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US4962341A Low voltage non-saturating logic circuit technology 失效
低电压非饱和逻辑电路技术

Low voltage non-saturating logic circuit technology
摘要:
Digital logic circuitry designed to operate on a low voltage power supply without substantial transistor saturation thereby achieving lower power and higher opeational speeds. A non-saturating inverter with a low voltage swing can be made with one transistor using standard bipolar production processes and without clamp diodes. The novel circuitry uses logic units which can be modularly combined to form various other logical functions such as inverters, gates, flip-flops, etc. The preferred logic units use a transistor with the base connected by a load resistor to a first current network. The logical input is between the load resistor and base. The emitter is connected either directly or via one or more resistors to a second current network. The first and second power networks are constructed and arranged to provide a voltage-varying profile across both networks which are preferably complementary to provide nearly constant differential voltages across the logic units. The differential voltages can be relatively low, such as less than 1 volt, thus providing low power operation. The power networks provide the biasing voltage for the logic units without separate biasing circuitry. The inverters, gates or other logical units are advantageously grouped into current balanced groups which conduct approximatley constant current between the power networks for a variety of logical code combinations. The total current flow is preferably balanced to be approximatley constant. A means for providing a relatively fixed amount of current matched to equal the balanced total current flow for the logic array is also preferably used. Also disclosed are preferred power networks, logic signal interconnect methods, a preferred gate array and methods for operating such circuits in non-saturating manners.
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G 物理
G05 控制;调节
G05F 调节电变量或磁变量的系统(调节雷达或无线电导航系统中脉冲计时或脉冲重复频率的入G01S;专用于电子计时器中电流或电压的调节入G04G19/02;用电装置调节非电变量的闭环系统入G05D;数字计算机的调节电源入G06F1/26;用于得到有衔铁时的所需电磁铁工作特性入H01F7/18;调节电功率的配电网络入H02J;调节电池充电的入H02J7/00;静态变换器输出的调节,例如开关式调节器入H02M;电发生器输出的调节入H02N,H02P9/00;变压器、电抗器、或扼流圈的控制入H02P13/00;调节放大器的频率响应、增益、最大输出、振幅或带宽的入H03G;调节谐振电路调谐的入H03J;控制电子振荡器或脉冲发生器的入H03L;调节传输线路特性的入H04B;控制电光源的入H05B39/04,H05B41/36,H05B45/10,H05B45/20,H05B47/10;X射线设备的电气控制入H05G1/30)
G05F1/00 从系统的输出端检测的一个电量对一个或多个预定值的偏差量并反馈到系统中的一个设备里以便使该检测量恢复到它的一个或多个预定值的自动调节系统,即有回授作用的系统
G05F1/10 .调节电压或电流(G05F1/02优先;用于电气铁路的入B60M3/02)
G05F1/46 ..其中由末级控制器实际调节的变量是直流的(G05F1/625优先)
G05F1/56 ...利用与负载串联的半导体器件作为末级控制器的
G05F1/577 ....用于多个负载的
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