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GBra
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November 19, 2020
Question

IIS3DHH accelerometer temperature drift

  • November 19, 2020
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The datasheet reports an offset drift TCOff of max. 0,4mg/°C.

We made temperature tests with 3 samples and found the offset drift beeing 0,17 ... 0,58 mg/°C so higher than allowed. Does this meet your expectations?

Can you share your measurements?

Thank You

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    GBra
    GBraAuthor
    Associate
    November 19, 2020

    We tested -20 ... +50°C

    Eleon BORLINI
    ST Employee
    November 19, 2020

    Hi @GBra​ ,

    Some questions for toy: Is the OFF_TCOMP_EN in CTRL_REG4 (23h) set to '1' on your devices (as reported in the datasheet p.3), right? And did you keep the device in a steady state condition and in a mechanically controlled environment during the test, in order to avoid the concurrence of external variables on that thermal gain? Did you normalized the gain with respect to 25°C? And is your Vdd = 2.8V as in the datasheet, or higher?

    I cannot unfortunately share you characterization results so far, but please let me check, in case...

    -Eleon

    GBra
    GBraAuthor
    Associate
    November 19, 2020

    Hi Eleon,

    Yes we have set the OFF_TCOMP_EN Bit.

    Yes we have a good mechanically controlled environment and we did the test 2x.

    Our powersupply is 3,3V.

    Here our meassurement. It shows the deviation in arcsecs over the temperature in °C.

    GBra
    GBraAuthor
    Associate
    November 19, 2020

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    GBra
    GBraAuthor
    Associate
    November 19, 2020

    The blue curve is X-axis; the red curve is Y-axis.

    Eleon BORLINI
    ST Employee
    November 25, 2020

    Hi @GBra​ ,

    thank you for sharing the measures.

    So you are plotting the LSB on y axis? Can you please convert them in mg according to the 0.076 mg/LSB sensitivity?

    If I well understood, you found 1 on 3 devices with a TCOff of 0,58 mg/°C... this might be correlated also to the Vdd = 3.3V, which is different from the 2.8V of the datasheet and could increase internal heating.

    -Eleon

    GBra
    GBraAuthor
    Associate
    November 26, 2020

    Hi Eleon,

    find attached the plotted drift with mg on y-axis.

    Gerhard

    Eleon BORLINI
    ST Employee
    November 26, 2020

    Hi @GBra​ ,

    thank you for the data. Are you sure it is a IIS3DHHC device (with the final "C")?

    By the way, what if you calculate the drift (TCOff) of the overall acceleration vector, i.e. sqrt(ax^2+ay^2+az^2)?

    I have to check internally, but the TCOff parameter on the datasheet might be referred to this joint value...

    -Eleon

    GBra
    GBraAuthor
    Associate
    November 26, 2020

    Hi @Eleon BORLINI​ ,

    we use evaluationboards. See attached picture.

    How do you determine the revision "C"?

    Can't find any information in the datasheet.

    Gerhard

    Eleon BORLINI
    ST Employee
    November 26, 2020

    Hi Gerhard,

    I was just comparing the title of your post where you wrote "IIS3DHH" and the actual device that is, correctly from your picture, a IIS3DHHC.

    Thanks,

    -Eleon