MPU-6500

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

Note: The MPU-6500 is not recommended for new designs.

The MPU-6500 is the company’s second-generation 6-axis MotionTracking device for smartphones, tablets, wearable sensors, and other consumer markets. The MPU-6500, delivered in a 3 mm x 3 mm x 0.9 mm QFN package, addresses the market requirements for high-performance applications such as pedestrian navigation, context-aware advertising, and other location-based services. The device also supports the specifications for emerging wearable sensor applications, such as remote health monitoring, sports and fitness tracking, and other consumer applications.

The single-chip MPU-6500 integrates a 3-axis accelerometer, a 3-axis gyroscope, and an onboard Digital Motion Processor™ (DMP). It's the world’s first motion sensor to operate at 1.8 volts and consumes only 6.1 mW of power in full operating mode. It incorporates gyroscope performance of only ±5 dps zero-rate-output and 0.01 dps/√Hz of noise, and delivers accelerometer specifications including a typical offset of ±60 mg, 300 µg/√Hz of noise, and 18 µA of current in low-power mode.

• 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
• Digital-output temperature sensor

• Digital input on FSYNC pin to support video Electronic Image Stabilization
• Programmable interrupt supports gesture recognition, panning, zooming, scrolling, tap detection, and shake detection
• VDD Supply voltage range of 1.71V–3.6V
• Gyro operating current: 3.2mA (full power, gyro at all rates)
• Gyro + Accel operating current: 3.4mA (full power, gyro at all rates, accel at 1kHz sample rate)
• Accel low power mode operating currents: 18.65µA at 31.25Hz
• Full Chip Idle Mode Supply Current: 6µA
• 400kHz Fast Mode I²C or up to 20MHz SPI serial host interfaces
• 10,000g shock tolerant
• Smallest and thinnest package for portable devices (3 × 3 × 0.9 mm QFN)
• RoHS and Green compliant