Abstract:
A tunable quadrature phase shifter including two branches each constituted by the cascade connection of a filter, an amplifier and a summing circuit, and two cross-connections constituted by amplifiers interconnecting the filter of one branch to the summing circuit of the opposite branch. An accurate 90 degrees phase shift between the two output signals is obtained by controlling the tail currents of the four amplifiers. The phase shifter used in mobile telecommunication transceivers may be easily and accurately tuned because the signals used in the summing circuits all have a similar amplitude. It is further adapted to operate with only 3 Volt battery supply as used in wireless phones. The bandwidth of the amplifiers is increased by using double differential pair amplifiers which behave as cascode arrangements.
Abstract:
A line impedance synthesis circuit for a telecommunication line circuit is described which is coupled to line terminals (AW,BW) of a telecommunication line and fed from first (GND) and second (VBAT) terminals of a voltage supply source. The line terminals (AW,BW) are coupled to these supply terminals via respective first and second impedance means which include a main path (A-B) of a first transistor circuit (K1A/K1B) shunted by the series connection of a resistance circuit (TRA/TRB) and a main path (A-B) of a second transistor circuit (K2A/K2B), control electrodes (CT) of the first (K1A/K1B) and second (K2A/K2B) transistor circuits being coupled to a same control output of a control circuit (AMPA,SUMA/AMPB,SUMB).
Abstract:
Communication switching element (SE) with a plurality of input receiver circuits (RC01/16), a plurality of output transmitter circuits (TC01/17), and a plurality of control circuits (CMC01/08) each with a data write bus (DB01/08), with a plurality of data buffers (DB0101/1601; DB0108/1608) coupling the input circuits to the data bus, and with a plurality of RAMs (RAM0101/1701; RAM0108/1708) each with an input individually connected to the data write bus and with an output individually connected to a respective one of the output circuits.
Abstract:
A machine for franking mail documents (DO) and including a drive unit adapted to displace these documents successively along a detector device (DM) and a printer head mechanism (PH). The detector device detects the document and triggers the printer head mechanism to print a stamp on a predetermined printing area of the document. This electronic franking machine includes a variable delay unit (DC) which subsequently to the detection of a document delays the triggering of the printer head mechanism (PH) and thereby modifies the printing area on which a stamp will be printed. By disabling or enabling the variable delay unit (DC) such a stamp is printed either in the upper right corner area of the document or in an area at a different distance, e.g. of about 12 cm, from the right hand edge of the document respectively. The first case is suitable for printing stamps on envelopes, whereas the second case is used when stamps have to be printed on paper strips to be wrapped around mailed newspapers.
Abstract:
The subjects of the present invention are a bistate device (ST), a current source (BS), a bistable device (FF) and an input circuit (IC) which are all associated to constitute a signal comparator. The bistate device (ST) is a Schmitt trigger which includes current control devices (N17, P13; N18, P14) to provide a current for counterbalancing the deviation of the construction parameters of the transistors so that the operation characteristics of this device remain identical from one process to another. The current source (BS) uses a current mirror configuration and is controlled via a branch coupled between the voltage supply terminals (VDD; VSS), two (N2, N3) of the four (N1 to N4) series connected transistors forming part of this branch have a greater Width-by-Length W/L channel parameter so that identical current sources (BS) may be produced on a large scale because the current (I5; II) supplied by the latter is then independent of the threshold voltages of the constituent transistors. The bistable device (FF) is a fliflop circuit which has differential commoned input and output terminals (T1; T2) and is used to associate the input circuit (IC) having a differential analog output and the bistate device (ST) having a differential digital input. This bistate device has its input/output terminals shunted by a MOS transistor (N14) at every high clock signal (CLK) by which the common voltage on its terminals is then half way between the supply voltages so that, when the state changes, these voltages have only to vary by half instead of the full voltage difference. This allows a faster switching of the bistable device. The input circuit (IC) is an high frequency differential input (I1; I2)/double ended output (T1; T2) circuit.
Abstract:
In this system STM (Synchronous Transfer Mode) and ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) cell streams are supplied to corresponding STM and ATM switching exchanges STME and ATME via the cascade connection of a multiplexer (MUX), a transmission link (L1) and a demultiplexer (DMUX). The MUX and DMUX are each constituted by a switching element with a plurality of inputs (I1/2; 13) and outputs (03, 04/5) coupled to a common switching means (SB1, TM1; SB2, TM2) via respective receiver (RC1/3) and transmitter (TC1/3) circuits. The common switching means samples the input cell streams at a frequency at least equal to the sum of the time slot frequencies of the time frames of the input cell streams. The time frames of the input and output cell streams are phase synchronous and the sampling of the input cell streams is performed in a predetermined order. The cells of the resultant (STM/ATM) cell stream are supplied to the transmitter circuits in function of their destination.