Abstract:
An electronic circuit has two similar phase shift networks connected in cascade between a circuit input and the input of an amplifier providing a 180* phase-shift between its input and output. The output of the amplifier and first network are combined and the combination applied to the circuit output, providing an overall frequency response exhibiting a resonant frequency. The networks may be connected together via a buffer amplifier, and each comprises a resistance and a reactance interconnected to provide a phase lead or lag. The resonant frequency may be varied by varying the gain of the amplifier or the resistance or reactance of one or both networks. Variable gain feedback circuitry may be connected between the circuit output and input, so that the circuit is selectively operable as a frequency selective amplifier or oscillator in accordance with the gain of this circuitry.
Abstract:
A tunable oscillator circuit employing a resistor capacitor (RC) active notch filter in the feedback path. Two variable resistances are included in the oscillator circuit, one for independently setting the notch depth of the filter, and the other for independently adjusting the frequency of oscillation.
Abstract:
An audio signal generator incorporating a variable R.C. oscillator (10) wherein the basic timing capacitance is replaced by a capacitance multiplying circuit (12) in which a potentiometer is employed to impart frequency variations, the slider of this potentiometer being connected to one input of an operational amplifier. The circuit has the advantage that a linear control scale is obtainable on which the frequency is independent of the absolute value of the control device.
Abstract:
Embodiments herein relate to an apparatus and method for calibrating a notch filter which filters a power supply signal for a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). In one aspect, a control circuit performs a number of calibration cycles for the filter to determine a value of a calibration code for the filter which minimizes a change in a frequency of the output signal of the VCO due to a change in the voltage of the power supply signal. After each calibration cycle, the calibration code is adjusted based on whether the frequency of the output signal increase or decreases. The calibration cycles can therefore converge on an optimal calibration code which minimizes the change in frequency due to the change in voltage. This minimizes a sensitivity of the VCO to noise in the power supply signal.
Abstract:
An oscillator having a circuit for fine tuning the frequency thereof while minimizing any effect on the output amplitude thereof. A state variable oscillator employs an inverter amplifier having a negative feedback resistor R.sub.f, a first integrator, and a second integrator. 180.degree. feedback from the second integrator is fed back through resistors R.sub.i and R.sub.v to an inverting input of the inverter amplifier. 90.degree. feedback from the first integrator is fed back partially through resistors R.sub.n and R.sub.v and partially through resistor R.sub.m to the inverting input, and also through resistor R.sub.c to the non-inverting input. A field effect transistor provides a common return to the non-inverting input to control oscillator amplitude. If R.sub.i R.sub.m =R.sub.n R.sub.f then R.sub.v may be adjusted to vary the frequency of the oscillator output signal without affecting its amplitude.
Abstract:
An improved R.C. oscillator comprises an operational amplifier which is provided with a controlled positive feedback network such that it will oscillate at a frequency determined by a frequency dependent impedance circuit. Two such oscillators may be combined to form a two-out-of-eight frequency oscillator for a telephone touch calling unit.
Abstract:
A capacitor unit adapted to adjust the frequency of a crystalcontrolled oscillator in incremental steps, the oscillator serving as a frequency standard for an electronic timepiece. The unit is constituted by a bank of capacitors whose respective values fall into a binary series, each capacitor being associated with a switch arranged to connect the capacitor in parallel relation to the other capacitors in the bank, whereby the reactance presented by the unit may be varied incrementally by selective operation of the switches to create a reactance range whose lowest value is determined by the smallest capacitor alone, whose highest value is determined by the sum of all the capacitors in the bank, and whose intermediate values are determined by the capacitors singly or in shunt combinations thereof.