Stmicroelectronics S.r.l.

Matteo Quartiroli

Alessandra Maria Rizzo Piazza Roncoroni

Paolo Pesenti

Alessandro Mecchia

Andrea Donadel

Giovanni Carlo Tripoli

Salvatore Poli

Paolo Rosingana

Roberto Faravelli

Stefano Facchinetti

Paola Baldrighi

Rossella Bassoli

Laura Maestri

An integrated circuit includes a control circuit, a primary sensor device coupled to the control circuit, and a plurality of groups of secondary sensor devices coupled to the primary sensor device. The primary sensor device receives a master clock signal from the control device and outputs, to each group of secondary sensor devices, a respective secondary clock signal with a frequency lower than the primary clock signal. The primary sensor device generates primary sensor data. The primary sensor device receives secondary sensor data from each group of secondary sensor devices. The primary sensor device combines the primary sensor data and all of the secondary sensor data into a sensor data stream with a time division-multiplexing scheme and outputs the sensor data stream to the control circuit.

Time division multiplexing hub

The present disclosure is directed to a device and method for generating and transmitting a TDM signal including both raw data and processed data. The device includes a sensor having a time division multiplexing (TDM) interface. The TDM interface transmits both raw data and processed data in a single TDM signal by reserving one or more slots inside a TDM frame for transmission of the processed data. The sensor also embeds additional information inside a data stream of raw data by repurposing one or more of values of the raw data as an exception code, flag, or another type of notification. The device is also enabled to transmit data, and disabled when not in use in order to conserve power.

Sensors with enhanced time division multiplexing frames

A device includes a local oscillator, an all-digital phase-locked loop, a digital signal generator, sampling circuitry, and an interface. The local oscillator generates a local clock signal. The all-digital phase locked loop generates a sampling control signal. The ADPLL includes a phase-error detector, a digital filter and a sigma-delta modulator. The phase detector generates a phase error signal based on a loop clock signal and a received reference signal. The digital filter generates a signal indicative of a frequency ratio between a frequency of the reference clock signal and the local clock frequency based on the phase error signal. The sigma-delta modulator generates a modulated signal based on the signal indicative of the frequency ratio. The sampling control signal is based on the modulated signal. The sampling circuitry samples digital signals generated by the digital signal generator at a sampling frequency, which is a function of the sampling control signal.

Synchronizing digital device

A sensor includes detection circuitry and control circuitry coupled to the detection circuitry. The detection circuitry generates a detection signal indicative of a detected physical quantity. The control circuitry, in operation receives the detection signal and a frequency-indication signal, and generates a trigger signal based on the frequency-indication signal and a set of local reference signals. The sensor generates a digital output signal and a locking signal based on the trigger signal and the detection signal. The generating the digital output signal includes outputting a sample of the digital output signal based on the trigger signal. The locking signal is temporally aligned with the digital output signal.

Sensor device and related method and system

A demodulator for demodulating the in-phase component of an input signal which is in-phase and quadrature modulated. The demodulator includes a register storing a phase calibration value and a temperature sensor that performs a plurality of temperature sensings. A compensating stage generates for each temperature sensed a corresponding first sample on the basis of the difference between the sensed temperature and a calibration temperature and a compensation function indicative of a relationship existing between the phase of the input signal and the temperature. A combination stage generates a plurality of second samples, each second sample being a function of the phase calibration value and a corresponding first sample. A generating stage generates a demodulating signal having a phase which depends on the second samples and a demodulating stage demodulates the input signal by means of the demodulating signal.

Compensated demodulator for in-phase and quadrature modulated signals, MEMS gyroscope including the same and demodulation method

A MEMS sensor generates an output multiscale reading signal supplied to a full scale adjustment stage. The full scale adjustment stage includes a signal input configured to receive the reading signal, a saturation assessment block, and a full scale change block. The saturation assessment block is coupled to the signal input and configured to generate a scale increase request signal upon detection of a saturation condition. The full scale change block is coupled to the saturation assessment block and configured to generate a full scale change signal upon reception of the scale increase request signal.

Integrated electronic device including a full scale adjustment stage for signals supplied by a MEMS sensor

A demodulator demodulates an in-phase component of an input signal which is in-phase and quadrature modulated. The demodulator includes a register storing a phase calibration value having an integer part and a fractional part. A noise-shaping modulator generates a succession of quantized values of integer type, the quantized values having a mean equal to the phase calibration value. A generating stage generates a demodulating signal phase locked with the input signal, the demodulating signal having a phase which depends linearly on the quantized values. A demodulating stage demodulates the input signal by means of the demodulating signal.

Demodulator for in-phase and quadrature modulated signals, MEMS gyroscope including the same and demodulation method

One or more first signals and one or more second signals, wherein the second signal(s) are slowly varying or low frequency signals in comparison with the first signals and are converted from analog to digital by sampling the first signals and the second signals to produce samples thereof for analog-to-digital conversion, subjecting the samples of the first signals to conversion to digital at a certain conversion rate, subjecting the samples of the second signal to conversion to digital by segments so that these segments are subjected to conversion to digital along with the samples of the first signals at the respective conversion rate, and reconstructing digital converted samples of the second signal from the segments subjected to conversion to digital.

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