Abstract:
An integrated single-sideband modulator comprises six integrated capacitors C1-C6 and first switch means alternately connecting C1 and C2 as feedback capacitors across a differential input operational amplifier A1. The amplifier has a virtual ground potential on its inverting input terminal for causing it to operate as a voltage source and render the circuit relatively insensitive to parasitic capacitance effects associated with capacitor plates. Second switch means cooperates with A1, C1 and C2 and is responsive to 4-phase clock signals for driving input capacitors C3-C6 so as to convert first and second quadrature-phase input signal voltages into first and second electrical charge flow signals on the inverting input terminal that are a function of products of representations of the first and second voltages in switch state time intervals and associated pulse trains which have a 90.degree. phase difference therebetween and a repetitive pattern such as +1, +1, -1, -1, etc. The amplifier and feedback capacitors combine the charge signals for producing a single-sideband signal on A1's output terminal. This circuit is converted to a balanced modulator by omitting C5 and C6. In an alternate embodiment of a single sideband modulator that requires only a pair of switched capacitors C11 and C12, a 4-phase switch means alternately charges C11 and C12 with associated ones of the quadrature-phase input signal voltages while alternately connecting C12 and C11 as feedback capacitors across A1, the polarity of each capacitors feedback voltage being reversed each time that capacitor is connected across the amplifier. This circuit is operated as a balanced modulator by omitting one of the capacitors.
Abstract:
A method of switching between a VoIP call and a traditional call, involving the use of a caller terminal, a call box device, a first computer device, a second computer device, and a receiver terminal. A VoIP connection has to be established before the caller terminal and the receiver terminal can engage in a VoIP call. If the VoIP connection is successfully established, a computer device electrically connected to the caller terminal monitors the Internet quality between the caller terminal and the receiver terminal. If the Internet quality is poor, upon the pressing of a predetermined key, the caller terminal alternatively connects to the receiver terminal via a PSTN call through the switching of the call box device, which is electrically connected to the receiver terminal.
Abstract:
A memory device includes a memory array, a first protocol circuit, a second protocol circuit, an operation interface, and a protocol detection circuit. The first protocol circuit, which implements a first communication protocol, and the second protocol circuit, which implements a second communication protocol, are coupled in parallel between the memory array and the operation interface. The protocol detection circuit, which is coupled to the operation interface and to the first and second protocol circuits, monitors control signals provided to the operation interface by a host controller to determine which communication protocol the host controller employs. In response thereto, the protocol detection circuit selects one of the first and second protocol circuits to handles communication between the host controller and the memory device.
Abstract:
The "chip set" of a graphics adapter interface card is reduced to a monolithic integrated circuit that includes a programmable analog clock circuit for producing a video memory clock and a video dot clock. A digital graphics adapter controller is responsive to the video memory clock and the video dot clock to produce a video information stream. A random-access memory is responsive to the video information stream to produce a video display information stream, and a digital-to-analog converter is responsive to the video display information stream to convert the video display information stream to analog signals for application to a video display device.
Abstract:
A first embodiment of an integrable switched capacitor modulator comprises a differential input operational amplifier A1 having a virtual ground potential impressed on its inverting input terminal; capacitors C1, C2 and C3; and switch means operative for alternately (1) charging C1 with an input voltage while connecting C2 and C3 in series with A1 and across it, respectively, for causing it to produce an inverted version of the input voltage, and (2) discharging C2 and C3 while connecting the sample of the input voltage on C1 across A1 for causing it to output a non-inverted sample of the input voltage. The modulated output signal from A1 is preferably bandpass filtered to eliminate baseband spectral components fed through A1 when C2 is connected in series with the input terminal thereof. In a second embodiment which is insensitive to feedthrough and which requires only two capacitors C1 and C4, the switch means alternately (1) charges C1 with the input voltage while connecting a prior sample of the input voltage on C4 across A1 for causing it to output an inverted sample of the input voltage, and (2) charges C4 with the input signal while connecting the sample of the input voltage on C1across A1 in the opposite polarity for causing it to output a non-inverted sample of the input voltage. This embodiment has particular advantage as a demodulator since the built-in sample-and-hold function provides low pass filtering of the output signal of A1.