MEMS Gyroscope

What is a sensitivity scale factor of a MEMS gyroscope or any sensor? How can it be used to calculate the resolution of that sensor. For example MPU 6050 is digiatal MEMS gyroscope with a sensitivity scale factor of 131 LSB/dps for a particular mode (ADC word length= 16). So what can be its resolution in that mode?

by sivashyamsundar
June 21, 2013

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What is a sensitivity scale factor of a MEMS gyroscope

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scale factor (SF)

in:

http://www.alexandertrusov.com/uploads/pdf/2011-UCI-trusov-whitepaper-gyros.pdf

See:

http://www.alexandertrusov.com/uploads/pdf/2013-sna-prikhodko-trusov-shkel-fmtemp.pdf

See Section 3.4 in:

http://www.parallax.com/portals/0/downloads/docs/prod/sens/27911-gyroscopeappnote1.pdf

or:

http://www.st.com/web/en/resource/technical/document/technical_article/DM00034730.pdf

by signality
June 21, 2013

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