Ecompass
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An eCompass or e-Compass is a tilt compensated electronic compass utilizing an accelerometer and a magnetometer. A number of manufacturers, including Motorola, AKM Semiconductor, NXP, Bosch Sensortec, and ST micro make eCompasses. eCompasses are also found in some laptops such as the [http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-spectre-x360-13-ae052nr HP Spectre]. Today's smartphones often include an eCompass sensor which acts as a real compass and helpful in some games also.
See also
References
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- http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-spectre-x360-13-ae052nr
- https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/FXOS8700CQ.pdf
- https://www.akm.com/akm/en/file/datasheet/AK09915C.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301085945/https://www.akm.com/akm/en/file/datasheet/AK09915C.pdf |date=2019-03-01 }}
- https://ae-bst.resource.bosch.com/media/_tech/media/datasheets/BST-BMC150-DS000.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302104901/https://ae-bst.resource.bosch.com/media/_tech/media/datasheets/BST-BMC150-DS000.pdf |date=2019-03-02 }}
- https://www.st.com/resource/en/datasheet/lsm303agr.pdf