Abstract:
A distributed photodiode with FIR filtering function enabled by a lumped transmission line is provided. The distributed photodiode includes inductors, a plurality of photodiode segments, photodiode biasing components, and termination impedance. The electrical bandwidth due to the junction parasitic capacitance of the photodiode is increased as the parasitic capacitance is absorbed in the transmission line structure. Moreover, the delay elements inherent in the transmission line enable implementation of an analog finite impulse response (FIR) filter that has equalization capability to allow a customized photodiode frequency response compensation.
Abstract:
A system may comprise a high-pass filter having an input for receiving an input signal, an output for generating an output signal, a capacitor coupled between the input and the output, a switched-capacitor resistor coupled between the output and a reference voltage, and control circuitry configured to control the reference voltage to cancel current leakage into a circuit coupled to the output. The input, the output, the capacitor, and the switched-capacitor resistor may be arranged to generate the output signal as a high-pass filtered version of the input signal and the high-pass filter may be configured to operate in a plurality of modes comprising at least a high-impedance mode and a low-impedance mode in which the resistance of the switched-capacitor resistor is significantly smaller than the resistance when in the high-impedance mode.
Abstract:
In one aspect, reduced power consumption and/or circuit area of a discrete time analog signal processing module is achieved in an approach that makes use of entirely, or largely, passive charge sharing circuitry, which may include configurable (e.g., after fabrication, at runtime) multiplicative scaling stages that do not require active devices in the signal path. In some examples, multiplicative coefficients are represented digitally, and are transformed to configure the reconfigurable circuitry to achieve a linear relationship between a desired coefficient and a degree of charge transfer. In some examples, multiple successive charge sharing phases are used to achieve a desired multiplicative effect that provides a large dynamic range of coefficients without requiring a commensurate range of sizes of capacitive elements. The scaling circuits can be combined to form configurable time domain or frequency domain filters.
Abstract:
A programmable high frequency (HF) bandpass filter is disclosed. The programmable filter has a tunable bandwidth and center frequency over a large range of the radio frequency (RF) and intermediate frequency (IF) spectrum. The programmable filter incorporates micro-electro-mechanical switches (MEMS), Acoustic Charge Transport (ACT) devices, or a combination thereof, to provide tunability of the bandpass filter response characteristics.
Abstract:
A comb filter arrangement comprising at least one delay circuit and an adder, this adder being twice supplied with a video signal modulated on a carrier, which video signals are applied mutually shifted with time. The signals are delayed by the delay circuits, so that either video signal applied to the adder is delayed relative to the other video signal by a given period of time. Furthermore, the delay circuits are arranged in switched capacitor technique.
Abstract:
A charge mode operation circuit dedicated to detect the correlation between analog input signal and digital code, and for realizing by "RAKE method" the path diversity reception from the correlation data obtained using the same. The circuit utilizes an analog shift register using at least one charge transfer device for transferring a charge signal packet, a plurality of charge signal generation units, arranged along the analog shift register and provided, respectively, with substantially uniform voltage charge conversion characteristic controlled by a common input sign; and a routing mechanism for selectively transferring output charge packets generated by the plurality of charge signal generation units in given directions according to digital bit signal provided separately.
Abstract:
A real time equalizer-enhancer apparatus, comprises: a plurality of analog multipliers (33) having one input (X) connected to the sampled input signal, and the other (Y) input connected to the output of an operational amplifier (34); at least one operational amplifier provided with feedback resistor (35), the output of which is connected to the input of one or more of the said plurality of analog multipliers, and the input of which is connected to one or more summing resistor, and a plurality of summing resistor; (36) connected between the output of each of the said analog multipliers (33) and the input of the operational amplifier (34); means being provided to combine the outputs of the said plurality of analog multipliers according to a predetermined combination rule, means also being provided to subtract said combination of multipliers outputs from prescribed constant bias values, and to feed the results back into the inputs of the analog multipliers (33).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of implementing programmable tuned filters, in particular for telegraph signal receivers, and also to tuned filters obtained by the method. A resonator (16) organized around a multipath filter and controlled by a first clock signal is associated with a comb filter (17) organized around a delay line (21) and controlled by a second clock signal, in order to constitute a tuned filter which is programmed by the clock signals. The invention is applicable to making programmable tuned filters and banks of such filters, in particular for remote protection equipment in grids for transporting electrical power.
Abstract:
A various CCD delay element in which extra delay stages are provided. The extra stages are either held at a given potential to pass all signals therethrough and thus to not contribute to the gain or are connected to the clock signals to thereby increase the delay.