Melexis offers programmable linear hall sensors in SMD package

Melexis has made available its new programmable linear Hall ICs in surface-mount package (SMD) supporting the trend for improved manufacturability of sensor assemblies and modules.

Vincent Hiligsmann, Product Line Manager in charge of the Hall Sensors at Melexis comments: "Our market surveys and initial feedback are clear: there are many industrial and automotive applications which were waiting for a state-of-the-art, high-accuracy and cost-effective programmable linear Hall sensor in surface-mount package but without any allowable premium for a Melexis Triaxis solution. The third generation of Melexis programmable linear Hall sensor ICs addresses those needs and brings the wished answer."

The MLX90288 featuring ratiometric analog output and the MLX90291 featuring 125 Hz PWM output, both parts in an SOIC-8 SMD package with identical pinout. Finally the MLX90292 is released to the market targeting high reliability applications, available in a dual die redundant TSSOP-16 package. This third sensor, the MLX90292, reports a digital telegram using the fast and safe 2-wire PSI-5 protocol, which includes a temperature output next to the magnetic flux density. It features also 2 kHz PWM mode.

All three devices are readily available in sample and production quantities together with the appropriate PTC-04 programming tools.

In the coming months, the family will be extended by three more programmable products: the MLX91207 featuring analog output with best in class bandwidth for current sensing applications in an optimized SOIC-8 package, the MLX90290 in a TSOT-3L package (analog output) and the MLX90293 with the emerging SENT output protocol.