Abstract:
Disclosed is a TEM mode resonator having as a means for adjusting the resonance frequency a simple frequency adjusting mechanism appropriate for size reduction while permitting easy mounting of a varactor diode for varying the resonance frequency thereto. Below a strip transmission line 2 is provided a slot 7 having a length L perpendicular to the transmission line as located at an outer ground conductor surface 3 of a one-fourth wavelength type microstrip line resonator having its one end short-circuited. According as increasing the slot length L, the resonance frequency of the resonator reduces, which characteristic is utilized as a means for adjusting the resonance frequency. By connecting a varactor diode at a center portion of the slot line and varying the voltage applied to the diode, the resonance frequency can be varied.
Abstract:
A digitizing system includes a tablet and a cordless pointing device including a plurality of data grid conductors in the tablet and a plurality of clock grid conductors in the tablet, all receiving a magnetic field signal transmitted by the pointing device. A data channel circuit includes a differential amplifier and demodulating and filtering circuitry coupled to an output of the differential amplifier, having a clock input. An A/D converter has an input coupled to an output of the demodulating and filtering circuitry. Multiplexing circuitry selectively couples various grid conductor signals to the data channel circuit. A clock recovery circuit responsive to the clock grid conductors includes a phase-locked-loop circuit that generates a recovered clock signal which is synchronous with the magnetic field signal and is used as a reference for demodulating the phase and amplitude of signals multiplexed from the data grid conductors to the data channel circuit. Accurate determination of the pointer tip position is achieved simultaneously with accurate decoding of pointer commands represented by shifts in the frequency of the magnetic field signal.
Abstract translation:数字化系统包括平板电脑和无线指示设备,其包括平板电脑中的多个数据网格导体和平板电脑中的多个时钟网格导体,全部接收由指示设备发送的磁场信号。 数据通道电路包括差分放大器和耦合到差分放大器的输出的解调和滤波电路,具有时钟输入。 A / D转换器具有耦合到解调和滤波电路的输出的输入。 多路复用电路将各种电网导体信号选择性地耦合到数据通道电路。 响应于时钟网格导体的时钟恢复电路包括产生与磁场信号同步的恢复时钟信号的锁相环电路,并且用作解调从数据复用的信号的相位和幅度的参考 电网导体到数据通道电路。 与由磁场信号的频率偏移表示的指针指令的精确解码同时实现指针尖端位置的精确确定。
Abstract:
An actively biased oscillator (200) includes a set of current sensing components (214,216) for sensing the amount of current flowing into the first terminal of the amplifier; and a differential amplifier (212) responsive to the current sensing components for automatically adjusting the amount of current flowing into the second terminal of the amplifier.
Abstract:
A voltage-controlled oscillator using planar microstrip technology and primarily for the 37 to 39.5 GHz frequency band comprises a strip-line resonator, a negative resistance device mounted adjacent the center of the resonator, respective variable capacitance devices mounted adjacent the ends of the resonator, a high impedance coupling the resonator to an output path, and bias signals are applied to the negative resistance device and said variable capacitance devices.
Abstract:
Voltage controlled oscillator provided with a resonant network, an amplifier and a reactive network, all incorporated in an oscillator loop, the reactive network having one or more reactive components whose values depend on a control signal fed to a control input, so that the oscillator frequency can be regulated with said control signal. A control loop is provided between the resonant network and the reactive network, with which control loop the difference is determined between a measure of the imaginary part of the impedance or admittance of the resonant network and the control signal acting as reference quantity. The imaginary part of the impedance or admittance of the reactive network is regulated with said difference. The control loop contains a derivation circuit for deriving said measure and a differential amplifier, to one input of which the output signal of the derivation circuit is fed and to the other input of which the control signal is fed.
Abstract:
An RF oscillator is disclosed that can be tuned to operate over a wide range of frequencies while maintaining advantageous bias conditions. The oscillator includes circuitry that adjusts an oscillator bias signal in response to changes in oscillator frequency and/or ambient temperature, and does so without resort to using the same signal for both bias and frequency control. By so doing to control parameters such as phase noise, output power and compression angle, both the frequency range and temperature range of an oscillator can be extended, while simultaneously improving the oscillator's performance.
Abstract:
A diode tuned resonant circuit (42) with an inductor (L1) a first variable reactance diode (VAR1) connected in parallel with the inductor (L1), and a second variable reactance diode (VAR2) connected in series with the parallel combination of the inductor (L1) and first diode (VAR1) is used in an oscillator circuit. The resonant frequency of the circuit may be adjusted over a relatively broad frequency range while maintaining a relatively constant Q-factor by applying a biasing voltage to the first and second diodes (VAR1, VAR2).
Abstract:
A voltage controlled crystal oscillator circuit, such as a Pierce oscillator circuit, includes an amplifier and is balanced by the addition of another varactor connected directly to the amplifier, whereby the frequency pull range is increased. Further, greater linearity can be achieved by adding another pair of varactors to the circuit.
Abstract:
Flicker (1/f) noise is suppressed in an oscillator by reducing oscillator voltage-frequency pushing to zero. A varactor (56) is incorporated in the resonator circuit and is biased with a tuning voltage setting the varactor to a capacitance value providing the zero oscillator pushing at a given frequency. A common bias connection (62) is provided between the varactor and the active element (64) such that a random perturbation voltage change across the active element also causes a change in voltage across the varactor, to compensate a change in oscillator frequency otherwise caused thereby. The varactor capacitance versus voltage characteristic is shaped such that a change in active element voltage provides a change in varactor voltage, and the combination of these voltage changes results in a zero change in oscillator frequency. The tuning slope of the oscillator provided by the varactor is opposite the tuning slope of the oscillator resulting from a change in active element voltage.
Abstract:
In a waveguide oscillator, a Gunn diode or other negative-resistance oscillator device (2) has a resonant cap (3) for coupling to the waveguide (1), and a tuning varactor diode (11) is coupled by a probe (13) to the electromagnetic filed in the vicinity of the cap (3). In accordance with the invention, a mechanically simple, compact and cheap oscillator arrangement is obtained by integrating both the varactor diode (11) and the probe (13) in a circuit body (10) mounted in the waveguide (1), preferably in an area below the plane of the cap (3) so as to reduce perturbation of the filed. The probe is formed as a conductive track (13) on the circuit body (10), for example as a transmission line coupling to the electric field and preferably located at the front surface (18) of the body (10) or as a current loop extending on a side wall of the body (10) and coupling to the magnetic field.