Abstract:
Automatic gain control is provided for a transmission system wherein the data is transmitted in frames including one or more flag bits. Circuitry is included for selecting one of the flag bits and further circuitry provides recirculation of the selected flag bit to provide a repetitive pulse output of the selected flag bit for the respective frame of data. The repetitive pulse output is filtered to obtain a substantially DC level which is indicative of the signal energy of the frame of data and which is applied to an amplifier to adjust the gain thereof so as to maintain the data at a predetermined energy level.
Abstract:
A high-speed data transmission network employing data representations as changes in voltage along a transmission line. Directional coupling elements are spaced along the transmission line to couple information from the transmission line to stub lines. Each stub line is connected to a receiver circuit designed to interpret pulses on the stub line as one binary state and no pulses on the stub line as a second binary state.
Abstract:
A combination is provided of a directional coupler connected in a transmission line of a data transmission system and an encoding means for generating the data bits of information which, when coupled through the directional coupling means, produces a coupled signal having a substantially fixed width regardless of the length of the transmission line traversed and a height which diminishes comparatively slowly with the transmission line length traversed. The directional coupling means has a coupling coefficient of at least 0.5 and has an electrical length which is substantially equivalent to one quarter of a bit length of the encoded information. The encoding means for the data bits of information generate at least one of the encoded bits identified by a full cycle signal having an equal positive and negative excursion.
Abstract:
A segment of a main transmission line is located equidistant between and parallel to a first and second coupling segment. The first coupling segment has an input terminal at one end thereof for connection to a stub line. The second coupling element has a terminating impedance located at the end thereof opposite said input terminal end of said first coupling segment. A conductor connects the other opposite ends of said first and second coupling segments so that a pulse travelling thru said main line segment or said first coupling segment in a direction away from said input terminal end of said first coupling segment will couple to the other travelling in the reverse direction.