Digital electronics for inertial MEMS and space applications

Autor: Raphaël Lévy, Leopold Delahaye, Jean Guerard
Přispěvatelé: DPHY, ONERA, Université Paris Saclay (COmUE) [Châtillon], ONERA-Université Paris Saclay (COmUE)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Symposium on Design, Test, Integration & Packaging of MEMS and MOEMS (DTIP 2018)
Symposium on Design, Test, Integration & Packaging of MEMS and MOEMS (DTIP 2018), May 2018, ROME, Italy. ⟨10.1109/DTIP.2018.8394236⟩
DOI: 10.1109/DTIP.2018.8394236⟩
Popis: International audience; This paper presents an electronic platform for driving resonant MEMS in inertial sensors, and possibly other resonant or carrier based sensors. The architecture is fully integrated in a digital programmable device (FPGA), and avoids several critical components when dealing with space qualification. The core hardware functions are Direct Digital Synthesis , Sigma-Delta modulation, Time to Digital conversion. These functions are driven by an embedded processor, managing a second level of software functions : synchronous demodulation, Phase-Locked Loop, decimation, digital communications. The specificity of this digital platform is to avoid usual Analog-To-Digital and Digital-To-Analog conversion. All measurements are performed by means of digital delay counting, yet allowing an interesting resolution of 16 bits even on carried signals up to 100 kHz with a frequency resolution better than 1 µHz (11 digits on the frequency). A prototype of vibrating accelerometer has been integrated and characterized to experience the electronic performance on a real sensor. The results show that the embedded architecture is already close to the performance obtained with separate equipments on the test bench.
Databáze: OpenAIRE