The NovaSensor NPA-201 Digital Output Absolute Pressure Sensor provides low power consumption and compact size, making it ideal for battery-powered and mobile applications or any application where size is a constraint. In today’s growing market for portable electronics and wearables with multiple parameters being measured there are many applications that require an accurate measurement of barometric pressure to determine factors such as altitude.
Applications
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Features
- Absolute Pressure Range: 260 to 1260 mBar
- Sleep State Current: <20 nA Typ. (25°C)
- Temperature Resolution: <0.003K/LSB
- 16-bit pressure and temperature resolution
- Operating Temperature: –40°C to +85 °C
- Absolute Accuracy: +/- 0.2 mbar / Relative Ac- curacy: +/- 0.1 mbar Typical
- I2C interface
- Operating Range: 1.7 ~ 3.6V
- Small size package (2.0 x 2.5 x 1.0mm)
- 8-HCLGA package
- Fully-calibrated and compensated
- Digital compensation via 18bit internal digital signal processor (DSP) running a correction algorithm
Specifications
| Electrical Specifications | Limits | Unit | Remarks | ||
| Min | Typ | Max | |||
| Supply Voltage | 1.7 | - | 3.6 | V | |
| Operating Temperature | -40 | - | 85 | °C | |
| Full Accuracy Temperature | -20 | - | 80 | °C | |
| Current Consumption | - | 35 | - | µA | Read time = 500ms |
| - | 20 | 250 | nA | Sleep State, Idle Current,<85 C | |
| Operating Pressure Range | 260 | - | 1260 | mBar | |
| Pressure Output Data Bits | - | 16 | - | bit | |
| Pressure Resolution | - | 0.015 (0.12) |
- | mBar(m) | |
| Temperature Output Data | - | 16 | - | bit | |
| Temperature Accuracy | - | ± 2 | - | °C | T= 0 to 60°C |
| Pressure Accuracy | -1 | +1 | %FSO | T= 20 to 60°C | |
| Absolute Maximum Ratings | Limits | Unit | Remarks | ||
| Min | Typ | Max | |||
| Supply Voltage | -0.4 | - | 3.63 | V | |
| Overpressure (Pressure Element only, Non-hermetic package) |
- | - | 10,000 | mBar | |
| Electrostatic Discharge Tolerance - Human Body Model |
4 | - | - | kV | |
| Storage Temperature | -40 | - | 120 | °C | |
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