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Special session USA I

US MEMS session

Schedule

Wednesday, 21.03.2012, 15:15 - 18:15 hrs

Author

Karen Lightman, MEMS Industry Group, US
Ed Brachocki, Kionix, US
Stephane Gervais-Ducouret, Freescale, US
Stefan Hartmann, EPSON EUROPE ELECTRONICS, US
Dr. Alissa Fitzgerald, A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates, US

 

 

Language

English

Description

15:15 hrs MEMS in the Mainstream: Introduction to MEMS Industry Group and US MEMS Industry
Karen Lightman, MEMS Industry Group, US
  
15:30 hrs Sensor Integration and Sensor Fusion in Mobile Product Designs
Ed Brachocki, Kionix, US

MEMS accelerometers, magnetometers and gyroscopes already enable mobile products to respond to our hand gestures, rotate displays, tell us which way is North, count our steps, and lead the way to our destinations.
Such competence is the result of seamless integration among the sensor hardware, middleware, and application software. Achieving this integration requires that at least one of these three layers—hardware, middleware, or software—has the computational intelligence to interpret the data and feed it to the other two layers for a desired result. The million-dollar question is: In which of these layers should the intelligence reside?
  
15:55 hrs 

Overview of Smart and Intelligent Sensors
Stephane Gervais-Ducouret, Freescale, US

The latest MEMS and sensors are embedding an increasing number of features to look for specific data or provide the sensor data in a smarter way; this is the evolution to smarter sensors. A new class of sensors is now available which is able to process data and is customizable by software; this is the evolution to intelligent sensors. The evolution of smart and intelligent sensors will be reviewed, discussed, and illustrated with concrete product examples.

  
16:20 hrs Market Trends and Recent Advances in 'Inertial Sensors Technology' for Industrial and Automotive Applications
Manfred Wittmeir, EPSON EUROPE ELECTRONICS, US

The growing demand for inertial sensors, and specifically gyro technology, is driving the improvement in performance and increasing levels of integration needed in industrial and automotive applications. This presentation is an overview of the Epson quartz-based MEMS (QMEMS) technology and Epson’s development of inertial sensors solutions to satisfy the increasing and future demand for better performance, miniaturization, and lower power required for Industrial markets. The presentation traces the roadmap from QMEMS gyroscope, automotive-grade gyro, hybrid sensor to fully calibrated industrial IMU and integrated hardware/software environment for motion analysis – while pointing out some of the application challenges to be overcome.
  
16:45 hrs

A Practical Method for Predicting Fracture Risk of MEMS
Dr. Alissa Fitzgerald, A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates, US

Reliability of MEMS is important not only for life-safety systems, but also for product quality, yield, and profit. This talk will discuss the issue of fracture in MEMS and provide an overview of fracture prediction software developed by our company. The accuracy of our method is demonstrated for a prototype micro-mirror by comparison to data from fracture of actual devices. This new tool can shorten design cycles and save money by enabling informed, simulation-driven design.

  
17:10 hrsPanel Discussion: "MEMS Sensor Fusion and Integration – Challenges and Opportunities
Sensor fusion strategies combining sensory data from disparate sources can provide more accurate, more complete, or more dependable information. What are the challenges to integrating MEMS into these complex systems and where are the opportunities. Come listen to this panel of MEMS business experts as they discuss this exciting topic.

Panelists:
Dr. Jim Knutti, President of Acuity Inc., US
Mark Martin, Analog Devices, US
Dr. Alissa Fitzgerald, A.M. Fitzgerald and Associates, US
  
18:10 hrsConclusion and Final Thoughts
Karen Lightman, MEMS Industry Group, US
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