Abstract:
A successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter includes a first capacitance digital-to-analog converter (CDAC), a first comparator configured to compare a voltage of an output signal from the first CDAC with a reference voltage, a first SAR circuit configured to control the first CDAC based on an output of the first comparator, a second CDAC to which the output signal from the first CDAC is input, a second comparator configured to compare a voltage of an output signal from the second CDAC with a reference voltage, a second SAR circuit configured to control the second CDAC based on an output of the second comparator and generate a digital signal representing a residual voltage of the output signal of the first CDAC, and a feedback circuit configured to delay the digital signal, generate a residual signal from the delayed digital signal, and output the residual signal to the first CDAC.
Abstract:
A method is provided for suppressing interferences in a sampling process. The method includes the method step of sampling an analog useful signal at a sampling frequency f as well as determining whether an interference amplitude is present. In the presence of an interference amplitude, a stochastic shift of the chronologically equidistant sampling points in time, which are determined by the sampling frequency f, is carried out within a range [−Δt; +Δt] (21) around the equidistant sampling points in time, Δt being the maximum shift. Subsequently, a resampling of the analog useful signal is carried out. It is redetermined whether an interference amplitude is present. In the case of the continuous presence of an interference amplitude, a change in the absolute value of the maximum shift |Δt| is carried out and the process is restarted with the method step of stochastically shifting the sampling points in time.
Abstract:
An A/D converter comprising: a sampling circuit including a continuous section, a sampling and holding section for intermittently sampling an input signal based on an analog signal input from the continuous section to hold and transfer the sampled signal, and a digital section for outputting a signal transferred from the sampling and holding section as a digital signal; and a control circuit for supplying a clock signal in which jitter is not added to the continuous section and supplying a clock signal in which the jitter is added to the sampling and holding section.
Abstract:
An analog-to-digital-converter includes an input signal connector, an output signal port, two or more sub-ADCs, and a digital signal processing block. The result from each sub-ADC is used by the digital signal processing block to output data with increased performance.
Abstract:
An electric power generator system is provided with improved power efficiency due to a reduced sensitivity to errors in the sensing of angular rotor position. The system includes a power generator with a rotor, and a position encoder connected to sense angular position of the rotor and to generate a position signal accordingly. A processor receives the position signal, calculates an angular position in response, calculates an estimated angular position based on earlier received position signals, and finally generates a processed angular position based on the calculated angular position and the estimated angular position. This processed angular position is a more reliable measure of the rotor position, reducing the influence of short-term errors in the position signal, allowing normal wind turbine operation during temporary position encoder failure, and allowing an orderly shutdown during complete position encoder failure.
Abstract:
A process and apparatus for generating an output signal whose frequency varies according to a modulation scheme, the process including the steps of providing a dither generator for receiving a first input signal representative of a clock frequency and for generating, according to the modulation scheme, a dithered output signal representative of the first signal at a dithered frequency; providing a DSP for receiving the following input signals: the signal at the dithered frequency and a second signal representative of a clock frequency, the DSP adapted to generate a processed output signal representative of the maximum frequency of the second signal; wherein the modulation scheme has a periodic ultrasonic modulating wave.
Abstract:
A method and system utilized with an analog to digital converter is disclosed. The method and system comprise providing a first conversion on an input signal. In the first conversion, an offset error is added to the input signal to provide a first result. The method and system further includes providing a second conversion on the input signal. In the second conversion, an offset error is subtracted from the input signal to provide a second result. The first and second results are then combined to substantially remove the offset error. A system and method in accordance with the present invention compensates for the accumulated offset error over many samples, thereby achieving much higher accuracy in the offset error compensation.
Abstract:
An analog-to-digital converter includes a track hold circuit, a reference voltage generating circuit, a switched capacitor circuit, a preamplifier that amplifies a voltage held by the switched capacitor circuit, a comparator that generates a logic level corresponding to an output from the preamplifier, and an encoder that converts the logic level into a binary code (n-bit digital output). If capacitors constituting the switched capacitor circuit are charged and the charges in these capacitors then vary, each capacitor is recharged by an amount corresponding to the particular variation.
Abstract:
Method and device for reducing the signal images at the output of a digital/analogue converter. In a method for reducing the signal images at the output of a digital/analogue converter, a frequency hopping clock generator provides a digital data signal whose data rate is varied according to a frequency hopping method. The digital data signal is converted into an analogue signal by a digital/analogue converter, the conversion clock being varied according to the frequency hopping method.
Abstract:
An arrangement for averaging the count received from a bidirectional pulse source such as a measuring machine position transducer is disclosed in which a relatively small capacity auxiliary counter is utilized in conjunction with a main counter, and includes means for causing the incoming pulses in either direction to bypass the auxiliary counter and pass to the main counter whenever the auxiliary counter is full in the direction of the incoming pulse. The count in the auxiliary counter is periodically sampled with the samples taken at regular intervals and an update signal reflecting the direction of the average count being added to the main counter and subtracted from the auxiliary counter at regular intervals.