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From: Barry Niesen <Barry.Niesen@chinalake.navy.mil>
Subject: Re: Gyro on a chip?
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Re: Gyro on a chip?

I have attended a few briefings from Rockwell concerning "Gyro's on a
chip" and would like to pass on the following to interested readers.

Draper Labs has been developing a micromachined angular rate sensor over
the last few years and now believe that it is ready for commercial
production. They have formed an agreement with Rockwell who is currently
involved in setting up a foundry for the production of these devices.

I'm sitting here looking at a picture of one of these devices in some
Rockwell literature. The device is sitting on the top of a 1993 penny and
is just large enough to cover the 993 part of the date. 

Rockwell indicated that these devices are currently in the 1deg/Sec
accuracy range and are initially targeted toward automotive application
such as active suspension. Unfortunately I don't have any information
regarding the bandwidth or other operating characteristics or even that
expected date of production.
	
Sorry about the lack of technical info about these devices but I hope
this helps.

barry
