TI controller powers BEI sensor technology

Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) has announced that BEI Systron Donner Inertial Division (SDID), a division of BEI Technologies Inc., has selected its TMS320F2812 digital signal controller for BEI's MEMS inertial measurement unit (IMU), the MMQ-50.

BEI's IMU technology is used in a number of commercial aircraft, automotive and military applications to sense the relative position of the vehicle or craft. These sensors produce a signal output proportional to the rate of rotation sensed, which are converted to relative positioning information.