Analog Devices (Korea Representative Director Jaehoon Yang) announced the release of a tactical-grade inertial measurement unit (IMU) that delivers industry-leading precision and stability among solutions with minimized size, weight, and power consumption.

The high-performance ADIS16490 IMU overcomes size and cost constraints, enabling high-accuracy navigation, guidance, and positioning in applications ranging from aviation and unmanned aerial systems to machine control, precision measurement, and smart military supplies.

The newly released IMU device is only one-third the size of existing products while providing the same performance, and its weight, overall cost, and power consumption have also been reduced. Using this product, it is possible to implement applications with tactical stability without incurring significant costs.

The ADIS16490 is Analog Devices' most outstanding IMU, realized through precision calibration, sensor filtering, and fusion methods based on years of system-level experience and ADI's highest-performance angular rate and linear acceleration MEMS cores. Manufactured through high integration, the ADIS16490 helps eliminate jitter within the stabilization feedback loop with the lowest levels of gyroscope ARW (Angular Random Walk) and accelerometer VRW (Velocity Random Walk).

In addition, when implementing demanding systems, it enables maintaining low variation in position measurements in aviation applications where low noise, precise alignment, vibration prevention, and wide bandwidth (480Hz for gyroscopes and 750Hz for accelerometers) must be delicately balanced to minimize overall errors.

ADI plans to provide samples of two new ADIS16490 IMU products by the end of 2016. The ADIS16495 and ADIS16497 IMUs will provide excellent dynamic range options, enhancing design flexibility and expanding the range of applications for system developers.