Abstract:
The deliberate use of multiple, seemingly redundant, varactor diodes (20) to reduce noise in applications where a single varactor diode would otherwise be adequate is described.
Abstract:
An oscillator (20) having sufficient accuracy and precision for use in aircraft microwave-landing systems is constructed without the use of an external inductor. A resonant tank circuit comprising both capacitance and inductance is attained by the use of inductance found internally in the base-emitter (28, 30) junction of a transistor suitably biased for operation at the frequencies of a microwave landing system. A transistor having greater-than-unity gain in the oscillation-frequency range is selected for which the angle of the reflection coefficient (S 11 ) is positive in theoscillation-frequency range.
Abstract:
@ Energy source of a low power high frequency oscillator section (10) driving a high power high gain amplifier section (12). The amplifier section (12) includes one or more SIT's (Q2). The dc operating potential is applied. to the drain electrode of one of the SIT's (Q2) and is supplied to the other through a dc path from the source electrode of the one SITto the drain electrode of the other. Operating potential from the dc biasing network between the source and gate electrode of an SIT (Q2) in the amplifier section is conducted through a dc path to a transistor (Q1) in the oscillator section (10) to provide operating power for the oscillator section (10). The oscillator output is connected through a high freouency coupling dc blocking path to the amplifier input to provide a drive signal to be amplified and extracted at the amplifier output (14).
Abstract:
An oscillator (10) including two gm/C stages (12, 14) each including a differential pair of transistors (Q1, Q2; Q3, Q4), a capacitor (C3, C4), and a tunable current source (16, 26). The gm/C stages include a pair of input terminals (18, 20; 28, 30), a pair of output terminals (22, 24; 32, 34), and a pair of common-mode terminals (23, 25; 33, 35). The two gm/C stages are interconnected in a feedback loop to form a quadrature oscillator. A common-mode biasing circuit (36, 40) is coupled between a supply voltage and each pair of common-mode terminals for biasing the respective gm/C stage. An optional start-up circuit (38, 42) can be coupled to each gm/C stage to ensure start-up of the associated gm/C stage.
Abstract:
As shown in (Fig. 2A), the fall time of an ECL gate (20) is precisely controlled using a fixed capacitor (46) which is connected between the positive supply voltage and the ECL gate output terminal (44), and a variable current source (48, 50, 52) connected between ground (GRND 3) and the ECL gate output terminal (44). A time-delay circuit is obtained by controlling the variable current source with an error voltage (VR2) of a phase-locked loop such that the time-delay precisely tracks the frequency of the reference signal for the phase-locked loop. A signal detector circuit is obtained by combining time-delay circuits. A voltage-controlled oscillator is assembled by connecting 3 ECL gates (12, 14, 16), as shown Fig. 1, with controlled fall times in a ring oscillator configuration. Addition of a noninverting input (19) to one ECL gate (16) makes the voltage-controlled oscillator interruptible. Combining a voltage-controlled oscillator of the type described with a phase detector fed by a reference signal provides a phase-locked loop with the control voltage thereof providing a frequency-to-voltage conversion function. A system for providing a receiver clock reference signal from a received signal is provided, as shown in Figs. 5A and 5B, by phase-locking the output signal of a first phase-locked loop (130) to a system reference signal (TCK) to generate a first-loop control voltage (X4). A second phase-locked loop is phase-locked to the received signal (MNCK) with a second-loop control voltage (VR4). In addition, the second phase-locked loop (142) is also frequency-locked to the system reference signal (TCK) by the first-loop control voltage (X4). This system is particularly useful for recovering a receiver clock reference from a Manchester-encoded signal.