Abstract:
A pair of active rate limiting filters which limit the rate of change of the output thereof with respect to the input thereto include means to compare the output with the input and to increase the slew rate significantly when the output differs by more than the predetermined amount from the input. Additionally, the slew rate can be increased in response to an external control signal.
Abstract:
Errors sensed in a data handling system are OR''ed into a latch in a data handling system which handles some number of data words (say 200) serially, a scan of all of the words comprising a frame, errors and faults which may occur at any time, in any word, in any frame, may set a fault latch. However, once set, the fault latch is reset only at the end of every 16 frames. The output of the fault latch is signal-averaged, or integrated, in an RC integrating network having a time constant of between ten and twenty times the period of the sixteen frames of words comprising a fault period. By comparing the average output voltage over a long period of time with a standard voltage, indicative of the average voltage equivalent of an errorindicating duty cycle of the fault latch (in contrast with spurious setting as a result of noise signals), an indication of noise-discriminating fault is achieved.