Development of Vehicle Magnetic Electronic Compass Li Xisheng, Liu Hongyi, Guo Xiaoxia, Wang Lijin, Wang Shaochun University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083 Abstract: The design of magnetic electronic compass is introduced. Using magnetoresistive sensor made by ourselves, a novel magnetic electronic compass has been developed. In the portion of signal conditioning circuit, AC amplifying technique is involved so that the error due to null and drift of magnetoresistive sensor is minimized. One-circle calibration method is adopted to realize auto-calibration. The maximum of azimuth error is less than 1° in the outdoor test. Key words: anisotropic magnetoresistance, magnetoresistive sensor, electronic compass