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Visitor II
February 19, 2019
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LSM6DSO RMS values

  • February 19, 2019
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Hi,

I am using a LSM6DSO accelerometer. I want to know what type of acceleration I am getting as output: RMS acceleration or just the acceleration amplitude?

Regards,

Gabriel

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    Best answer by Eleon BORLINI

    Hi Gabriel, you get the amplitude data (that can be positive or negative, while the rms value is only positive by definition). You can calculate the rms value in post-processing

    Regards,

    Eleon

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    ST Employee
    February 21, 2019

    Hi Gabriel, you get the amplitude data (that can be positive or negative, while the rms value is only positive by definition). You can calculate the rms value in post-processing

    Regards,

    Eleon

    Visitor II
    February 21, 2019

    Hi Eleon,

    Do you have any idea what are the steps that I have to perform in order to get the rms value from amplitude?

    Regards,

    Gabriel

    ST Employee
    February 22, 2019

    ​Hi Gabriel, you need more than one samples to calculate a RMS value (at least two consecutive samples. You can follow this link for the formula:

    http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Root-Mean-Square.html

    Regards,

    Eleon