Air Motion Click Board™
Product Code: MIKROE-5524
How Does The Air Motion Click Board™ Work? The Air Motion Click Board™ is based on the ICM-40627, a 6-axis MotionTracking™ device that combines a 3-axis gyroscope and a 3-axis accelerometer from TDK InvenSense. It features a 2K-byte FIFO that can lower the traffic on the selected serial bus interface and reduce power consumption by allowing the system processor to burst read sensor data and then go into a low-power mode. With its 6-axis integration, the ICM-40627 guarantees optimal motion performance for customers. The ICM-40627 comes bundled with TDK's Air Motion Library that enables precise mouse pointing, swipe, roll, gesture wake-up and other motion gestures, making this Click board™ a suitable solution for gesture-based handheld applications. The gyroscope supports eight programmable full-scale range settings from ±15.65dps to ±2000dps, and the accelerometer supports four programmable full-scale range settings from ±2g to ±16g. Other industry-leading features include InvenSense on-chip APEX Motion Processing engine for gesture recognition, activity classification, and pedometer, along with on-chip 16-bit ADCs, programmable digital filters, an embedded temperature sensor, and programmable interrupts.
The Air Motion Click Board™ allows using both I2C and SPI interfaces with a maximum frequency of 1MHz for I2C and 24MHz for SPI communication. The selection can be made by positioning SMD jumpers marked as COMM SEL to an appropriate position. Note that all the jumpers' positions must be on the same side, or the Click board™ may become unresponsive. While the I2C interface is selected, the ICM-40627 allows choosing the least significant bit (LSB) of its I2C slave address using the ADDR SEL SMD jumper to an appropriate position marked as 0 and 1.
The ICM-40627 also has a programmable interrupt system, configured via the Interrupt Configuration register, that can generate an interrupt signal on the INT pins, INT1 and INT2 pins routed on the INT and AN pins of the mikroBUS™ socket. Events like new read-data availability (from the FIFO and Data registers), accelerometer events, FIFO watermark and overflow can all trigger an interrupt.
The Air Motion Click Board™ can be operated only with a 3.3V logic voltage level. The board must perform appropriate logic voltage level conversion before using MCUs with different logic levels. However, the Click board™ comes equipped with a library containing functions and an example code that can be used as a reference for further development.
SPECIFICATIONS
Type
Motion
Applications
Can be used for gesture-based handheld applications, like pedometer, tilt and tap detection, and more
On-board modules
ICM-40627 - 6-axis MotionTracking™ device from TDK InvenSense
Key Features
Combines a 3-axis gyroscope and accelerometer, integrated TDK's Air Motion Library, configurable communication interface, user-programmable gyro/accel scale range, programmable interrupts, APEX motion functions, and more
Interface
I2C,SPI
Compatibility
mikroBUS
Click board size
M (42.9 x 25.4 mm)
Input Voltage
3.3V
PINOUT DIAGRAM
This table shows how the pinout of the Air Motion Click Board™ corresponds to the pinout on the mikroBUS™ socket (the latter shown in the two middle columns).
Notes
Pin
Pin
Notes
Interrupt 2
IT2
1
AN
PWM
16
NC
NC
2
RST
INT
15
IT1
Interrupt 1
SPI Chip Select
CS
3
CS
RX
14
NC
SPI Clock
SCK
4
SCK
TX
13
NC
SPI Data OUT
SDO
5
MISO
SCL
12
SCL
I2C Clock
SPI Data IN
SDI
6
MOSI
SDA
11
SDA
I2C Data
Power Supply
3.3V
7
3.3V
5V
10
NC
Ground
GND
8
GND
GND
9
GND
Ground
ONBOARD SETTINGS AND INDICATORS
Label
Name
Default
Description
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