摘要:
A matched filter for inversely spreading a received signal using spreading signals in a spread spectrum communications receiver includes: a plurality of correlators for determining cross-correlation functions of a received signal which has been sampled at a certain timing and spreading signals having a certain section length; a delay circuit for successively transferring the spreading signals having a certain section length with respect to the plurality of correlating means by delaying timings of the transfer by a period equal to the section length of the spreading signals; and a multiplexer for successively selecting one of the cross-correlation functions outputted from the plurality of correlating means, by a period equal to a sampling interval of the received signal. As a result, a matched filter with a small circuit size and low power consumption is realized.
摘要:
An inverter circuit is composed of a first inverter section used as an amplifier and a second inverter section, connected in series to the first inverter section, for controlling the gain of the first inverter section. Each of the first and second inverter sections includes a P type MOS field effect transistor and an N type MOS field effect transistor. The P type transistors are similar to each other, and so are the N type transistors. For example, the transistors in the second inverter section have a proportion (ratio of the channel width to the channel length) 1/A time that of the respective transistors in the first inverter section, where "A" is a positive constant. Input and output terminals of the second inverter section are short-circuited. In other words, the transistors of the second inverter section are connected at their gates and drains, thus replacing conventional resistors. If the positive constant A is set to be smaller than the DC gain of a typical inverter, the DC gain of the inverter arranged as above is not affected by irregularity in a manufacturing process and can be regarded equal to A. This prevents the parasitic capacity from increasing with an increase of the area. Therefore, it is possible to restrain deterioration of the frequency characteristics and power consumption.
摘要:
An analog arithmetic unit furnished with an input capacitor, an amplifier, a floating gate MOS. An input voltage is given to the amplifier through the input capacitor. The amplifier is composed of a CMOS inverter or the like and has a floating gate in a node at its input end. The floating gate MOS controls an amount of charges in the above node by injecting the hot electrons or absorbing the charges through the tunnel effect. Accordingly, it has become possible to maintain an amount of charges at the above node at a constant level over a long period. Thus, a frequency at which an offset voltage caused by charges accumulated at the above floating gate and causing an operation error can be reduced, thereby increasing an overall arithmetic operation.
摘要:
A capacitance distribution detection circuit (2) includes a multiplexer (4), a driver (5), and a sense amplifier (6), and the multiplexer (4) switches states between a first connection state in which first signal lines (HL1 to HLM) are connected to the driver (5) and second signal lines (VL1 to VLM) are connected to the sense amplifier (6), and a second connection state in which the first signal lines (HL1 to HLM) are connected to the sense amplifier (6) and the second signal lines (VL1 to VLM) are connected to the driver (5).
摘要:
In respective comparators, a plurality of input voltages are compared with a comparison voltage that has been swept, and only the binary output of a D flipflop corresponding to the comparator that has exceeded the comparison voltage earliest is allowed to have "1", while the outputs corresponding to the rest of the comparators have "0". Therefore, it is possible to detect a maximum output by using the comparators of a normal CMOS construction and a binary-change detection means circuit constituted by logical circuits. Compared with the application of floating-gate MOS, this arrangement makes it possible to reduce costs, and also to easily carry out offset-voltage compensation for each comparator by using switched capacitors. As a result, in a maximum input detector which detects a maximum input from analog inputs through multiple channels by carrying out analog operations, it is possible to reduce costs, and also to improve detection precision.
摘要:
An encoding apparatus uses a vector quantization encoding method for encoding indexes of codewords, which supply a scalar quantized code of a maximum scalar product value of each code word in a code book, and its maximum scalar product value to a vector component of an input image inputted from an image sensor, so as to output the encoded indexes. A scalar product value calculating circuit in the encoding apparatus has scalar product value calculating sections, which are composed of an analog circuit having a code component capacitor corresponding to each code component, a differential amplifier and a feedback capacitor, corresponding to each codeword, and the scalar product values of the input vectors are calculated in parallel by the scalar product value calculating sections. In such a manner, when the analog calculation is made, the scale of the circuit can be decreased and the power consumption can be lowered. Therefore, unlike the case where the calculation is made after A/D conversion, it is possible to avoid a problem that the number of times of calculations and the power consumption are remarkably increased due to increases in the number of dimensions of the input vector and the number of gradations.
摘要:
A winner-take-all circuit for judging a channel receiving an analog signal having the largest or smallest value among multiple channels upon input of analog signals. Each basic circuit includes a detecting unit for comparing an input voltage with a reference voltage, and a feedback current generating unit for outputting a feedback current that determines a judging range in response to an output voltage from the detecting unit. The winner-take-all circuit also includes a tenth transistor serving as a common transistor to all the basic circuits. The tenth transistor secures, even when an input voltage is small, a current that should flow through a sixth transistor serially connected to the seventh transistor that determines an amount of a feedback current from the feedback current generating circuit. As a result, even when there are fewer k channels receiving input voltages having the highest level and slightly lower ones compared with all the n channels, a feedback current is secured in a sufficient amount to vary the reference voltage. In addition, the winner-take-all circuit of the present invention comprises analog circuits, thereby making the structure simpler compared with a counterpart that processes digital data.