Self-calibrating oversampling electromechanical modulator and self-calibration method

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PATENT NO 7461553
APP PUB NO 20070107492A1
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11567159

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An oversampling electromechanical modulator, including a micro-electromechanical sensor which has a first sensing capacitance and a second sensing capacitance and supplies an analog quantity correlated to the first sensing capacitance and to the second sensing capacitance; a converter stage, which supplies a first numeric signal and a second numeric signal that are correlated to the analog quantity; and a first feedback control circuit for controlling the micro-electromechanical sensor, which supplies an electrical actuation quantity correlated to the second numeric signal. The electromechanical modulator moreover includes a second feedback control circuit for calibrating the micro-electromechanical sensor, which includes an offset-sensing circuit that can be activated by the first numeric signal, and a programmable calibration circuit, having a programmable calibration capacitance, which is connected to the micro-electromechanical sensor and is controlled by the offset-sensing circuit for balancing of the first sensing capacitance and second sensing capacitance.

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STMICROELECTRONICS S R L20864 AGRATE BRIANZA (MB)

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Greco, Valeria Catanzaro, IT 2 30
Lasalandra, Ernesto S. Donato Milanese, IT 37 813
Pasolini, Fabio S. Martino Siccomario, IT 34 999

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