MPU-6050

Six-Axis (Gyro + Accelerometer) MEMS MotionTracking™ Device

Note: The ICM-42670-P is the recommended replacement for the EOL MPU-6050.

The MPU-6050™ parts are the world’s first MotionTracking devices designed for the low power, low cost, and high-performance requirements of smartphones, tablets and wearable sensors.

The MPU-6050 incorporates InvenSense’s MotionFusion™ and run-time calibration firmware that enables manufacturers to eliminate the costly and complex selection, qualification, and system level integration of discrete devices in motion-enabled products, guaranteeing that sensor fusion algorithms and calibration procedures deliver optimal performance for consumers.

The MPU-6050 devices combine a 3-axis gyroscope and a 3-axis accelerometer on the same silicon die, together with an onboard Digital Motion Processor™ (DMP™), which processes complex 6-axis MotionFusion algorithms. The device can access external magnetometers or other sensors through an auxiliary master I²C bus, allowing the devices to gather a full set of sensor data without intervention from the system processor. The devices are offered in a 4 × 4 × 0.9 mm QFN package.

The InvenSense MotionApps™ Platform that comes with the MPU-6050 abstracts motion-based complexities, offloads sensor management from the operating system, and provides a structured set of APIs for application development.

For precision tracking of both fast and slow motions, the parts feature a user-programmable gyro full-scale range of ±250, ±500, ±1000, and ±2000 °/sec (dps), and a user-programmable accelerometer full-scale range of ±2g, ±4g, ±8g, and ±16g. Additional features include an embedded temperature sensor and an on-chip oscillator with ±1% variation over the operating temperature range.

• Digital-output of 6-axis MotionFusion data. 9-axis fused data from Motion Processing Library
• Tri-Axis angular rate sensor (gyro) with a sensitivity up to 131 LSBs/dps and a full-scale range of ±250, ±500, ±1000, and ±2000dps
• Tri-Axis accelerometer with a programmable full scale range of ±2g, ±4g, ±8g and ±16g
• Reduced settling effects and sensor drift by elimination of board-level cross-axis alignment errors between accelerometers and gyroscopes
• Digital Motion Processing™ (DMP™) engine offloads complex MotionFusion, sensor timing synchronization and gesture detection
• MotionApps™ Platform support for Android, Linux, and Windows
• Embedded algorithms for run-time bias and compass calibration in library. No user intervention required
• Digital-output temperature sensor
• Digital input on FSYNC pin to support video Electronic Image Stabilization and GPS

• Programmable interrupt supports gesture recognition, panning, zooming, scrolling, and shake detection
• VDD Supply voltage range of 2.375V–3.46V; VLOGIC (MPU-6050) at 1.8V±5% or VDD
• Gyro operating current: 3.6mA (full power, gyro at all rates)
• Gyro + Accel operating current: 3.8mA (full power, gyro at all rates, accel at 1kHz sample rate)
• Accel low power mode operating currents: 10µA at 1Hz, 20µA at 5Hz, 70µA at 20Hz, 140µA at 40Hz
• Full Chip Idle Mode Supply Current: 5µA
• 400kHz Fast Mode I²C or up to 20MHz SPI (MPU-6000 only) serial host interfaces
• User self test
• 10,000g shock tolerant
• Smallest and thinnest package for portable devices (4 × 4 × 0.9 mm QFN)
• RoHS and Green compliant