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3 Axis Acceleration Sensor Board
User’s Guide

Product Name ： 3 Axis Acceleration Sensor Board

(G Sensor)

Product ID ： DC-SS009

Product Version ： Ver 2.0

Document Version ： Ver 2.0

Copyright 2004-2007 Sure Electronics Inc.

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Contents
Chapter 1. Quick Start Guide .......................................................................................................... 3
1-1. Overview.............................................................................................................................. 3
1-2. Part Layout.......................................................................................................................... 4
1-3. Main Feature....................................................................................................................... 4
Chapter 2. Hardware Detail ............................................................................................................. 6
2-1 Schematic............................................................................................................................ 6
2-2 Physical Dimension.......................................................................................................... 7
2-3 Circuit Diagram.................................................................................................................. 8
2-4 Electric Characters and Environment Characters.................................................. 10

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Chapter 1. Quick Start Guide

3 Axis Acceleration Sensor Board is manufactured by Sure Electronics. Mainchip is
MMA7260Q from Freescale. It is the first generation 3 axis acceleration sensor.
Users could get acceleration values of X, Y, and Z axises. And it is widely used in
shock, slope, and moving detection. Output sensitivity could be selected by simply
setting voltage levels on a few pins. The measuring range is selectable among 1.5g,
3g, and 6g. It only costs 3uA in sleep mode, and the work current is as low as
500uA.
Sure Electronics provides this board for those who want to use such sensors but
can not solder them on their own. With this small butterfly board, you could start
your design quickly. It is easy to be integrated in 5V systems and 3.3V systems,
and the cost is very low for batch use.
For more information of MMA7260Q from freescale, you could take reference from
the documentation in the chip’s PDF file. It could be found in Freescale website and
the accessory CD-ROM.
The output of MMA7260Q is analog mode, so you need an A/D converter to read
the acceleration value. Simple sample codes are provided to help you to
understand how to integrate it to your design.
We will release a tiny microcontroller demo board which could be connected to this
acceleration board, through the 2 rows of bare connectors. Then this board could
be converted into a digital interface one.

This document is used to describe how to use 3 Axis Acceleration Sensor Board.

1-1. Overview

Figure 1

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1-2. Part Layout

Figure 2 Top Part Layout

Figure 3 Bottom Part Layout

1-3. Main Feature

1-3-1. Low Voltage Drop Linear Regulator

LT1117(compatible chip, probably AS1117) is used in this board as a linear
regulator. It needs 1.2V voltage drop to work, so it can work well with a 5V power
supply. If you have 3.3V voltage on board, just bypass it. Both 5V and 3.3V input
pins are provided in this board. Maximum input voltage on 5V pin is 9V. Never try to
connect 3.3V input pin of this board to a non-3.3V power supply, it will damage your
acceleration board permanently.
1-3-2. ±1.5g - 6g Three Axis Low-g Micromachined Accelerometer

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The MMA7260 low cost capacitive micromachined accelerometer features signal

conditioning, a 1-pole low pass filter, temperature compensation and g-Select
which allows for the selection among 4 sensitivities. Zero-g offset full scale span
and filter cut-off are factory set and require no external devices. There is just a
Sleep Mode that makes it ideal for handheld battery powered electronics.

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Chapter 2. Hardware Detail

2-1 Schematic

U2
J1 CY T8117-3.3V J2
3.3V 3.3V 3.3V 3 2
1 +5V IN OUT 3.3V 1

GND
2 2
3 C2 C3 C1 C7 3
4 + + 4
5 5

1
6 104 103 6.3V 10uF 6.3V 10uF 6
7 7
8 8
CON8 CON8

J3 U1 MMA7260QT J4
R1 1k 12 16
1 Sleep NC7 TXD 1
R2 1k 13 11
2 Z NC6 RXD 2
R3 1k 14 10
3 Y NC5 SPIEN 3
R4 1k 15 9
4 X NC4 SPICLK 4
R5 1k 1 8
5 Sel1 NC3 SPIDI 5
R6 1k 2 7
6 Sel2 NC2 SPIDO 6
SI1 FUSE 3 6
7 VDD NC1 +5V 7
4 5
8 VSS NC 8
CON8 CON8
C4 C5 C6
3.3V

104 104 104

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2-2 Physical Dimension

Figure 5

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2-3 Circuit Diagram

Figure 6

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Figure 7

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2-4 Electric Characters and Environment Characters

z Low Current Consumption: 500 μA, when use a 3.3V direct supply.

z Low Current Consumption: 4.5mA, when use a 5V supply.

z Low Voltage Operation: 2.2 V -3.6, when use a 3.3V direct supply.

z Wide Voltage Operation: 4.5 V -9 V, when applied on 5V pin.

z High Sensitivity output (800 mV/g @ 1.5g)

z Working Temperature Range: -10 to +65°C

z Storage Temperature Range: -20 to +85°C

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