Abstract:
A peripheral DMA (direct memory access) system having a computer with an internal DMA controller and only one channel available for external DMA operations includes: a peripheral DMA controller coupled between the computer address bus and a peripheral address bus, and also between the computer data bus and a peripheral data bus. The peripheral DMA controller includes a dual port "frame map memory" in which addresses of various peripheral devices are sequentially stored prior to initiating a DMA operation wherein data is rapidly transferred from various peripheral devices having nonsequential addresses to sequential locations of the computer memory or vice versa.
Abstract:
A method for making tuned resonance passive electronic filters. The method consists of computing the values of the filter components and then using standard unmatched components that approximate the computed values in conjunction with certain components that are made variable for the purpose of tuning out the unmatched characteristics of the unmatched components. A typical filter may include several poles where each pole includes an unmatched component, such as a capacitor, and a variable component such as an inductor. Adjacent poles may be coupled by unmatched or variable inductors or capacitors. Each pole is tuned for resonance by applying the output of a signal generator to a particular pole, while shorting adjacent poles, and tuning the variable component of that pole for resonance. Resonance may be indicated by a null on an a.c. voltmeter connected to measure pole.
Abstract:
An adaptable housing for a PC clone computer or the like includes easily removable front and rear panel sections and a cover, all of which are adapted to be conveniently drilled, punched, etc. for internal or external attachment of switches, connectors, and/or other user-installed equipment. A removable card cage resting on a removable base receives a variety of PC boards or other equipment in suitable slots and allows internal routing of cables, conductors, and the like from printed circuit boards mounted in the card cage to slots and/or other printed circuit boards on or connected to a horizontal mother board or back plane attached to the bottom panel of the housing. One or two boxes are attached to the front panel or the bottom panel by means of suitable brackets to carry disk drive units or other equipment. Resilient grommets mounted in suitable openings of the boxes receive heads of screws attached to side or bottom surfaces of the disk drives or other equipment to provide economical, vibration-absorbing shock mounts.
Abstract:
The subject invention is an ECL to CMOS converter for converting high or low ECL logic signals. The converter comprises a CMOS inverter for providing low or high CMOS logic signals at its output in response to a first or second signal, respectively, applied to its input. The first signal must exceed a first predetermined value and the second signal must fall below a second predetermined value. The first and second predetermined values are such that either the low ECL signal does not fall below the second predetermined value or the high ECL signal does not exceed the first predetermined value. The converter also provides means for converting the high and low logic signals to the first and second signals, respectively.
Abstract:
An instrument for measuring the resistive and reactive components of eleccal circuits without physical contact or breaking the circuits. The instrument consists of a transmitter, a receiver, a sensor head, a power supply, and a display. The sensor head is constructed of two transformer cores split and hinged so that it can be closed around part of the circuit to be tested. One transformer core is driven by an oscillator and induces ac voltage in the test circuit. Current flow depends upon the electrical characteristics, admittance, of the test circuit. The other transformer core acts as a receiver and its output is an ac voltage proportional to the current flowing in the test circuit. The ac signal is detected using a synchronous detector with reference derived from the transmitter, either in phase to measure the resistive component, or with a 90.degree. phase shift to measure the reactive component.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a method and system for remote detection of a targeted substance by the appropriate application of a probing signal that induces molecular resonance in the target substance to create an identifiable signature or response. In the preferred embodiment, signals transmitted are an Infrared laser beam, amplitude modulated in the range of 100 kHz frequency. The probing signal stimulates molecular resonance of the target substance which produces characteristic electron signal responses that are detected by IR detectors. A software program is used to process the electrical response signals and to compare them with electrical response signals stored in a database of known substances, thus allowing the target substance to be identified. The system may also be used to locate targeted substances.
Abstract:
An decoding system for transmitting a signal through a noisy, unstable, mipath environment, in which the signal consisting of eight possible symbols is encoded using four of eight possible frequencies in an orthogonal Hadamard matrix, transmitted through the environment, and decoded using the same orthogonal Hadamard matrix, thereby providing a correlation result which can compensate for at least one error in the received signal for each symbol.
Abstract:
An apparatus for assisting in the electrical connection and disconnection of a circuit board with an energized circuit having a power supply, a power connection electrically connected to the power supply and having a board connector for electrical connection to a circuit board to be inserted into or removed from an energized circuit, and a control circuit for controlling the power supply means. The control circuit controls the pre-charging of a circuit board to a selected voltage level prior to its insertion into a circuit, and maintains a selected voltage level on a circuit board during its removal from an energized circuit.
Abstract:
A microprocessor controlled micro-stepping chart drive circuit is disclosed. The invention comprises a step clock system, a micro-processor controller and a motor drive circuit. A speed selector establishes a numerical constant within the controller. This numerical constant is decremented down with each pulse of the step clock. When the counter reaches zero, the motor drive circuit is updated. Therefore, the time between updates of the motor drive circuit is a function of the value of the numerical constant.
Abstract:
A circuit for generating signals in a data processing system has a passive delay line and logic gates connected to the output taps of the delay line. Isolation resistors are connected between the output taps and the logic gates in order to substantially reduce signal reflections in the signal path within the delay line that are caused by the input capacitance of the logic gates.