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6.1.4 Direct Excitation of Secondary Resonator . . . . . . . . . . . 102<br />

6.1.5 Variation of Middle Electrode Biasing Voltage . . . . . . . . 103<br />

6.1.6 Cross-Coupling in Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103<br />

6.2 Effects of Synchronous Demodulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104<br />

6.3 Effects of Quadrature Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106<br />

6.4 Effects of Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108<br />

6.5 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109<br />

7 Capacitive Sensor Readout 111<br />

7.1 Effects of Electrostatic Forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113<br />

7.1.1 Spring Softening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114<br />

7.1.2 Nonlinear Electrostatic Forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115<br />

7.1.3 Pull-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115<br />

7.2 Continuous-Time Front-Ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116<br />

7.2.1 Resonance Frequency Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116<br />

7.2.2 Modulation to a Higher Frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121<br />

7.3 Switched-Capacitor Discrete-Time Front-Ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124<br />

7.3.1 Voltage Amplifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125<br />

7.3.2 Noise B<strong>and</strong>width-Limited Discrete-Time Circuits . . . . . . . 133<br />

7.3.3 Electromechanical ΣΔ Loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136<br />

7.3.4 Other Switched-Capacitor Front-Ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138<br />

7.4 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139<br />

8 Implementation 141<br />

8.1 Sensor Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141<br />

8.2 System Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144<br />

8.2.1 Sensor Readout <strong>and</strong> Angular Velocity Detection . . . . . . . . 146<br />

8.2.2 Clocking Scheme <strong>and</strong> Synchronous Demodulation . . . . . . 147<br />

8.2.3 Primary Resonator Excitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152<br />

8.2.4 Quadrature Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153<br />

8.2.5 System Start-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153<br />

8.3 Sensor Readout Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154<br />

8.3.1 Sensor Front-End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154<br />

8.3.2 High-Pass Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164<br />

8.3.3 Signal Level Normalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167<br />

8.3.4 Low-Pass Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169<br />

8.3.5 B<strong>and</strong>pass ΣΔ ADCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173<br />

8.4 Other Analog Circuit Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175<br />

8.4.1 Phase-Locked Loop <strong>and</strong> Reference Clock Generation . . . . . 175<br />

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