JAJU835 December 2021
In this design, a Hall-based implementation is used for both waking up the system and translating the trigger displacement into an output voltage. However, a hybrid approach is also possible, where a mechanical switch wakes up the system when the trigger is pressed and a linear Hall-effect sensor translates the trigger displacement into an output voltage. This alternative architecture essentially replaces the entire Hall-based wake-up alert function (the green box within the block diagram in Figure 2-1) with a mechanical switch. By replacing the wake-up alert function with a mechanical switch, the following components are not needed (see Figure 2-30):
SN74HCS00 and SN74AUP1G00 logic gates for combining the outputs from the different Hall switches
By removing the previously-listed components, this hybrid approach can obtain a reduced system current consumption than this design. However, the mechanical switch would have more issues with wear and tear compared to the approach used in this design, which could reduce the lifetime of systems build with this hybrid mechanical switch + linear Hall-effect sensor approach compared to the Hall-effect switch + linear Hall-effect sensor architecture used in this design.