Select the acceleration tab and the visualizer will present live data received from the accelerometer. If the board is left lying in horizontal position, the Z axis/vertical direction should read 1000 Mili-g due to earth’s gravitation. The X and Y axis should be about 0. Moving the board in different directions will cause changes to the continuously updating graphs. The Microchip sensors software has function falls to detect effects like tapping and tilting of the sensor. These are based on algorithms processing the acceleration along the three axes. These and other functions calls save the developer time as it is not necessary to work with the raw data to re-invent common features like detecting the landscape or portrait tilt of a display.