Since Analog's ADXL150 accelerometer has been phased out (and the 8-LCC packaging on Analog's other accelerometers is not very user-friendly), I got a couple MMA3201D accelerometers (Freescale Semiconductor) to see if they'd be a reasonable substitute. After doing some preliminary prototyping, it looks like this sensor is really noisy. I was getting a standard deviation of 24mV (about .5g), and this is with a 12bit ADC sampling at about 40Hz. The ADXL150's I've used in the past were never this noisy.
Does anyone else have any experience with the MMA3201D? Is it just a noisy sensor that's better used in airbag systems (typ application), and not semi-accurate datalogging? Anyone have any suggestions for any other "non-8-LCC", economical (