Low-power, continuous-time sigma-delta interface for micromachined gyroscopes employing a sub-nyquist-sampling technique

TRANSDUCERS and EUROSENSORS '07 - 4th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1179-1182

  Dienger, M ^a   Buhmann, A ^b   Northemann, T ^b   Link, T ^a,b   Manoli, Y ^a  

^a Institute of Microsystem Technology (HSG IMIT)   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electromechanical modulator; full CT; Low power; Modified CHS; Undersampling

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; GYROSCOPES; MICROSYSTEMS; SENSORS; TRANSDUCERS;

CHOPPER STABILIZATION; CONTINUOUS-TIME; DISCRETE-TIME; FLICKER NOISES; FULL CT; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LOW POWERS; LOW-POWER; MICRO-MACHINED GYROSCOPE; MODIFIED CHS; READ-OUT ELECTRONICS; SAMPLING TECHNIQUES; SIGMA-DELTA; SOLID-STATE SENSORS; SYSTEM CONCEPTS; SYSTEMATIC DESIGN APPROACH; UNDERSAMPLING;

CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 44849127743     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SENSOR.2007.4300346     Document Type: Conference Paper

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