摘要:
A fully differential, CMOS, operational power amplifier, particularly useful as output buffer in monolithic analog subsystems, includes an input differential stage, two gain stages and two output stages. Each output stage may be individually provided with a functional feedback loop and locally compensated for reestablishing sufficient stability. An output common mode control circuit, operable in a continuous or sampled manner, is also contemplated, as well as a special circuit for controlling the DC biasing current through the output stages under rest conditions. The amplifier may be used indifferently as a balanced (differential) output or as a single-ended output amplifier without any depression of its performances.
摘要:
An integrated circuit for filtering signals by having cascaded switched capacitor sampling filters. The circuit includes a transmit section which has an anti-aliasing filter, a core section filter, a highpass filter and an encoder for providing analog-to-digital conversion. Each successive filter is sampled at a lower rate to inhibit anti-aliasing. The circuit also includes a receive section which has a digital-to-analog decoder, an output buffer, a receiver core filter and a power amplifier.
摘要:
The sampled-data band-pass filter device is based on the phenomemon of aliasing, and allows the substantially unattenuated passage of the components of an input signal at a frequency included within an interval comprised between a first frequency (f.sub.sL) and a second frequency (f.sub.sH), arranged around a third frequency (f.sub.sO), while it substantially attenuates the components of the input signal at frequencies outside said interval, and furthermore automatically performs the shift to low-frequency, around a fourth frequency (f.sub.O), of the components of the input signal which have passed without attenuation. According to the invention, the device comprises, as filter element, a sampled-data band-pass filter which employs, as sampling frequency, a fifth frequency (f.sub.s) equal to a whole submultiple of a sixth frequency (nf.sub.s) equal to the sum of the third frequency (f.sub.sO) and the fourth frequency (f.sub.O), having, as lower and upper cutoff frequencies, respectively the difference between the sixth frequency and the second frequency (nf.sub.s -f.sub.sH) and the difference between the sixth frequency and the first frequency (nf.sub.s -f.sub.sL).
摘要:
In a Pulse Code Modulated (PCM) circuit chip, apparatus in the transmit path to compensate for an offset voltage signal from a band-pass filter includes an up-down counter which is actuated to provide a digital value equivalent to the offset signal and a digital to analog converter coupled to the counter to provide an analog signal representing the digital value in the counter. During an initialization phase, the counter is incremented until the digital value of the counter provides, by means of the digital to analog converter, an analog signal that compensates for the off-set signal. After the initialization phase when the band-pass filter's offset voltage is compensated, then other circuitry including an exclusive OR gate and an associated overflow counter are used to eneable or disable the up-down counter to insure that the PCM output signal is an accurate representation of the analog input signal. The up-down counter, during the operation phase following the initialization phase, is only enabled when the analog input signal is not present.
摘要:
A highly selective frequency filter is created from lossy components such as found in standard integrated circuit technologies, including particularly CMOS technologies, without the use of active loss cancellation circuitry. The filter configuration is based on using inductively coupled planar inductors for introducing a mutual inductance factor that advantageously alters the frequency response of the filter.
摘要:
An analog input signal that is sampled at a predetermined rate is multiplied by a corresponding binary code sequence, i.e. “+1” or “−1” by the multiplier. The output of this multiplier is applied in conjunction with a signal supplied by the negative feed back circuit to the analog integrator. The quantization circuit quantizes the output signal of the analog integrator into N levels and outputs a digital word. This digital word is delayed by a unit time interval by a digital delay circuit and then processed by the above mentioned negative feed back circuit. As a result of this signal magnitude reducing process, the required integrating capacitance can be minimized without risks of saturation effects. Additionally, the output is already in digital form as required by the subsequent system blocks.
摘要:
A multichannel ADC is fabricated on a single IC with each analog channel for concurrently processing input analogue signal in a pipelined manner and including a dual purpose intermediate amplifier for amplifying an input voltage to be converted and providing a reference voltage for use during conversion. A unique capacitor array reduces the area required to implement the convertors.
摘要:
An improved MOS capacitor array formed on a semiconductor substrate comprises rectangular strips of an active region overlapped by rectangular strips of conductive material. The active region and conductive material are separated by an insulating layer. The strips form an array of capacitors which are more tightly packed than the prior art and which are less sensitive to alignment errors than the prior art.
摘要:
A method of reconstructing an analog signal, particularly for digital telephony, comprises a first step of digital-to-analog conversion, wherein a first reconstruction of the analog signal is provided by introducing a distortion component into the frequency spectrum whose amplitude decreases with the signal frequency, and a second step of filtering carried out by means of a reconstruction filter provided with integrators and having a cut-off frequency F.sub.t. That attenuating distortion component is utilized instead of one of the integrators in the reconstruction filter, to afford a reduction of the overall design of the circuit device operating in accordance with this method, and bring about, as a result, decreased occupation of the integrated circuit and power dissipation.
摘要:
A fully differential sigma-delta signal processor for use in high-speed voiceband or higher-frequency applications. The processor receives the two polarities of a differential input signal and passes them to a differential-amplifier integrator through a switched sampling capacitor arrangement. The capacitors are each alternately and concurrently switched back and forth between the two signal paths for the two polarities of the input signal responsive to a clock signal in such a manner as to sample and integrate the input signal at an effective signal transfer rate of at least twice the clock frequency. An analog-to-digital converter defines a digital feedback-control signal characteristic of the integrator output signal. A second switched-capacitor arrangement selectively applies a feedback signal to the integrator inputs, responsive to the digital control signal, at a switching rate comparable to the effective signal transfer rate through the integrator.