GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Robert Bosch is the world market leader for pressure sensors in automotive and consumer applications. Bosch’s proprietary APSM (Advanced Porous Silicon Membrane) MEMS manufacturing process is fully CMOS compatible and allows a hermetic sealing of the cavity in an all silicon process. Its small dimensions and its low power consumption of 2.7 µA @1Hz allow the implementation in battery driven devices such as mobile phones, GPS modules or watches. As the successor to the widely adopted BMP180, the BMP280 delivers high performance in all applications that require precise pressure measurement. The BMP280 operates at lower noise, supports new filter modes and an SPI interface within a footprint 63% smaller than the BMP180. The emerging applications of indoor navigation, fitness as well as GPS refinement require a high relative accuracy and a low TCO at the same time. BMP180 and BMP280 are perfectly suitable for applications like floor detection since both sensors feature excellent relative accuracy is ±0.12 hPa, which is equivalent to ±1 m difference in altitude.
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