Dear Mr. Yong As you pointed correctly, the key idea of force feedback is to use negative feedback to increase the spring constant. For me, this looks same as the idea to use negative feedback with resistors to tune the Opamp gain precisely. The sensitivity of accelerometer is inversely proportional to the spring constant in case of constant mass. I think it is much easier to tune the XL sensitivity with adjusting feedback gain (maybe by adjusting resistor value) instead of laser- trimming suspended, fragile polysilicon springs. -------------------------------------------------- Sangwoo Lee, Ph.D. Member of Research Staff MEMS Laboratory Samsung Advanced Institude of Technology P.O. Box 111, Suwon 440-600, Korea Tel: +82 31 280 9465 Fax: +82 31 280 9473 Email: lsw@sait.samsung.co.kr __________________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------