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LSM6DSV16X SFLP Performance

mmWaver
Associate II

In LSM6DSV16X DS13510-Rev 4 Page 8, Table lists sensor fusion performance:

 

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Question 1: are these values guaranteed over temperature and all angles, or at a particular angle and at room temperature?

Question 2: without a magnetometer or GNSS heading input, what is meant by heading/yaw accuracy? Is it a drift value (over 5 minutes) from whatever value it is given at the beginning of 5 minutes?

Thank you.

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Static gyro (or accel) bias error is easily removed. Full-scale error, cross axis error, axis misalignment errors are a tad harder to correct but can be done also in a straightforward albeit somewhat time-consuming manner. Gyro drift is the main remaining culprit in 6 DoF dead reckoning error. Gyro drift depends on, among a few things, the inherent timing accuracy of the gyro time base. If this can be improved from the typical 50,000 ppm of the internal sensor clock to ~3 ppm using an external 32 kHz, 3 ppm accurate TCXO clock input then gyro drift will be commensurably reduced. It's just that simple...

Now 3 ppm might be a bit of overkill, in that even a 50 ppm crystal will be way more accurate than the internal LSM6DSV or ICM42688 clock...but 3ppm TCXOs are small, cheap, and ultra-low power, so why not?

"If this can be improved from the typical 50,000 ppm of the internal sensor clock to ~3 ppm using an external 32 kHz, 3 ppm accurate TCXO clock input then gyro drift will be commensurably reduced." -- Can you please point me to some literature that explains this? (ICM42688 datasheet does not go this far). Thanks!

No. Not aware of any literature on this subject (effects of TCXO input to ICM42688) per se.

If the explanation so far is unconvincing, I am afraid I can't help any further...

Our testing shows a marked improvement in gyro stability and reduced gyro drift...dead reckoning accuracy tests are in progress.