What can I do with an accelerometer?
Inertial measurement
Inertial sensing for Airbag Crash Detection
Using accelerometers in machine condition monitoring
Tilt sensing example
Why should I consider using an accelerometer?
What is a Micromachine? ADI's implementation
Die size and cost per axis is decreasing
New technology reduces the cost of sensing
Sensor Operation
Sensor operation; ADI's implementation
Self test operation
Surface Micromachining
Interesting Facts
Design Focus
Choosing an appopriate technology
Comparison of approaches to acceleration sensing
Comparison of various technologies
Future roadmap
Overview: Specifications
Acceleration is a vector
How the accelerometer output changes with tilt
How a "DC" accelerometer responds to tilt
Data acquisition: Tilt
Data acquisition: Inertial
Practical inertial applications
Designing for tilt sensing
Resolution limited by accelerometer 'noise'
Noise in micro-machined accelerometers
Resolution is generally limited by noise
RMS noise Vs. peak to peak noise
A/D converter resolution
Digital trickery
Some possible designs
More digital trickery
Pitfalls: Acceleration interferes with tilt signal
Solutions to the problem of bias stability: Correcting for temperature drift and long term stability
Using accelerometers as tilt sensors
Data acquisition: Vibration and shock
Characteristics of vibration
Special techniques to recover signal from noise
What if we add a bandpass filter?
Pros and Cons of Micromachined Sensor
Calibration methods
Summary
