Ithaca, New York – Thursday, July 8, 2010 – Kionix, Inc., a global leader in the
design and fabrication of high-performance, silicon-micromachined, MEMS
inertial sensors, today announced that its KXTF9 tri-axis accelerometer with
Directional Tap/Double-TapTM is the only accelerometer to appear in Electronic
Design\'s annual ranking, The Top 101 Components List.
  \"This reflects the market\'s enthusiasm for the added value that Kionix products
bring to novel user-interface methods in mobile electronics,\" said Kenny Salky,
Vice President for Sales. “Innovation through sensor integration is accelerating
due to the added intelligence that Kionix provides in its products—design teams
have recognized this and end customers will realize the benefits as well.”
Earlier this year, Kionix released its Application Note AN023, “Getting Started
with the KXTF9,” that helps engineers understand the product\'s embedded
features and navigate through the details of the KXTF9 technical specifications.
  \"Compiling a list is often a matter of combining subjective judgments with
objective data,\" said Electronic Design\'s Editor-in-Chief Joseph Desposito. The
subjective judgment is applied to the list\'s creation by Components Editor Mat
Dirjish in selecting what he deems to be the best new products that come across
his desk, two of which are selected each week to appear in Electronic Design\'s
Products of the Week e-newsletter. The objective judgment lies with enewsletter
readers who, in clicking a link for more product information, register
their “votes,” which, according to Dirjish, “enables us to deduce which products
were the most popular—the ones you were looking for most—over the past
year.”
The KXTF9\'s Directional Tap/Double-TapTM feature operates by the detection of
a quick, light tap, or double tap, on any of the six faces of an object (X, Y and Z).
The embedded algorithm allows the accelerometer to discern a single or double
tap and the direction from which the tap originated. These 12 taps/double taps
can be used by customers as user-interface commands to enable certain
features on their electronic products.

Press releases as following:
http://www.kionix.com/Press-Releases/Releases/Press%20Release_Kionix%20KXTF9%20in%20Electronic%20Designs%20Top%20101%20Components.pdf

Vendor:

Kionix Inc.