BMC056 is a low power and low noise 6-axis digital
compass. It measures the earth’s geomagnetic ield
as well as dynamic and static acceleration in all three
dimensions and outputs tilt-compensated heading
or orientation information. BMC056 is housed in a
package with a footprint of 3 x 3 mm2 and 0.95 mm
height. The integrated accelerometer provides all
functionalities of Bosch Sensortec’s leading-edge
12bit digital accelerometer, including a 32 frame
FIFO bufer for storing acceleration data.
Due to its advanced power management, BMC056 is
ideally suited for virtual reality and navigation applications, motion tracking, shock and vibration detection in handhelds like mobile phones, tablet PCs,
notebooks, portable media players, man-machine
interfaces and game controllers.
BMC056 target applications
f Augmented reality applications and locationbased services
f Indoor and outdoor navigation, e.g. map rotation
or step counting (pedometry)
f Motion tracking
f Gesture recognition e.g. tap and double tap
sensing, Display proile switching
f Gaming
f Air mouse applications, pointing devices
Sensor features
The eCompass comprises a 3-axis geomagnetic
sensor based on Bosch’s proprietary FlipCore?
technology and a 3-axis 12 bit accelerometer. The
accelerometer provides the device orientation for tilt
compensated heading output. At the same time it
features all functions of a state-of-the art standalone
accelerometer. Like its predecessor BMC050, Bosch
Sensortec’s BMC056 comes in a 3 x 3 x 0.95 mm3
16-pin LGA package.