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Qualtre gets funding to commercialize next-gen MEMS gyros
Marlborough, Mass. — Qualtre, Inc. has completed an $8 million Series B round of financing, bringing the total funds raised to $13 million, which will finance the company’s product development, sales, and operations infrastructure to commercialize its proprietary bulk acoustic wave (BAW) microelectromechanical system (MEMS) gyroscopes.
Participating venture capital investors include Matrix Partners and Pilot House Ventures, whose past portfolio investments include Xilinx and SanDisk.
Addressing bias stability, high sensitivity, low-power consumption and cost issues, Qualtre is claiming the industry’s first solid-state multi-axis MEMS gyroscopes, targeting mobile handsets, game controllers, and digital camera image stabilization markets.
Currently available MEMS gyroscopes used in these applications have delicate moving mass structures vibrating at low frequencies of 5 to 50 KHz, making them susceptible to bias drift over time, temperature and vibration, said Qualtre. The company’s gyroscopes are said to operate at high frequency (2 to10 MHz) bulk acoustic modes to provide “superior mechanical signal amplification with excellent bias stability” over an extended temperature range.
Yole Developpement forecasts a $732 million market for MEMS gyroscopes in consumer electronic applications in 2015 with tri-axis gyroscopes representing 80 percent of the market share.
Delphi Automotive intros an aluminum cable as an alternative to more expensive copper cabling in automotive applications.