Abstract:
The storage electrodes are electrically connected at a point. A reference charge quantity is stored beneath the first storage electrode when the point is at a constant potential and before charges pass beneath the second storage electrode. When a charge quantity arrives beneath the second storage electrode and when the point is floating, the surface potential beneath the first storage electrode is maintained constant and a charge quantity is transferred from the first storage electrode to a third storage electrode.
Abstract:
The filter has p stages, p being the number of bits on which are expressed the digital filtering coefficients. Each of the stages has a charge transfer shift register, called the signal register, receiving the analog signal E(t) to be filtered and a charge transfer shift register, called the coefficient register, receiving the M bits of the same weight of the M filtering coefficients. The filter also has an operator which multiplies the signal E(t) by each of the M filtering coefficients and then summates these various products to supply the output signal S(t) of the filter.
Abstract:
A filter circuit of the type utilizing a charge-transfer device, such as a bucket brigade device, comprises a clocking signal drive circuit for supplying a clocking signal; a clock signal generator at whose output a clocking control signal is provided; a transistor whose base is connected to the output of the clock signal generator; a plurality of successive capacitive storage stages for sequentially holding a charge level representing a time-sampled input signal, each of the capacitive storage stages having a clocking electrode for receiving the clocking signal so that the charge level is transferred from one to another of the capacitive storage stages in succession, and at least one of the capacitive storage stages being formed of first and second parallel-connected capacitive circuit portions, and the first and second capacitive circuit portions having respective clocking electrodes coupled to the clock signal generator and to the emitter of the transistor, respectively; and a current feedback circuit, such as a current mirror circuit, for detecting the current flowing through the collector of the transistor and applying a corresponding current to a capacitive storage stage in advance of that stage which is coupled to the emitter of the transistor.
Abstract:
One storage electrode of the filter out of two is cut into two parts. The weighting coefficients are elaborated by reading means connected to a part of each cut storage electrode which read negatively the charges leaving a so-called negative cut storage electrode and positively the charges arriving under the next so-called positive cut storage electrode.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for operating recursive filter circuits or analog storage circuits constructed according to the charge coupled device principle and to a circuit arrangement for implementing the method, in which method only each respective second stage a CCD is occupied with a charge representing a sampling value of an analog signal and the respective stages lying between these stages concerned are left empty. Known circuits constructed according to the CCD principle conduct the signal from the output stage of a CCD chain to the input of the CCD loop via an amplifier to which the input signal is supplied at the same time. Thereby, the amplification must very precisely amount to 1. An amplifier of the high stability required for that purpose which is arranged in common with the CCD concerned on a chip cannot be satisfactorily realized. A method is specified by means of the invention in which the amplifier is replaced by modulation of a sampling value with a reference signal and by means of a charge amount corrected in accord with the result of the modulation.
Abstract:
A filter comprising a cascade arrangement of closed line CTD filtering loops has an intermediate CTD coupling loop formed with the adjoining output coupling of the preceding filter loop and input coupling of the succeeding filter loop. Disturbing self-oscillations outside the desired passband are eliminated by adjusting the voltage amplification factors of the amplifiers within the intermediate coupling loop, for example to from about five percent to about fifteen percent less than values selected to give a pure reactance branching circuit at the middle pass frequency. The resulting slight distortion of the transmission characteristic in the pass band of the filter can then be compensated by adjusting the amplifications of other amplifiers, and if necessary the capacitance conditions can be additionally altered.
Abstract:
The present circuit is applicable to buried channel charge coupled devices (CCD's) of the type having an input circuit which employs a "skimming" technique for producing a charge representing an input signal. A given amount of charge initially is present in an input potential well of the CCD and an amount of charge representing an input signal is skimmed therefrom for propagation down the CCD, leaving behind a residual charge which continuously remains in the input potential well. The gain of the input circuit of the CCD is controlled by controlling the amount of this residual charge either in open loop fashion or by means of feedback. A comb filter suitable for separating the luminance and chrominance components of a television signal which includes this circuit is also described.
Abstract:
A filter in the form of a semiconductor charge coupled device (CCD) split electrode transveral filter section (10) of many transfer stages, typically of the order of 150, is characterized by a controllable detection threshold level by means of the addition of an auxiliary CCD split-electrode section (20) of but a few stages, typically one or two. Each segment of a split-electrode 209 of this auxiliary section (20) is connected to the corresponding sense line of the transveral filter section (10).
Abstract:
A phase multiplexed CCD transversal filter includes N substantially identical parallel-connected CCD's which acquire samples in a predetermined consecutive order over a given clock cycle so that the apparent sampling frequency is equal to N times the clock frequency. The output taps of the CCD's are weighted in a predetermined manner to provide a filter having a predetermined transfer function.
Abstract:
In illustrated embodiments, at least one analogue shift register has a number of parallel inputs and one series output. A number of individual evaluating circuits receive the signal to be filtered and supply respective output quantities of charge equal to the product of the difference between the relevant signal value and a predetermined minimum or maximum value, and a respective individual evaluation factor. The output of each evaluating circuit can be connected via a switching element to an associated parallel input. The capacity of every storage position of the shift register is at least such that it is always able to accommodate the maximum quantity of charge supplied by the preceding storage position, and when the storage position has a parallel input, can additionally accommodate the maximum quantities of charge supplied by the associated evaluating circuit (s). Various modifications are disclosed for reducing the space requirement of a transversal filter when implemented, for example, as a CCD.