I work for a company that has used this IMU for some of the new designs (we have currently assembled and tested +1000 units with ASM330LHH) and we have noticed that some of the units (around 10 %), are presenting a strange behaviour when subjecting them to temperature cycles, the effect has only been noticed in X and Y axes, never in Z. Here is a plot of the behaviour:
The x-axis of the graphs represent the incremental samples, and the y-axis in the left-hand side represents the raw decimal number read in the 16-bit registers. The y-axis in the right-hand side is the temperature in ºC.
The unit is completely static in a controlled environment, a temperature chamber. There is evidence that there has not been any physical motion during the peaks, due to the information provided by additional accelerometers in the same PCB. The ASM330LHH accelerometers do not show this behaviour.
As it can be seen, the unit presents wrong measurements at similar temperatures. In all the tests where this has happened, the effect is seen at approximately similar temperature (+-10 deg) in one unit. When changing the unit, this effect can be repeated at other temperature. The effect does not always happen with the same unit, the effect is not perfectly repeateable.
Here is the configuration I'm using in terms of registers:
CTRL4_C: 00000110
CTRL9_XL: 11100010
CTRL3_C: 01000100
FIFO_CTRL1: 00001001
FIFO_CTRL2: 00000000
FIFO_CTRL3: 01111001
FIFO_CTRL4: 00000110
CTRL1_XL: 10011110
CTRL2_G:01110100
CTRL10_C: 00000000
CTRL5_C: 01100000
CTRL8_XL: 01100000
CTRL6_C: 00000101
I'm reading the FIFO registers at 500 Hz, making an average of the available samples at the moment of extracting the values from the FIFO, after clasifying them in accelerometer or gyroscope measurements according to the tag. I'm using SPI communication at 8 MHz in SPI mode 3.
Please confirm we are using a meaningful register configuration. Is there any way to avoid this behaviour?
