摘要:
A fully integrated, phase locked loop (PLL) having improved jitter characteristics uses the same digital/analog converter (DAC) that is normally used to control the time constant of the low pass loop filter to control the value of a capacitance connected between the output of a voltage-to-current converting input stage of the voltage controlled oscillator and ground. The capacitance introduces a third pole in the loop's transfer function. In this way, the separation in the frequency domain between the zero and the third pole of the transfer function is kept constant; thus, the damping factor remains constant while the .omega..sub.0 of the PLL is varied.
摘要:
An analog multiplier includes at least a differential output stage formed by a pair of emitter-coupled bipolar transistors. Each transistor of the pair of emitter-coupled bipolar transistors is driven by a predistortion stage having a reciprocal of a hyperbolic tangent transfer function that is attributable to the base currents of the bipolar transistors used in the predistortion stage. The error in the output signal produced by the analog multiplier is compensated by generating replicas of the base currents of the bipolar transistors of the differential output stage and forcing those replica currents on the output node of a respective predistortion stage. Various embodiments that consume different amounts of power are described.
摘要:
A method of equalizing a read channel of a mass magnetic memory device comprises attenuating the low frequencies of the spectrum of the analog signal originating from an electromagnetic read transducer without boosting the high frequency harmonic components of the spectrum. The low frequencies of the spectrum of the analog input signal are attenuated with a low pass filter of an order in a range from 6 to 8 and a boost is implemented by introducing two real and opposed zeroes in the transfer function of the filter without altering the group delay.
摘要:
Embodiments of the invention provide a transconductance control circuit, particularly for a continuous-time filter, comprising a transconductor across which a constant voltage is input. The transconductor is connected to a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) to set a reference current. A feedback loop is provided between an output of the transconductor and an input. In particular, the circuit further comprises a means for mirroring the reference current set by the DAC both to the feedback loop and to at least one cell of a cascade-connected filter.
摘要:
A phase locked loop is provided that includes a phase comparator, a charge pump circuit, a loop filter, and a voltage controlled oscillator. The charge pump circuit includes two symmetric branches, feedback paths, and circuit breaking switches. Each of the symmetric branches has a constant current generator and a pulsed current generator, with one terminal of the loop filter being connected to one of the symmetric branches and the other terminal of the loop filter being connected to the other of the symmetric branches. The feedback paths control the constant current generators based on voltages at the terminals of the loop filter, and each of the circuit breaking switches couple one of the pulsed current generators and the corresponding terminal of the loop filter. The pulsed current generators supply a first current whose amplitude is proportional to an amplitude of a second current supplied by the constant current generators through the duty cycle of the first current. In a preferred embodiment, the circuit breaking switches are controlled by phase error signals from the phase comparator. A method for controlling a charge pump circuit in a phase locked loop is also provided.
摘要:
A flash analog-to-digital converter includes a bank of comparators with a differential output, generating a thermometric code, and a bank of three-input logic NOR gates. The converter has enhanced immunity to noise and reduced imprecisions by providing for a passive interface including a plurality of voltage dividers each connected between the noninverted output of a respective comparator and the inverted output of the comparator of higher order of the bank. A corresponding logic NOR gate of the bank has a first input coupled to the inverted output of the respective comparator, a second input coupled to the noninverted output of the comparator of higher order and a third input coupled to an intermediate node of the voltage divider.
摘要:
A digital/analog quadratic converter (DACQ) composed by a pair of linear converters connected in cascade has a direct coupling of the output node of the first converter (DAC1) with a node of a R-2R type resistive network of the second converter (DAC2) corresponding to the LSB stage of the R-2R type resistive network. High impedance nodes, notably the input node of the second linear converter, are advantageously eliminated from the "current path" thus markedly reducing the problems of relatively long settling times of high impedance nodes (having intrinsically large parasitic capacitances associated therewith). The peculiar architecture of the quadratic converter provides also for a remarkable simplification of the circuit.
摘要:
A servo-demodulator for a pair of alternating signals generated by a magnetic disc read head and indicative of the position of the read head in relation to the center of a recorded track. The servo-demodulator comprises a peak detector for successively and individually sampling the amplitude of each of a plurality of peaks of the pair of alternating signals, and a capacitor periodically connected to the output of the peak detector by a control logic for deriving a weighted average of the various successively sampled amplitudes. In this manner, the control logic obtains an averaged measure of amplitude with high immunity to noise.
摘要:
A current-controlled multivibrator having increased accuracy independent of variations in process and temperature. The oscillator employs a bandgap voltage in combination with a current generator to ensure operational stability despite temperature and process variations.
摘要:
A full-wave rectifier for monitoring the amplitude of a differential analog signal includes a differential Track&Hold stage controlled by a first differential logic timing signal tracking the differential analog input signal during a tracking phase that corresponds to a high logic stage of the first differential timing signal. This produces a differential output signal that is a replica of the input signal and the signal is stored during a successive storing phase that corresponds to a low logic state of the first differential timing signal. A first differential output amplifier includes inputs coupled to the output of the Track&Hold stage. A differential bistable circuit, controlled by a second differential logic timing signal, includes inputs coupled to the differential outputs of the first amplifier and produces a third differential logic control signal. A second multiplexed amplifier, controlled by the third differential control signal, includes inputs coupled to the output of the Track&Hold stage and produces a differential analog signal having an amplitude function corresponding to the amplitude of the differential input signal. A timing circuit receives at an input a differential logic synchronizing signal and generates the first differential timing signal of the Track&Hold stage and the second differential timing signal of the bistable circuit.