Abstract:
A switch control circuit has level shifters connected to a switch circuit to convert voltage levels of control signals, a negative potential generating circuit connected to the level shifter, to generate a negative potential, a negative potential output line supplying the negative potential to the level shifter, and a negative potential output line control circuit configured to control the potential of the negative potential output line. The negative potential output line control circuit has a power-supply setting circuit, an inverter inverting the output signal from the power-supply setting circuit, a first capacitor connected between an output terminal of the inverter and the negative potential output line, and a negative potential initialization circuit.
Abstract:
A method of controlling a switching regulator includes setting a current limit (ILIM) to a first value, ILIM1. An error voltage (VERR) is computed as a difference between an output voltage VOUT of the switching regulator and a reference voltage VREF of the switching regulator. The switching regulator current limit is set to a second value ILIM2, if the error voltage is greater than a first threshold voltage, VTH1. The switching regulator current limit is set to the first value, if the error voltage does not exceed a second threshold value, VTH2.
Abstract:
There is described a circuit for reconstructing an analog signal from a digital signal and wide-band transmission system, particularly for employment in cellular telephony systems, or more in general in mobile communication systems, that adopt the WCDMA standard. The circuit comprises: a digital to analog converter (DAC) suitable for receiving said digital signal and converting it into signal in analog.format;—a low pass-filter (LOW-PASS) connected at the output of said converter for receiving said signal in analog format and providing as output said reconstructed analog signal. Advantageously, the low pass filter (LOW-PASS) is an active filter continuous in time and current coupled to the output of the digital-analog converter (DAC) and the digital-analog converter (DAC) is a converter of the current-steering type functioning at sampling frequency greater than the Nyquist frequency of said analog signal to be reconstructed.
Abstract:
A field telephone system having a widely dispersed set of telephone lines including a page line pair and a party line pair, audio processing equipment including telephone handsets, handset amplifiers, receiver amplifiers and paging speaker amplifiers is designed to have improved voice transmission by provision of a narrow band FM carrier system. The FM carrier system includes a device for generating a carrier frequency signal, a modulator for modulating the carrier frequency with an audio signal derived from one of the handsets at a transmitting station and circuitry for transmitting the modulated signal over a line pair to a receiving station. The receiving station includes circuitry responsive to the transmitted signal and the carrier frequency signal for extracting the audio component of the transmitted signal and for processing the extracted audio signal and for providing the processed audio signal to a handset at the receiving station. A frequency mixing arrangement is utilized to provide a low distortion carrier signal since the system otherwise prevents the use of ordinary filtering techniques.
Abstract:
An electro-thermal isolator coupler including a pair of electrically isolated thermal receivers specifically spaced from an electrically isolated thermal transmitter such that their combined signals will produce a thermally compensated electrical output. A second pair of electrically thermal receivers is included in an error circuit which corrects the driver of the thermal transmitter for losses across the thermal coupler. Depending upon the use, the thermal coupler can be used in combination with RF capacitive coupling. Individual power terminals for the electrically isolated regions assure electric isolation.