 sensors corresponds to JEDEC Level 1, see also IPC/JEDEC J-STD-020C - Classification for non-hermetic Solid State Surface Mount Devices" IPC/JEDEC J-STD-033A "Joint Industry Standard: Handling, Packing, Shipping and Use of - Moisture/Reflow Sensitive Surface Mount Devices". The sensor fulfils the lead-free soldering requirements of the above-mentioned IPC/JEDEC standard, i.e. reflow soldering with a peak temperature up to 260° ...
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... Unused inputs must always be tied to a defined logic voltage level. 8.7 Tape and reel specification The BMA250 is shipped in a standard cardboard box. The box dimension for 1 reel is 35cm x 35cm x 6cm BMA250 quantity: 10,000pcs per reel, please handle with care. ...
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... Halogen content Results of chemical analysis indicate that the BMA250 contains less than 900ppm (by weight) of Fluorine, Chlorine, Iodine and Bromine (i.e. < 50ppm per each substance). Therefore the BMA250 can be regarded as halogen-free. For more details on the analysis results please contact your Bosch Sensortec representative ...
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... Bosch Sensortec GmbH reserves all rights even in the event of industrial property rights. We reserve all rights of disposal such as copying and passing on to third parties. BOSCH and the symbol are registered trademarks of Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Page 73 / not for publishing ...
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... Note: Specifications within this document are subject to change without notice. BMA250 Data sheet Page 74 / not for publishing Bosch Sensortec Date 17 December 2010 26 January 2011 03 March 2011 Bosch Sensortec GmbH Gerhard-Kindler-Strasse 8 72770 Reutlingen / Germany contact@bosch-sensortec.com www.bosch-sensortec.com Modifications reserved | Printed in Germany Specifications subject to change without notice Document number: BST-BMA250-DS002-02 Version_1.0_032011 03 March 2011 ...