摘要:
A method, system and apparatus for voice coil protection using damping are provided. At a device and/or a system comprising: a processor; a sound transducer comprising a voice coil; a power supply; an amplifier in communication with the voice coil; and a circuit configured to apply an electromotive force ("EMF") to the voice coil under control of the processor, the amplifier is placed into a standby state. When the amplifier is in the standby state, the circuit is controlled to apply the EMF to the voice coil using the power supply so that the voice coil has restricted excursion.
摘要:
A step gain amplifier has an amplifier with an input and an output, and a bias circuit connected to the input and to a bias node. A passive feedback circuit using only passive elements connects the output to the input. A control circuit is connected to the bias circuit at the bias node.
摘要:
A delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter (100) comprises: a summing stage (20) having a first input (22) for an input signal (V IN ) and a second input (23) for a feedback signal (V FB ); an integrator (30) coupled to an output (24) of the summing stage (20); an analog-to-digital conversion stage (40) coupled to an output (34) of the integrator (30); and a switchable gain stage (70) coupled in a feedback path (80) between an output (44) of the analog-to-digital conversion stage (40) and the second input (23) of the summing stage (20). The switchable gain stage (70) is arranged to switch, responsive to a gain selection signal (S), between a first gain and a second gain via a transition period (T) comprising time periods during which the switchable gain stage (70) has the first gain interleaved with time periods during which the switchable gain stage (70) has the second gain. The time periods at the first gain comprise periods that decrease in duration over the transition period (T) and the time periods at the second gain comprise periods that increase in duration over the transition period (T).
摘要:
The present invention relates to a voltage to current converter, comprising a signal stage (1) with a first transistor (11) and a first resistor (12). The first transistor (11) is adapted to be fed with an input signal voltage (V in ). The converter is adapted to generate an output current, comprising an output DC bias current (I B1 ) and an output signal current (i out ), and to provide a gain adjustment through the variation of the first resistor (12). The present invention specifically teaches that the converter comprises a bias stage (2), adapted to generate and feed the signal stage (1) with an input DC bias voltage (V DC ), which input DC bias voltage (V DC ) is adapted to keep the output DC bias current (I B1 ) constant during the variation of the first resistor (12).
摘要:
An apparatus (10) indicating the position of an adjustable lever (18), such as a control lever in a digital audio console, is described. A frame member (12, 13, 15, 17) constrains movement of the adjustable lever (18). The lever is operatively connected to an encoder apparatus (22), such that movement of the lever (18) causes movement of the encoder apparatus (22) to provide an indication of position of the lever (18) within the frame member (12, 13, 15, 17).
摘要:
An audio system for amplifying an audio signal the system comprising, a main chassis (10) including preamplifier means (18) for amplifying said audio signal and gain control means (35) coupled to said preamplifier means for reducing the magnitude of said audio signal output by said preamplifier means in response to a gain reduction signal, at least one audio line (11) for transmitting said audio signal from said preamplifier means, and a remote amplifier stage (12) for receiving said audio signal and including power amplifier means (25) coupled to said audio line (11) for amplifying said audio signal by a substantially fixed gain and first clip detector means (40) coupled to said power amplifier means (25) and said gain control means (35) for generating said gain reduction signal whenever signal clipping occurs in said remote amplifier stage.
摘要:
A push pull, small signal amplifier arrangement which employs Metal Oxide Semiconductor/Field Effect Transistors. Depletion type (14,16) employed in the first stage while enhanced type (54, 56) may be employed in the second stage. The two stages are directly connected together and means for controlling the gain of both stages simultaneously are included. Also disclosed is a number of configurations of various applications.
摘要:
Offset balancing method and apparatus for a DC amplifier (24) including gain selection (23) and polarity switching (25) circuits are disclosed. During the offset compensation process, the amplifier input is connected to ground and its polarity is switched between the normal and inverted states before detecting the resulting output DC levels. The difference between such output DC levels is used to generate an offset compensation signal to be applied to the amplifier. The offset compensation process is repeated for each gain selection of the DC amplifier.
摘要:
An electrically variable impedance circuit in which a voltage-current converter circuit (3) is provided to produce a current (I') having a megnitude corresponding to an instantaneous input signal potential (v) applied to an input terminal (1) and a current variation of the vottage-current converter circuit is fed back to the input terminal (1), the current variation being controlled by a control signal (Vc) to vary the circuit impedance seen from the Input terminal (1). In order to expand the range of linesrity in impedance, the voltage-current converter is so arranged that the varying component of its output current is linsariy proportional to the inatan- taneous input signal potendial (v). and a current converter circuit (4) is provided which linearly converts the output current of the voltage-current converter circuit and whose output is coupled to the input terminal (1). The current converter circuit (4) is comprised of a PN junction (51) which develops a voltage which is the logarithm of the output current of the voltage-current converter (3) and a transistor (81) between the base and emitter of which is spplied the voltage developed by the PN junction (5 1 ) to produce a current which is the exponential of the voltage developed by the PN junction. (Fig. 1)
摘要:
This invention relates to a optical receiver circuit (200) comprising: at least one photo detector (207) configured to convert a received light signal to an input current signal, a transimpedance amplifier circuit (201) with an input to receive the input current signal from the at least one photo detector (207) and being configured to convert the received input current signal to an output voltage signal to generate an output signal of the transimpedance amplifier circuit (201), wherein the transimpedance amplifier circuit comprises a plurality of gain amplifier stages (209, 210, 211), a DC restoration component (205), wherein the DC restoration component (205) is configured to receive the output voltage signal of the transimpedance amplifier circuit (201) for restoring the DC component of the received current signal and configured for outputting a corresponding current signal, and an automatic gain control component (204) configured for controlling via at least one programmable feedback resistor (226, 227) the equivalent transimpedance of the transimpedance amplifier circuit based on the signal output by the DC restoration component (205) to provide a constant output voltage amplitude for different current ranges of the input current signal.