Abstract:
A microelectromechanical device includes a body (2a), a movable mass (2b), elastically connected to the body (6; 106) and movable in accordance with a degree of freedom, and a driving device (6), coupled to the movable mass (2b) and configured to maintain the movable mass (2b) in oscillation at a steady working frequency ( ω D ) in a normal operating mode. The microelectromechanical device moreover includes a start-up device (7, 8, 10), which is activatable in a start-up operating mode and is configured to compare a current oscillation frequency ( ω A ) of a first signal (CK A ) correlated to oscillation of the movable mass (2b) with a reference frequency ( ω R ), and for deciding, on the basis of the comparison between the current oscillation frequency ( ω A ) and the reference frequency ( ω R ), whether to supply to the movable mass (2b) a forcing signal packet (V F ) so as to transfer energy to the movable mass (2b).
Abstract:
A gyroscope includes a body (6), a driving mass (7), which is mobile according to a driving axis (X), and a sensing mass (8), which is driven by the driving mass (7) and is mobile according to a sensing axis (Y), in response to rotations of the body (6). A driving device (3) forms a microelectromechanical control loop (18) with the body (6) and the driving mass (7) and maintains the driving mass (7) in oscillation with a driving frequency (ω D ). The driving device (3) comprises a frequency detector (25), which supplies a clock signal (CK N ) at the frequency of oscillation of the driving mass (7), and a synchronization stage (29), which applies a calibrated phase shift (Δϕ) to the clock signal (CK N ) so as to compensate a phase shift caused by components (20, 21, 22) of the loop (18) that are set between the driving mass (7) and the control node (25a).