A novel vibratory micromechanical gyro with an active area less than one millimeter square has been analyzed, designed, and built. It has been demonstrated that such a gyro can be built using semiconductor fabrication techniques, and that the resulting performance is reasonably predictable. Further improvement of this gyro will result in an instrument that is small, low power, and in particular, will be very cheap in large quantities.
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