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Figure 1: Revolving Joint Figure 2:Gimbal Joint
Figure 3: Universal Joint (not available)
2.5 Software
A LabVIEW
TM
based Evaluation software environment named "Joystick/Shift-by-wire Evaluation Platform"
can be downloaded from service.micronas.com (registration required). "Joystick/Shift-by-wire Evaluation
Platform" is providing the communication interface to the sensor as well as visualization of the Magnetic
Field characteristics and Joystick position. The user is also given the opportunity to program the sensor
when it is set to factory defaults. The installation includes the executable of the evaluation software, STL
files loaded by the 3D Environment and EEPROM dump files used to program the sensor. More details
found in section 4.
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