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Technical Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems
Chapter 12: Applications: Pressure, Actuation, Navigation |
| | Hierarchical Representation and Simulation of Micromachined Inertial Sensors | | Authors: | J.E. Vandemeer, M.S. Kranz and G.K. Fedder | | Affilation: | Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. | | Pages: | 540 - 545 | | Keywords: | nodal simulation, lumped-parameter modeling, inertial sensors. | | Abstract: | A circuit-level methodology for simulating micromachined inertial sensors based on a hierarchical representation of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) is presented. In the NODAS methodology 2dal Design of Actuators and Sensors), microaccelerometers and microgyroscopes are designed as netlists of general-purpose micromechanical beams, plates, electrostatic gaps, joints, and anchors and evaluated using lumped-parameter behavioral models. The on-chip displacements and global position of each micromechanical element have been separated in the netlist, enabling application of translation and rotation of the chip while simultaneously providing access to on-chip displacements for position sensing and electrostatic actuation. Simulations of static displacements and modal frequencies of a cantilever beam, a crab-leg accelerometer, and a symmetric vibratory-rate gyroscope agree to within 2% o finite-element analysis when using the minimal number of elements. Simulation of a 16 kHz vibratory-rate gyroscope system with dual transresistance sense amplifiers illustrates the ability to perfomm systemlevel mixed-domain simulation. |  | View paper | | ISBN: | 0-96661-35-0-3 |
| Pages: | 678 |
| Hardcopy: | $100.00 |
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