Abstract:
A digital timing system of high precision and stability is provided with a selectively variable frequency and phase by employing a variable frequency dividing circuit that is responsive to a highly accurate precision crystal clock generator. The variable divider includes a fixed modulus counter which in turn triggers a variable modulus counter. High frequency precision clock pulses are fed first to the fixed counter which upon completion of its count, switches the clock pulses to the variable counter. The latter, when it completes its count, provides an output pulse that (a) constitutes one element of the system output, (b) resets the fixed counter, and (c) switches the clock pulses to the fixed counter whereby the above cycle is repeated. To vary the frequency or repetition rate of the described cycle of operation, the magnitude of the count provided by the variable counter is changed to thereby change the total interval or period of a single cycle. To control the phase of the output signal, the count of the fixed counter is changed during but one of its counts. The variable counter is formed of a pair of reversible, up-down counters each of which provides an output upon reaching the count of one when counting down. The frequency of the output is changed by controllably varying the number to which these variable reversible counters count.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an electromagnetic acoustic transducer excitation system comprising a tone burst generator, the tone burst generator comprising: an oscillator device configured to produce a radio frequency signal; an analog switch configured to produce an output based on the radio frequency signal produced by the oscillator device and a control signal; a pre-amplifier configured to amplify the output of the analog switch and produce a tone burst output signal; and a control module configured to produce the control signal for providing to the analog switch.
Abstract:
Pulse-generator circuits that permit independent control of pulse widths and the delays between successive pulses. In several embodiments, a pulse-generator subcircuit includes a transmission-line segment comprising first and second conductors, configured such that the first conductor is coupled to a first DC potential. The pulse-generator subcircuit further includes a terminating resistor coupled to a first end of the second conductor of the first transmission-line segment; this terminating resistor is matched to the characteristic impedance of the transmission-line segment. The pulse-generator subcircuit further includes first and second switches, controlled by first and second timing signals, respectively, and configured to selectively and independently connect respective first and second ends of the first conductor to a second DC potential. This second potential may be ground, in some embodiments, while the DC potential supplied to the pulse-generator subcircuit by the power-supply subcircuit may range from a very small voltage to voltages exceeding a kilovolt.
Abstract:
An inexpensive yet effective circuit for producing an irregular pulse train of variable frequency and duty cycle, particularly for generating simulated sounds, such as engine sounds for toy vehicles, is disclosed. The circuit comprises an integrated circuit including a plurality of Schmitt trigger inverters (U1A, U1B) configured for oscillation at different frequencies, and a resistance element (R3, R7) in series with one, and preferably both, of the power supply connections to the inverters, with the circuit output comprising the output of one of the Schmitt trigger inverters (U1B). In a preferred embodiment, a capacitance element (C4) is connected between the output of a Schmitt trigger inverter and its system voltage input for further modulating the circuit output.
Abstract:
A logic clock signal generator implemented with delay lines having a plurality of taps, wherein the taps are selectively feedback coupled to the input to produce a clock signal having a plurality of selectively variable time periods.
Abstract:
An improved wideband frequency multiplier characterized as follows: a saw-tooth signal generator supplying a saw-tooth wave having a frequency equal to the frequency to be multiplied, the level of the voltage wave varying between a reference level and a maximum which is related to the frequency to be multiplied; storage means for storing a voltage equal to, or closely approaching the maximum voltage value of the saw-tooth wave; a voltage divider having several outputs, each of which provides an output which is a given fraction of the stored voltage; a number of comparators each of which corresponds to and is coupled to an output of the voltage divider, each comparator comparing the instantaneous value of the saw-tooth voltage with the voltage supplied by the corresponding output of the voltage divider, and supplying a first level signal when said instantaneous value is lower than the voltage supplied by said corresponding output, and a second level signal when it is higher; and logical circuits combining the signals supplied by the comparators so as to give an output signal the frequency of which is a given multiple of the frequency of the saw-tooth signal.A timing circuit for a badge reader, or the like where the data is magnetically NRZ recorded on, or in, the badge, or the like. The timing circuit employs a frequency doubler as generally described above. The timing circuit also utilizes at least one additional logic circuit. The timing circuit provides timing signals synchronized with the reading of the data from the badge or the like.
Abstract:
A pulse generator for use in an EDM power supply or the like wherein the pulse-on time and pulse-off time are each adjustable, substantially independently of the other. The circuit contains a pair of relaxation oscillators, one of which is associated with the on-time and one with the off-time of the output pulse train. The timed signals produced by the oscillators are shaped by respective Schmidt triggers for controlling a flip-flop which thereby generates the output pulse train. The flip-flop outputs are fed back to the oscillator inputs so as to allow only one of such oscillators to be active at any given time thereby allowing the on-period and off-period to be each independently timed.
Abstract:
A binary coded character is decoded to enable one of a plurality of AND gates that are respectively actuated by outputs of different monostable multivibrators, each having a different predetermined reset delay time. The selected gate output is further delayed and then utilized to retrigger the multivibrators simultaneously and to initiate the supplying of a new character for decoding. The composite outputs of the selected gates comprise a train of pulses having a recurrence rate that varies in accordance with the information content of a succession of the aforementioned binary coded characters.