Abstract:
A method for searching a digital transmission having unknown carrier and symbol frequencies in a modulated reception signal, includes performing successive trials of several carrier and symbol frequencies, using decreasing values of the symbol frequency, demodulating the reception signal with the tried carrier frequency, filtering the demodulated signal in a band having a width corresponding to the currently tried symbol frequency, and producing samples of the filtered signal. For each currently tried symbol frequency, forming a complex indicator having a real component and an imaginary component established from the successive samples of the filtered signal such that they have cyclostationary properties and that one of the components tends to cancel when the other component tends towards a relative maximum, building the spectrum of the variation of the complex indicator, searching for a singular spike in the spectrum, and determining the real symbol frequency from the frequency of the spike.
Abstract:
A method for estimating the frequency error of a demodulator for restoring two binary signals carried on two carriers of same frequency but in phase quadrature, including the steps of forming vectors having as components the successive couples of values of the two binary signals; applying to each vector a transform which multiplies by four its angle at least when it is equal to a multiple of &pgr;/4 and which substantially preserves its module; and calculating the average of the transformed vectors. The frequency error is obtained as being the derivative of the angle of the average vector.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method and a corresponding circuit to compute the result of the division, in a Galois field of 2.sup.n =N elements, of a first number A by a second number B, these numbers being encoded on n bits, wherein said method comprises the following steps:a--the production of a first intermediate number S(1) encoded on n bits by the squaring of the first number A,b--the production of a second intermediate number R(1) encoded on n bits by the multiplication of the intermediate number S(1) by the number B,c--the performance n-2 times of the steps a and b, the intermediate numbers produced by multiplication R(j) being successively squared, and the intermediate numbers produced by squaring S(j) being successively multiplied by the second number B, andd--the production of the result S(n) by the squaring of the intermediate number R(n-1) produced by the �n-1!th multiplication.
Abstract:
A device synchronizes an internal signal with respect to a reference signal, each signal comprising pulses normally occurring at a rated frequency. The device uses a phase comparator to analyze the phase of the internal signal and the reference signal and produce one logic state if the phase of the internal signal is in advance of the phase of the reference signal and a second logic state otherwise. A programmable frequency divider divides an internal clock signal by a first number if the phase comparator signal produces the first logic state or by a second number if the phase comparator produces the second logic state. A multiplexer provides the programmable divider with either the first number or the second number depending on the logic state produced the phase comparator. The device also includes a storage element for sequentially storing a predetermined number of the latest logic states of the phase comparator. The device also includes circuitry for decrementing the first number when the latest stored logic states of the phase comparator have a single occurrence of the first logic state and for incrementing the second number when the latest stored logic states of the phase comparator have a single occurrence of the second state.
Abstract:
A filter uses a digital integrator that establishes the sum, weighted by a coefficient B, of q1-bit input data arriving at a frequency F. The integrator includes a first p-bit shift-right register; a second q-bit shift-right register, circularly connected and storing the current input data in its most significant bits; and a full bit adder having two inputs respectively connected to the outputs of the first and second shift registers, and an output connected to the input of the first shift register. A sequencer enables the shifting of the first register during p clock cycles, and the shifting of the second register during q clock cycles starting b cycles after the beginning of the p cycles, number b being selected as a function of coefficient B.
Abstract:
A digital phase comparator supplies digital values corresponding to the phase shifts between a first signal having a duty cycle of approximately 0.5 and a second signal. The comparator includes a one-way counter initialized at the frequency of the first signal and clocked by a clock signal having a high frequency with respect to the frequency of the first and second signals. A logic gate enables the counter when the first and second signals are in respective predetermined states. A phase shift is considered to be zero when it corresponds approximately to one half of the counter's capacity.
Abstract:
A frequency synthesizer provides a synthesized signal. The synthesizer includes an oscillator that supplies a fast clock signal to a divider programmable by a digital data. The most significant bits of the digital data are provided to the programmable divider, and the least significant bits are provided to an accumulator that cooperates with the programmable divider to increment by one unit its division rank when the accumulator overflows. The synthesizer further includes a generator for generating n increasing delay phases of the synthesized signal; a comparator for comparing the content of the accumulator with n ranges of possible increasing values; and circuits for selecting, as the synthesized signal, the phase whose rank corresponds to the rank of the range within which the content of the accumulator is comprised.
Abstract:
This device for converting a very-low-amplitude steady voltage signal into an alternating voltage signal, of the type comprising a centre-tapped transformer (1) associated with a transistor (3,4) chopper (2), is characterised in that the transformer (1) and the transistors (3,4) are arranged in a housing (15) held at very low temperature and in which is arranged a material (20) for thermal insulation of the transistors (3,4) with respect to the rest of the housing so as to reduce temperature fluctuations and allow operation of these transistors by self-heating due to their drive current.
Abstract:
A device synchronizes an internal signal with respect to a reference signal, each signal comprising pulses normally occurring at a rated frequency. The device uses a phase comparator to analyze the phase of the internal signal and the reference signal and produce one logic state if the phase of the internal signal is in advance of the phase of the reference signal and a second logic state otherwise. A programmable frequency divider divides an internal clock signal by a first number if the phase comparator signal produces the first logic state or by a second number if the phase comparator produces the second logic state. A multiplexer provides the programmable divider with either the first number or the second number depending on the logic state produced the phase comparator. The device also includes a storage element for sequentially storing a predetermined number of the latest logic states of the phase comparator. The device also includes circuitry for decrementing the first number when the latest stored logic states of the phase comparator have a single occurrence of the first logic state and for incrementing the second number when the latest stored logic states of the phase comparator have a single occurrence of the second state.
Abstract:
This invention relates to compositions comprising 1-aryl-4,5-dihydro-1,2,4-triazol-5(1H)-ones (triazolinones) in combination with the herbicide (2,4-dichlorophenoxy)acetic acid (2,4-D), or like substituted phenoxyalkanoic acids, or esters, or alkali metal or ammonium salts thereof; or with certain herbicidal sulfonylureas, or mixtures of these classes of compounds, to provide herbicidal compositions which are highly effective against a broad array of crop weeds, particularly broadleaf weeds, in crops such as wheat.