Hall Latch Manages Extreme Environments

YPRES, Belgium, June 21, 2010 - Melexis today releases the MLX92211, second generation of
Automotive Hall-Effect Latch sensors. The MLX92211 comes as a great successor
of the worldwide famous USx88x series by Melexis. This brand new platform has
been meticulously designed to deliver a standard product with tremendous
performance and exceptional robustness for more and more stringent automotive
requirements such as Electrical Power Steering (EPS), Window lifters/Sunroof,
Seat Adjusters, Wipers or Motor Commutation.

The MLX92211 features a very sensitive Hall-Effect sensor
operating from 2.7 to 24 volts, covering automotive, consumer and industrial
applications. With Latching magnetic behavior, the open drain output is
switched ON and OFF by applying South and North magnetic field
perpendicularly to the package top side, typically the case with rotary
applications using "on-shaft" multi-poles ring magnet.

Especially designed for automotive applications, the device
integrates all protections required when using "integrated" or "remote"
sensors like very high electro-static discharge (ESD) rating, reverse supply
voltage protection, output short circuit protection and even more.

Brand New Platform

The MLX92211 core is based on a high voltage sub-micron
process ideally suited to handle low and high operating voltage from 2.7 to
24 volts as well as low and high operating temperature from -40 to 150 degree
Celsius.

The whole magnetic core was reinvented in this platform with a
special focus on the offset cancellation system to allow faster and more
accurate processing while being temperature insensitive. A negative
temperature coefficient of -1000ppm/degC was implemented to compensate the
natural behavior of magnets becoming weaker with rise in temperature.

The result leads to very stable and accurate magnetic
switching points of typically +/-3mT (milliteslas)at 25degC, while the output
is updated every 6us (micro-seconds) with a jitter of only +/-3us, thus
increasing repeatability factor within the application.

Packaging & Availability

The MLX92211 is packaged in the 3-pin Thin SOT (TSOT) package
for SMD mounting. This package has been specially selected to be "face-up"
meaning the silicon die is facing the package top side. Respectful of the
environment, the SE package is fully "Green" compliant including notably RoHS
(Restriction of Hazardous Substances), Lead-Free (Pb-Free) and Halogen-Free
compliance.

The MLX92211 is available for high volume production with
engineering samples available on request.

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Company Contact: Rik Moens +32-13-670-780 - rmo at melexis.com