BHI260AB Ultra-Low-Power Smart Sensor Hub

Bosch Sensortec’s BHI260AB ultra-low-power high-performance smart sensor hub with integrated accelerometer and gyroscope

Bosch Sensortec’s BHI260AB is a family of ultra-low-power smart hubs consisting of Bosch Sensortech’s programmable 32-bit microcontroller (Fuser2), a state-of-the-art 6-axis IMU, and a powerful software framework containing pre-installed sensor fusion and other sensor processing software within a small 44-pad LGA package.

The Fuser2 Core is configurable to operate at 20 MHz (Long Run mode) and 50 MHz (Turbo mode). It can boot from a wide variety of hosts, ranging from a small Arm® Cortex®-M0 MCU up to multicore application processors, while it can also run standalone when booting from an attached Flash memory. In combination with its wide connectivity and extendability, the BHI260AB becomes a versatile and ideal solution when it comes to always-on sensor processing at ultra-low-power consumption.

Hardware Features

• CPU core
  • ARC® EM4 CPU with ARCv2 16/32 bit instruction set (up to 3.6 CoreMark/MHz)
  • Floating point unit (FPU) / memory protection unit (MPU)
  • 4-channel micro DMA controller / 2-way associative cache controller
• Memory
  • 256 kB on-chip SRAM
  • 144 kB on-chip ROM preloaded with software
  • Up to 8 MB external Flash for execute in place (XiP) code execution

• Connectivity
  • Host interface configurable as SPI or I²C
  • 3 master interfaces (selectable out of 2x SPI master and 2x I²C master)
  • Up to 25 GPIOs
  • Fast I/O operations
    • SPI and GPIOS up to 50 MHz
    • I²C up to 3.4 MHz
• Integrated sensor [six degrees of freedom inertial measurement unit (6-DoF IMU)]
  • 16-bit 3-axis accelerometer
  • 16-bit 3-axis gyroscope

Software Features

• Open sensor development platform
• Integrated software framework and OpenRTOS™ with full Android™ compliant sensor stack
• Integrated BSX sensor fusion software for reliable 3D motion tracking, activity recognition, and more
• Powerful SDK for easy customization and support for
  • Metaware C Compiler for ARC
  • GNU C Compiler for ARC

Applications

• 24/7 always-on sensor processing at ultra-low-power consumption
• 3D orientation, step counting, position tracking, activity recognition, pose and head tracking, and context awareness
• Wrist-mounted, hearables, eyewear, and other wearable devices
• Smartphones and other mobile communication devices
• AR/VR/MR headset and controller devices

more information: www.bosch-sensortec.com

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