ST offers Open.MEMS Licensing

STMicroelectronics announced its Open.MEMS program to boost time-to-development with quick and easy single-node evaluation licensing. To encourage broad use of its MEMS and sensors to all the customers and open-community developers, the program makes freely available to Open.MEMS licensees drivers, middleware, and application software, beginning with sensor fusion for 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyroscope, and 3-axis magnetometer, considered vital for many portable and wearable applications. ST anticipates continuing expansion of the Open.MEMS program with additional and complementary software libraries, including, for example, blocks for pedometers, tilted compasses, gesture-recognition, activity monitoring and pedestrian dead reckoning. “ST has grown to be the leading supplier of MEMS and sensors for consumer, mobile, and telematics and infotainment automotive applications by providing outstanding and innovative products to most of the industry’s top companies,” said Benedetto Vigna, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Analog, MEMS, and Sensors Group, STMicroelectronics. “The “S” in MEMS has traditionally been associated with (micro-electro-mechanical) Systems, and now it also represents our Software, which is ready to enable people all over the world to express their creativity through ST’s exciting Open.MEMS program.” The Open.MEMS program is suppo...