ams Delivers Accurate Digital Temperature Sensor for Wearable Devices and Data Centers

By Tiera Oliver

Associate Editor

Embedded Computing Design

December 03, 2020

News

ams Delivers Accurate Digital Temperature Sensor for Wearable Devices and Data Centers

ams announced the launch of the AS622. Per the company, the AS622 is the world’s most accurate digital temperature sensor.

ams announced the launch of the AS622. Per the company, the AS622 is the world’s most accurate digital temperature sensor. 

The AS6221 achieves measurement accuracy of ±0.09°C, over a temperature range from 20°C to 42°C, making it ideal for the measurement of human body or skin temperature. Also, per the company, no competing digital temperature sensor on the market today can achieve accuracy better than ±0.10°C. 

The AS6221 is housed in a WLCSP package with a footprint of just 1.5mm x 1mm and draws 6µA at an output data rate of 4Hz. Stand-by current is just 0.1µA.

This compact and low-power sensor is well suited to battery-powered portable and wearable devices, such as premium lifestyle or fitness monitoring wristbands, and smart watches. In high-end computing systems and servers, it also enables the regulation of the operation of the processor to maximize system throughput while avoiding overheating.  

The introduction of the AS6221 extends ams’ position in the market for health monitoring technology, alongside existing products such as the AS7038RB blood oxygen monitoring device, AS7030B biosensor, devices for medical imaging systems, and the NanEye family of image sensors for endoscopy. 

The accuracy of the AS6221 is specified across the device’s entire supply voltage range of 1.7V to 3.6V. According to the company, by contrast, the most accurate competing sensors can only achieve their highest accuracy at a single voltage point, producing less accurate outputs across the rest of their operating voltage range. 

The sensor offers a short measurement conversion time of 35ms. Its full operating temperature range is -40°C to 125°C. 

A complete digital temperature sensor system, the AS6221 requires no calibration or linearization. It provides its measurement outputs via a standard I2C interface and includes eight I2C addresses. 

The AS6221 also offers an alarm function, to alert the user when a temperature threshold is crossed. The temperature value for the alarm function may be set by a host processor via the device’s register instruction set. 

The AS6221 temperature sensor is available for sampling.

For more information, visit: https://ams.com/AS6221

Tiera Oliver, Associate Editor for Embedded Computing Design, is responsible for web content edits, product news, and constructing stories. She also assists with newsletter updates as well as contributing and editing content for ECD podcasts and the ECD YouTube channel. Before working at ECD, Tiera graduated from Northern Arizona University where she received her B.S. in journalism and political science and worked as a news reporter for the university’s student led newspaper, The Lumberjack.

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