A fourth-order ΣΔ interface for micromachined inertial sensors

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1602-1609

  Petkov, Vladimir P ^a   Boser, Bernhard E ^b,c  

^a BOSCH RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Gyroscope; High order; Inertial sensors; Quantization noise; Sigma delta ( )

Indexed keywords

HIGH-ORDER; INERTIAL SENSORS; QUANTIZATION NOISE; SIGMA-DELTA (Σ Δ);

ACCELEROMETERS; ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; GYROSCOPES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MICROMACHINING; TOPOLOGY;

SENSORS;

EID: 23744468047     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2005.852025     Document Type: Article

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