Abstract:
There is disclosed an integrated circuit which functions as a sinusoidal and square wave generator with a direct coupled automatic gain control to vary the current through the oscillator, so as to keep the gain of the oscillator at a figure less than that at which the nonlinearity of the circuit becomes significant. The automatic gain control portion of the circuit includes half-wave rectifying and peak following circuits which follow the peak to peak voltage in the oscillator section and control the current through the oscillator as a function of this voltage. The square wave generating circuit includes a half-wave rectifying circuit and a high gain amplifying section to provide a partially clipped square wave operating below a reference potential, making the square wave signal compatible with emitter coupled logic systems.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a weighted ladder network for use in digital to analog converters which s characterized by faster speeds than the common R/2R and binary ladder configurations for the same total power consumption. The technique involves splitting up a conventional ladder network into two separate sections. The first section is a conventional binary ladder driven by equal current sources. The second section, however, involves weighting the resistance elements and the current sources in such a manner that the total resistance of the circuit is minimized.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a sample and hold circuit employing an amplification stage which is turned ON and OFF by steering a current source between the amplification stage and current sink circuitry. This decreases the aperture time of the sample and hold circuit to such an extent that one microsecond analog to digital conversion is possible for an 8-bit system including sync pulses. The sample and hold circuit eliminates the problem of discharge of the holding capacitor through the sample and hold circuit while at the same time decreasing sample and hold aperture time.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a phase detector which operates in a current mode to detect the phase difference between an analog input signal and a digital input signal. The phase difference between these two signals is provided as a current generated from combined chopping and gain block circuits. Current-mode operation increases the gain obtainable from prior art voltage-mode phase detectors and enables convenient filter circuit design for integration of the output signals from the phase detector. The current-mode phase detector may be used in combination with a voltage-controlled multivibrator circuit to provide a digital phase-locked loop having a high-loop gain and having improved pull-in and hold-in ranges. The combined chopping and gain block circuits enables IC implementation with a minimum number of external connections.
Abstract:
An integrated bistable trigger or comparator circuit normally is provided with operating current from a first current source, and the state of the trigger circuit is changed by a differential input circuit operated with a second current source providing a greater current than the first current source for altering the current drawn by the load resistors of the trigger stage to change its balance and thereby change its state. A third current source is connected to the trigger circuit in parallel with the first current source and is operative to draw a greater predetermined current than that provided by the second current source, so that when the third current source is operating, the input signals have no effect on the operation of the trigger circuit. A clock signal controlled switch is provided for disabling the third current source to permit the trigger circuit to be responsive to input signals.