ISAAC - INTEGRATED SILICON AUTOMOTIVE ACCELEROMETER

The pervasiveness of automotive passive restraint systems has emphasiz ed the need for improving system reliability while simultaneously redu cing the cost and size of the system. This paper describes the integra ted silicon automotive accelerometer (ISAAC), which consists of a sili con micromachined die fabricated in a dissolved-wafer process and a CM OS ASIC that are combined in a standard plastic package. The resultant device meets the functional, cost, and reliability requirements of th e next generation of automotive passive restraint systems.