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iPhone 4 takes consumer handhelds to 9 degrees of freedom

Posted: 01 Sep 2010  Print Version  Bookmark and Share Subscribe

Keywords: iPhone  inertial  sensor 

[Summary of tips] Chipworks looks under the hood of the iPhone 4 to reveal the first portable consumer device featuring full nine degrees-of-freedom (9-DoF) inertial sensing. Apple has accomplished this by integrating a three-axis accelerometer and a three-axis gyroscope from STMicroelectronics (ST), together with an electronic compass from AKM.......
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