USB or Serial Low Cost Digital Compass

The OS5000-US is an extremely small form factor (1.0" square) 3 Axis, tilt compensated digital compass. The flexible design allows customers to use either a USB or an RS232 Serial connection for system integration. The OS5000-US provides precise heading, roll and pitch data ideal for rapid attitude measurement. The compass offers an easy to use ASCII interface, soft and hard-iron calibration and simple data configuration for your application.

Features

> Ultra Low Cost Design

> Tiny size, 1" x 1"x 0.3"; weighs less than 2 grams weight

> Precision compass accuracy, 0.5 deg RMS Level Heading, 1° Typical RMS accuracy < ± 30°, 1.5° < ±60°, .1 Degree Resolution

> Roll & Pitch full rotation

> Typical 1° accuracy < ± 30° tilt

> Tilt-compensated (electronically gimbaled)

> Low power consumption, <30ma @3.3V, 35ma running in USB

> Hard and soft-iron compensation routines

> Optional support for a high resolution depth or altitude sensor (24 bit A/D)~ See OS5500-USD for this option

> Serial Interface: RS232 or USB

> 50 MIPS processor supporting IEEE floating point math

> Baud rate programmable: 4,800 to 115,000 baud

> Rugged design (10,000 G shock survival)

> Operating temperature: -20C to 70C (Specified Accuracy for OC to 50C)

> ASCII sentence output in several formats; NMEA checksum

> Data update rate up to 40HZ

> Support for True or Magnetic North output

> Precision components:

3 Axis magnetic sensors from Honeywell

3 Axis accelerometers from ST Microelectronics

24 bit differential Analog to Digital converters from Analog Devices

> USB to Serial Driver or Direct Serial Connection. USB using the Silabs CP210x chip. USB drivers for Windows, Linux, Apple OS X.

> RoHS Compliant, OS5000-US is the next generation replacement to the OS3000 Compass