摘要:
Based on the insight that the damping of a tunable filter is both related to its quality factor as to its passband gain, an inventive tuning system is proposed which tunes the quality factor of such a filter to a desired quality factor value by tuning the passband gain of the filter to a desired gain value. Such a tuning system is particularly useful in the field of OTA-C filters and consists of first (P1) and second (P2) tuning paths including such a tunable filter (BIQUAD) and fixed gain amplifiers (B-OTA1, B-OTA2). The gain of the latter amplifiers corresponds to the desired gain values. The tuning system further includes matching means (MM) for equalizing the gains in both tuning paths (P1, P2) by generating a quality factor tuning signal (VTQ) which is applied both to the tunable filter (BIQUAD) and to a replica thereof used as master filter in a data processing path. This matching means (MM) includes current rectifiers (C-REC1, C-REC2) implemented so as to use little hardware.
摘要:
The primary device (DSP) is connected to m x n secondary devices (ESLIC1-4) by one data link (IOB) comprising the m x n data channels assigned to respective secondary devices (ESLIC1-4) say m clock links (GKC0-1) connected to m respective groups each of n secondary devices (ESLIC1-3; ESLIC2-4) and carrying m clock signals having a same clock frequency and being mutually shifted by 1/m th of a cycle of the clock frequency, and by n read/write links (RD0-1) connected to n respective groups each of m secondary devices (ESLIC1-2; ESLIC3-4) and carrying n read/write signals mutually shifted by one cycle of the clock frequency, each secondary device (ESLIC1-4) belonging to a distinct pair of one group out of the m groups (ESLIC1-3; ESLIC2-4) and of one group out of the n groups (ESLIC1-2; ESLIC3-4).
摘要:
5n7 A multi-sample multi-channel decimator producing a FIR filtering response from 128 digital filter coefficients for 4 independent channels with a decimation ratio of 32, i.e. from 1 MHz 1-bit inputs to 32 kHz multibit outputs, splits cyclically the coefficient values in 16 groups of 8, according to the coefficient positions, into 4 ROMs (0, 1, 2, 3). The ROMs are coupled to the 4 multipliers (MULT 0, 1, 2, 3), wherein the coefficient value is multiplied by that of the input bit, through a multiplexer (MUXI) able to cycle through 4 distinct conditions. After the 4 adder accumulators (ACC 0, 1, 2, 3) coupled to the outputs of their respective channel multipliers have, in parallel partially computed output words, each using one sixteenth of the coefficients, the multiplexer rotates these, thereby enabling complete computation in 4 cycles, 4 registers (REG 00, 01, 02, 03) being associated to each adder so as to compute 4 staggered output words simultaneously for each channel. A preferred filtering response can reduce the size of the ROMs.
摘要:
Based on the insight that the voltage-to-current ratio or gain of a capacitor (Z) at a particular reference frequency is the product of its capacitance value with said reference frequency, a tuning system is disclosed which tunes the characteristic integrator frequency (fc) of an OTA-C integrator by making the transconductance of the operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) thereof equal to the aforementioned gain at that characteristic frequency. Therefore, the tuning system includes a first tuning path in which the OTA (or a replica thereof) is included and a second tuning path including another amplifier (B-OTA) "degenerated" by the capacitor (Z) so as to produce the required gain. The gains of both these tuning paths are then equalized by matching means (MM) generating a frequency tuning signal (VTF) which is applied to both OTA and OTA-C.
摘要:
The subject of the present invention is a current source (BS) which is associated to a bistate device (ST), a bistable device (FF) and an input circuit (IC) for constituting a signal comparator. The current source (BS) uses a current mirror configuration and is controlled via a branch coupled between the voltage supply terminals (VDD; VSS), two (N2, N3) of the four (N1 to N4) series connected transistors forming part of this branch have a relatively great Width-by-Length W/L channel parameter so that identical current sources (BS) may be produced on a large scale because the current (I5; II) supplied by the latter is then independent of the threshold voltages of the constituent transistors.
摘要:
The subject of the present invention is a current source (BS) which is associated to a bistate device (ST), a bistable device (FF) and an input circuit (IC) for constituting a signal comparator. The current source (BS) uses a current mirror configuration and is controlled via a branch coupled between the voltage supply terminals (VDD; VSS), two (N2, N3) of the four (N1 to N4) series connected transistors forming part of this branch have a relatively great Width-by-Length W/L channel parameter so that identical current sources (BS) may be produced on a large scale because the current (I5; II) supplied by the latter is then independent of the threshold voltages of the constituent transistors.