Abstract:
An input stage includes a plurality of arrays of autozero amplifiers arranged in series in each array, wherein each autozero amplifier receives an output of a preceding autozero amplifier, wherein a first autozero amplifier in each array amplifiers receives an input signal and a corresponding reference voltage at its inputs, and wherein at least one of the autozero amplifiers includes a circuit that receives the signal corresponding to the output signal, the circuit substantially passing the signal corresponding to the output signal and the reference voltages to the amplifiers during the clock phase φ2 and substantially rejecting the signal corresponding to the output signal during the clock phase φ1.
Abstract:
A method for reducing bit errors in an analog to digital converter having an array of comparators. The outputs of first and second comparators are received as in inputs to an Exclusive OR gate. The first and second comparators are separated in the array by a third comparator. The output of the Exclusive OR gate is used to determine if the third comparator is in a metastable condition. If the third comparator is in a metastable condition, the bias current of the latch circuit of the third comparator is increased to increase the rate at which the third comparator transitions to a steady state.
Abstract:
Provided is a circuit to perform single-ended to differential conversion while providing common-mode voltage control. The circuit includes a converter to convert a single-ended signal to a differential signal and a stabilizing circuit adapted to receive the differential signal. The stabilizing circuit includes a sensor configured to sense a common-mode voltage level of the differential signal and a comparator having an output port coupled to the converter. The comparator is configured to compare the differential signal common-mode voltage level with a reference signal common-mode voltage level and produce an adjusting signal based upon the comparison. The adjusting signal is applied to the converter via the output port and is operative to adjust a subsequent common-mode voltage level of the differential signal.
Abstract:
In a latch circuit having a bistable pair of cross connected transistors of a first polarity and a third transistor of a second polarity, a current signal greater than a bias current is received at a latch circuit port, amplified with the third transistor, and applied to the latch circuit port. This decreases the time in which the latch circuit port receiving the current signal greater than the bias current reaches a steady state voltage.
Abstract:
An analog to digital converter includes a reference ladder, a track-and-hold amplifier tracking an input signal with its output signal during the phase &psgr;1 and holding a sampled value during, a coarse analog to digital converter having a plurality of coarse amplifiers each inputting a corresponding tap from the reference ladder and the output signal, a fine analog-to-digital converter having a plurality of fine amplifiers inputting corresponding taps from the reference ladder and the output signal, the taps selected based on outputs of the coarse amplifiers, a clock having phases &psgr;1 and &psgr;2, a circuit responsive to the clock that receives the output signal, the circuit substantially passing the output signal and the corresponding taps to the fine amplifiers during the phase &psgr;2 and substantially rejecting the output signal and the corresponding taps during the phase &psgr;1, and an encoder converting outputs of the coarse and fine amplifiers to an N-bit digital signal representing the input signal.
Abstract:
An apparatus for manufacturing an object having a relief structure on a surface thereof by pressing a first element provided with a negative of the relief structure against a second element to form the relief structure in the surface of the second element. The apparatus includes the first element and two pressure members having pressure surfaces facing each other and opposing both of the elements, the pressure members being moveable relative to each other in a direction transverse to the pressure surfaces. The apparatus also has a pressure body secured to the pressure surface of at least one of the pressure member, having a contact surface for cooperation with one of the elements and being formed of a material whose quotient of its Poissons' ratio to its modules of elasticity differs less from the corresponding quotient of the material of the element cooperating with said contact surface in operation than from the corresponding quotient of the material of the pressure member to which the pressure body is secured.
Abstract:
A hot-gas reciprocating machine having a free piston, one face of which varies the volume of a working space while its other face bounds a buffer space of constant pressure. A control mechanism maintains a constant nominal central piston position by momentarily connecting the working space and the buffer space.
Abstract:
A pressing block for a phonograph or video record press in which ducts for cooling and heating media for the die are formed by a thin layer of a porous heat-conducting material provided between two thin metal sheets and bonded thereto. The assembly is connected on its side remote from the die to a supporting element of at least partially heat-insulating material.
Abstract:
A cold-gas refrigerator of the type in which the displacer is driven by pressure fluctuations generated in the working medium, the piston being coupled to an a.c. supplied linear actuator; the system formed by piston/armature coil assembly of the actuator and working medium resonates at a frequency which is tuned to the alternating current frequency.
Abstract:
An electrical circuit comprising a line driver for providing Ethernet signals is disclosed. The line driver comprises a voltage mode line driver for producing 1000BT and 100BT Ethernet signals and an active output impedance line driver arranged parallel to the voltage mode line driver. The line driver is capable of producing 1000BT or 100BT or 10BT Ethernet signals, wherein either the voltage mode line driver or the active impedance line driver is active.