SCA3000 DEMO KIT
User Manual
VTI Technologies Oy 6/21
www.vti.fi Doc.Nr. 8259300.11 Rev.0.11
If more than one USB serial port devices
are connected to PC, user must select the
correct USB SERIAL PORT from pop-up
window (Figure 3). If user does not know
the correct USB serial port number, please
disconnect all other USB serial port
devices from PC and restart the GUI
software.
Figure 3. USB serial port selection pop-up window.
User needs to select the correct product
type from PRODUCT SELECTION pop-up
window (Figure 4). SCA3000-D01 is
selected by default, product type can be
found from top SCA3000 component, see
Figure 1. Product selection affects on the
used serial communication (SPI / I2C) as
well as the sensor output scaling to
acceleration.
Figure 4. Product selection pop-up window.
SCROLL, continuously scrolling X, Y, Z
and resultant accelerations, see Figure 5.
Acceleration is presented in [g]. User can:
- change the acceleration scale
- freeze the scrolling image
- change the averaging factor
- set averaging OFF
- save acceleration data into file
- enable resultant scrolling
- select between full resolution and 8-bit
resolution (only the MSB bytes of the
acceleration data are presented)
- detect which axis caused the
interruption in motion detection mode
(by clearing the interrupt)
Most of the actions/controls listed above
are in the extension part of the window,
which can be accessed by pressing the
arrow button (see Figure 2 and Table 1).
Figure 5. Scroll display with detected free fall.
The red led in the lower left corner in Figure 5 indicates the detected free fall. By pressing the red led the
interrupt is cleared by reading the INT_STATUS register. The pull down menu for different displays is
disabled when free fall or motion detector mode is activated.
